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How to Use Powerful Smoothies to Increase Your Health in EVERY Way
Over the years, good old fashioned nutrition has become sorely overlooked. Too often we focus on trying to improve our health using confusing and elaborate fitness programs, fad diets or mysterious supplements. In reality though, the key to good health is very simple:
- Get lots of sleep
- Get lots of exercise
- Spend time outdoors
- Eat your fruit and vegetables
The problem is that most of us fail on every single one of these factors. And to be fair, we are not entirely to blame. Our modern lifestyles actually make it very difficult for a lot of us to meet these goals and simply aren’t conducive to a well-balanced diet or getting lots of activity.
In terms of exercise, activity and time outdoors, we need to contend with our working schedule. Most of us will get up in the morning and head straight into work by taking some form of public transport or driving. When we do this, we are sitting.
We then get to work and what do we do there? We continue to sit of course! Sit in the dark. While being stressed out.
We come home (sitting) and then we crash out in front of the TV because we’re so exhausted from all the stress of the day. We stay there until bed, having gotten no sunshine and no exercise.
And what are we using to fuel ourselves through all of this? For the most part, the answer is garbage. Most of us live on primarily processed foods, which include things like sausage roles, shop-bought quiche, ready-meals, crisps, chocolates and soda drinks.
These foods are high in calories but they’re low in actually useful nutrients. These are what we call ‘empty calories’ because they don’t actually contain anything that is particularly useful for the body. You can gain weight with them easily, spike your blood sugar with them easily and generally impact your health negatively. But what you won’t get is any positive effect from filling your body with vitamins and nutrients. Thus your hair, skin, teeth and nails start to become grey and brittle. You don’t sleep as well. You gain weight. Your hormone production gets out of balance. You feel listless and depressed…
Why are we eating like this? Because these are the foods readily available. Sure, there are all kinds of amazing superfood seaweeds, legumes and wild berries out there – but you just try and make these a part of your regular diet and you’ll quickly find it’s not so easy. You’ll quickly find that preparing these foods takes a lot of time and that you don’t have the money to keep buying new fresh fruits from exotic organic shops.
The answer is simple: smoothies.
Smoothies give us a convenient, tasty and affordable way to add a ton of extra nutrition to our diet. Instead of trying to improve your entire set of eating habits, you’re instead getting a sharp ‘hit’ of nutrients in one bottle.
And as we will see, smoothies can completely transform your health in more ways that you can possibly realize…
The Endless Health Benefits of Smoothies
We all know that we’re supposed to eat our five fruit and veg a day. What less of us understand is why that is so important and how precisely this helps to improve our health.
The answer is that eating your five a day provides you not just with the ‘fuel’ to power you through your activities but also the raw materials that your body uses to build and maintain your body. This is what you are made out of.
When you don’t get enough of the crucial nutrients that are found in fruits and vegetables, you start to see your mental performance deteriorate, you become more likely to get ill, you feel hungry throughout the day and even your mood takes a hit. But what’s worse, is just how much long-term damage is caused when you continue to be malnourished for long periods of time. If you have a deficiency in any major micronutrient and you don’t do anything to fix it, then the damage will build up cumulatively over time.
Perhaps the best way to illustrate this, is just to show you what some of those crucial nutrients actually do for you…
Vitamin C
Vitamin C is something we all know is highly good for us. But do you really know why it is so good for you?
For starters, vitamin C does amazing things for the immune system and this makes your body more fortified against outside invaders. In real terms, that means you’re less likely to get colds, flus or any other type of illness. And in turn, that means you’re less likely to have to take long periods of time off of work or exercise. This also means you’re less likely to see the damaging effects of ‘pro inflammatory cytokines’ that are released when we’re ill. These make us experience ‘brain fog’.
You are probably aware that you have brain fog when you’re unwell. But what about those ‘lower level’ infections and illnesses that affect you the rest of the time and that you’re probably completely unaware of? You might not see the physical symptoms of being ‘ill’ but that doesn’t mean you’re performing optimally. Vitamin C can help that.
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