The Live Green Smoothie Diet

Summer is waning quickly and I woke this morning with a craving for a taste of July in a glass, and this certainly did the trick! It’s sweet, mellow, creamy, and refreshing all at once, and rich with revitalizing nutrients. Plus, a blenderful contains around 20% of an adult’s recommended intake of calcium. Paired with fresh [...]

As a child, I used to love the tedious ritual of my dad picking out the seeds from a fresh pomegranate and presenting them proudly in a bowl at Christmas time. I always thought of pomegranate as something rarified that one just didn’t eat very often, because it’s such a pain to de-seed. Then I [...]

This is one of my favorite salads, a staple in the summer! I keep sun-cured black olives on hand (which I’ve marinated myself in cold-pressed Greek olive oil and Himalayan Crystal salt) for just this purpose. It is just bursting with the sweetness of the watermelon and fresh raspberries, which is highlighted beautifully by the [...]

Gorgeous liquified watermelon… so easy to make, so easy to drink… and apparently with some viagra-like effects that aren’t to be snuffed at!  Apparently, in addition to being an excellent source of antioxidants, vitamin C, vitamin A, beta-carotene, and B vitamins, and possessing more lycopene that tomatoes, it is also exceptionally high in citrulline, an [...]

  There are so many reasons to make this smoothie a staple in your diet, I hardly know where to begin! It is packed with a freakish amount of beta carotene, antioxidants, and vitamin C, and has a number of other phytonutrients that make it a nutritionist’s dream. Gojis function as a potent “adaptogen” in [...]