Anti-Aging Blueberry Detox Smoothie
This smoothie is so high in antioxidants that it might just become your favorite summer health and beauty tonic. It's loaded with beets, berries, and watermelon.
What you might not know about beets is that they're chock full of betaine, which helps protect your cells from environmental stress (this is part of the anti-aging), the red color is a sign of the powerful phytonutrients, (proven to fight cancer), and they purify the blood (good for detoxing). Additionally, beets boost your immune system (super health).
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So between berries, watermelon and beets you have a superfood smoothie that also tastes AMAZING without being too sweet. It's a good drink to help you fight off sugar cravings.
Anti-Aging Blueberry Detox Smoothie
Serves 2
- 1 cup wild frozen blueberries, or just frozen blueberries
- 1 cup cubed red beets
- 1 cup cubed watermelon
- 1 cup coconut water
- 1 teaspoon chia seeds
- 1 handful of basil leaves (or mint)
Put everything in a blender. Blend and pour.
Add a leaf of either basil or mint for looks.
Serve, drink, enjoy and feel amazing — and maybe even younger!
For the best results: chew your smoothie! It helps optimize digestion, and that means better absorption, which again means better health and well-being.
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Jeanette Bronée, CHHC, AADP is a Self-Nourishment Counselor and the Founder of Path for Life and the online Self-Nourishment Program. Over a decade she has been working with clients one-on-one in her private practice, to not only improve their physical and emotional wellbeing, but also help them change their habits, which is the foundation for us actually getting healthy. Her nine-step method integrates the three key essentials Bronée has found drive real change in people's lives: food knowledge, mindfulness and habit shifting. Bronée's approach to health and weight loss is self-nourishment. When we stop fixing ourselves, and start learning how to make choices and live from a perspective of self-care and self-love, health becomes our life-style and we thrive. She also believes healthy food has to nourish all our senses. Check out her recipes on the blog at Path for Life.
Her new book, "Eat to Feel Full (and Nourish Yourself for Good)", is a beginner's guide to self-nourishment, offering a combination of food knowledge, insights into the habits that block our efforts to transform, and practical techniques for developing a mindful, healthy relationship with food..
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