Vol. 3, Issue 48, April 2, 2009

From the Desk of the Diva

Since I started on a green juice kick lately, I've been walking around singing, "Green is the color of my looooove." I think we should get shirts made with that on it. One thing is certain, as you browse through this week's special edition of Health In High Heels, you'll notice that Green Smoothies certainly are changing the health and lives of a lot of people out there.

We decided to devote this issue to Green Eatin' and take the time to celebrate some of the success stories we've received with the hope that it will inspire you in your own journey toward greater health, vitality and happy living.

During our last 7-day Green Smoothie Challenge hundreds of people from around the world came together to take a few more steps forward in the name of health. Here's a peek at what they discovered, the stories they shared, the lives they touched and a some of the recipes they concocted in their kitchens. It is a full-color testimonial to the power of what small steps can do when made in the right direction.

Validate what you want to create more of in your life. Celebrate the successes and let the little stuff go. Wherever you are, there are good things to learn by being there. It's easy for those of us who are passionate about health and wellness to be hard on ourselves for slipping up. Go easy on yourself, Sugarplum. Celebrate the good stuff and you'll get more of it. Take the learning with you and enjoy your life's adventure! What else have you got?

In Green We Trust,

Tera

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Green Smoothie Recipes GALORE!

As part of a contest for March's St. Paddy's Day GSQ Challenge, we had oodles of recipe and

photo submissions.  We couldn't just hoard them all for ourselves!

Vegetable Martini

By Echo
(makes about 1 liter)

Ingredients:
2 carrots [about 2 ½ cups], cut up small
2 cups water
2 celery ribs
2 Roma tomatoes
2 cups greens, packed [spinach/swiss chard/parsley]
2 ounces fresh sun-dried tomatoes

Raspberry Green Smoothie
By Keely Bush
(makes about 2 cups)

Ingredients:

1 cup frozen raspberries
2 cup pomegranite/cranberry juice
1 cup spinach
1 tsp. Spirulina

Georgia Goes Down-Under
By Gwynne Lacey

Ingredients:

2 to 3 fresh peaches, pit removed and sliced (don't peel)
4 kiwi fruit (remove the ends, but don't peel)
2 cups orange juice
Greens to your taste (I used about 2 cups of spinach and
kale with this one)

Better Than Tomato Soup
By Vanetta Stephens
(makes about 1 cup)

Ingredients:
5 cherry tomatoes, halved
1/2 cucumber, sliced
1 green onion sliced....use more or less as your taste prefers
1/4 avocado
Spinach.....stuff your blender!

Grapefruit Breakfast Smoothie
By Vanetta Stephens
(makes about 1 1/2 cups if no water is added)

Ingredients:

1/2 grapefruit
1/2 banana
1 1/2 TBSP flax seed
1/4 of an apple
1/8 section of peeled mango
1/4 to 1/2 of a whole carrot
1 handful parsley, stems removed
1 handful spinach
Add water IF you want a thinner smoothie.

Cookie's Mint Surprise Smoothie
By Lois Berryman
(makes about 3 cups)

1/2 Cantalope ( I used about half of the seeds for symbiotic eating)
3 sprigs of Mint
1/2 bunch of Parsley
1/4 cup of water
1 cup ice

Orange Cranberry Smoothie
By Sandy DeSmedt

Ingredients:

3 oranges, peeled and seeded
several small chunks of the orange peel
1/2 cup cranberries (fresh or frozen)
1 apple, cored and sliced
1/2 cup pineapple (fresh or frozen)
2 cups water
1-2 leaves kale
a lot of baby spinach

Orange Spin
By Alejandra Hernando
(makes about 1 liter of smoothie)

Ingredients:
3 cups freshly squeezed orange juice

Banangoberry

By Amber-Lynn Gusa

Ingredients:

2 big Swiss Chard leaves
-OR-
2-3 big handfuls of fresh baby spinach
1 big handful of Dandelion (optional)
1.5-2 cups H2O
1 Banana
6-8 fresh Strawberries
1 fresh Mango
1 TBS ground Flax Seed (optional)
1 TBS first cold pressed Flax Oil (optional)

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Green Smoothie Testimonials

Read the life-changing results that the latest 7-day Green Smoothie Queen Challenge made.

Then sign up for a 3-day challenge and see for yourself.

...I saw a difference in my face early on too but the real shocker came a few minutes ago!  My 16 year old daughter went to Florida with a friend the same day I started the challenge. I just went and picked her up.

She said I looked really good, that my skin looks like water. It sounds funny but I know exactly what she means, I've seen other ladies with that look and always envied them.

Thank you Tera for being such a class act and giving us so much support, information and inspiration! You really are a bright spot, I loved getting your emails every day too!

~Jan~

I feel a bit of a glow, I feel more alive. I feel brighter. I want more real food and not the stuff called food that's really some sort of chemistry experiment.

My skin is finally starting to look healthier and clearer. I have really dry, extremely sensitive skin. My face is the most sensitive and so far all of the dermatologists remedies for my face have only made my skin worse, drier and more irritated. With all of the healthy greens, vegies and fruit I've added to my diet I think my skin is finally starting to feel some relief. I discontinued all of my prescriptions and have been using Jojoba oil, vitamin E oil and Calendula ointment instead. That with diet all seems to be working. So far no bad reactions and my skin is finally starting to feel some relief! The redness is almost gone and and the dryness is starting to clear.

My moods are better and my stress level seems to feel a little lower. I seem to have a little more energy in the morning recently and let me tell you I am not a morning person, AT ALL! But this morning, getting up for my Saturday morning Step class was exciting! I had a pep in my step that isn't normally there. I used to need coffee to feel awake and with it in the AM but not with green smoothies and raw foods it seems.

~Amber~

My skin looks and feels amazing - I live in the desert, where the humidity is often in single digits. I am 38 and have spent a lifetime in the sun. And I have really been feeling my age the last few months. My exercise of choice is Master's swimming which includes lots of exposure to sun and chlorine. I'm a redhead and naturally have very dry skin and freckled complexion. I cannot believe the difference only 1 week has made. My skin is soft, glowing, and I can't actually see the wrinkles at the corner of my eyes anymore. People want to know who my facialist is. This has been an incredible motivator to keep up the green smoothie habit.

~Kerry~

I also loved this challenge. My skin has changed dramatically. My daughter told me recently, that my skin, all over, just seems to have a "glow". She just wanted to 'touch' it. My face is clearer and brighter.

Near the end of the week of this challenge, my husband told me he wasn't sure he wanted me to go anywhere "in public" without him! He wasn't sure he wanted other men to be noticing his wife. Now, what a compliment for a 50-yr. old woman! I am not thinking that any other guy would be looking at "me", but boy! my DH hubby sure was.

~spfriend~

All the extra nutrition from the green smoothies really helped give me the energy I was looking for. I teach special ed all day and then run the after school program, so I have very long days. Since starting green smoothies regularly (1 or 2 every day since the beginning of the challenge), I find that I rather than just supervising the kids during aftercare, I'm out there playing tag or kickball with them. It makes my job so much more fun to have the stamina to really play with the kids. I also find that my mind is clearer and I have more creativity, which is a big plus for finding new ways to reach my students.

~monkeypankey~

I lost 6 pounds, my joint pain is much less and was full and not hungry with green smoothies. I learned I have an issue with gluten. I feel refreshed. I know that sounds weird but it is true. Wow! I learned a ton.

~Leenie~

Green up your kids.

No more mealtime battles!  Just healthy, happy kids!

The Ripple-Maker Award And The Big Red Blendtec Love Machine!

By Tera Warner and Alejandra Hernando

We asked you to host an event that would make a difference in your community. We asked that there be an educational component, and that you have people trying Green Smoothies. And we wanted this blender to go to the person who made the biggest ripple, or impact on her community. We'd lik to present you the winner of our Ripple-Maker Award. Take the time to read this story and get inspired about what you can do to make a difference out there!

Hi Tera! I just wanted to tell you a little bit of what has been going on since I started the green smoothie challenge.

It started great because it`s been a year on almost 100% raw (we just eat something cooked like corn tortillas, beans or rice every 3 or 4 weeks) so we are very high raw and I cannot see myself eating any other way. So the green smoothie challenge was sort of my birthday present for raw food, but everything got going in such a way I cannot explain. I just found myself making lots of different smoothies, taking pictures of each one, taking pictures of my daughter drinking them, started uploading recipes, and I just found myself totally excited about everything and then you say that you were going to give away a blender. I had to have my blender so my excitedness was so great that I just had to have my blender.

You wanted us to make a ripple effect on others... hey Tera what you are doing is making the waves roll in over here, not just a ripple. You are good at doing what you do! You really got me moving. At first, I really wanted my blender and my mind was thinking about what to do to get people into green smoothies and where I was going to go and give demonstrations, and somewhere in between, everything started to move. The universe started to make things go so fast I haven't had time to stop. I am like a little machine working non stop. And it is because I can't stop now.

I just started a website which is just commng up tommorrow, I hope. The first site in Mexico about green smoothies and I launched a campaign to increase the intake of raw organic fruits and vegetables in the diet of children, youth, adults and the elder through the use of green smoothies. I have my first talk and demo in a school tomorrow morning. Ohhhhhh, I can't believe this is happening. People just keep on saying what a great campaign, and how great it is that I am trying to improve my community's health.

My daughter is so happy that we are going to go to teach other kids how she eats and that makes me really happy. And guess what, the blender isn't important anymore. I know and feel that god has something very good and of higher value here and I am going to continue doing what I have to do. Thanks a lot for making a ripple effect and I hope to achieve the same in the years to come. I don`t know who you are, but I can feel the goodness in your heart and I guess god puts us in the right place when the time is right. You have been an example of keeping true to yourself and I would love to be able to meet you someday. I don't know what`s going to happen with the web page but I even made a recipe book with the recipes I made from the green smoothie challenge and wrote some of the benefits of greens. This is going to be a downloadable free ebook in spanish, the first one of its kind. I'm even considering starting a raw food class on Saturdays, because on weekdays I will be doing the campaign in schools, hospitals and any place that wants me to give a little greensmoothie demo.

...I am a stay at home mom, because of the allergies of my daughter, homeschooling her, living with only one budget in Mexico (that`s why I thought about the blender in the first place, this babies cost $10,000 mexican pesos which was about $1,000 usd when the dollar was at 11 pesos, but now at 15 pesos it`s impossible).

Thanks for your e-mails, your work, and even if somethimes you think you are not making the world a better place, just think again. My life has change for the better and I hope to be doing the same for others.

In hope of someday meeting you,

Alejandra Hernando

NOTE: If you'd like to read Tera's response to Alejandra and see the other prize winners for our Green Smoothie Challenge Contest, you can check out the Diva Blog by clicking this link.

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