Wow! A Healthy Melon Smoothie

re: Wow! A Healthy Melon Smoothie

health hippy — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:26:44 GMT

hi there, that recipie sounds yummie = ) but i was wondering how to work out or find out if im a carb or protien or mixed type ?

re: Wow! A Healthy Melon Smoothie

Jess — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:13:45 GMT

I've heard that you should always eat melon ALONE (on an empty stomach), as it is very quick and easy to digest, and mixing it with other foods, especially proteins (like milk), will slow down the melon in the stomach long enough for it to begin to ferment and begin to release toxins into your bloodstream.

re: Wow! A Healthy Melon Smoothie

shemel64 — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:18:25 GMT

Hi!

I'm new to this forum and I wanted to say that all the smoothie recipes sound delicious and I want to try them all!! I was wondering however if someone could explain to me how I can figure out if I'm a carb....protien or mixed type?

Thanks and have a blessed day!!

Sher

re: Wow! A Healthy Melon Smoothie

rebyidel — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:49:08 GMT

It may taste delicious, but I question how easily it will be absorbed, for the following reasons:

1. Melons are very energetically cold and damp, and Chinese medicine teaches that for healthy digestion, we need to eat warming, dry foods. Furthermore, even from a Western perspective, food combining teaches that melons must be eaten alone to be properly digested, and certainly not with protein foods such as milk.

2. Milk, too, Chinese medicine teaches, is cold and damp. Organic or not, it may be a great food for calves, but unless it is fresh from the cow, (within 24 hours of milking), unless it is unpasteurized and unhomogenized, and unless the patient is severely debilitated and tends to feel hot, it is just not a very healthy food at all! The fat levels are much higher than mothers milk, and the milk protein and lactose are highly allergic. Once it is pasteurized it loses most of its enzymatic benefit, and the homogenization (which is exascerbated by blending it in a smoothy!) makes the fat molecules smaller and causes them to seep through the digestive lining into the blood stream, putting stress on the immune system and causing allergies.

3. The problem related above of cold and damp foods, causes the digestion to slow down and creates phlegm, which the Chinese say is the root of both congestion and fat involving weight gain.

Sincerely,

Yehuda Frischman, L.Ac, CST, SER

www.traditionaljewishmedicine.net

re: Wow! A Healthy Melon Smoothie

phyzixgr8 — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:36:26 GMT

That is awesome! Thanks for the recipe Lucy. How could you change it for "protein types?" Add a teaspoon coconut oil? Raw egg?

re: Wow! A Healthy Melon Smoothie

T_rex — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:49:08 GMT

Great smoothie, Luci ! I make various types of raw smoothies for brakfast every morning. I'd like to suggest Luci try this one: 3 organic kiwii, 2 bananae and raw milk (no sweetener needed). Instead of peeling the kiwii, shave the fuzz off the skin with a sharp knife without breaking the skin. By preserving the skin the nutrients in it are kept and if it's organic there's no worry about pesticides being on the skin: then blend it all together with the whizzer upper. (Kiwiis are said to contain twice as much vitamin C as oranges)

re: Wow! A Healthy Melon Smoothie

Ben A — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 05:06:23 GMT

Years ago while down in Mexico we would drink a variation of the melon smoothie. To the above ingredients vendors would add a touch of vanilla extract and a raw egg. Besides cantaloupe the other fruit used quite often was papaya.

re: Wow! A Healthy Melon Smoothie

Amanda Rose — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:55:25 GMT

Sounds simple and super!

This is somewhat random, but I am about to harvest raw honey from my wall:

www.rebuild-from-depression.com/.../disappearing_bees.html

Talk about eating local. We may have enough honey for a winter's worth of smoothies.

Amanda