I am often asked what I eat for breakfast in order to be always be in such a great mood. Well, besides, always having energy to enjoy the day, using the 50 pages of smoothie & juice guide that Yuri gave me with my Eating  For Energy book gives me ideas and combinations to more than fill 365 days of breakfast solutions.

If you have a busy lifestyle(who doesn’t), skipping breakfast is a great mistake. I did it for years and still suffer from it today. Always being tired and “out of gas” before lunch had been a problem for years until I learned why smoothies and juice were the ideal solution:

1. They are quick to prepare in the morning or the night before.
2. You can use fresh fruit from the freezer, blend with your own home made nut milk(always fresh) and in less than 5 minutes you are out the door.
3. A quick get away in the morning when you are full of energy is the only solution. Just take the smoothie or juice with you, that’s all. Simple?

Digestibility of the drink in the morning is the key to a healthy breakfast success. Having a big breakfast use to make my stomach ache in the morning going to work. I think that is a big reason why we tend to skip it. We think we are doing our stomachs a favor, and maybe we where, but our energy levels have always suffered.

• The whole eating thing as to do with what the food does for our bodies. Highly digestible foods, that quickly gets to our blood streams to give us energy without upseting our sleeping stomachs, is the key to smoothies and juices. You drink it, it goes through your stomach within minutes, is absorbed into your system and “voila”, everyone is happy!
• Smoothies and juice prepared from real fruits and vegetables(no store bought processed stuff for me) gives me all the vitamins and nutrition without the excess fibers and stomach discomforts.
• Let your stomach breath and sleep easy every morning. Have a smoothie or a juice and your stomach will thank you for it. Believe me when I tell you that your energy level will jump. Try it for a week and let me know.

The variety will get your whole family involved. You will have a waiting list of everyone’s favorite. Each will have there own combinations and you will see beaming faces in the morning.(Have you ever seen Yuri not be beaming?)

You can have  a Spinach Pear Smoothie, page 310.

A Cinnamon Banana Smoothie, page 313.

A Blueberry Sunrise, page 315, incredible great stuff is written in ink next to it in my book.

Bananamania (great for the kids too) page 331.

The list goes on and on. I am trying to paint a breakfast picture for you here!

Yerry and Yammy’s Green Juice, page 336.

Apple-Pear Morning Pick ME Up, page 340.

Are you starting to get the picture? No more excuses. Get the Eating For Energy book today. You can download it before breakfast and use what you have in the refrigerator right now.

Have a great time and feel the energy  Pierrette & I feel every morning.

Pierre Trudel

Thee Quest For Perfect Health

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So you’ve been on an energy-boosting diet as of late, and people are beginning to notice. They can see that you’re losing weight, but gaining strength and endurance. You’re no longer the mopey, quiet and tired person you were just a few scant weeks ago. Today, you’re full of pep and vigor, and of course, the people around you want to know how you did it. What is your secret?

Now, your energy diet is no big secret – it is all about selecting the right foods to give your body the energy that it needs to thrive all day long. But people aren’t going to believe you when you tell them that. Just eating the right foods? That’s boring, and anyone could do it. But you are the only one who seems to have mastered it – so clearly, you know something they don’t know. You hold the secret to eating for energy, and they want to know what it is. So, what can you tell people who want to know your energy diet secrets, but won’t be satisfied with the truth?

What you give them is the truth with a heaping helping of fancy and sexy. No lies – just overblown statements about your amazing diet plan.

For instance, telling people that you are cutting back on processed sugars is not going to wow them. Sure, we all know that those glucose/fructose enriched foods are bad for us, but people want to hear your fancy answer for what you could possibly replace the sweets with (and no, going without something sweet is simply not an option – it’s practically cheating).

What you can tell them is that the world of fruit has some amazing sweets waiting for them, but a proper energy diet won’t simply ask you to down bowl after bowl of boring mixed fruits. No, you can tell them about the exciting variety of smoothies available for people who eat for energy; you can share your recipes for all-raw, one-ingredient frozen banana ice cream; and you can wow them with information about how strawberries are calorie negative, meaning they actually use up more calories to consume, digest and pass than they provide as fuel, and how this helps your body to learn to burn it’s own fuel reserves – your fat.

Another important area for eating for energy is hydration, but no one wants to hear about how you should be drinking so many glasses of water every day. Instead, you can tell them about your super-hydrating watermelon smoothies; impress them with your abstinence from the diuretic effects of caffeine; and tell them how you can jazz up a glass of water with citrus, without adding a lot of empty calories.

And when your friends want to hear about where you’re getting all of your new, raw energy from, they don’t want to hear about how simple it is to tailor the energy diet plan to their own likes and dislikes; they want to be told that what you are doing takes effort and intellect, but with a little coaching, they too could be on the path to eating healthier, and gaining more energy.

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Kitchen Toys

In the last week I’ve picked up 2 new kitchen toys.  A Paderno Spiral Slicer and a Nesco Garden Master Dehydrator.  It is a tough pick to select which one I’ve been having more fun with.  Price wise the Slicer cost me $34 CDN on ebay, it comes with 3 different slicing blades and works like a charm.  The dehydrator, I lucked out and got on sale for $99 CDN, it has adjustable temperature and a timer.  It beats my old dehydrator hands down.   It is a bit noiser than my old one, but it works so much more effeciently and having a timer is a godsend as I have a habit of forgetting to go and check the status of the foods in it.

So far, I’ve used the slicer to make up the Fettuccini Cheddar Pasta from the Eating For Energy program.  Very tasty and it made enough that I had some left over for lunch the next day.  I used the slicer to cut up zucchini, carrots and beets.  The zucchini I used the larger blade for and the noodles were definitely fettuccini size, but I found them too thick.  The carrots & beets I used the angel hair pasta size blade and they came out perfect.   I’ve also used it to cut up carrots for my salads as it is nicer than using a grater.

I’ve used the dehydrator to make wraps and currently have a batch of walnut mushroom burgers on the go.  The next thing to try is eggplant ravioli or eggplant bacon. While I’m not a complete fan of how the wraps turned out, the fault lies with  the recipe and a broken blender than the dehydrator.  I’m excited to try the burgers, they look & smell delish. 

So if I had to go back and choose which one is the most beneficial item to buy, I would probably choose the dehydrator at it provides me with the greatest chance to try out new recipes.  However on a cool factor, the spiral cutter is a no brainer.  You could make up a very nice salad to take to a potluck and everyone would think you worked for hours on it.  I also have to admit that eating food that looks like pasta is almost as satisfying as eating the pasta itself.

Daily Grind

Over the last 2 and so weeks, I’ve found 3 main breakfast recipes that I rotate through, all from the Eating For Energy program.  Spinach Pear Smoothie, Chocolate Banana Smoothie and Morning Museli.  This morning I had the Spinach Pear Smoothie minus the pears, but used peaches & cherries instead.  It still amazes me that I don’t actually taste the spinach or the fruit, all I can taste is the celery.

Lunch today was a Nori wrap with Salmon mixed with Spicy Mayonnaise, mango, cukes and alpha sprouts. I do love Nori wraps and on days I don’t have salmon I spread it with a little nut cheese before piling it with veggies.  With the Fibromyalgia, I try to get salmon in me a few times a week as it is a great anti-inflammatory and it saves on having to swallow more pills.   Unfortunately one thing with FM is that you can almost feel like you are taking more pills than actual food sometimes.  

Until my pain levels come down and my digestion improves I’m taking daily (spread throughout the day and on a natural path’s recommendation), 1 high potency multi, 500-10000IU vit d, 900-1200mg Magnesium, 2 super ‘B’s, calcium and when I don’t have salmon 6 omega pills.  Chronic pain can greatly decrease the body’s reserves of magnesium, vit D & B vitamins or some say vice versa, low levels of magnesium, vit B and vit D can cause chronic muscle pain.   Either way, it is a lot of pills to swallow and I’m really crossing my fingers that eating mostly a raw diet will improve my health enough that I can stop having to depend on taking so much vitamins just to make it through the day.

I have finally found a form of magnesium that doesn’t have the immediate response of cleaning out my system.  It is Mangesium Chelazome. If I understand it correctly, the research behind it is that the magnesium is bound to amino acids there by allowing it to reach the intestines instead of being fully digested in the stomach which causes the cleaning out effect.   For anyone that does take magnesium the other thing I found was that if I took magnesium too close to bedtime I couldn’t sleep (actually the effect was almost like a dose of caffine, I was so wide awake and energized I could have gone running for an hour) , so I now make sure I take my last dose no later than 5pm.

Exercise

I downloaded the demo for Yuri’s Treadmill Trainer and I’m very impressed with it to the point where I ordered the complete first level this morning.  I find it is a great way to help me not over do it with my training.  I’m very much an ‘A’ type personality and quite often have a hard time reconcilling what I think I should be doing with what my body and the fibromyalgia will let me do.  Level 1 is a great starting point that is giving my body the time it needs to heal and still train for my marathon without going out and overdoing it and having to take a week to recover.

If anyone has any other kitchen toys that I should look into let me know although I do have to admit I’m getting to the point where storage space is getting iffy and I’m going to have to start taking over my husband’s hobby garage…

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I just finished reading Yuri’s report on FitterThanthePros.com and realized how important Eating For Energy and all it’s teaching are to the success we all search in getting into the greatest health we need to be in. Please get this free report while it is available and tell as many friends as you can.

Eating For Energy gave me the knowledge I needed to help my kids and grandkids have a better life. Learning the truths about foods, milk products, processing, agricultural techniques, big companies and how they are involved and more was a revelation to me.

I assumed all my life that what my parents thought me about health, good eating habits and physical well being should be the model I pass on to my kids. Little did I know that they did not know what they were doing. I do not blame them, I blame society for not putting the effort to educate us all better.

Yuri has taken the time, the expertise and the knowledge and made it available to us all. He says it like it is. He is a leader in search of other leaders like us to help the children of the world get better education on what Eating For Energy is all about.

When I prepare my day, I always have a prayer for my kids and grandkids. The new knowledge I have learned has given me new hope. Everyone needs to learn what I know and I reach out to as many people as I can everyday.

This blog is a forum that gives me the opportunity to tell you and ask you to listen. Most overweight people I talk to listen politely and turn away. Maybe if more of us speak out about Eating For Energy the message will get across.

I am always amazed at how little I knew about food. I read labels, that I have had available, and cannot believe how little I knew. How important is the quality of the food that goes into your body? Start reading labels today.

The Title says it all: “Eating For Energy Is The Backbone Of Good Health”.

Pierre & Pierrette Trudel

Thee Quest For Perfect Health Health

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The other night I happened to be watching a TV program called ‘Jamie’s Food Revolution’ by world renowned UK Master Chef Jamie Oliver.

On this program, he states that his mission is to save America’s health by changing the way that they eat, which as you could imagine – is no ordinary feat.

But as I sat there and watched the program, I witnessed something that left me speechless.

Jamie entered a classroom and asked the kids to name the vegetables that he was holding up in his hand. A fairly simple task you would think, but to my utter disbelief the kids had absolutely no idea what a tomato or even a potato looked like.

They had no idea that their French Fries originated from the humble potato.

How could this happen?

And the answer is because most of these kids had never seen, let alone eaten, any of these vegetables before (that is, unless they had been processed into something unrecognizable like Ketchup and French Fries!)

Unbelievable.

So if you are a parent and you care about your kids and their future, then you need to watch the 2 minute video below.

Just like Yuri talks about in his book, Eating for Energy, Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution is all about educating yourself on food, and when you switch from processed to fresh food, not only will you feel much healthier, but it will add years to your life as well.

Given most of us today lead fairly hectic and busy lives, it’s incredibly easy not to look after ourselves. But if you are a parent it is your duty to look after your health, and that of your children.

So do yourself a favour, watch the 2 minute video below and you will begin to understand why it is SO important to eliminate processed foods from your diet and to eat more raw food – that is food that has not been processed to death!

So kudos to both Jamie Oliver and Yuri for trying to make a difference …

Jamie Oliver\'s Food Revolution Video

Regards,

Audra Starkey
[The Healthy Shift Worker]

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I’m heading into my 3rd week of switching my diet over to raw foods with help from the Eating for Energy plan and my goal this week is to be at a 90% raw diet by the end of the week.  For the last couple of weeks I’ve focused on incorporating more raw foods into my diet and building a list of favorite recipes.  

I attended an organic festival last weekend and was wowed by the variety of raw foods available.   I had the chance to try a raw food wrap and was immediately hooked.  Unfortunately they wouldn’t share their recipe so I’ve been digging around for one is similar to no avail.   I came across a recipe for a corn torilla wrap, killed my poor old blender mixing it up and just finished dehydrating it this morning.  It tastes ok, but flavour and texture wise has a long way to go to match the quality of the one at the show.  In the meantime, good thing that the Nori works so well for rollups.

During the week I work in town and have to take all my foods for the day with me.  It makes it very easy to not pick at foods I shouldn’t be eating.  My hard times are the weekends.  On Sat & Sun I am so used to just eating what I feed my husband that I’m finding developing a new routine with the raw foods a bit difficult as well as dealing with late night snacking for Friday & Saturdays.  Needless to say I have a very unhappy body this morning…and I know it is probably just hormones, but I’m am craving bread, warm buttered covered noodles with just a bit of parmasean cheese on them.  It is an absolutely bizzare craving as I for the last couple of years I’ve aimed to eat a pretty much gluten  & dairy free diet due to food sensitivities.

I have noticed some improvements over the last couple of weeks.  My acne is improving especially on my back and my IBS has been pretty much under control.  My fibromyalgia pain level is still at around a 6 with the pain in my arms being quite distracting and a horrid hormonal headache which is bad enough to almost exceed the FM pain.  I’m pretty much off all pain meds,I’ve only taken ibuprohen once in the last week, but I’m thinking this morning I might breakdown and take something although I’ll try a dose of arnica first.  Sometimes it helps.

If anyone has come across some good raw food wraps please share.  Also anyone have any ideas on what I could eat to combat the warm noodles & butter craving?

Lynnette

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Okay, that’s the extent of my French.

Is anyone else a fan of the Tour de France?

For those who don’t know, it’s a three week bicycle race across, you guessed it, France. It is the race for these athletes, and winning the General Classification, the rider who has the lowest overall time after 20 stages of racing, is the crowning achievement for any of them and only a handful of the participants have a hope of achieving this dream. The rest of the participants (and there are nearly 200 altogether) are domestiques, the workers who help their team leader achieve his goal.

I’ve been watching this for about eight years now, thanks to my mom who got me hooked. It has always amazed me to watch these athletes.

There are the sprinters who sprint crazy fast for the finish line of the flat stages, flirting with disaster as they seek the stage win.

And then there are the climbers (these are the guys who have a chance of winning the GC) who propel themselves up the mountains at amazing speed. The mountain climbing has always impressed me the most, probably because it is something I consider impossible for someone like me.

The Tour ends Sunday (and now I’ll have a whole bunch of free time because it takes up a lot of hours watching this bike race) and the winners of all the different categories will be determined. As much as the winners have to be incredible athletes, I’ve noticed over the years that the teams with the best support to offer their leader produce the winners. No one man can win the race by himself.

That same concept can be related to our own lives. While each of us has to put in our own individual effort to achive our goals, alone it can be a challenging, or even impossible, task to complete.

Surrounding ourselves with supportive people and role models, while limiting our exposure to negative people, is key to being successful in your Eating for Energy journey, and anything else you may want to achieve.

I’m blessed with a supportive family. They are impressed that I can keep up the lifestyle changes I’ve made and they can see my results, which speak volumes. My dad is proud of me, and that means a great deal to me.

So I guess in my long-winded way, I’m asking: do you have any domestiques? The people in your life that support you and urge you forward; that pick you up when you fall and help you continue on even when you don’t want to.

I do, and I hope you do too.

As for bicycling, who knows, maybe a long term goal (as in next summer) can be bicycling up a hill near where I live. It is a far cry from one of the mountain passes in the Alps or Pyrenees, yet I know if I make it to the top it will be incredible. I suppose that would mean getting a bike (I don’t own one aside from the stationary bike sitting in my living room). Maybe I could borrow one.

The more specific long term goals I set, the more I have to look forward to and strive for. Something else to consider.

Nichole

PS – A Canadian is going to come in seventh overall in the Tour. Go Canada!

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June and July are terrible months for me most of time. I suffer from Asthma and have so since I was a child. I no longer take any medication ( I have an inhaler, just in case) anymore and Eating for Energy has thought me how food can help me in my own treatment.

Your lungs and heart have to work overtime, if you suffer from Asthma, just to supply the air and blood it takes to help you 1. breath, 2. eat and 3. eliminate the waste from your body.

As a child I often was really scared after I ate because my heart would race and my breath was always heavy shortly after or even when I was eating. Going to the bathroom was like running for miles it seemed. I would get all sweaty and had a hard time getting off the “bowl”. Asthma sufferers know what I am talking about here.

Having a green drink before or after a workout or before going to work changed my way of dealing with my Asthma. It helped take the fear away, and the pain.

Eating takes tremendous energy, the chewing, digestion and processing all happens before the benefits hit my blood stream, therefore the pain is all before the benefits. Having a green drink, as explained in Eating for Energy eliminates the chewing, digestion and elimination problems. Within one hour you feel the benefits as your body assimilates the nutrients it needs to give you the energy you need for the event you are getting ready for (work or play).

The last month has been hard for me, I will admit it. Asthma is with me for life, but Eating For Energy has helped me work with it instead of fearing it, if you know what I mean? I am able to function perfectly well even when my allergies act up, during my exercising and even at work. I now understand what I need to do in order to maximize my quality of life by eating smart and having easily digestible drinks all day long.

If you have no idea how hard your body works, to supply the air you need to breath and the blood it takes to keep you healthy, ask an Asthma sufferer and start understanding your bodies needs today.

Pierrette & I have our green juices everyday now and will for the rest of our lives. Thank you Yuri for helping us better understand ourselves with Eating For Energy.

Pierre Trudel

Thee Quest For Perfect Health

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Okay, so I got three days of fresh pressed juices in for this week, and I ate greens for most of the day yesterday.  I had a liver booster twice and a flu fighter once.  Not too bad for jumping back on the wagon halfway through the week.   What I mean by that is that my “week” starts on Sunday and ends on Saturday.  Unfortunately for my  quest to eat for energy, I’ve taken off for the beach and a weekend of likely bad food choices, but as I mentioned in my comment to the blog post about moderation, “everything in moderation, including moderation.”

Oh, and on another note.  My friend Janet is working on Eating for Energy herself.  She just started this week.  She is having a bit of a hard time with the whole vegetable thing.  Any recipes you can offer up that will help a vegetable hater eat for energy would be greatly appreciated.

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We here this statement time and time again – that “everything in moderation” is the key to achieving good health. But this statement is actually incorrect.

Why? Because everybody’s version of ‘moderation’ is different.

One person might think that having 1 soft drink a day is a little, so that must be OK. On the other hand, somebody else might think that having 3 soft drinks a day is little – so that must be OK too.

But the truth of the matter is, there are some foods that we shouldn’t be eating at all! So we really need to scratch the statement – “everything in moderation” because it really isn’t the key to achieving good health.

A lot of food is toxic on the body, they actually do it harm. Many foods deplete our immune system and deplete our bodies of vitamins and minerals.

So it’s time to get rid of the belief – “Everything in moderation!”

A lot of us are led to believe that food found on a shelf is actually healthy. That there is some governing body authority protecting our health – but this is not true!

There are no agencies out there that protect us by checking every single ingredient for chemicals and preservatives.

Most of us take better care of our houses, our gardens, our computers and TV’s. They come with a manual, and instruction book – but we come with nothing!

We’ll walk into a grocery store and pick up a box because it says “healthy” – but never actually take the time to read the ingredients.

If you pulled up at a gas station and it said ’sulphur dioxide’ – you would ask, “What is that?” Because you know your car won’t work if you put the wrong fuel in it. But we never ask “What ingredient is preservative 202?” that appears on our box of Krispy Kreme donuts – but we should.

The word ‘healthy’ – is not regulated by anybody. Just because it says “healthy” on the box doesn’t mean that it actually is. Which is why you want to try and avoid as much food as you can that contains artificial colours and preservatives.

Just as Yuri explains in his book – ‘Eating for Energy’ - your diet should not incorporate a lot of processed food. Eat food as nature intended us too – as close to it’s original state as possible.

Food inside a box is certainly not as good for you as that which is picked off a vine or tree.

So start being very selective about WHAT you put into your mouth is … because your health is directly related to what you eat – not just how much.

Regards,

Audra Starkey

[The Healthy Shift Worker]

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