Raw Smoothie Video, with Leisa Wheeler, ND
March 3rd, 2010
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After seeing the Dr. Ann video I posted a couple of days ago, Leisa Wheeler, a Naturopathic Doctor in Australia, emailed me her video version of the Green Smoothie.
In this video Leisa talks about Dr. Ann’s origination of Energy Soup, and how Victoria Boutenko, a Wigmore student, turned it into the “Green Smoothie” to make it more palatable and thus, more popular.
Leisa’s website is EmbracingHealthBlog.com.
18 minutes.
I’m sure you will get a lot out of it 
January 15th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
I can’t seem to open any of the video links on this page. very dissapointing.
January 16th, 2009 at 3:04 am
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January 17th, 2009 at 7:34 am
Thank you so much Jim!! Although I drink green smoothies EVERY morning after my workout, I always love a refresher on WHY it is such a great and crucial part to the raw food lifestyle. Especially with additions of superfoods. I’ve been inspired to jazz it up a little and get into mesquite again!! You’re RAWSOME Jim!! Thank you for your generous sharing of knowledge…ALWAYS!
January 17th, 2009 at 7:48 am
i’d like the ingredients written down for leisa’s smoothie. mesquite meal? never heard of it. thank you
January 17th, 2009 at 8:56 am
what was the “meal” she added for balancing blood sugar? I could not understand what she said. She added it after the goji powder.
Thanks!
January 17th, 2009 at 9:57 am
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January 17th, 2009 at 11:39 am
Very good presentation of the green smoothies, we are just preparing quite the same in French !!! How interesting to see how things are bursting all over the planet at the same time !
I only does not agree with the consumption of such a lot of “supplements”… but that is up to everyone (and in fact could be necessary if the produce are neither organic nor grown from rich soils far from pollution) !
January 17th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Great presentation video. Could not open her website.
January 17th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
What a great refresher of a video, very informative for those that are just starting out and for those of us that have some miles behind us.
Thanks Jim for all of your hard work at getting the news out on raw food, I for one am grateful to your dedication.
January 17th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Thanks for letting me know. I’ve fixed it. Funny how blogs are; I’ll fix one thing and break another. It’s all OK, now.
Jim
January 17th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Thank you for the kind words. One of the 12 Steps to Being Raw is helping other rawbies. This is my way of paying back.
Jim
January 17th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
I agree with you, but it was such a good video I ran it anyway. There are no superfoods, and there is no magic bullet. Dietary variety, organic foods, exercise, rest, mental attitude – those are the keys to health, to me, at least. But i also agree with you; one should listen to their body and do as they feel is right.
Thanks,
Jim
January 17th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
This is Leisa who made the above video, and I just wanted to say a big Thank you to Jim for posting it, and to answer the questions on the Superfoods.
As I mention in the video, there isn’t any need to add the superfoods in – the green smoothie on it’s own is a fantastic healing drink – and certainly you wouldn’t add all of those superfoods in all the time, but it was just to show an alternative way of boosting up the smoothie!
What I used in the video:
MACA powder – Peruvian root vegetable good for hormone balance, energy, adrenal support and stamina
Camu-camu – dried berry, very high in vitamin C
Wild Bee Pollen – high in protein, vitamin and minerals
Mesquite Meal – ground seed pods from the Mesquite tree, good for balancing blood sugar levels
Goji Berry powder – high in antioxidants
Spirulina – fantastic green food
Cacao powder – high in minerals and antixoidants
Chia seeds – essential fatty acids, good for the bowel
Coconut oil – helps other fats and fat soluble vitamins to be absorbed well
Goodness that is a lot! It certainly gives the smoothie a kick though!
Enjoy!
Leisa
January 17th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Hey, thanks, Leisa!
Jim Carey
January 17th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Loved this video! Has given me just the kick start I need to get back on the right track and start the day with health and energy. Such an easy step by step video and backed with all the nutritional facts, I’ve forwarded it on to all my family. Thanks Leisa! Thanks Jim!
January 18th, 2009 at 1:20 am
Hello Jim,
I always enjoy reading your newsletters. When the video comes, I feel stumbled because I can’t hear what she/he says. I am totally deaf and independently. I just wish someone can develop the opened captioned for all the videos. Thank you for your time reading this note.
Sandra
January 18th, 2009 at 5:09 am
Wow what a small world! I clicked on Jim’s site on twitter and there was this video by Leisa.
Hi Leisa, it is Bill from Raw Pleasure here, thanks for that wonderful presentation, the smoothie is very similar to one that I have nearly every day. YUM!!!
January 18th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Dear Jim
Thank you so much for all informative emails, and thanks for this video with Liesa, I have never had a green smoothie before, I wasn’t quite sure about mxing fruits and veggies, and Dr Wigmore green soup recipe didn’t seem appealing. I make other raw dishes but wasn’t getting raw smoothie, now I am looking forward to making them. Thank you so much. I have forwarded
the email to all my frieds, and look forward to getting an alkaline body. You are an inspiration, keep up the good work.
Thanks Winsome
January 18th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Very informative – well done Leisa; I am now inspired to create a real green smoothie every morning for breakfast.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Dear Jim,
THANK YOU so so much for all this wonderful information that you are sending to all of us! I appreciate all that you do!
And THANK YOU so much Liesa for the wonderful video! I have been making green smoothies for the past couple of months after I have read the book by Victoria Boutenko – Green For Life! And I LOVE them!! It inspired me to start making a smoothie EVERY morning! And your video helped confirm my thoughts about the smoothie. My commuter friends see me drinking my green smoothie every morning and they give me a lot of interesting comments.
Thank you so much for the great information and confirmation!
Thanks, GW
January 18th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Thank YOU for the kind words.
Jim
January 21st, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Aloha from the Gardens of Paradise, the Friendly Isle in Paradise,
The Plant-Based-Lifestyle is the “Given” Way to Be Healthy Happy -n- Wholely. Yet if one does not have their food and beverage sources growing “freely”- to be 100% Raw-Foodist is counter productive.
Figure out means to keep the $ price to eat Totally Organic Raw Food Self-Sustainable.
Living, Foraging, and Grazing in the forest, jungle; and Gardens are trully the GOD-Given purpose to Live in Right-Standing. Keep-It Harmonix Ka Kou!
GOD-Speed and Joyfully Grazing Iruka-san.
January 23rd, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Hi Leisa,
I liked your “Superfood Green Smoothie” vedio. However, there is just one request i have of you, during the vedio I was unable to get all the additional ingrediants you use to make it a “Superfood Green Smoothie”. It would be very helpful if you would be so kind as to write the recipe down so I could down load it, especially the additional ingrediants.
Thank you
Charlie
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Here, Charlie:
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This is Leisa who made the above video, and I just wanted to say a big Thank you to Jim for posting it, and to answer the questions on the Superfoods.
As I mention in the video, there isn’t any need to add the superfoods in – the green smoothie on it’s own is a fantastic healing drink – and certainly you wouldn’t add all of those superfoods in all the time, but it was just to show an alternative way of boosting up the smoothie!
What I used in the video:
MACA powder – Peruvian root vegetable good for hormone balance, energy, adrenal support and stamina
Camu-camu – dried berry, very high in vitamin C
Wild Bee Pollen – high in protein, vitamin and minerals
Mesquite Meal – ground seed pods from the Mesquite tree, good for balancing blood sugar levels
Goji Berry powder – high in antioxidants
Spirulina – fantastic green food
Cacao powder – high in minerals and antixoidants
Chia seeds – essential fatty acids, good for the bowel
Coconut oil – helps other fats and fat soluble vitamins to be absorbed well
Goodness that is a lot! It certainly gives the smoothie a kick though!
Enjoy!
January 31st, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Really informative video * Well done Leisa.
I’ve always loved fruit but have reduced my intake, in the belief that it’s too high in sugar.
So I was really pleased to hear Leisa’s explanation as to why it’s OK to have fruit in a raw green smoothie. Combination of fiber with the sugars are absorbed slowly thus giving the nutrition needed for sustained energy.
Ally
March 14th, 2009 at 7:55 am
…Ihr Blog gef?llt mir wirklich gut. Der Artikel ist auch interessant. Beide Daumen hoch
April 15th, 2009 at 10:23 am
The style of writing is very familiar . Have you written guest posts for other blogs?
April 15th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
My, you’re observant. Yes, I write for a dozen or more websites.
July 23rd, 2009 at 1:37 am
Smart movie, thanks. Good information about the super foods. The tip on the coconut oil is great. I like to add cayenne pepper, Black strap molasses, turmeric, garlic and ginger, cumin, and whatever. The blender and the greens are perhaps our biggest help towards a desease free life.
July 29th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
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August 21st, 2009 at 10:56 pm
The Codex Alimentarius is soon to force us to make a decision. Where do we stand and what can we do?
August 22nd, 2009 at 12:40 am
Strange. It’s working on our various computers and operating systems. Try this direct link to the video:
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Here are some things to check when videos don’t play right:
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Jim Carey
August 22nd, 2009 at 12:41 am
I quite agree. It IS awesome, planet-wide. We’re even teaching in Africa.
August 22nd, 2009 at 12:41 am
It’s OK now.
August 22nd, 2009 at 12:44 am
Widespread demonstrations by citizens in the streets of Canada made the government back off on implementations there. Letters and calls to Congress, etc., don’t seem to be doing a bit of good. The government, especially the bureaucrats, don’t seem to be responsive to the citizens of the US anymore, and seem bent on doing what they think is best for us, just like my big sister used to do.
November 13th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Tx for your supportive info.
January 5th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Hi Leisa Terrific video thanks so much for all the detail and straight forward explanations. Good to hear about the blender too, as Vitamix is so expensive here in Australia. Will be contacting you today about the David Wolfe Tour in Melbourne. Also love receiving your newsletter.
Jude
January 5th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Hi Leisa, fantastic video I also live on the Gold Coast and would love to get your news letter, and keep involved with the green smoothie, and raw food recipes aand support, I try to do a green smoothie each day and to keep amongst like minded people, keeps enthusiasiam high, Well done
January 5th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
finally,i know how to make a smoothie:)thank you leisa for the video and to you jim for e-mailing it to me.
January 6th, 2010 at 1:30 am
The most discovered green food ever for me is the green smoothy. Hats off to Ann Wigmore and her energy soup, rejuvelac and vege-kraut and sprouts. Where would we all be in our nutritional life had not been for her findings. I love the green eat life. I enjoyed the video but; I kept waiting for the avocado to go in the smoothy. Thats what I like in mine. The video was great Jim; thank you for sharing it.
January 6th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
Great video – I am just starting to learn about all these added ingredients and what they are good for – my smoothie is usually just fruit/greens/water – but the other looks great! Thanks for sharing.
March 7th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Excellent !!!! Leisa is great.
Thank you !!!
March 24th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
GREAT video! Thanks to Jim for posting it, and Leisa for doing it!
March 29th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
Great information, although I’m not a fan of super foods; I prefer the simplicity of fresh organic fruits and veggies. The so-called super foods are processed ingredients and extremely overpriced.
Additionally, since this video was made, V. Boutenko has sadly changed her position on food, and is now consuming cooked foods and some dairy. With these “pioneers” changing their beliefs and others pushing the “necessity” of “super foods” in order to gain financially, it’s nice to see a continued focus on Dr. Wigmore’s teachings, which focused on simple, nature foods.
March 31st, 2010 at 11:51 am
Hi there, Today via Google while searching for first aid for a heart attack and your post looks very interesting for me.
April 8th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
I am a close friend of Victoria Boutenko and can guarantee that Victoria does NOT consume dairy. She stated, publicly and honestly that she sometimes consumes steamed greens. You can read this statement in her newsletter archive http://www.rawfamily.com. She does not condone eating animal products. Please check the facts from her before contributing to gossip.
August 14th, 2010 at 5:25 am
I love the idea of adding superfoods to your smoothie but I wonder why Victoria Boutenko recomends not to do it, the last time I saw her she definitely stated that it is better not to???
September 6th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Great video – I was just wondering what Leisa said was the third grenn that she used — after kale and spinach — it sounded like “silver bait” but I could not tell for sure and found nothing when I googled it.
Thanks, hoping I get the answer. I really appreciate the good information.
September 7th, 2010 at 1:09 am
The concern about food combining greens and fruits seems to have been put to rest by most raw foodists. However, when Leisa began adding seeds (protein), and veggie carbohydrates (not leafy greens) she stepped over the line of gentle digestion. Combining so many food groups is sure to stimulate at least some digestive imbalance, especially for anyone who is on a path of healing digestive issues.
September 9th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
Dr. Ann Wigmore said that food combining didn’t matter when you were blending.
October 10th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
To continue what Jim wrote, in detail, it depends on the way the foods are added. The seeds need to be sprouted to the green leafy form, and there is continuing concerrn about spinach. Spinach is a member of the oxalic acid family, which causes gallstones, and another problem is it is a selfish veggie, and the large amounts of iron in it are not able to be used. Not only that, it neutralizes the iron in the surrounding veggies, so one could end up anemic. Dr. Ann did not use spinach. In some of her books, that word was added by other people, but it was not what she used. There is no such thing as raw cacao. It is all cooked starch, and will react with the banana and berries to cause gas, indigestion and alcoholic fermentation. Yes, it makes you high or drunk, with the subsequent blood sugar drop and toxins. Spirulina was tested by thousands of people with no benefit. Wheatgrass should not be added to smoothies, because the fibers, like pineapple pulp and bran, are indigestible and will irritate and cut your insides. The bananas will help you retain weight, because it is a health building food, not an eliminative food. Dr. Wigmore would remind everyone that it is not the old bitter leaves that have the maximum energy, but the 7 day old baby greens. Growing the chia or flax to the green leafy stage will maximize what you are getting. The reservations that people had about adding the supplements are supported by good science. All of those are devoid of life and have no chi (Source, spirit, electricity, love)left in them. KISS (keep it simple, sweetie). And, don’t forget to chew every mouthful at least 30 times before you swallow it and bless the food for sharing such amazing, life giving energy. Eat it within half an hour; don’t store it. The oxygen kills the life force after that. I remember Dr. Ann handing me bowls of Energy Soup and each time reminding me, “eat it now. Stop what you are doing and concentrate on eating this. Everything else can wait. Nothing is more important than eating this soul food!” I am taking tests this month to recertify myself as a teacher in Florida. Please be patient until I get the last two done and I will be available for questions on the 1st of November. Peace and love. drflora3rd@netzero.net
There is no such thing as
October 10th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
(continued) raw oil that one can pour. Please read Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn’s book, “Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease” and you will see why he doesn’t allow even one drop of oil in his protocol to reverse (he uses the word ‘cure’) heart disease. Even the coconut water should be added after the blending is done, because blending oils makes it a saturated fat if it is not yet! Just do what we used to do in Puerto Rico, pop a coconut open and drink the water and eat the jelly! Everything else is too much fat. 2 ounces a day is all your liver can handle. 2 ounces or a fourth of a cup of avocado, diced on top of the green smoothie or Energy Soup is fine.
October 10th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Hmmm. Before I go back to the books, there is one more thought. Frozen foods do not have the life force in them and cannot be counted as raw. Just so we aren’t trying to kid ourselves. Sun dried prunes, figs, raisins, etc. may add sugars, but they do not belong in the stomach with starches that are processed. By the way, if you do want to add some weight,and are not committed to the chi energy effect yet, then use frozen bananas. You do not need to peel them. They are in a nice sterile package as it is. Just wash them 3 times in hot water, pat them dry and freeze them in their skins. When you want to use them, just drop them in warm water for a few minutes and then slip the skins off. I am not recommending frozen bananas because they are dead, but if you are in a situation where you have a lot of them and no time to use them, and cannot dehydrate them (which kills the chi anyhow), then freezing them is a fast way to preserve a whole lot of them. Good frozen food is better than nothing when one is hungry in the middle of a harsh winter. We must remember that the love that we put into the food that we make for ourselves and our family members and loved ones is more important than actually what we make. Love is chi. The optimum food is chi-powered, but people cannot always have raw food, so when that happens, you just fill it with love. The humblest cooked vegetable soup with bread prepared and shared with love, will fill you up with love and sustain you better than anything prepared raw that has negative energy in it from the maker, not with love from the Maker!
October 10th, 2010 at 7:43 pm
Here is a reply to a question at the PCRM 21 Day Kickstart that explains about why the Energy Soup might taste a little green at first:Your heart should be kickstarting and maintaining with lots of chi-filled B-complex vitamins now from the kraut, and if you added the rinsed dulse, with all the complete panorama of minerals and trace minerals that make the heart beat with joy! This is the benefit of melding the anciant wisdom of the orient with the high tech of our western world! We get the best of both worlds.
You will learn more easy recipes at http://www.rawdoctors.com, and many of the other sites. Beware of people who try to sell you dead supplements, and superfoods that have no life in them. If you concentrate on the recipes at PCRM’s sites, which are moving towards more simple and helthful oil-free combinations (instead of processed starch and sweet fruit combinations) and keep adding a smoothie each morning, your vegan life will sprout wings and soar with the eagles!
This Friday is the second of the 3 tests I have to take, the 29th is the third and last, and then I will be back. Wish me good focus. This stuff is a major challenge when you are nearly 75. I am listening to Louise Hay’s positive subliminal music, and listening to and looking at Dr. Terry Lyles’ Virtual Stress Doctor and Navigating Life’s Storms A Roadmap to Your new life free from stress, fear and anxiety tapes, (CDs, and DVDs) that he gave me at a receent conference at the Regency Spa at Hallandale Beach, His workbooks and books have been given to the Homestead Airforce Base Family Education Division, and the discs will be there too this week to help everyone get rid of their anxiety. I met with Brig. Gen. Binger, the previous 482nd Fighter Wing commander before he left for Georgia about Dr. Lyles courses, and am just now getting it all together, due to my heavy schedule. I am an old pilot: worked my way up to a Lear 24B with the help of friends and a ground school in Salt Lake City, but have always wished to go in an F-16. Some day…
There is so much help for us to share with everyone in the world to destress the population, and PCRM (like Ghandi) is sharing the core of worldwide peace: no animal protein to make one feel the anxiety of the animals when they were kept in confinement and then slaughtered. “My peace I give you,” Jesus said and we have His peace when we honor our fellow creatures, by not putting them in our bodies, we are able to feel that peace. The more you move into the highest vibration foods, the more you will intensify your peace and joy.
I had some wonderful home ripened pineapple juice, and am now enjoying some fresh organic purple grape juice.Yum.
Eat Your Energy Soup! It takes 21 days for the cravings for sugar cravings(signs of earlier protein deficiency when you were eating cooked meats – NO one can get any amino acids when one eats cooked meats) to leave amd then it tastes sweet! Hasta November 1..
Dr. Wigmore always used to ‘sweeten the pot’ so to speak when a new person came in to just ‘investigate’ the Living Food Program’s food on the Sundays when she entertained or if someone just dropped in. She knew that most people would react negatively to the taste unless they were ‘in the program’, so she would add some figs to the almond cream. This used to be a secret among the staff members. Once the person was hooked, then they would sign up, start eating the soup seriously and get well and after the 2 week program
and the intense use of wheatgrass juice, which expedited the healing of the kidneys and the increase of available protein in the body, they loved the taste of the Energy Soup. Same with the smell of the sauerkraut! If you’re not throwing up, it’s not working! we used to tell them. The worms were expelled, the stomach and gut healed, and everyone was smiling and welcomed the chlorophyll.
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