Beautiful Berries Green Tea Smoothie

Beautiful Berries Green Tea Smoothie ingredients.

One of the most prevalent side-effects of chemotherapy is loss of appetite. If you're overweight like I am and enjoy watching the pounds effortlessly melt away, loss of appetite can seem like a good thing. At the same time, not being able to eat foods that help you detox from the chemo and build your cancer-fighting immune system is disconcerting. 

The Beautiful Berries Green Tea Smoothie can fill you up and satisfy any cravings for something sweet! It's so filling and rich, it sometimes take me a couple of hours to finish it! The recipe includes three kinds of berries, a banana, and Medjool dates (for added sweetness) -- all chock-full of cancer-fighting, immune-system building antioxidants. The green tea helps you detox from the chemo while simultaneously restoring your faltering immune system. The Beautiful Berries Green Tea Smoothie is great for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

Beautiful Berries Green Tea Smoothie

Ingredients:

1/2 cup organic fresh or frozen raspberries

1/2 cup fresh or frozen organic blackberries

1/2 cup fresh or frozen organic blueberries

2 organic Medjool dates (pits removed)

1 organic banana

2 cups brewed organic green tea

• Brew the tea, then place in the refrigerator for 30-45 minutes until it has cooled down.

• Wash the berries and let them soak in purified water while the tea is cooling down

• Remove the pits from the Medjool dates, and set aside.

• Once the tea has cooled down, add all ingredients to the blender. Pulse or puree for 30-60 seconds. Serve in a quart-sized Mason jar or other glass container with a glass straw (don't compromise the health benefits of your smoothie by using plastic products).

The recipe fills a quart-sized Mason Jar.

Here is the health benefits information about this powerful cancer-fighting smoothie:

Banana: Bananas are high in several antioxidants, which may help reduce damage from free radicals and lower the risk of some diseases. Health Benefits of Bananas.

Blackberries: Blackberry fruit is effective against the development of cancer including lung cancer, colon cancer and esophageal cancer. The nutrients present in blackberries prevent the proliferation of malignant cells. Research conducted on blackberries have attributed the anti-cancer activity to the abundance of anthocyanins and other phytochemicals which inhibit tumor growth and metastasis. Health Benefits of Blackberries.

Blueberries: Blueberries have the highest antioxidant capacity of all commonly consumed fruits and vegetables. Flavonoids appear to be the major antioxidant compounds.  Health Benefits of Blueberries.

Green Tea: High in antioxidants, green tea has been shown to help prevent skin, lung, esophageal, stomach, pancreatic, and bladder cancer in animals. Recent research also indicates that green tea contains compounds that considerably slow the growth of cancer cells. Health Benefits of Green Tea.

Medjool Dates: On the basis of available documentation in the literature on the nutritional and phytochemical composition, it is becoming more apparent that the date fruits are highly nutritious and may have several potential health benefits. Click here to check out the recent research. Medjool dates Nutritional Information.

Raspberries: Raspberries contain powerful antioxidants that work against free radicals, inhibiting tumor growth and decreasing inflammation in the body. Those same potent polyphenols that protect against heart disease also help ward off or slow many types of cancer, including esophageal, lung, mouth, pharynx, endometrial, pancreatic, prostate, and colon. Health Benefits of Raspberries.

Remember, no food will cure your cancer. Your remission is wrapped up in your lifestyle choices and your genes, so even if you drink the Beautiful Berries Green Tea Smoothie all day long, you also need to take care of yourself in other ways, like not smoking, limiting your alcohol intake, being physically active, and eating a healthy (as organic as possible), anti-cancer diet that includes no dairy, no sugar, no breads or pasta, no fried foods, limited animal flesh, and an increased consumption of fruits and vegetables and plant-based proteins.