![]() ![]() They’re great for the liver, as they stimulate the liver’s detoxifying processes. Beets also contain the B vitamin folate, which helps reduce the risk of birth defects. Nutritional benefits of beets: Beets are high in immune-boosting vitamin C, fiber, and essential minerals like potassium (essential for healthy nerve and muscle function) and manganese (which is good for your bones, liver, kidneys, and pancreas). BTW, if you have a juicer, go ahead and omit the water and throw the below ingredients into your juicer. You all know I’m kidding right? Anyway, let’s move on and make up some juice. You may get some stares as you drink this and have people come up and ask you what the heck you’re drinking, and you may even get hit on by a few local vampires (on that note, maybe you should just drink this juice during the day time). ![]() This is the perfect juice to sip on post workout of for an afternoon snack. For some reason, I love ginger in my juices, as it lends such a spicy kick to your juice. They blend in beautifully with the sweetness of the carrots and apple and the spiciness of the ginger. I do like the way the beets taste in this juice though. I mean I’ll eat a beet salad from time to time, but beets are a bit too earthy tasting for me. I’ll admit that I’m not a huge fan of beets. I made this juice up one afternoon and Zoe and John looked at it and decided to call it vamp juice, because it sort of looks like blood, but don’t worry, it doesn’t taste like blood. They all taste great and each one of them has a special kick to it from the ginger. I have 2 other juices on the blog that you can make without a juicer as well, my mean green juice and my carrot, grapefruit and ginger juice. Yaay! I love that I can juice at home without requiring the use of an expensive juicer. Entrepreneurs believe the sky’s the limit, so that’s the approach I hope I can help to instill into everyone connected to Wellness in the Schools.Here’s another juice that I’m currently loving that you can make without a juicer. I am thrilled and proud to be part of such a special organization, and I look forward to seeing where our collective efforts will take us. Teaming up with Wellness in the Schools in alignment with my business goals was the start, but I realized that regardless of what I could do through my company, I just wanted to participate however I could. It’s not just an isolated class where kids learn about nutrition for a day it’s a long-term plan with measurable results, which creates the systemic change that our schools need. Wellness in the Schools was doing it in a way that felt special to me. I was a New York City public school kid, so for me, helping support a better nutritional upbringing for the same kids felt like the most authentic connection I could make. Beginning with BluePrint, and through my subsequent ventures, I have always aimed to strike that balance between giving the customer the product or service they want, and contributing to the underserved audience in a meaningful way. It’s our responsibility to make every effort in extending the basic right of good health as far as possible, through whatever kind of giveback program a business can support. In my opinion, there should be no limit on that type of opportunity. But while it’s encouraging to see so many new products and brands dedicated to helping people feel better and live well, there is a bit of an imbalance in terms of who has access to better food options. It’s not about a miracle pill or a magic bullet, it’s about consuming fresh, minimally processed, real food.Īs an entrepreneur in the healthy food industry, it’s been really exciting to see how much more of an interest people are taking in their health and what they put into their bodies, and how their food choices affect them, impact their families, and ultimately the community at large. We were really struck by how much confusion was out there around what constitutes a “healthy” diet. When we launched BluePrint Cleanse in 2007, the goal was to bring the benefits of juicing to a mass audience and raise awareness on the importance of adding fresh raw vegetables and fruits into your diet to achieve optimal health. ![]()
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