Walk Free Smoothies
The First Homeopathic Smoothies
Nutrition drinks aren't just about vitamins, minerals, and protein anymore. Walk Free Smoothies, the first line of homeopathic smoothies, were designed so that each smoothie offers seven to fifteen servings of organic vegetables and fruits, along with other edible plants, chosen for individual nutritional needs, blended in a smooth, delicious drink that's a meal-on-the-go or a quick energy boost. Blending whole fruits and vegetables is WAY better than juicing because it retains all the nutrients and fiber within the food.
Delilah O'Haynes created these smoothies for chemotherapy survival and discovered their tremendous potential for helping the body heal itself. These nutritious smoothies, packed with the antioxidants and phytonutrients found only in nature's harvest, can be made in a variety of flavors. Seven years after cancer, Delilah still depends on these smoothies every day for nutritional health. She carries a thermos of the stuff to work and keeps a batch made in the refrigerator at home. The time, effort, and expense are worth it!
Many cancer patients read Delilah's book, Walk Free From Fear of Cancer, and inquired about making these smoothies. Many survivors later contacted Delilah to thank her because these smoothies literally kept them alive, since they were not able to digest solid food, and the smoothies gave them real nutrition, not just vitamins found in canned nutritional drinks. At first Delilah sought a patent for the idea so that people nationwide could benefit. However, the drink's potent potential lies in the freshness of its produce. So after working for two years to find a way to preserve this freshness without compromising the nutrition, Delilah decided the best way to get this idea out to the public is to put the information on the web so that people can make the smoothies themselves in their own homes with fresh ingredients.
Following are exerpts from the nutritional chapter of the book concerning these smoothies, including several recipes for Walk Free Smoothies:
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Walk Free From Fear of Cancer--Nutrition & Recipes
Paul Reilly, ND, writes that "our lifestyle choices are more important than our genetics in determining cancer risk. Many simple diet and lifestyle changes can significantly reduce your colon cancer risk, and increasing your fruit and vegetable intake is one of the most important."
Within the last five years, some nutritionists have changed their "five alive" message, which promotes eating five servings of fruits and vegetables a day for health. Many ads now advocate as many as eight to nine servings of fruits and vegetables daily, some more than nine. The medical doctors who wrote How to Prevent and Treat Cancer with Natural Medicine recommend getting at least ten servings of fruits and vegetables daily. But keep in mind that these messages are for healthy people; in other words, a healthy individual probably needs eight to ten servings of fruits and vegetables per day to maintain health.
When I sought the Creator's advice on what I should eat to regain bone mass, I felt led to consume at least ten to fifteen servings of fruits and vegetables daily, and this regimen proved to be a life-saver. In Prescription for Nutritional Healing, Dr. James Balch, M.D., and nutritionist Phyllis Balch recommend that, for most of the health problems listed in the book, patients' diets consist of 75 percent raw fruits and vegetables. They state that "a daily dose of seven to ten servings of fruits and vegetables can reduce cancer risk by about 30 percent."
It stands to reason, then, that all chronically ill people need to eat as many raw fruits and vegetables as is humanly possible. However, consuming so many servings of these much-needed foods, especially raw, can be difficult, particularly for the cancer patient, who is nauseated and has little appetite. Chemotherapy literally punches the digestive system in the gut, and those with digestive problems are hardest hit.
I had inflammatory bowel disease and acid reflux before changing my eating habits. These problems returned with chemotherapy, so I had to take a prescription medication. Even with this medicine, there were weeks that I could eat no solid food except rice and potatoes, and my esophagus sustained permanent damage from the drugs. I ate so much canned chicken-noodle soup during this time that I'll never touch the stuff again. Like a pregnant woman, I could not stand the smell of cooked food. How, then, was I to eat all those fruits and vegetables?
I was given the answer to this problem many years ago by another cancer patient. She had an inoperable tumor in her chest and suffered through many months of chemotherapy. She had always preferred natural products and enjoyed healthy eating, but because of her cancer, she began to study nutrition and later, after her cancer was in remission, enrolled in college to become a nutritionist.
Before smoothies became popular, this woman put fruits in a blender with fruit juice and drank her way back to health. Dr. Don Colbert, M.D., the physician who prescribes Bible nutrition for all health problems, recommends juicing fruits and vegetables. Since I could not afford a juicer, I chose to use my blender, following my friend's example, and found that using whole fruits and vegetables gave me fiber as well as nutrients. Gradually, I added to my friend's smoothie idea. I needed vegetables, so I threw them into the blender with the fruit. I also needed protein because of my tendency toward low-blood sugar, so I added powdered protein.
When I first started drinking this nutrition drink, I divided a blender full between breakfast and lunch, and within a couple of months, I could tell a major difference in my overall health. At the time, I included plenty of greens, like collard greens, which help build bone. Not only did my bones become stronger, but my inflammatory bowel disease and low-blood sugar became a thing of the past. I'd had a suspicious bowel growth removed before the age of 40, and I'd been told that I would need a thorough colon examination every year. However, after I'd consumed raw fruits and vegetables for a year, my surgeon said, "I don't know how you did it, but I see no more inflammation. You've cut your risk of colon cancer in half, so you won't need another examination for five years."
My basic Walk-Free Smoothie routine:
Fill a blender, loosely, with fruits and vegetables. Choose a variety from different color groups. You can make the mixture as thin or thick as you like. Add liquid, like juice, milk, rice milk, soy milk (limit soy if you have hormone-receptor positive cancer). Blend until smooth. Add protein (whey protein, soy protein, rice protein, cooked egg whites, nut butters, etc.) to avoid overloading the body with fruit sugar and causing a sugar rush.
In his book, Toxic Relief, Dr. Colbert tells which fruits and vegetables we should consume for maximum health. When deciding which fruits and vegetables to include in my nutrition regimen, I chose from Dr. Colbert's list of categories. All fruits and vegetables fight cancer, but some are better than others.
The authors of How to Prevent and Treat Cancer with Natural Medicine write that those who want to reduce their risk of cancer, those who have had cancer, and those who are undergoing treatments for cancer should consume fruits and vegetables with a high glutathione content (such as spinach and tomatoes) because glutathione "helps detoxify and eliminate toxins" from the body.
Removing toxins from the body is especially important for anyone prone toward breast cancer, even males, because toxins are most often stored in breast tissue. Washing toxic wastes from the system is difficult to do during chemotherapy, which can cause severe constipation. Thankfully, I found that my smoothies helped relieve this problem more gently and reliably than a laxative. If your system is not accustomed to digesting raw produce, begin with small amounts and add a little each week to build up your tolerance to the fiber.
There are also other health considerations to take into account when making produce choices, such as diabetes, in which case some fruits and fruit juices should be avoided. People who have had their gall bladders removed may not be able to tolerate many raw fruits and vegetables at a time; in this case, they may have to steam their produce slightly before blending or cook the mixture slightly after blending. Another point important to cancer patients is that greens contain vitamin K, a vitamin that must be avoided when taking any anticoagulant drugs. In addition, patients who have extremely low white-blood counts should avoid raw fruits and vegetables until their counts improve because of the risk of bacteria.
Some people still just rinse their produce, but it is so important to use soap, especially for the cancer patient, because pesticides are leading carcinogens. Dr. Colbert recommends Ivory detergent, hydrogen peroxide or bleach. I use Ivory dish detergent or any other mild detergent without antibacterial properties. I soak grapes and scrub apples. Waxed fruit is especially difficult because pesticides can be trapped underneath the wax.
I use a lot of frozen and pre-washed, packaged fruits and vegetables for convenience. However, you must be careful of adding too many frozen products to a blender at once. I have burned up a couple of blenders that way (Actually, in two-years' time, I annihilated four cheap blenders; I could have bought the juicer after all!). Defrosting frozen produce slightly before blending can help you avoid blender overload. Microwaves can cook produce, however, so I have worked out a routine of placing my frozen vegetables in the blender before I go to bed. When I awake, they are thawed and my smoothie is ready to blend. An alternative is to place fresh fruit and half the juice in first; then add frozen produce and more juice. This way the frozen produce is dispersed and puts less of a strain on the blender. Smoothies can be made ahead and stored in the refrigerator, and they can be heated slightly if too cold to drink. I even freeze my smoothies to take on trips.
If you have no dietary restrictions where fruits and vegetables are concerned, have fun with produce variety; for instance, make a cold fruit smoothie in summer, or try a chocolate and peanut-butter flavored smoothie (using chocolate protein). Yes, you can put fruits and vegetables in such a smoothie and never taste the vegetables.
Recently, a colleague of mine emailed me and asked if I could make a smoothie for a friend of hers who was going through chemotherapy treatments. Her friend was just visiting and would leave that afternoon to go back home, but the poor woman hadn't been able to keep anything on her stomach for days. This patient loves chocolate, so I rushed home and made her my best chocolate smoothie recipe, and she said it was delicious, welcomed nourishment which was easy on her stomach. I truly believe my smoothies will mean the end of deaths caused by malnourishment as a result of chemotherapy.
When I started chemotherapy, I was told that, if I needed extra nutrition, especially during those times that I would not feel like eating solid food, I would be given a nutritional supplement, like Ensure or Boost. These products do give patients vitamins and minerals that might be lost through poor nutritional habits, poor appetite or vomiting, but they do not offer the nutritional, disease-fighting value of real food, particularly the food that we were meant to eat. Notice that most drinks and bars of this sort are labeled, "meal replacement," meaning they are not whole food.
Walk Free Smoothies:
Fill a blender, loosely, with fruits and vegetables. Add liquid, like juice, milk, rice milk, soy milk (limit soy if you have hormone-driven cancer). Blend until smooth. Add protein (such as whey, soy or rice protein) to avoid overloading the body with fruit sugar and to create a complete meal.
Wash all fruits and vegetables, even organic produce, using a non-antibacterial soap. Frozen produce may also be used, but care must be taken so as not to overtax the blender.
The following recipes are designed to help fight cancer, fight the effects of chemotherapy and radiation, and to restore the body's defense systems. Also included are lists of supplements that may be added to the smoothies or taken separately. Check with your doctor before adding any supplements to your diet.
The Walk Free Smoothie
Nutrition to fight cancer
1/2 a banana
1/2 cup chopped spinach
1/2 cup chopped kale
1/2 cup mixed berries
2 strawberries
3 peeled baby carrots
1/4 cup pineapple
1 Brussels sprout
1/2 a peeled orange
1/2 a peeled tangerine
1/2 cup dark grapes
1/2 a cored apple
10 almonds
1 tsp. ground flaxseed
1 tsp. olive oil
1 gr. chlorella
1 tsp. barley grass powder
Vanilla version: Add 1 and 1/2 cups apple cider. Blend all ingredients on high until very smooth. Add two scoops vanilla protein. Blend until smooth and frothy.
Supplements that fight cancer:
Vitamin D
Selenium
Co-enzyme 10
Turmeric
Shark Cartilage
Rosemary
Indole-3-carbinol
maitake mushroom
Foods that fight cancer:
alfalfa
almonds
apples
bananas
berries
black currents
broccoli
cabbage
carrots
corn
grapes
greens
legumes
mushrooms
onions
pineapple
prunes
pumpkin
raisins
raspberries
strawberries
tangerines
tomatoes
yellow squash
walnuts
whole grains
Vitality
Nutrition for the immune system
Prepare the Walk Free Smoothie earlier described and add as many of the following supplements as are available and affordable:
Garlic (avoid if you take a drug to prevent clotting)
Vitamin B complex
Olive leaf extract
Shark liver oil
Elderberry
Echinacea
Shitake mushroom
Full toxin Flush
Nutritional toxin flusher
Prepare the Walk Free Smoothie earlier described and add as many of the following supplements as are available and affordable:
Grape seed extract
Pine bark extract
Dandelion root
Beet root
Milk thistle
Burdock root
Red clover
Slippery elm bark
Kelp (avoid if you take a drug to prevent clotting)
Flame Tamer
Nutrition to reduce inflammation and pain
3 strawberries
1/2 cup blueberries
1/4 cup pineapple
1 cup chopped spinach
3 stalks asperague
20 raw almonds
1 tsp. ground flaxseed
800 mg. boswellia (herbal supplement)
1 tsp. powdered barley or wheat grass
1000 mg. borage oil
1000 mg. epa/dha
100 mg. grape seed extract
2 oz. pomegranate juice
2 oz. cherry juice
1 oz. noni juice
8 oz. grape juice
Blend all ingredients on high until smooth. Add two scoops vanilla protein and blend until very smooth.
Foods that fight inflammation:
avocados
cherries
fruits
nuts
olive oil
pineapple
vegetables
whole grains
wild fish
Foods to avoid:
chicken
condiments
eggs
farm-raised fish
fatty beef cuts
nitrates
pork
refined carbs
sugar
turkey
veal
veg. oil
Read Dr. Floyd Chilton's Inflammation Nation.
Chocolate Revenge
Nutrition to alkalize the body (correcting PH)
1/2 cup chopped collard greens
1/2 cup chopped spinach
2 Brussels sprouts
1/2 cup blackberries
2 strawberries
1/4 cup dark grapes
1/4 a banana
1/4 an apple, with peeling
1/4 cup pineapple
1/4 a large navel orange
10 raw almonds
1 small beet, peeled
1/4 a ripe avocado
600 mg. chlorella
1 tsp. powdered barley or wheat grass
1/4 cup cherry juice
8 oz. mixed berry juice
Blend all ingredients on high until smooth. Add two scoops chocolate protein. Blend until very smooth.
Foods and supplements that alkalize the body:
apples
avocados
barley grass
bee pollen
blackberries
broccoli
cantaloupe
cauliflower
cherries
coral calcium
corn
dates
lemons
lima beans
onions
oranges
phosphorus
pink grapefruit
potassium
potato skins
radishes
royal jelly
rutabagas
squash
strawberries
sweet potatoes
turnips
watermelon
wheat grass
yams
Chocolate version: add 1 and 1/2 cups purple grape juice, plus one small beet. Blend all ingredients on high until very smooth. Add two scoops chocolate protein. Blend until smooth and frothy.
Foods, etc., to avoid if your body is too acidic:
alcohol
aspirin
blueberries
butter
canned fruit
cheese
coffee
condiments
cranberries
eggs
fish
meat
milk
most nuts
olives
plums
poultry
prunes
refined carbs/grains
reg. vit. C
shellfish
soft drinks
stress
sugar
tea
tobacco
vinegar
Body Balance
Nutrition to alkalize and reduce inflammation
3 peeled baby carrots
1/4 a grapefruit
1 slice pineapple
2 strawberries
1/4 cup blueberries
1/4 cup blackberries
10 raw almonds
2 large Brussels sprouts
1/2 cup chopped collard greens
1/2 cup chopped spinach
2/3 cup dark grapes
1 tsp. ground flaxseed
400 mg. boswellia
1 tsp. powdered barley or wheat grass
500 mg. coral calcium with magnesium
600 mg. chlorella
1000 mg. alfalfa
500 mg. spirulina
1 oz. lemon juice
1 oz. Noni juice
2 oz. pomegranate juice
2 oz. cranberry juice
4 oz. orange juice
4 oz. mixed berry juice
Vanilla version: Blend all ingredients until smooth. Add two scoops vanilla protein and blend until smooth and frothy.
Chocolate version: Blend all ingredients until smooth. Add two scoops chocolate protein, plus one small beet, peeled. Blend until smooth and frothy.
DRINK TO YOUR HEALTH!