What’s the hold up?
Perhaps you’ve heard lately, people talking about “green smoothies” and you might be wondering: what is a green smoothie? A green smoothie is a blended meal that you drink like a milkshake that is made from mostly raw, living foods such as dark leafy green vegetables, nuts, seeds, ice and fruit. When made correctly, the taste is fantastic. More importantly, however, is that green smoothies give you a sustained, alkalinizing energy that helps you to feel ten years younger. Green Smoothies help you to feel like Iron Man!
Iron Man Up with a Green Smoothie
Watching the blockbuster film Iron Man 2, I couldn’t help but notice when Tony Stark (played by Robert Downey Jr) is in his laboratory working on his metal suit and other world-saving activities, that he also likes imbibe on a green-colored beverage.
The film was released in 2010, and I didn’t have a chance to see it at the theater, but viewing it on DVD recently, I jumped out of my seat, declaring: “Iron Man drinks green stuff, too!”
Hey, what can I say? Every fellow likes a little validation every now and then.
Anti-Toxin
When asked what he is drinking, in the film Tony Stark calls it “chlorophyll,” which is the green pigment found in almost all plants — so he’s just giving his particular blend of green drink a cool/nerdy name. From a health point of view, it’s refreshing to see a comic movie hero get his life-saving powers from a green drink as well as his metal suit.
I Googled it, and it said if you have any radioactivity overload,
chlorophyll will combat it”
~ Robert Downey Jr, star of Iron Man, to E! News
Part of the movie’s plot involved Stark being slowly poisoned by the radioactive device that keeps his heart alive — the machine increases his blood toxicity.
In a way, all green smoothies are taking on the same fight — battling off the everyday toxins from daily environmental pollution, or processed and packaged food. Armed with antioxidants, a daily green smoothie is a powerful weapon in the fight against premature aging.
Chlorophyll
It turns out, green smoothies taste a whole lot better than they look. In fact, they taste fantastic! Often, you don’t taste the vegetables in the smoothies at all, except as accent flavors that give the drink an appetizing edge. It’s all about the ratios of ingredients, and discovering what fruits complement what vegetables, so that the fruit becomes the predominant flavor.
Chlorophyll is found in any green vegetables, and you can make your own smoothie out of any of the following:
- swiss chard
- kale
- green cabbage
- celery
- collard greens
- spinach
- basically, any vegetable that’s green.
To learn how to make a green smoothie watch the first in our video series below, or sign up for our free e-newsletter to see the whole video series in easy-to-watch, 1-minute installments. Not many other superheros set as good an example as Iron Man. Sure, Superman is powered by our yellow sun and goes to show so you could argue his powers come from a heavy dose of vitamin D. Popeye never claims to be a hero, he instead reminds us that “he is what he is.” He puts off fighting danger until the last minute, and then — when he really requires ultimate potency — he turn to his spinach! If he knew about green smoothies, he probably would have opted for this easier and more delicious alternative, to simply toss some greens into the blender each morning!
Green Smoothies Go Mainstream
It’s great to see green drinks getting attention, or at least acknowledgment, in the mainstream media.
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