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Pina Colada Smoothie

For 1 liter of cocktail  Blend 400g fresh pineapple with 2 small or 1 big bananas and 100 ml extra creamy coconut milk. Add from 1/2 to 1 cup of water and blend it again - taste it.  You can cut into one banana for difference of textures. 

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Strawberry banana smoothie Deliciouuus!!!  Blend 450 g strawberries with 2 very ripe bananas and 180-200 ml water (or ice). Add to blender 6-8 soft dates to make it a bit sweeter and delicate.  

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Banana-peach smoothie Amazing breakfast! For 2 portions Blend 2 peaches and 2 medium very ripe and sweet smelling bananas with around 250 ml (1 cup) still water. Try and add more peaches if desired. Replace some water with ice to make it refreshing.  

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Right Speech by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

As my teacher once said, "If you can't control your mouth, there's no way you can hope to control your mind.' This is why right speech is so important in day-to-day practice.

Right speech, explained in negative terms, means avoiding four types of harmful speech: lies (words spoken with the intent of misrepresenting the truth); divisive speech (spoken with the intent of creating rifts between people); harsh speech (spoken with the intent of hurting another person's feelings); and idle chatter (spoken with no purposeful intent at all).

Notice the focus on intent: this is where the practice of right speech intersects with the training of the mind. Before you speak, you focus on why you want to speak. This helps get you in touch with all the machinations taking place in the committee of voices running your mind. If you see any unskillful motives lurking behind the committee's decisions, you veto them. As a result, you become more aware of yourself, more honest with yourself, more firm with yourself. You also save yourself from saying things that you'll later regret. In this way you strengthen qualities of mind that will be helpful in meditation, at the same time avoiding any potentially painful memories that would get in the way of being attentive to the present moment when the time comes to meditate.

In positive terms, right speech means speaking in ways that are trustworthy, harmonious, comforting, and worth taking to heart. When you make a practice of these positive forms of right speech, your words become a gift to others. In response, other people will start listening more to what you say, and will be more likely to respond in kind. This gives you a sense of the power of your actions: the way you act in the present moment does shape the world of your experience. You don't need to be a victim of past events.

For many of us, the most difficult part of practicing right speech lies in how we express our sense of humor. Especially here in America, we're used to getting laughs with exaggeration, sarcasm, group stereotypes, and pure silliness — all classic examples of wrong speech. If people get used to these sorts of careless humor, they stop listening carefully to what we say. In this way, we cheapen our own discourse. Actually, there's enough irony in the state of the world that we don't need to exaggerate or be sarcastic. The greatest humorists are the ones who simply make us look directly at the way things are.

Expressing our humor in ways that are truthful, useful, and wise may require thought and effort, but when we master this sort of wit we find that the effort is well spent. We've sharpened our own minds and have improved our verbal environment. In this way, even our jokes become part of our practice: an opportunity to develop positive qualities of mind and to offer something of intelligent value to the people around us.

So pay close attention to what you say — and to why you say it. When you do, you'll discover that an open mouth doesn't have to be a mistake.

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Vegan Ice cream Bars

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Peach and blueberry smoothie with dates pieces. Ideal for fresh and light breakfast. Blend peaches (figue peaches preferably) with berries, ice cubes and dates. It would be nice without dates too. Enjoy ;)

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Good food for a good start of next week ;)

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Our food for couple of next days ;)

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Raw eating is the most healthy and essential for human

No essential nutrient exists in meat, grains, legumes, or dairy that is not also available in fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds in a form that is easier to digest. Indeed, many vital nutrients, such as soluble fibers and the thousands of phytonutrients can only be garnered from plants. Fruits, vegetables, and leafy greens not only contain sustainable amounts of carbohydrates, protein, and fat, they also contain them in the percentages, ratios, and forms that are optimum for human health.

People thrive on the raw diet, often telling others how it has improved their health and their lives. When people integrate a proper raw diet with other healthful living practices, they rarely, if ever, develop weight-control prob- lems or chronic (or even short-term) illnesses. Health becomes a fact of life.

For millions of years, most humans, and their ancestors, lived a gatherer lifestyle in a tropical environment where large amounts of easy-to-pick fruit were readily available to meet their nutritional needs. The human diet was likely entirely plant based and eaten without the application of fire or heat. Accordingly, the human digestive and eliminative tracts developed to process raw fruits and vegetables for fuel and growth. We are biologically designed to obtain our nutrition from uncooked fruits and vegetables.

Only within the last 10,000 years has cereal agriculture allowed humans to trade their frugivorous diets for cooked grain-based fare. People's bodies remained the same, but the food they chose to eat began to vary for the worse. The human body has not had sufficient time, evolutionarily speaking, to alter its digestive system to meet this fundamental dietary change. The likelihood of doing so is slim at best, as heated foods are of lower nutritional quality, and cooking introduces toxic elements. Hence, the adaptation would be a downward one, and would be technically considered a devolution. 

- The 80/10/10 Diet. Dr. Douglas Graham

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A healthy ratio of saturated to poly- unsaturated fats. Dr. Douglas Graham 80/10/10

Nutritionists have recommended a healthy ratio of saturated to poly- unsaturated fats for the last fifty years. The ratio is called the  ratio.” The suggested ratio that is best for health has been placed at 20/80 (20% saturated to 80% polyunsaturated). This is an accepted standard in the world of nutrition.

Note that the  ratio of most plants, including nuts and seeds, is ideal: 20/80, or extremely close to it. The proportion of saturated to polyun- saturated fatty acids in most animal foods is 80/20, the exact opposite of the ratio we require.

When we discuss the health values of different types of fat, it is important to remember the  ratio. The structure of the fat we consume very profoundly affects bodily function. As this number skews toward saturated fats in the diet, we see increases in atherosclerosis and other forms of heart disease, the number-one killer in the westernized world. It is literally impossible to achieve a healthy S/P ratio while including products of animal origin in our diets. 

Еще пятьдесят лет назад диетологи нашли здоровое соотношение насыщенных и полиненасыщенных жиров в пище. Его называют соотношением Н/П. Оптимальным для здоровья Н/П, было признано 20/80 (20% насыщенных к 80% ненасыщенных). Это общепризнанный стандарт в диетологии. 

Отметим, что соотношение Н/П в большей части растений, включая орехи и семена, идеально: 20/80 или очень близко к этому. Тогда как соотношение Н/П в большинстве животных продуктов — 80/20, полная противоположность нормы. 

Когда мы говорим о пользе жиров для здоровья, важно помнить о соотношении Н/П. Структура жира, который мы потребляем, очень сильно влияет на функционирование наших органов. Если в питании преобладают насыщенные жиры, повышается риск атеросклероза и других сердечнососудистых заболеваний, которые являются причиной большей части смертей в западном мире. Совершенно невозможно достигнуть здорового соотношения Н/П употребляя в пищу продукты животного происхождения.  

- The 80/10/10 Diet. Dr. Douglas Graham