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(NaturalNews) What makes tomatoes, strawberries, and Celery healthful foods? Why should these particular foods be included in the eating regime? Here are a few good reasons to consume these fruits and vegetables.



The body uses the nutrients in tomatoes to combat 7 different cancers that include breast, lung, colon, pancreatic, cervical, prostate, and skin. Strawberries contribute their nutritive value to improve the digestive system and the respiratory system, the kidneys and the lungs, and the liver and the spleen, and they help reverse heart disease and high blood pressure. Celery provides the body with powerful nutrients that assist it to remove dizziness, hypertension, headaches, Rheumatoid Arthritis , constipation, gout, and 3 kinds of stones that include kidney, bladder, and gall. Drink this whole foods fruit and vegetable juice, with all the fiber included (recipe follows), to also make better the functionality of the bowels, the circulatory system, the joints, the immune system, the nervous system, and the skin.



Here are the fruits and vegetables, and here is how to bring them together for great nutrition and delicious taste.



Use organic ingredients.



Makes 2 large drinks.



Time Saving Tips:



Freshly squeeze lemon juice ahead.



Ingredients:



Parsley (Italian flat-leaf) = 2 ounces (Keep only the stem of each sprig, that attaches the leaves and that travels upward from the last leaf, Discard the part of the stem that starts from the last leaf traveling downward and where there are no leaves)



Bell pepper (red) = 4 ounces (minus its seeds and ribs and outside stem)



Celery = 4-1/2 ounces (no leaves unless a strong Celery taste is desired)



Strawberries (red) = 5-1/2 ounces (Weigh as is with hulls/leafy green tops & stems. Then after weighed, remove hulls/leafy green top & stem from each strawberry.)



Apple cider vinegar = 2 tablespoons



Lemon juice (fresh squeezed) = 1-1/2 tablespoons



Unrefined highest-quality salt = 1/4 teaspoon



Cayenne pepper powder (dried) = a dash



Optional: honey = 1 double teaspoon



Tomatoes (red) = 19 ounces (Core and keep the seeds.)



Optional: 1/4 cup cool filtered water (only if thinning out the drink is desired)



Instructions:



Put all of the ingredients into a high speed blender in succession and puree on whole juice setting 2 times. This recipe is meant to be enjoyed immediately after preparation.



Notes:



*Best nutrition and best flavor will come from in-season, locally-grown, fresh-picked, ripe, and organic or sustainable or biodynamic heirloom ingredients. Do the very best you can, always keeping in mind this high standard.



*The weight given represents the flesh of the fruit/vegetable. In other words... after trimmed up, the amount given is the amount that is actually used in the recipe.



*The cayenne pepper powder means cayenne that has been dried and ground.



*Preferred is apple cider vinegar (preferably in glass) that is organic, unfiltered, unheated, and has the `mother`.



*Parsley goes on the bottom of the carafe (as it blends the best this way).



*This drink will taste best with heirloom organic vine-ripened tomatoes of choice. Try organic beefsteak, or organic cherry, or organic grape tomatoes. All mentioned tomatoes are superb.



*Celery hearts are usually always more expensive than the regular celery bunches; however, feel free to use either. The celery hearts will make the drink sweeter.



*In lieu of the Himalayan pink crystal salt used in this recipe, feel free to use any unrefined high-quality salt of your choice. How about the unrefined Hawaiian red clay salt?



*Variation (Tomato Parsley Cherry Libation): Replace strawberries with same amount of red bing cherries (weighing cherries to 5-1/2 ounces yet making sure each cherry is without its stem and making sure each cherry is with its stone). After the cherries have been weighed, remove--from each cherry--its stone (before adding cherries to the libation). In addition, do add the optional water and also do add the optional honey. To remove the stone from the cherry fruit, cut each cherry in half. Using your fingers, pull out the stone.



*Please, will you comment on how you like the recipe?



Thanks for reading.



Resources:



For the nutritional information:

http://www.healingfoodreference.com/



Celery and their hearts:

http://www.foodsubs.com/Stalk.html



Why Organic?

http://www.organicconsumers.org/abo



About the author



This recipe creation is by Dianne Wawrzyniak-Marshall. Via YouTube video, Dianne brings you alive healthful recipes that she and Paul enjoy time and time again. Catch Dianne and Paul in raw (uncooked)'living' plant-based food-prep recipe-demoing action ToLiveWellNow.

http://www.youtube.com/ToLiveWellNow

Dianne Wawrzyniak-Marshall has a passion to share her many extremely challenging experiences and the grand lessons she has learned. If you could pick up a blue-eyed blonde-haired little girl of 5 and spare her so very many years of forthcoming pain of the physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental, would you? Dianne was this little girl. Born in 1963, Dianne desires to share information that comes from deep suffering in order to help parental figures understand how to give children an abundant life(as well as themselves). Dianne wants to help people ToLiveWell!

http://www.tolivewell.citymax.com





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Drink to Your Health: Tomato Parsley Berry Libation