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This is John Kohler with okraw.com. Today I have another exciting episode for you and
as I'm making my lunch today, 'cause I woke up and drank about 32 ounces of water and
then a little later got a little hungry and had probably about 2 pounds of organic cherries,
super delicious, and right now I'm actually quite busy, got to get out of here and do
some work in the garden and have a whole bunch of other stuff to do, and like you guys, I'm
super busy. I'm actually probably more busy then many of you guys out there. I try to
upload a video a day and work in my garden and actually eat right and stay healthy, grow
my own food and have a social life too if I even have the time, but, you know, todays
episode is going to be hopefully just a few minutes and what I'm showing you guys and
what I'm going to teach you guys to day is I want you guys to take the time to eat right.
Take the time to make something to nourish your body instead of just grabbing something
on the go and running. You know, many people may focus intensely on their job and then
work all day and then all of a sudden, 'man, I'm really hungry,' and they look around.
'Oh, there's a candy bar machine,' or, 'there's,' you know, 'free donuts in the break room,'
just grab whatever and start chomping on it because they didn't plan ahead, because they're
so engrossed in what they're doing they don't take the time to eat right and I want to remind
and encourage you guys that you are what you eat and absorb, and if you're eating junk,
guess what? You're going to be junk. So, I want you guys to have the highest level of
health and also the highest level of brain clarity and energy, and I have found that
by eating fresh fruits and fresh vegetables, you can totally have that. So, in this episode
I'm going to show you guys what I'm doing in literally a few minutes to get some of
the best foods on earth in your body so that you can think clearly, have more energy, and
be able to do the things in life you want to do. So, what I got here. I got the blender
here and I just took 2 coconuts, these are white coconuts, I popped holes in them, and
dumped the water in there. I'd rather use fresh coconut water, whether their (frenel)
coconuts or the Thai coconuts, though in general I like to use the frenel coconuts, or if I'm
lucky, I get the full coconuts with the husk and make some water. The next thing I did
was start to add spinach. You know, while I could harvest it from my garden, I want
to show you guys what's quick and easy because many people may not have a garden at their
fingertips like I do. So, sometimes what I like to do is actually buy preboxed greens.
Now, these are baby greens, so baby greens are more nutritious than grown mature greens
plus the other advantage of these greens here are that they are prewashed. Actually, they
are triple washed so that you don't have to wash them if you don't want to. Of course,
some people may still want to wash them, but they're prewashed, so you can open it up and
use them, 'cause I think I don't have the time to wash, so, and they're prewashed so
that they don't have anything bad here. So, we're just going to open this guy up and put
it in. I've already put a total of about 10 ounces of the leafy greens. I have 2 of these,
I'd probably put another one in and make it one full pound of leafy greens, this is organic
spinach. What I like to do now is blend this up. So, blending coconut water with greens.
We're just going to pule this on the blender to get it mixed up because you do not want
to overblend. As you can see, I've got the blender here. I've also got the juicer here
and by far the blender is a lot more easy and convenient to use. If I say anything else,
I'm lying to you. That being said, I do like to generally juice my vegetables, especially
things like carrots and leafy greens, and blend my fruits and that's what we're having
next. I'm going to add a whole bunch of fruits. So, while I am not adding 30 bananas a day
to my blender here, I'm going to add a ton of bananas. This is actually all I have right
now, and organic bananas to me are basically an inexpensive filler, plus they make your
smoothie have a nice texture. You know, I'm not big on bananas 'cause mainly bananas we
get imported in those cases are picked too green, picked too fast, and they just aren't
enough high quality and they don't have a good flavor, like (gang) with a spoon, remember
that? Well, (gang) with a banana really what happens to me if I try to eat more than like
3 or 4 bananas. They just taste so terrible. I'd rather have some fresh local foods any
day. If there's bad spots like this, you now what I do? I bite off the bad spot because
I don't want to eat it. Alright, so I think we put a total of 3 bananas. Let's go ahead
and put 4, 5, 6, 7 bananas. Alright, I'm going to start a website. 7 bananas a day, 'cause
I can handle it. Alright, let's just blend this up. Now, I'm not just cranking the blender
up on high 'cause that'll cause overblending. What I want to do is I want to blend the bananas
only enough to get them basically in a liquid state along with the spinach and the coconut
water in there. So, I'm going to do what's called the pulse blend technique. I'm just
going to turn it on high for a second then turn it to nothing. Turn it on high, turn
it to nothing. We're going to repeat this about half a dozen times until my mixture's
fully blended. Alright, so there you go. Just got this blended up, fully blended with minimal
oxidation. Now all I have to do is drink and then simple wash and rinse the carafe afterword's. So, no matter where you work,
where you live, what you do, there's always some time for fresh fruit and fresh veg. You
know, if you do go to work every day, maybe have some extra equipment at work or bring
your equipment to work. Of course, if you don't want to do that because that's the best,
I always recommend good, better, best, make something in advance before you go to work,
fill it up in a thermos, take it to work, fill it to the brim, overfilling, keep it
cold in the fridge, and, you know, if that's the best you can do, that's the best you can
do. Otherwise, just simply bring some fresh fruits and fresh vegetables with you and live
like that rabbit in your break room when everybody else is eating their steak and hamburgers.
Alright, so I hope you guys enjoyed this tip. Once again, take time to eat right, 'cause,
you know, you are what you eat. You'll find out that you'll have more energy, better buoyant
clarity and the investment you're making now in your health today will be worth it tomorrow.
Once again, my name is John Kohler with okraw.com. We'll see you next time and remember; keep
eating your fresh fruits and vegetables. They're the best.