A quick and easy way to get more phytonutrients into your life is using a VitaMix to make green smoothies. See Victoria Boutenko's book "Green for Life" for some great green smoothie recipes. Available at health food stores and on the internet. According to Dr. Blaylock, you absorb only 20-30% of the phytonutrients in raw fruits and vegetables when you eat them, but about 90% when you blenderize them. He recommends drinking 8 oz. of juice twice a day. Fresh fruits and vegetables are always preferred, but freezing doesn't destroy phytonutrients. So make use of frozen berries and other fruits if fresh aren't available. Drinking several cups of green or white tea daily is another way to get more phytonutrients. White tea provides more than green tea. Tea acts as a diuretic and causes some loss of minerals. If you're using a sauna or doing heavy exercise, you will also lose some minerals in sweat. Be sure you have a good source of minerals in your diet like our B…

. . .  another reason to choose raw foods. There are a number of problems with cooked foods; that's why I recommend eating at least 80% of your diet raw. One problem that hasn't gotten much press recently is acrylamide. I thought of it again when I ran across a 2008 study showing that curcumin greatly reduces the toxic effects of acrylamide. In 2002 Swedish researchers set off worldwide alarm bells when they reported that cooking starchy foods at temperatures over 120 degrees C (245 degrees F) -- temperatures reached in baking, roasting, frying and toasting -- creates a compound shown in animal studies to be highly carcinogenic and neurotoxic. That compound is acrylamide. It appears to be formed primarily when sugar reacts with an amino acid called asparagine. The higher the heat, and the longer the heating time, the more is formed. Boiling, steaming and stewing, which use lower temperatures, don't cause this reaction. According to a 2004 report by the FDA, the top 10 acrylami…