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…

. . .  with cooking and green tea. Wild fish are chock full of healthy omega 3 fats; unfortunately they're also usually chock full of toxic mercury. But here's some great news from researchers at the University of Montreal. They discovered that cooking fish and consuming it along with coffee or tea reduces the mercury that gets into your system to almost negligible amounts! Using laboratory techniques that simulate digestion, these scientists tested three kinds of fish (tuna, shark and mackerel) raw, boiled or fried. Compared with raw, boiling reduced mercury bioaccessibility by 40%; frying by 60%. In separate experiments they combined the fish with black coffee or black or green tea. All three beverages lowered mercury bioaccessibility by 50-60%. The combined effect of cooking and coffee or tea ingestion reduced bioaccessibility to extremely low levels. Here's another reason to add green tea to your healthy lifestyle -- a far healthier choice than either…