Health in a Glass (file under Redux)

Imagine if you can for a moment walking into a fridge and being punched in the face by the sweetest, stickiest and most appetizing smell. Now, if you can, picture, mangoes, bananas, grapefruits, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, oranges and all manner of exotic fruit. What would you do with those things if you had them?

At Reservation, as many of you will recall, I started the daily treat of Health in a Glass right before service everyday. At The Club, it is not only a once a day ritual but, today for instance, one that was repeated, twice. And then before I left I had a fresh Mango smoothie. Health in a Glass is right.

According to Health Canada we should be eating between 5 and 10 servings of fruits or vegetables every day. I can assure you that for the past seven years but probably closer to ten I have come nowhere close.

As many of you know I am rail thin. I weigh 130 pounds soaking wet with all my clothes on. At 5’10 and that weight you can imagine that for whatever reason my metabolism is quite different than that of most people. I am in incredible health, I have low blood pressure (in a good way), low cholesterol and a fantastic body mass index. However, many people have said that I am too thin. Well, I made myself a promise when I started at the Club that I was going to do my best to eat a little better, live a little better and take care of my body a little better.

As such, it is my absolute pleasure to let you know that today I had approximately 15 servings of fruit and or vegetables. I can feel a difference. Yesterday I only had one Health in a Glass and it is weird because I can actually feel the result (metabolism of course) very, very rapidly.

In that vein I would like to give everyone a couple of my favourites Health in a Glass recipes;

The Pressure Refresher (serves 4)

2 Bananas
Quarter Pint of Raspberries
200 mls of Peach Yoghurt
350 mls of Orange Juice (preferably fresh)
Ice as desired

Put all ingredients into blender and mix. I call this the Pressure Refresher because almost immediately you can feel yourself relax and you get a HUGE jolt of energy.

Pineapple Express (serves 4)

Half a Pineapple (make sure to remove the core)
Quarter Pint of Raspberries
350 mls of Orange Juice
200 mls of Strawberry Yoghurt
Ice as desired

Same as above to make. And yes the name of this Health in a Glass will help if you have seen Pineapple Express and enjoyed some of its wares.

I am tweaking these recipes and have about twenty now that I use. However, because walking into the produce walk in at work is like dying and going to fresh fruit heaven I am sure I will have about fifty by the time September runs around.

I have lots in my life that makes me want to become even healthier. In the past I had thought that I could do what I want and never have to pay a price for it. (Thanks Doc) But now, as I get older I realize that I need to take care of my body and so do you.

Let me know what you think?

An old Spanish Proverb states; “A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.”

Are you dreaming big and inspired?

A la prochaine

SDM