Part three.
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Originally Posted by Naossoan
I was just thinking that it would be a heck of a lot easier to just make smoothies all the time and throw in all the stuff you need.
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Blended foods are great. They certainly are quick and easy. David Wolfe mentions in the updated "Sunfood Diet Success System" that he hopes someday to be 100% 'liquidarian'. Montel Williams (not a raw foodist) consumes quite a bit of juice and smoothies in the diet he uses to control the affects of Multiple Sclerosis.
One of the latest trends I've seen is a 'juice feast' or 'smoothie feast' (a play on the word 'fast'), where people go long periods only consuming blended and juiced foods. Often, this is for weight loss, but I believe a healthy and detoxified person can maintain or even gain weight on a high liquid diet.
Make sure to consume them slowly, especially high carb smoothies. I've read that 70% of carbohydrate digestion (especially fruit) is done in the mouth, or is due to saliva. Tim VanOrden (raw athlete) recommends chewing each swallow of your fruit based smoothies (to stimulate saliva production) until it gets sweeter. I'm not that patient, but I do try to chew each mouthful at least 8 times.