In this video, hosted by Ben’s wife Jessa Greenfield, you’ll learn how to make a green smoothie with a blender and fresh ingredients. Jessa and Ben use a Vita-Mix 4500 due to it’s superior ability to thoroughly pulverize vegetables and fruits. For NINE more fresh smoothie recipes, check out the August 2010 edition of Ben’s Body Transformation Club (just $7 a month for personal advice and tips from Ben and Jessa!)

Before I give you my simple, six-step system for eliminating food cravings, you must read this comprehensive overview of food cravings, straight from John Gilbert, who is the human physiology mastermind at Washington State University. If you are empowered with the knowledge (that John is about to give you) about why you crave food, this can really help you beat the urge to constantly eat food – and eliminate appetite cravings.

And now, here is your guest post from John Gilbert…followed by my simple six-step system for eliminating food cravings.

Introduction to Cravings

Cravings start in your brain.

Chemicals are released when you eat food, any food, good tasting or not. These chemicals and areas of the brain are the same as those involved in drug response and addiction. The chemicals are likely the same because we evolved to encourage healthy behaviors such as eating and reproduction. Unfortunately, drugs that are abused can take over the use of these chemicals, meaning less effort goes toward healthier goals.

Why Food Is Like A Drug

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This is a guest post by Chef Todd Mohr, who is hosting a FREE web cooking class on April 20! The webcast is only a week away and space is limited, so make sure you reserve your seat now by clicking here… (will open in a new window so you can keep reading!)

Cooking is not made easy when you’re still guessing. In fact, guessing at cooking increases the stress because guessing makes you unsure of the results to come. I’m going to give you a little cooking help by offering some tips on how to end your guessing.

One of the reasons that you guess is because it’s hard to believe something until you can actually see it. But I want to help you to wrap your head around the idea that you have to believe it first and then you’ll see it.

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While something called “metabolic acidosis” is certainly a serious issue for people with various diseases, you should be aware of the fact that keeping the pH and the acid of your body in proper balance is crucial for performance, for recovery, for weight loss and for general health. This is why consuming a diet with lots of “alkalinic” foods is important, and limiting high acid foods like sugar and alcohol is also important.

A crucial component of acid-alkaline balance is addressed in this guest post by Dr. Mark Sircus, who previously appeared on a BenGreenfieldFitness.com podcast, which you can listen to here. Dr. Sircus excels at using natural products for a wide range of healing methods, is founder of the International Medical Veritas Association, and is someone who most pharmaceutical companies probably wish did not exist, because he understands and uses inexpensive alternatives to pharmaceutical medications like those you are about to read.

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Hope you liked that video! I’ve got one more for you…a TOMATO PIE video!

I have never met anyone who doesn’t like pizza. Especially not one as fresh and homemade as the one my friend Chef Todd demonstrates in this video (make sure you keep reading after you watch the video because you’re not going to believe what Chef Todd is doing next)

He actually calls it: Tomato Pie -- because it is BETTER than pizza. Check out the video, because he shows you EXACTLY how it’s done!

Speaking of showing you EXACTLY how it’s done…can you believe that Chef Todd’s FREE Live Video Webcast is coming up on April 20? You get to go in the guy’s kitchen and watch him work his magic LIVE while you ask questions!

The live video webcast is called…

“You CAN Cook Healthier, Better Tasting Meals at Home in Less Time than Take-Out”

Go claim your free spot in it right now by clicking here.

The live Webcast is on Tuesday, April 20th and he’ll be taking LIVE audience questions, too! So you definitely do NOT want to miss this -- especially if you are looking for a fool-proof way to get better meals done fast. I don’t know how many people he’s letting in, but I was one of the first to know about this webcast, so if you’re reading, you’ve got a jumpstart on everyone else…

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For just a moment, you are going to deeply imagine a feeling.

Imagine you’re hurt. You’re injured. You’re sore. Something is nagging at you – some ache, some pain, maybe even some injury you sustained during a complete accident.

Regardless of whether you’re injured now, or you’ve had this kind of soreness in the past, if you’re anything like me, you ***simply can’t stand to be injured***, and you simply can’t stand to  just sit down and watch helplessly as your fitness is completely destroyed by some nagging ache, pain, or problem with your body.

You want to heal QUICKLY and you want your body back NOW…right?

Me too.

So every time I get injured, I try everything I can to get my injuries to heal FASTER. Every time I get sore, I do everything possible to allow myself to get back to workouts AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Heck, I know that it takes just 72 hours of downtime for a muscle to lose fitness. A 3 day window is a pretty short period of time, and I have to admit, I’ve been desperate enough to try many, many methods to bounce back from my workouts as quickly as possible.

Some techniques work.

Some don’t.

But through trial and error, through research, through time in the trenches, and through pure, raw experience, I’ve discovered what makes injuries and soreness get better faster, and I’ve also discovered what is a waste of time and money.

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Do you have alcoholic drink ideas or recipes that you recommend for people who are trying to focus on fat loss or health? I’d love to see what your ideas are. Leave them at the bottom of this post!

If you’re reading this article, it’s likely that you care about your body, and you try to eat healthy and exercise consistently.

But occasionally, there comes a time when you may want to cut loose – and for some people, that may involve the consumption of alcohol. Obviously, you can’t be cutting loose all the time, but every once in a while, many of us are going to find ourselves in a situation where alcohol consumption is occurring and we are expected or desire to take part.

This post is not meant to teach you how alcohol could deplete your body’s powerful testosterone hormones, amplify damaging cortisol hormone levels, stress your sensitive organs, cause fat storage, slow the metabolism, barrage your body with free radicals or cause a host of other issues. You can find that information elsewhere.

This post is simply going to give you a few simple drink recipes you can make yourself or order at a bar when you’re drinking, and you don’t want to do a lot of damage to your body, gain weight or destroy your fitness. If you are going to enjoy the drinks below, and you are drinking to “party” or to “feel your alcohol”, then I would highly recommend that you eat minimally prior to consumption, so that it takes fewer drinks for you to have fun. Finally, I’ve only chosen options that a bartender at a restaurant, bar or club can easily mix for you with no special ingredients.

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Folks, in this video, Chef Todd Mohr has come back again in his quest to enable you to change your life and change your body by applying simple cooking methods! At his online Web Cooking Classes site, you can learn exactly what it takes using an easy step-by-step system that gives you the power to create healthy and impressive meals…including the ability to….

-Change your outlook on cooking immediately without any experience!

-Gain the confidence to cook whatever you want, to great results, without guessing.

-Be a more creative cook, have more cooking ideas, cook different foods, and add a greater variety of flavor to the foods you cook.

-Develop a closer, healthier relationship with food by cooking with fresh ingredients to eliminate restaurant calories and frozen foods.

-Experience the joy of creating amazing meals for your friends and family.

-Know what you’re doing, why you’re doing it, and enjoy cooking as an art, not a chore.

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