Clear Shock Power Juice

Why green juices are very popular these days? The answer is: they have the power to inject a good amount of vitamins, minerals, and anti-oxidants quickly into our bodies like a natural energy drink with anti-inflammatory proprieties.

Today, GRACIEMAG brings you a recipe that can be beneficial to Jiu-Jitsu practitioners who want to recharge and reduce inflammation after training. It is a healthy juice with active principles in it found to have been anti-inflammatory, diuretic and with nerve soothing effects. Rich in Vitamin-C, it helps alleviate viral infections by boosting immunity. In addition, it helps remove harmful free radicals from the body and may help protect it from cancers, inflammation, infections, etc.

Clear Shock Power Juice

Ingredients:

½ piece horseradish

20 mint leaves

30 cilantro leaves

1 carrot (top removed)

Preparation:

Wash well the ingredients. Use a Power Juicer, and then drink it fresh!

Exotic hearts of palm and mango salad. Photo: Carol Gracie

Need a creative and healthy appetizer idea for your Thanksgiving dinner? So, you have to try this exquisite hearts of palm and mango salad with damask jelly, cheese curb and a touch of basil created by a Brazilian Chef from Teju-acu Hotel & Restaurant in Fernando de Noronha, Pernambuco. Get the recipe below:

Ingredients:

4 hearts of palm

1 mango

2 tablespoons of damask jelly

100g of cheese curbs

Basil leafs to taste

Method:

Slice the hearts of palm and put it on a plate. Cut the mango in little square pieces and place it on top of ½ (half) of the hearts of palm already sliced. Crab a small coffee spoon to scope the damask jelly and cover the other ½ (half) of the hearts of palm slices. Heat up the cheese curb until it acquires a soft and smooth texture, and then use the same coffee spoon to also place the cheese curb on top and between the hearts of palm slices in the plate. Sprinkle basil leafs to taste and enjoy!

Fruit Salad

The Gracie diet says fruits are essential part of healthy eating. Marco Gracie Imperial, grandson of Carlos Gracie, knows the diet from birth. He argues that the proper combination of foods as researched by his grandfather for decades, purifies the blood and prevents diseases.

Today he shows here a fruit salad recipe for you to enjoy during summertime!

Gracie Fruit Salad:

Sweet Oranges cut into small pieces

Fresh figs, only the red part

Papaya

Pear

Red apple

Peeled sweet Grapes

Persimmon

Honey to taste over

Preparation:

Cut the fruits into small pieces. Put everything in a big bowl and top it with honey. Serve it fresh!

Walnuts

As the great Jiu-Jitsu masters Carlos and Helio Gracie were never tired of teaching, “the evil can enter your body through the mouth.”

Therefore, the pioneers of MMA would insist that in addition to a minimum 30 minutes daily workout (essential for eliminating toxins from the body), it was necessary to eat wisely. Yes, this is the ideal way to prevent migraines and also several types of cancer.

According to Nutrologist Dr. Tamara Mazaracki, partner in the “Busca Saúde” blog, chronic headaches can be remedied with a smart diet.

She listed ten foods that can be great allies in the fight against migraines, as good sources of magnesium or because their beneficial effect on the arteries.

* Leafy vegetables

* Walnuts

* Oats

* Brown rice

* Whole Wheat Bread

* Fish

* Eggs

* Flaxseed

* Chamomile, Fennel and Mint teas

* Ginger

Change your menu, good rest and good training!

Cantaloupe. Photo: Morguefile

Have you ever tired mixing a variety of melons to make one unique juice? Besides being tasty and refreshing, this laudable drink can provide many health benefits to Jiu-Jitsu practitioners.

According to www.diethealthclub.com, Melon juice has a cleansing, diuretic, mineralizing, and alkalinizing effect on the body and is very effective in eliminating harmful toxins. It is easily digestible and helps maintain an acid-alkaline balance in our body.

Melon juice is a rich source of antioxidants like lycopene, lutein, beta-carotene, neurosporene phytoene, and phytofluene. These antioxidants not only help protect against a number of diseases and disorders, they also boost stamina and metabolism. The vital antioxidants also help neutralize the harmful free radicals found in the body.

It contains no cholesterol and helps prevent the build up of cholesterol in the arteries and other blood vessels. Furthermore, melon juice increases the good cholesterol in the body and lowers the risk of cardiovascular disorders.

While studying about the nutritional facts of melons, it is also important to shed light on some of the vital nutrients in melon juice. Some of the important vitamins are vitamin A, B6, C, D and folate. Similarly, some of the main minerals found in melon juice include: Magnesium, Potassium, Sodium, Calcium, Iron, Zinc and Selenium.

In addition to these nutrients in melon juice, there are also a few amino acids found in trace amounts such as: Tryptophan, Aspartic acid, Glutamic acid, Glycine, Lysine.

Thus, after finding out about all these miraculous health benefits of melons, GRACIEMAG searched for a delicious and powerful melon juice recipe to share with our faithful readers. Check it out!

*Melon Combo

Ingredients:

½ Cantaloupe (peeled and seeded)

½ honeydew (rind removed and seeded)

½ seedless watermelon (rind removed)

1 bunch of mint

Instructions:

Wash all the ingredients in running water. Then, you should peel; remove the seeds and rinds off. Cut the melons in small pieces. Now, use a power juicer or a blender to mix it all up.

Drink it fresh!

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Watermelon. Photo: Morguefile

The classic Gracie Diet Acai

The acai, fruit that is found in large quantity in Pará, north of Brazil, is already known worldwide for its energizing properties. It is a traditional meal for Jiu-Jitsu athletes and other sportsmen. In a bowl, juice, ice cream or jellies are some of the ways people consume this fruit nowadays. But the question that GRACIEMAG brings you today is: How do you prepare your acai at home?

The form most commonly found in restaurants, markets and juice stores in Brazil and here in the U.S. is a combination of acai pulp mixed sometimes with some other fruit (bananas, strawberries, etc.) and guarana syrup, which is made from a Brazilian berry found in the amazon, or honey. Now, how about trying the classic Gracie Diet Acai and, once and for all, review your concepts about this fruit’s flavor?

Following the diet compiled by Carlos Gracie, the guarana syrup does not enter the recipe, since it’s something processed and rich in sugars. Instead, just use dates. And to give a little more flavor to the acai bowl, how about a few apples? Check out the recipe below:

Ingredients:

2 sweet apples

12 dates

250ml pure Acai (unsweetened)

Preparation:

Pass the apples in the juicer to separate the juice. Instead of water, mix apple juice with the acai pulp, already crushed. Then add the dates, already pitted, and beat everything in a blender.

Now just enjoy your Gracie Diet Acai and good training!

Quinoa Tabbouleh | Recipe by Adriana Gracie

You will love this dish because all the ingredients are consumed raw, thus preserving all their nutritional properties. It’s a vegetarian dish suitable for everyone. Still, it is rich in protein which is good for muscle gain if you often work out, or if you are a BJJ practitioner wanting to build strength or even a high level athlete.

Ingredients:

2 cups (480 ml) of water

1-cup (175 g) quinoa

4 tablespoons (soup) of oil

1/2-teaspoon (tsps.) sea salt

3 tomatoes, diced

1 cucumber, cut into cubes

2 spring onions, chopped

2 carrots, grated

1 cup (60 g) chopped fresh parsley

Preparation:

In a saucepan, bring water to the boil. Once it’s boiling, add the quinoa with a pinch of sea salt. Lower the heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Set aside to cool down at room temperature. Stir the quinoa with a fork.

Meanwhile, in a bowl mix the olive oil, salt, tomatoes, cucumber, spring onion, carrot and parsley. Add the quinoa.

Enjoy it and good training!

Pineapple, a healthy and excellent fruit for Jiu-Jitsu Athletes.

Has been over 20 years that GRACIEMAG shares with success the precepts and recipes of the Gracie Diet, popularized by the Grand Master Carlos Gracie ( 1902-1994 ) . The popular method of healthy eating among the Gracie family not only serves to make you feel much lighter on the Jiu-Jitsu mats, but it is also an antidote to diseases and pains such as migraines.

One of the main pillars of the Gracie Diet is the option for fruit, filed with energy and rich on essential vitamins for the body. GRACIEMAG indicates today for you to enjoy a delicious recipe of pineapple juice.

The “training ” begins at the time you start peeling the prickly fruit. Going through this little difficulty, you reach the highest award: the pineapple aids in immune function, improves intestinal function and facilitates digestion, thanks to the action of Bromelain. Research also ensures that the fruit is a great ally of the heart muscle activity, as well as excellent diuretic. According to some, the pineapple also contains properties that fight a great enemy of modern society, cancer.

” Pineapple is one of the greatest enemies of cancer cells,” teaches Rilion Gracie, son of Grandmaster Carlos and one of the defenders of the Gracie Diet.

To prepare our recipe for juice, you need:

* 1 pineapple (cut into pieces)

* 1 liter of ice water (or ice cubes)

* 5 mint leaves

Now just mix all ingredients in a blender for about five minutes and toast to your health. You can vary the amount of ingredients, or try new mixtures, by replacing the mint with ginger. This pineapple juice alone is a great pre-workout snack so you do not need to add any sandwich or Cia. Try it!