{"id":220,"date":"2014-08-01T07:40:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T07:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresselstyn.com\/site\/?p=220"},"modified":"2015-09-03T23:22:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T23:22:52","slug":"smoothies-how-about-smoothies-i-love-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dresselstyn.com\/site\/smoothies-how-about-smoothies-i-love-them\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Smoothies<\/strong> &#8211; How about smoothies? I love them!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avoid smoothies. \u00a0When the fiber is pureed, \u00a0it is not chewed and does not have the opportunity to mix with the facultative anaerobic bacteria which reside in the crypts and grooves or our tongue. \u00a0These bacteria are capable of reducing the nitrates in green leafy vegetables to nitrites in the mouth. \u00a0When the nitrites are swallowed, they are further reduced by gastric acid to nitric oxide which may now enter the nitric oxide pool. \u00a0 Furthermore, when chewing fruit the fructose is bound to fiber and absorption is safe and slow. \u00a0On the other hand, when fruit is blenderized, the fructose \u00a0is separated from the fiber and the absorption is very rapid through the stomach. \u00a0This rapid absorption tends to injure the liver, glycates \u00a0protein and injures the endothelial cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avoid smoothies. \u00a0When the fiber is pureed, \u00a0it is not chewed and does not have the opportunity to mix with the facultative anaerobic bacteria which reside in the crypts and grooves or our tongue. \u00a0These bacteria are capable of reducing the nitrates in green leafy vegetables to nitrites in the mouth. \u00a0When the nitrites are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dresselstyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dresselstyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dresselstyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dresselstyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dresselstyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dresselstyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/www.dresselstyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dresselstyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dresselstyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dresselstyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}