How to Help Avoid Back Pain with
Pineapple Green Smoothies
Video by Dr. Justin Thompson
This month’s green drink is a refreshing blast of flavor that can also help avoid back pain. This smoothie is consisted of pineapples, spinach, blueberries, and avocado. I really like this smoothie because the ingredient list is rather short, and pineapples are delicious! There are many health benefits to pineapples. The attached research below dives into the benefits of pineapples and discusses its medicinal value. Some of the highlights are that pineapples high in vitamins and antioxidants. 1 cup of pineapple contains up to 88% of the daily recommendations of vitamin C! Vitamin C has countless benefits including aiding our immune system and shown to prevent certain forms of cancer! Additionally, 1 serving size of pineapple contains up to 109% of the daily recommendation of Manganese which helps the formation of bones and helps activates enzymes the body needs!
The article is worth checking out as pineapples have a ton of nutritional and surprising medicinal uses!
Recipe
- 1-2 cups frozen organic pineapple
- 2 cups organic spinach
- ½ half organic avocado
- 1 cup frozen organic blueberries
- 1-2 cups organic coconut milk (can sub with almond milk)
- Essential nutrients
Supporting Research
A Survey on Pineapple and its medicinal value Prasenjit Debnath1 , Prasanta Dey1 , Abhijit Chanda1 , Tejendra Bhakta2* 1Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, C. L. Baid Metha College of Pharmacy,Chennai-97, India 2Regional Institute of Pharmaceutical Science & Technology, Abhoynagar, Tripura (W), 799005, India.
Our Message
When you are looking for a Chiropractor near you that you can trust, choose one who will not only get rid of your back pain, neck pain, or headaches but who will also guide you to living a healthier lifestyle to keep you out of pain. Our Chiropractors located in Dallas, near the corner of Mockingbird Ln. and Abrams Rd., will teach you what the research says about how and why we should eat a better diet, move more and have more positive thoughts. By improving these areas of our lives we can become healthier, stay out of pain and reduce risk of diabetes and other diseases!