A Halloween tip for moms
My kids have all the usual fun trick or treating. I wouldn’t deny them that. Then, when they get home, I bribe them. Twenty bucks buys a big bag of sugar from each kid, which then gets upended into the garbage in the garage or handed out en masse to those scary [...]
2 Comments • Continue Reading →Whole Food Green Drink—how all this craziness got started
My friend Kari was laughing the other day about the crazy accidental beginnings of GreenSmoothieGirl. I’d forgotten all about it. It was a little like that old commercial of the girl with the chocolate bar running smack into the guy with the jar of peanut butter—WHAM! A star is born. I was [...]
2 Comments • Continue Reading →Modern dietetics
I heard a lecture by a registered nutritionist this weekend. My experience in the past with dieticians has been that they are all “party line,” totally under the influence of the meat- and dairy-industry-controlled curriculum. (Those with dietetics degrees are the ones designing the menus in hospitals and schools, remember? Enough said.) [...]
2 Comments • Continue Reading →If I haven’t convinced you on green smoothies YET . . .
So I am researching for my 12 Nutrition Myths Debunked, and I did an experiment just now that is really quite astonishing. I went to my BlendTec with a list of fruit and vegetable serving portions according to the USRDA. I made myself a green smoothie for tomorrow with 11 servings according those portions—that’s [...]
5 Comments • Continue Reading →Politically Incorrect Ranting about Skewed Charts
So this morning at the gym, the trainer was trawling for customers and asked if I wanted a free body comp analysis. He entered my height (5′ 8 1/2″) and age (40) and weight (133 today, usually closer to 130). After the analysis, he informed me that I am BELOW the minimum acceptable [...]
1 Comment • Continue Reading →It just keeps giving! On extending the life of the garden—
It’s going to freeze any night now, and I’m leaving town, so we undertook a family project today to bring in most of the remaining garden crops. Since I quit putting up sugar-added, processed food in jars years ago, I’ve learned new ideas to preserve nutritional value in my garden’s yield. Here’s how [...]
7 Comments • Continue Reading →It’s less safe than ever to rely on pharmaceuticals
In case you’ve been thinking that medical science is on a linear path to progress . . . The L.A. Times says reports of “adverse events” are soaring as Americans take more and more pills: in ’05, nearly 90,000 bad drug reactions were reported, with over 15,000 resulting in death. These numbers have tripled [...]
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