Seven reasons not to drink soda, part 2 of 2
Here are seven kicks in the pants, to help you quit the soda habit: 1. SODA BRAIN! Brominated vegetable oil, or BVO, is added to soft drinks. It’s an industrial chemical used in plastics as a flame retardant. (It’s also in sports drinks.) It is known to cause nerve disorders and memory loss. It builds [...]
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Seven reasons not to drink soda…..part 1 of 2
I watch the addiction of a few people close to me, to soda. One of my closest friends drinks it every day and calls it her “binky.” She kicks the habit but always goes back—because when she quits diet soda, she finds herself taking up sugar. Another tells me he is not addicted but seems [...]
19 Comments • Continue Reading →Let me help your kids with an incentive to drink their green smoothies!
Desiree Ward is catering our VIP class on April 7. We are very excited to explore 5 power nutrition habits, to help you get off your green-smoothie plateau and climb to new heights! We have very few tickets left; get them HERE. Oh, and an unrelated request: do you know any preparedness expert locally (Wasatch [...]
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Thanks to Brenda DeSmit in Canada, on facebook, for posting this (I’ve edited it for length): I must post my experience with Green Smoothie Girl & her 12 Steps to Whole Foods program. Last summer I was forced to quit my high-stress, fast-paced career due to my health. A successful Finance & Insurance Manager is [...]
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Aloha from Hawaii!
I’ve just returned from a heaven of pineapples and papaya, teaching on Maui and Oahu. Thank you so much to my friends there, the Vegetarian Society of Hawaii, and Down to Earth Markets, for hosting my lectures. Many thanks to GSG reader and my friend Debbie Tuttle (shown below with her husband Tom, and my [...]
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Lily’s green mustache
Jan wrote me, “you are changing the lives of the next generation.” Actually SHE is! Moms who are preserving and extending the nearly lost tradition of eating green food. It’s enjoying a resurgence in the American diet, thanks to green smoothies.
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Let kids help—then green smoothies BELONG to them!
Thank you Julia for sending a photo of your grandson Michael—kids take ownership of good nutrition when they help with it!
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Let kids help—then green smoothies BELONG to them!
Thank you Julia for sending a photo of your grandson Michael—kids take ownership of good nutrition when they help with it!
1 Comment • Continue Reading →Green Smoothies taking Utah Legislature by storm?
On March 5, by invitation, I spoke to the spouses of the Utah State Legislature. Some of them are longtime GSG readers. Stan Lockhart, whose wife Becky is the Speaker of the House, is the biggest ham we’ve ever had, racing me to eat a plate of greens before I can make a blenderful of [...]
2 Comments • Continue Reading →Expo West 2012…..here’s what I think of 99% of “health food”, part 5 of 5
Today I riff, on video, on what I think of the vast majority of the foods and marketing that comprise “natural foods.” I can’t even count how many times at Expo West a sales person said to me, “It’s all natural!” “All natural” is completely meaningless. Under U.S. government standards, you could be eating a [...]
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