Recovering from oral surgery…..part 2 of 3
Dr. Wall gave me IV Vitamin C during the procedure. I used my essential oils, in my mouth: Clove applied to the gums, and Helichrysum inside my cheek, and On-Guard blend, diffused or in my water. (Amanda can give you great counsel about essential oils and hook you up with wholesale pricing for yourself, [...]
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Recovering from surgery….+ thoughts about YOUR dental treatments, part 1 of 3
Last Friday, I had five hours of oral surgery under general anaesthesia. I had my two root-canal teeth removed. I had read multiple books and papers on toxic dental practices, and had become convinced that root canals are UNIVERSALLY a terrible idea. I’d learned that the research of Weston A. Price, possibly the most well [...]
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If you need yet another reason to stop eating cows, check out this short news story, sent to me by Canadian reader Darlene U.: Click here to view video article on rancher’s new way to feed cows. Ranchers are now feeding cows CANDY mixed with an ETHANOL BYPRODUCT, instead of corn feed? What have we [...]
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Patty’s Chocolate Mango Cheesecake
Patty’s Chocolate Mango Cheesecake (It’s raw and living) Ingredients · 1 cup raw cacao powder · 3 cups raw cashews (soaked for about 45 minutes) · 2 cups rejuvelac or water · 1 cup sprouted sunflower seeds · 3 1/2 cups of date sauce (see recipe below) · 3 peeled and chopped sweet ripe mangos · 2 cups of fresh coconut [...]
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Birthday season is over, but the CAKE was divine
Aug. 22 ended birthday season around here, when Emma turned 17. ABC’s Wife Swap, filmed in 2007, when you agree to do the show, waltzes in and figures out what they can string you up for. (I knew they would. I considered it a game.) For me, it was the green smoothies, and the fact [...]
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Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: I love my Vitamix / Blendtec, but the jar gets cloudy. What do I do? Answer: This is what BlendTec customer service says: 1. Juice of 1 lemon, 2-3 Tbsp of baking soda, and some water. Then, run to speed ten and scrub with non-scratch sponge. 2. Vinegar mixed with baking soda (and [...]
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Jeanette makes a healthy “black licorice”
From San Diego GreenSmoothieGirl coach Jeanette, who is a naturopath and who healed her daughter of autism with holistic means and a whole-foods diet: My kids asked me, “What is that kid eating?” I told them it was licorice, and then I went home and created it for them. This is what I came up [...]
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We’re back from the Pacific Northwest! Part 2 of 2
Nona Springer send me this photo from my Portland lecture, with some of the many friends she brought with her, and she wrote this: I went to Robyn’s last lecture in Portland and loved it. I talked about 20 friends into coming to this one and they all loved it too. Not everyone made it [...]
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Do you ever stop and think about the ways karma just flows and flows? When I was over six months into my year-long Sugar Bet, last February, I confessed that I’d screwed up, when I was in Hawaii. I came clean immediately when I got home. Not just here on the blog, but I went [...]
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We’re back from the Pacific Northwest! part 1 of 2
Just back from the Pacific Northwest, where our audience size has doubled each of the three times I have spoken there. I had Couer d’Alene on the schedule so I could see my grandpa, but he died in May. We went anyway and spoke to nearly 150 of our friends, and then 230 in Seattle [...]
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