setting a bad example
Yesterday I went running on the jr. high school track by my home, which I often do. I saw the most astonishing thing—and unfortunately, it’s the second time I’ve seen it. The kids came out to play flag football, followed slowly by their P.E. teacher. Think about your own P.E. teacher when [...]
7 Comments • Continue Reading →what should I put on my cereal?
***Note: I apologize to all those who have sent me unanswered email questions. I am trying to get to them all. FYI, I prioritize what is blogged over what is emailed. Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: What should I put on my cereal? Most people put fractionated (skim, 1%, or 2%) antibiotic- and [...]
23 Comments • Continue Reading →pain and misery at the happiest place on earth
There’s a lot of pain and misery at Disneyland, especially considering it’s supposed to be the happiest place on earth. We had a blast there. But every year, we observe more and more people in wheelchairs, very few of them elderly. This year we saw rides stopped while obese people struggled to [...]
4 Comments • Continue Reading →peer pressure to eat junk food
Tonight my 14-yr. old son Kincade was reading a newspaper comic called “A Doctor, A Lawyer, and A Cop” and started laughing, handed it to me. The kid is saying, “But PLEASE, Mom, you don’t understand how important it is for me to have a pair of new sneakers.” The mom replies, “Or what?! [...]
3 Comments • Continue Reading →macular degeneration
My friend Randy, a restaurant manager nearing 50, just told me he had to leave the Utah Jazz game last night in the third quarter, because his eyes hurt so much he couldn’t really see. He’s frustrated by the degeneration of his eyes. If you’re reading [...]
4 Comments • Continue Reading →a bodybuilder who “gets it!”
I leveraged some of this from a blog by Jason Ferruggia, one of the few bodybuilders who actually knows better than to drink whey protein shakes:Many of you know that dairy is not good for getting lean, and that consumption of dairy products has been linked to a decreased immune response. Most of us [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →Who you gonna call, Part VI Pricey skin creams, technologies, proprietary extracts and processes . . .
Continuing down the equal opportunity path of busting up overpriced network-marketed “health” products–I’ve tried many of them over the years, from NuSkin to Arbonne to MaryKay to Melaleuca. Maybe some of them have given me better skin as a result. But now, instead of little tubes of $30 creams, I put a little [...]
19 Comments • Continue Reading →interrupting our regularly scheduled programming . . .
DH and DS (internet-speak for Dear Husband and Dear Son) came home from visiting a family who just moved into our church congregation. They reported at dinner that the wife said, “I heard your wife has this website, GreenSmoothieGirl.com, so I checked it out. That’s quite a hobby she has going!” You don’t have [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →heart disease and degenerating DNA
[I'll come back to "Who You Gonna Call" blogging on the false gods of nutrition, tomorrow . . .] Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: I have 100 lbs. to lose, am on Lipitor for high cholesterol, and started drinking green smoothies a few weeks ago. My cholesterol has begun to come way down, but my HDL [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →calcification
Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: I come from a family with a strong link to genetic breast cancer . . . doctors have a way to scare the pants off of you . . . I was told during a mammogram that I have calcifications in my breast. Where does that come from and how do I [...]
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