it’s not ALL nutritional bad news
I just read this: “Food is cheaper now by a long way, more abundantly available, more highly refined and more pressingly sold to us by very clever advertising companies and techniques. The remarkable thing is how anybody stays thin.” –Dr. Andrew Prentice, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine True and false. Everybody [...]
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Yesterday I wrote about the benifits of flax seed. (I misspelled that word on purpose—long story.) Possibly the very best way to get Essential Fatty Acids is in the form of flax and/or its oil. However, two cautions are in order. First, smell the seeds when you purchase them (and look [...]
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Today I start blogging, in several parts, on good fats. Hopefully Myth #3 of my Nutrition Manifesto has convinced you to get plenty of good fats in your diet every day? This week, I’ll post a new YouTube vid showing how to make Flax-Veggie crackers to address ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS, today’s and tomorrow’s [...]
1 Comment • Continue Reading →iron supplements
Q: Dear GreenSmoothieGirl, my little girl is anemic and also has been constipated for years. She is taking a prescription iron supplement and also Miralax. Couldn’t I tweak her diet for better iron absorption or something without overloading her on beef, liver, etc? A: You’ve read about the beef recall. I would skip the [...]
8 Comments • Continue Reading →young people with heart disease
Every semester, I have my Management Communications 320 students do an online writing assignment on a company discussion board. I give them a case involving discussion of an elementary school’s parent-teacher organization’s proposal for a new hot-lunch menu sponsored by fast-food chains. This case is based on my own real-life experience with my [...]
1 Comment • Continue Reading →blending vs. juicing
I’ve had three people email me the past week to ask why you’d blend smoothies, rather than juice your fruits and vegetables. So here’s why, for anyone else wondering. First, on a practical level, if you’ve ever operated a juicer, you know what a mess the cleanup is. Even those of us quite [...]
8 Comments • Continue Reading →Eliminate junk food
On this next suggestion for helping kids to eat right, I’m going to mince no words: eliminate junk food. Get rid of the worst choices from your fridge and pantry. Just quit buying them, cold turkey. Especially soft drinks, processed meat (like hot dogs, bacon, and sausage), potato chips, and sugar. Life isn’t over or [...]
1 Comment • Continue Reading →“I don’t want to live forever anyway”
A new study from the U.K. says four simple, healthy habits can increase your lifespan by 14 years. You won’t be surprised that they’re the same habits GreenSmoothieGirl.com is promoting. Teasing you now . . . wait for them . . . they’re below . . . I have a 32-year old friend H.J. who [...]
1 Comment • Continue Reading →Healthy New Year’s Resolutions
This arrived in my email inbox today from Brigham Young University where I teach, touting the newly published research of Ray Merrill. This is exciting evidence that we can make long-term, profound changes in our health, if we educate ourselves and have a support system. This is the entire goal of both greensmoothiegirl.com and my [...]
3 Comments • Continue Reading →Throw Away Your Television
With more than one-third of America’s children overweight, we have TV to thank (more importantly, our choice to indulge in it). Throw away your television (or at least leave it mostly off) for two reasons. One, kids are burning fewer calories because they aren’t exercising while they watch hours of TV. Most parents [...]
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