Schools complicit in crimes against children: junk-food vending… part 1 of 4
In July 20′s Daily Herald (Utah Valley), reporter Ace Stryker gives these infuriating statistics from a 2006 study by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where my home state of Utah leads the nation in these categories: 83 percent of Utah schools are selling chocolate in vending/school stores versus 40 percent nationwide 76 [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →GSG.com diet “problem”: ridiculous joy and energy!
Some really cute 12 Stepper wrote today on that blog about her “problem” of overwhelming happiness and so much energy she’s bouncing off the walls, as a result of a GreenSmoothieGirl plant-food diet and mostly raw food. I have to tell you, I have the same bizarre thing happen to me the more raw I [...]
17 Comments • Continue Reading →“the plural of anecdote is not data” . . . part 3 of 4
This is an excerpt from the intro of 12 Steps to Whole Foods. Advances in the field of nutrition are taking place faster than ever in history. For example, just this decade, the “master hormone” leptin has been discovered, which governs the other hormones. New data calls into question the popular counsel [...]
3 Comments • Continue Reading →Mark Bittman: western lifestyle causing global warming
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/263 This is a great speech worth your time, by New York Times food writer Mark Bittman. Did you know that our massive meat consumption (which has increased per capita 250 percent globally in the past 50 years) contributes to global warming? Bittman discusses the history of food since 1900, and he [...]
23 Comments • Continue Reading →fun with community supported agriculture
I just got home from picking up at our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) co-op. We each paid $400 for a half share: weekly pickups of whatever they have, for a 4.5-month growing season. Four friends and I take turns picking up. It has been so much fun! This week, we [...]
5 Comments • Continue Reading →Eating right while traveling internationally . . . part 2
You can enjoy eating on a cruise without gaining 10 lbs. Don’t think I’m on my high horse here, because if I told you I didn’t indulge on the cruise, I’d be lying. If I said I didn’t eat gelato for dessert occasionally (it was an Italian cruise line), you’d write me off [...]
3 Comments • Continue Reading →Childhood obesity epidemic . . . part 2
More from Levine and Stein of the Washington Post. Read it and tell me if I’m crazy for saying in my last post that raising an obese child (by apathetically feeding him nonstop junk food) doesn’t qualify as abuse. I realize that my words are strong, but I stand by them. At least [...]
10 Comments • Continue Reading →“biological concentration”
I read a post by a 12 Stepper on the other blog on this site, expressing her frustration about the expense of non-organic food and even wondering if it’s worth it to eat a plant-based diet, with all the pesticides on vegetables and fruits. Dr. McDougall says in The McDougall Program for Women (1999) that [...]
6 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 →organic vs. conventional potatoes
I’ve been grading papers for the university classes I teach. A student of mine is the son of an Idaho farmer, and he makes a case that organic produce is not worth the money. This is one of his arguments (edited for length): “Technologies developed in recent years are amazingly efficient. [...]
18 Comments • Continue Reading →