Research results: Green Smoothies Change Lives [part 1 of 2]
The results of my poll of 175 green smoothie drinkers yielded some interesting results that suggest quite definitively that it’s a 10-minute habit worth adopting! The vast majority, or 97 percent, said green smoothies noticeably improved their health or quality of life. Only 18.5 percent had uncomfortable, short-term cleansing reactions. The following symptoms were [...]
7 Comments • Continue Reading →Groundbreaking Green Smoothie Research . . . be a part of it
I want you guys to be thinking about something. In about two days, I will have an interactive questionnaire posted on GSG. Be thinking about what the changes are you have experienced as a result of drinking GS regularly. The questionnaire will automatically generate tabulations for me to use as research, to be [...]
43 Comments • Continue Reading →find me on Facebook, and other news
Are you on Facebook? If so, make me your “friend” by searching for Robyn Openshaw-Pay. (It’s also a great way to keep tabs on what your teenagers are up to!) See you there. In other news/reminders, I just did a group buy on ionizers, and Life Ionizer is letting me add a [...]
7 Comments • Continue Reading →is agave safe?
Recently GSG readers raised questions about agave nectar after some well publicized concerns surfaced on the internet. Agave is my favorite sweetener because it’s largely unprocessed and is a very low glycemic index product with a neutral flavor. Many of my recipes call for it, and I have found the human body reacts [...]
2 Comments • Continue Reading →stevia approved by FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just granted approval to the natural herbal sweetener stevia. You may know that I endorse stevia as a sweetener I use because it is plant-based without altered (synthetic) molecules, it has no impact on blood sugar, and no adverse health effects have been reported from its use. [...]
14 Comments • Continue Reading →Raw food beating cancer is front-page news!
Yesterday my friend Shelley Abegg, a breast cancer five-year survivor, was on the front page. She beat cancer without chemo or radiation with a raw-food vegan diet: http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/286151/17/ This is a four-part series on local women with breast cancer. The first two parts were full of radiation and chemo stories, [...]
15 Comments • Continue Reading →Energy drinks: attention, parents of teens!
Visiting my best friend in San Francisco recently, I sat outside her high-end convenience/grocery store in the very affluent suburb of Piedmont grading papers. The high school kids arrived en masse, at lunch and after school. An amazing amount of candy and energy drinks walk out of that place–thousands of dollars’ worth daily. [...]
13 Comments • Continue Reading →Finally a legislator is stepping up! . . . part 4 of 4
This is the email I received from my legislator, Rep. Steve Sandstrom (haven’t heard from Sen. John Valentine, president of the Senate, yet). Write him at ssandstrom@utah.gov and tell him thanks and encouragement for his commitment to sponsor a bill to help our kids. Robyn, I would whole-heartedly support or sponsor such [...]
3 Comments • Continue Reading →The letter I wrote my legislators re: junk food vending . . . part 3 of 4
Feel free to leverage any part of this letter in your own effort to be heard on this important issue of our children being fed junk food in school, and even the districts making money on feeding the childhood obesity epidemic: Hello Rep. Steve Sandstrom: I’m one of your constituents in Lindon, [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →Junk food vending in schools . . . Part 2 of 4
According to Ace Stryker of the Daily Herald, Child Nutrition Supervisor Jenilee McComb in Provo District is working on a policy for this fall that imposes a 300-calorie limit on vending machine goods. This is well intentioned, but plenty of nutrition free, acidic, processed foods can be sold in portions lower than 300 calories. [...]
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