What to do when your kids go into the “real world”
In 2008, after being married for 20 years, I found myself a newly single parent. I was on my own trying to achieve a high-raw diet for my four athletes in elementary and middle school. At their dad’s home, my children get a salad with dinner, but also sugar cereal, Top Ramen, junk-food snacks, [...]
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In 2008, after being married for 20 years, I found myself a newly single parent. I was on my own trying to achieve a high-raw diet for my four athletes in elementary and middle school. At their dad’s home, my children get a salad with dinner, but also sugar cereal, Top Ramen, junk-food snacks, meat [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →What to do when your kids go into the “real world”
In 2008, after being married for 20 years, I found myself a newly single parent. I was on my own trying to achieve a high-raw diet for my four athletes in elementary and middle school. At their dad’s home, my children get a salad with dinner, but also sugar cereal, Top Ramen, junk-food snacks, [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →So you’re trying to get kids to eat right!
You’re raising kids (or maybe helping with your grandkids)? You and me both, my friend! I’m raising four—two boys and two girls. They all have different personalities, interests, and temperaments. Your kids are “picky,” you say? I get that. I’ve got two kids like that. I don’t pretend to have all the answers, but I [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →It’s a long and winding road to good nutrition!
In my first newsletters, I told you a little about the rocky path to health that my family and I traversed. It’s not very often clear and linear, that path, is it? You try a lot of dumb stuff, yucky recipes you throw away, before you end up at the truth—and that’s if you’re lucky. [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →Why does a green smoothie come FIRST as I change what I eat?
I teach classes to people who are beginners in nutrition, eating the Standard American Diet. I teach intermediate classes to those who are more savvy, and even advanced classes in sprouting and fermented foods. Regardless of where you are, nutritionally, I have found that in every group, people experience profound health benefits by incorporating [...]
3 Comments • Continue Reading →How did I discover the “green smoothie” that I named this site after?
It’s a great story, really, how I happened upon the “green smoothie,” the attention-grabbing part of this site dedicated to helping you eat right. I was 27 years old, sitting on the front porch one warm summer day when my oldest child was a year old. Knowing me at that time, I was probably letting [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →Let’s talk about food and sex
No, this isn’t that episode of Seinfeld where George Costanza tried to combine food and sex in a feverish fantasy . . . and if you can’t handle some frank talk about an important part of your life, WARNING: hurry and delete this email. Did you know that what you eat has EVERYTHING to do [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →I have more energy at 42 than I did at 22!
Thanks again for signing up for my free newsletter. See, I was just like you might be. I found myself in a place I hated: sluggish, 15 pounds overweight, suffering with a variety of health problems . . . and I was only 25 years old! But that’s a story you already know [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →What my research says about how green smoothies change lives!
I once blogged 20 different astonishing ways my health improved when I began drinking green smoothies and eating a whole-foods diet. Here it is: http://greensmoothiegirl.com/2008/10/02/what-changed-when-we-switched-to-whole-foods-part-2-of-2/ But I wanted to get more scientific when I wrote The Green Smoothies Diet, [BUY HERE] and find out precisely what a newbie can expect! The results of my [...]
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