sprouting seeds and nuts
Q: ABOUT SEEDS: In your granola recipe, you indicate soaking sunflower/pumpkin seeds overnight makes them living plants. I had understood this (making them living plants) didn’t happen until you could see the beginning of sprouting. Can you do this with flax seeds, soak them overnight and add them to the green smoothie? [...]
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The next three days, I’m going to post some Q&A on subjects related to my recipe collection. These are questions some truth-seeking readers have asked: Q: ABOUT KEFIR GRAINS: I understand they are “friendly bacteria” that “keep on giving.” They ferment milk into living organisms right? Therefore, do they live indefinitely, and [...]
7 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 →“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 →Avoid Soft Drinks
One of the most important statistics, I believe, related to the obesity epidemic, is this one: Teen boys are drinking three times as much soda as they did 30 years ago, and teen girls are drinking more than double. I hope parents will avoid soft drinks, because of two critical factors they may [...]
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I’ve said before that sugar is more addictive than cocaine (I’m not making this up—earlier research has documented this phenomenon). A new study in today’s paper, conducted in France, has been presented to the annual meeting for the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego. Rats offered a choice between cocaine and sugar chose [...]
2 Comments • Continue Reading →take THAT, Red Cross!
I got the last laugh. Last week I ranted about skewed charts—weight charts, hematocrit charts—and I tested my theory today as I promised I would. I did NOT drink 1/2 gal. of water by 1 p.m. like I usually do. I drank over a quart and then no water after 11 a.m. [...]
1 Comment • Continue Reading →Modern dietetics
I heard a lecture by a registered nutritionist this weekend. My experience in the past with dieticians has been that they are all “party line,” totally under the influence of the meat- and dairy-industry-controlled curriculum. (Those with dietetics degrees are the ones designing the menus in hospitals and schools, remember? Enough said.) [...]
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Questions I have been asked: 1. What constitutes RAW—does that mean that everything is not cooked?Uncooked plant food (vegs, fruit, seeds, nuts, grains) have excellent vitamins, minerals, and enzymes. The minute you cook it, you alter it molecularly, destroy all the enzymes and some of the vitamins and minerals. The only way to eat better [...]
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