Beets . . . and GreenSmoothieGirl network TV debut
So I taped an episode of a major network reality TV show last August. It’s really how this site got started: I was told by the TV people they’d be flooded with emails of people wanting to reach me, so a friend told me I should put up a site. It’s taken on [...]
3 Comments • Continue Reading →how to buy yourself diabetes for only $0.50 a day
You know drinking soda is bad for you. Perhaps you and I talking a bit about WHY will be just the trigger you need to kick the habit—or get your kids to do so. Have a kid you care about read this. According to the Nutrition Research Center (Oct. 2007), here’s what [...]
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Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: I come from a family with a strong link to genetic breast cancer . . . doctors have a way to scare the pants off of you . . . I was told during a mammogram that I have calcifications in my breast. Where does that come from and how do I [...]
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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 →School lunch nutrition
Today was Go to Junior High With Your Child day. It’s hard to describe the level of enthusiasm Kincade expressed when I told him I was going to spend my birthday with him at his school, but I’ll try: eyes rolling, mouth hanging open, slumping. “No! Seriously? Mom! You wouldn’t!” I have developed [...]
1 Comment • Continue Reading →Teach Children About Healthy
Nutrition is no different than any other topic, and we have to teach children about healthy. Would you allow your 9-year old to opt out of her least favorite subjects in school—say, math and science? Just quit, not participate at all from kindergarten to high school graduation? Why would we knowingly allow [...]
2 Comments • 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 been reviewing recent data on the phenomenon that threatens to bankrupt us all and damage our quality of life: the well known childhood obesity epidemic. My web site intends to be nurturing and positive about diet, toward avoiding childhood obesity. But occasionally, I think a good dose of reality (call it fear [...]
1 Comment • Continue Reading →Sugar is the nice girl’s cocaine
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 →A Halloween tip for moms
My kids have all the usual fun trick or treating. I wouldn’t deny them that. Then, when they get home, I bribe them. Twenty bucks buys a big bag of sugar from each kid, which then gets upended into the garbage in the garage or handed out en masse to those scary [...]
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