Emily: pregnant, diabetic, and HEALTHY in Colorado
I met this really cool girl in Castle Rock, Colorado last weekend. She was dying to tell me about how my homemade granola, chocolate beet cake, green smoothies, and other whole-foods habits and recipes have helped her THRIVE going into her third pregnancy. This is radically different than her first two, which were a scary [...]
11 Comments • Continue Reading →Barbara has an amazing story after just 3 months, watch her on video
Barbara inspired us in Boise! If making simple changes in her diet helped her drop 20 lbs., disappeared a pre-diabetic condition and allergies, gained energy, decreased fibromyalgia symptoms–what will happen if she sticks with it for a year? Or for life? Watch her tell her story in 2.5 minutes here: We are coming back to [...]
1 Comment • Continue Reading →What can I use to replace MILK?
Newbies ask me this question all the time when they learn that milk, contrary to the $50 million advertising budget of the Dairy Council, isn’t a good food for humans. It’s not even a particularly useable form of calcium (unless you’re a baby cow). Plus it’s mucous forming, and when your body is battling mucous [...]
17 Comments • Continue Reading →FROZEN DESSERTS
These days, there’s no excuse to not eat healthy! You can get virtually ANYTHING you like in the junk-food world, in a vastly more nutritious version. You just have to know where to look! I’m not a big ice cream eater, but I was in my 20′s. I wish I’d known this stuff before I [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →a tour of the BULK FOODS ROOM in a health food store
Lots of people walk into a health food store and have no clue what to buy! So I’ve done a bunch of videos showing some of my favorite things in a typical natural foods store. Today here’s my video about the BULK FOODS ROOM! Feel free to ask your questions here and I’ll try to [...]
40 Comments • Continue Reading →Educate your kids about nutrition!
Here’s my video showing Tennyson why food matters in his life, and why he should make good decisions about food. He’s no different than you and me. He needs REASONS. And praise. Here are my tips for teaching your kids–some I mention on the video, and some you’ll just see me DOING: 1. Make it [...]
35 Comments • Continue Reading →Introducing Karen Wilbert, GreenSmoothieGirl Makeover [part 3 of 4]
When I watched Karen Wilbert, I turned to Kels and said, “She really touches me. I want to work with her.” I was deeply moved by Karen’s story of six family members undergoing gastric bypass, including both parents and 4 siblings! Two of them have had the procedure twice! When she came to my home [...]
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RETREAT 2011!
I’m so excited to announce the 2011 GreenSmoothieGirl retreat, Overthrowing the Standard American Diet, One Family at a Time! Come meet my posse of amazing nutrition-superhero friends–parents, authors, and chefs, all of them!–at Noah’s in Lindon, Utah, this April 21-23. We will instruct and inspire you in a direction that can profoundly change your [...]
8 Comments • Continue Reading →Who is GreenSmoothieGirl?
I did an interview with Leslie Smoot, and I’m posting it in 9 chunks over the next couple of weeks. Here’s the first one, where I’m asked, “Who is GreenSmoothieGirl?”
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →Victoria Boutenko’s Green Smoothie Song–and me, giving her props
When my book The Green Smoothies Diet came out, last year, I got an email saying, “Who do you think you are? Victoria Boutenko invented the green smoothie! You owe her some credit!” In fact, I give V. Boutenko, one of my heroes, credit every single time I speak. (Back me up here, if you’ve [...]
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