I HAD MY FIRST GREEN SMOOTHIE AND IT WAS GREAT!!!!
Robyn, thanks for the recipe for the green smoothie. I have heard of them for several years now but never had a recipe for one. I tried yours and loved it. I have always been a healthy eater (but not vegan) I am trying to loose weight and I feel that [...]
55 Comments • Continue Reading →Who you gonna call, Part VIII top-secret advice!
So I just wrecked the pedestal underneath the Fat Diet Docs and celebs, the personal trainers, the network marketers’ pills, potions, and juices, and the blood type and metabolic typing docs. I hope you’re not feeling without answers. Moms write me and tell me they read about nutrition and go to bed in tears [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →Who you gonna call, Part VII the guys telling you to eat for your “type”
Joe Mercola’s been hyping his metabolic typing program to his 1.5 million readers. You, too, can pay big bucks for it, as soon as he’s done creating it. He continues to tell people to eat lots of whey protein powder (which he sells) and avoid eating grains, despite a massive body of evidence [...]
10 Comments • Continue Reading →Who you gonna call, Part IV: network-marketed juices, pills, candy, and skin creams . . .
The juices . . . Xango, Noni, Pharmanex, and some brand-new ones . . . I’ll get some furious emails for this one, because the juice folks are plentiful and have absolute religious fervor about their $30 bottles of juice from the tippy tops of mountains half a world away. There’s a new [...]
1 Comment • Continue Reading →Who you gonna call? Part III: nutrition advice from personal trainers
My friend Cheryl told me at the gym the other day that she got online with a “Virtual Personal Trainer.” This guy has quite a following here locally and helped a friend of Cheryl’s. She said to the trainer, “I’m trying to be vegan. Can you help me increase my muscle mass [...]
4 Comments • Continue Reading →Who you gonna call? Part II: I have more stuff to say about the diet docs
I thought I was done taking down the high-protein, fad-diet, doctor-scam-artists. But I want to say a bit more, starting with this quote from “Dr. Atkins’ Health Revolution”: “Imagine losing weight with a diet that lets you have bacon and eggs for breakfast, heavy cream in your coffee, plenty of meat and even [...]
4 Comments • Continue Reading →heart disease and degenerating DNA
[I'll come back to "Who You Gonna Call" blogging on the false gods of nutrition, tomorrow . . .] Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: I have 100 lbs. to lose, am on Lipitor for high cholesterol, and started drinking green smoothies a few weeks ago. My cholesterol has begun to come way down, but my HDL [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →Who you gonna call? Part I: fat diet doctors and celebs
This starts a multi-part blog about the false gods we worship in the field of nutrition. First, I often wonder why people buy diet programs from overweight doctors in poor health. The worst offender is Dr. Robert Atkins. I would say “was,” but of course his company and family are still raking in [...]
14 Comments • Continue Reading →Throw Away Your Television
With more than one-third of America’s children overweight, we have TV to thank (more importantly, our choice to indulge in it). Throw away your television (or at least leave it mostly off) for two reasons. One, kids are burning fewer calories because they aren’t exercising while they watch hours of TV. Most parents [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →Childhood Obesity Facts
Before I go on to list some sobering childhood obesity facts, here’s the one that hits me hardest: Yale University found that overweight children are routinely teased and bullied by peers and even teachers and parents. That’s now 35 percent of all kids, half of whom qualify as obese. The Yale study [...]
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