Reversing osteoporosis
I got this from Jackie on my customer support team: “We’ve been getting a lot of people asking about whether you can reverse osteoporosis. Can you address this on the blog?” First of all, we have to stop believing, as a culture, that drinking cow’s milk is some kind of insurance against osteoporosis. The U.S. [...]
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Photos of more gorgeous, healthy kids drinking better nutrition
Here are some photos of more gorgeous, healthy kids drinking better nutrition than 99% of kids in America get. Greens have the most bioavailable calcium you can get–far better than cow milk (contrary to popular belief), unless you’re a baby cow, of course. This is what their mother says: Dear GreenSmoothieGirl, Thought you would [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →the data on benefits of RAW FOOD . . . part 1 of 3
In the next few blogs, I’ll review for you research on the benefits of raw plant food I found in various sources. Unfortunately, science isn’t too interested in studying the effects of people eating raw food. Who would fund large-scale prevention studies to document what happens when we don’t tax our enzyme production [...]
11 Comments • Continue Reading →Need motivation to eat less meat and more plants? . . . part 3 of 12
More today on whether dairy products contribute to health: Calcium absorption rates according to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: Brussels sprouts 64% [...]
18 Comments • Continue Reading →Need motivation to eat less meat and more plants? . . . part 2 of 12
Today, great stats on whether dairy products contribute to health: Asians have little or no osteoporosis. They also (until recently) have been nonconsumers of dairy products. (Besides eating much less meat and almost no dairy products, they also drink few sodas, get lots of exercise, and eat more vegetables.) The huge [...]
1 Comment • Continue Reading →Childhood obesity epidemic . . . part 2
More from Levine and Stein of the Washington Post. Read it and tell me if I’m crazy for saying in my last post that raising an obese child (by apathetically feeding him nonstop junk food) doesn’t qualify as abuse. I realize that my words are strong, but I stand by them. At least [...]
10 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 [...]
3 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 →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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