New video: Eat Cancer-Fighting Chocolate Mousse!
Want to learn how chocolate mousse may be part of a cancer-reversal strategy? And by the same logic, a cancer-preventative one too? In November, I studied with Dr. Lloyd Jenkins, who runs the Budwig Clinic in Malaga Spain, on the southern coast. He is the only doctor endorsed by seven-time Nobel Prize-nominated Dr. Johanna Budwig. [...]
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Patty’s Chocolate Mango Cheesecake
Patty’s Chocolate Mango Cheesecake (It’s raw and living) Ingredients · 1 cup raw cacao powder · 3 cups raw cashews (soaked for about 45 minutes) · 2 cups rejuvelac or water · 1 cup sprouted sunflower seeds · 3 1/2 cups of date sauce (see recipe below) · 3 peeled and chopped sweet ripe mangos · 2 cups of fresh coconut [...]
4 Comments • Continue Reading →HEALTHY CHOCOLATE MOUSSE
Here’s a recipe for CHOCOLATE MOUSSE, one version of a favorite and very common recipe among raw foodies. It’s so easy, and it might get you through a party where everyone else is eating shiz! (Shiz is my kids’ latest word for ‘all things bad.’ I think they’re approximating a swear word in a [...]
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Recipes from CHI! Part 1 of 2
“Going off sugar” has always been hard for me, because the way I eat really healthy even in the face of temptation, is to tell myself, “I could have that if I wanted to. I choose not to.” (I list reasons in my head, if I’m tempted.) Or, occasionally, I say yes rather than no, [...]
12 Comments • Continue Reading →a recipe from Dr. Michelle Jorgenson
I love working with Michelle Jorgenson and her enthusiastic employees as they shift to whole-foods habits on GreenSmoothieGirl Makeover. She makes foods for the whole office to improve their health, as well as her own husband and four children. This week I was filming at her house, and I have to say, I have a [...]
17 Comments • Continue Reading →chocolate: friend or foe?
Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: Is chocolate actually good for me? Will you do a good/better/best on all the carob and chocolate options? I’m craving chocolate after having a baby and want to know what’s best. Answer: It’s a confusing subject because so many products have been made from cacao, the seed of the fruit, the whole food, [...]
34 Comments • Continue Reading →swine flu prevention: should you worry?
I hope you aren’t worried about the swine flu. Like you, I’ve been reading all about it. I am simply not worried. Not because I don’t understand the risk, but because by following a few simple practices, you minimize your risk, and the rest is in God’s hands anyway, where we would [...]
27 Comments • Continue Reading →extra ingredients for green smoothies [part 5 of 8]
If you haven’t seen it, I put my new 101 Fabulous, Healthy, Quick Lunch Ideas recipe collection in the store today: http://tinyurl.com/dxjezs Here are more ideas of additions to your smoothies–exotic stuff, more expensive, but adding variety and superfood qualities: Raw chocolate Organic [...]
1 Comment • Continue Reading →Cacao (Chocolate) Powder
Robyn, Have you went to David Wolfe’s website www.sunfood.com? If you have do you know about this cacao powder he has for sale. If so what do you think of it? Or if anyone else knows about it let’s hear from you too. I have used it myself and I think [...]
11 Comments • Continue Reading →Who you gonna call: Part V Really expensive candy that won’t make you healthy
Moving on to the Xocai chocolate people: they have a great sales pitch! They show the ORAC score of cacao (chocolate), and it’s way impressive. Right up there with goji berries. I like to use a little raw cacao for that very reason, in my recipes. But, my friends . . . [...]
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