cancer, Costco, and GreenSmoothieGirl.com
I think I’ve told you before that I rarely go to Costco or Good Earth locally that someone doesn’t come up to me and say, “Aren’t you GreenSmoothieGirl?!” It’s fun. We are currently getting 9,000 unique visitors to the site each month. People introduce themselves and tell me their stories, and I [...]
16 Comments • Continue Reading →extra ingredients for green smoothies [part 4 of 7]
Goji berries Goji berries are an interesting food because they are consumed regularly by the Earth’s longest-living people for at least 1,700 years, as well as used medicinally. As scientists began to study their properties, they found that the fruit is 13 percent protein, which is unheard of for a fruit, and will increase [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →Storing green smoothies: BPA in plastics [part 1 of 2]
Dear Green SmoothieGirl: What should I store my green smoothie in? I’ve read that certain chemicals in bottled water and other plastic items leach into my food. Answer: A government study by the nonprofit Environmental Working Group (EWG) in Washington, D.C. recently uncovered a surprising (and unnerving) finding. The plastic lining used [...]
4 Comments • Continue Reading →the data on benefits of RAW FOOD . . . part 2 of 3
Another very old study was the work of Robert McCarrison in the 1920′s and 1930′s, working with rats. A group of 1,000 rats was fed a partially raw diet of carrots, sprouts, cabbage, bread, milk, and meat. Another 2,000 were fed canned food, boiled vegetables, and milk. The rats in the [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →Raw food beating cancer is front-page news!
Yesterday my friend Shelley Abegg, a breast cancer five-year survivor, was on the front page. She beat cancer without chemo or radiation with a raw-food vegan diet: http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/286151/17/ This is a four-part series on local women with breast cancer. The first two parts were full of radiation and chemo stories, [...]
15 Comments • Continue Reading →You don’t eat meat? Then where do you get your protein?
I know, I’ve blogged about this more than any other subject. But I’m going to say a few more things about it today, just in a slightly different way, because of that old statistic that people have to hear something 11 times before they believe it. And because that’s the question we plant [...]
14 Comments • Continue Reading →your body needs SULFUR . . . part 3 of 3 on thinning hair
Before I talk about sulfur, I belong to a Yahoo group called LDSRaw (for Mormon raw-food enthusiasts). One group member lost a lot of hair and did a bunch of online research to talk to other raw foodies. She said she mostly found, talking to others, that if they lost hair in a [...]
18 Comments • Continue Reading →Need motivation to eat less meat and more plants? . . . part 7 of 12
Today, good stats about the fact that Americans need EDUCATING on the subject of a plant-based, whole-foods diet. (You know GSG.com has an agenda to get YOU to help spread the word–and many of you already do so, brilliantly.) 98 percent of the wheat eaten in the U.S. is eaten as white flour. [...]
4 Comments • Continue Reading →Need motivation to eat less meat and more plants? . . . part 4 of 12
Do certain diets prevent cancer? Today, good stats on health implications of eating meat: Risk of colon cancer for women who eat red meat daily, versus those who eat it less than once a month: 250 percent greater Risk of colon cancer for people who eat red meat once a week compared to [...]
7 Comments • Continue Reading →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 [...]
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