more thoughts about agave
As if we haven’t done this subject to death. From the consensus of many people commenting on my blog about Mercola coming out against agave, it looks to be about 50/50. People who’ve had a positive experience with that product, versus people who’ve had a negative experience. The only ways I can explain this are [...]
19 Comments • Continue Reading →Is agave a superfood or a poison?
Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: Dr. Mercola says agave is going to kill me! Is he right? Answer: I have been inundated with emails about this. In every class I teach, someone brings it up. First of all, Dr. Mercola didn’t exactly say that, although he allowed it on his web site. Mercola is a brand, a big [...]
51 Comments • Continue Reading →Spreading the word!
I just got off the phone with my mom and had some great news! Several weeks ago, I went to my step-sisters pool with my kids and mom. Of course, I toted along my big jars full of green smoothie. I got the usually, “What the heck is that?” comment. I told my step-sister all [...]
15 Comments • Continue Reading →raw food in India? an interesting email from a reader
We get some really interesting email, and I’ve pasted one below that we got this week that I think you’ll enjoy. It corroborates what I have noticed being in 16 countries in the past 18 months. That is, the influence of American culture on the rest of the world has not been wholly positive, and [...]
2 Comments • Continue Reading →Green Smoothie Testimonials, Part 13
My New Year’s Resolution was to GO GREEN. My husband and I (yes, I converted him) both love the green smoothies. They are very satisfying. We no longer crave junk food. We have begun to lose a few pounds. I am turning on my grandchildren and children to them. My husband is Hispanic, diabetic, high [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →extra ingredients for green smoothies [part 8 of 9]
Brewer’s (nutritional) yeast Brewer’s or “nutritional” yeast is grown on barley, and it is often used as a supplement, especially for nursing mothers. It is high in protein, and it is also extremely rich in B vitamins. It has been linked to reduction of symptoms of diabetes, eczema, constipation, and hypoglycemia. It is [...]
10 Comments • Continue Reading →extra ingredients for green smoothies [part 1 of 7]
Many health food nuts like me have a mental list of ingredients they know are nutritional powerhouses, and we want to get them in our diet but often fail to do so, because we don’t know how or don’t fit it into the day’s menu. Green smoothies are the perfect way to do that–just toss [...]
24 Comments • 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 Essential GreenSmoothieGirl Library . . . part 8
More important books for parents to own: Denise Punger, M.D. is a GreenSmoothieGirl 12 Stepper and a brave new voice in modern medicine. She’s a board certified doctor married to another medical doctor, but she’s also a mother who has breastfed for 12 years and delivered her last baby via home birth. [...]
16 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 [...]
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