peer pressure to eat junk food
Tonight my 14-yr. old son Kincade was reading a newspaper comic called “A Doctor, A Lawyer, and A Cop” and started laughing, handed it to me. The kid is saying, “But PLEASE, Mom, you don’t understand how important it is for me to have a pair of new sneakers.” The mom replies, “Or what?! [...]
3 Comments • Continue Reading →cardiovascular health: nature vs. nurture
I went to give blood today, hoping that my always-borderline hematocrit was high enough. It was. Though one point lower and I’d have been rejected–again. Like most other things the RDA does, those hematocrit averages aren’t based on the ideal, but rather the average. The averages are, of course, of a [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →storing GS in the fridge and vegetarians in rotten health
Dear GreenSmoothieGirl, how long can you keep your green smoothie in the fridge? I’m single and don’t want to make it every day. Does it lose nutrition and therefore is it pointless to store it? Answer: You can keep in in the fridge, at the most, for 48 hours. After that it [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →eating healthy while traveling
I’m back from a fun trip down south for a baseball tournament in the sun. I tried a tip from a woman who attended my nutrition class the night before I left–to use coconut oil instead of sunscreen. She says it works. (It seems rather counterintuitive–isn’t coconut oil in tanning lotions used [...]
16 Comments • 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 →interrupting our regularly scheduled programming . . .
DH and DS (internet-speak for Dear Husband and Dear Son) came home from visiting a family who just moved into our church congregation. They reported at dinner that the wife said, “I heard your wife has this website, GreenSmoothieGirl.com, so I checked it out. That’s quite a hobby she has going!” You don’t have [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →raw sweet potatoes and Jamaican cheese
Costco has the coolest new item in produce: raw sweet-potatos, peeled and cut in sticks. Sweet potatoes are something you may not have eaten RAW before, but they’re crunchy, mild, and best of all, one of just a handful of foods that have all of the eight amino acids your body cannot manufacture on [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →tips for eating right inexpensively
Q: Dear GreenSmoothieGirl, I can’t afford to eat the way you suggest. Any ideas? A: Most people base their purchasing decisions on taste, convenience, price, appearance, and shelf life. Of course, what tastes good is dictated by our addictions, and you know if you read my blog that sugar is the most addictive [...]
5 Comments • Continue Reading →it’s not ALL nutritional bad news
I just read this: “Food is cheaper now by a long way, more abundantly available, more highly refined and more pressingly sold to us by very clever advertising companies and techniques. The remarkable thing is how anybody stays thin.” –Dr. Andrew Prentice, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine True and false. Everybody [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →nutrition tips for kids
I wanted to pass along great ideas from two GreenSmoothieGirl.com readers who wrote me, on how they’ve been successful at getting their kids to eat raw vegetables and fruits: Use a muffin/cupcake pan and put raw almond butter in one hole, raw hummus in one hole, and fresh guacamole in one hole. Put cut-up [...]
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