Green Smoothie Testimonials, part 3
I’m 44 years old. I’ve always had very regular menstrual cycles. For about one year prior to drinking green smoothies, my menstrual cycles had become very irregular. After about two months of green smoothies, I returned to a very regular cycle of 20 – 30 days and my periods are just like they were in [...]
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Bee pollen Bee pollen has been a fascination of European researchers for a long time. The dust from the stamen of blossoming plants collected from bees is fairly well documented to improve a lot of things most of us care about. First of all, it increases your energy throughout the day and stamina [...]
20 Comments • Continue Reading →What my research says about how green smoothies change lives!
I once blogged 20 different astonishing ways my health improved when I began drinking green smoothies and eating a whole-foods diet. Here it is: http://greensmoothiegirl.com/2008/10/02/what-changed-when-we-switched-to-whole-foods-part-2-of-2/ But I wanted to get more scientific when I wrote The Green Smoothies Diet, [BUY HERE] and find out precisely what a newbie can expect! The results of my [...]
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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 →defending that my diet’s not all raw
I read the raw foodists all the time (Patenaude, Wolfe, Boutenko, and lots more). I think their diet is fantastic. Sometimes I go all raw, for a few days, weeks, or even months. I wouldn’t criticize anybody for a minute who wants to do it permanently, as some of my friends do–they [...]
40 Comments • Continue Reading →The Essential GreenSmoothieGirl Library . . . part 6
If you want to do a colon cleanse, these are my favorite books on that topic, with links to Amazon to buy them: Bernard Jensen’s Dr. Jensen’s Guide to Better Bowel Care: A Complete Program for Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management is a must-read for anyone willing to face the fact that the average person [...]
1 Comment • 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 →what changed, when we switched to whole foods . . . part 2 of 2
My publisher for The Green Smoothie Diet, to be released next spring, wants me to tell my “story” in the beginning of the book. I’ve been compiling a list of what happened as my family transitioned to a diet of whole foods. It was certainly a sea change, to go into my pantry [...]
23 Comments • Continue Reading →your body needs IODINE . . . part 2 of 3 on thinning hair
I have been reading a bunch of scientific papers by David Brownstein and G. Abraham on iodine, as I have suspected that iodine deficiency may be partly to blame for the fact that 1 in 4 American women has a thyroid problem (countless men, too), and most of those are undiagnosed. You may know [...]
25 Comments • Continue Reading →where to buy unrefined salt . . . part 2 of 2
This continues a review of one of my favorite things, OHCS, and a link for where to buy completely unrefined salt. A double-blind study done in Austria in 2003 examined the effects of drinking a minimum of 1.5 liters of water with table salt, versus 1.5 liters of water with Original Himalayan Crystal Salt (OHCS). [...]
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