Nutrition is usually a gradual process of changes and improvement!
I think it’s important you know how gradual my health changes were. Because I don’t want you to be discouraged if you like how you feel eating whole foods, but your problems didn’t disappear overnight. I’ve written about 21 health problems I had in my 20′s that have all gone the way of the Dodo. [...]
19 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 →Help for Migraines
I need some feedback from those of you who have migraines and how green smoothies have helped you. I have a 21-year old daughter who has migraines every month (definitely hormone related). I have talked to her about green smoothies but she is not interested. I don’t have much specific information on [...]
13 Comments • Continue Reading →Green Smoothie Testimonials, part 6
I have a bajillion of these, and I’ll talk about other stuff sometimes and sprinkle these in, just to keep you motivated with others’ fun tales of their health improving: I tried the green smoothie after juicing for several years. Juicing was expensive and demanded a lot of time and work extracting the juice from [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →Research Results: Green Smoothies Change Lives [part 2 of 2]
Other positive health benefits reported by survey respondents include these: 3 people said: Hyperthyroid condition improved (reduced or gone off meds) 2 people said: Seasonal allergies gone or decreased 2 people said: Reduced asthma symptoms 7 people said: Arthritis symptoms/pain gone or reduced 2 people said: Migraines gone or reduced by 80 percent 2 people [...]
12 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 [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →stevia approved by FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just granted approval to the natural herbal sweetener stevia. You may know that I endorse stevia as a sweetener I use because it is plant-based without altered (synthetic) molecules, it has no impact on blood sugar, and no adverse health effects have been reported from its use. [...]
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 →How does dehydration effect the heart . . . part 2 of 6 on WATER
(Yes, sorry, I’m aware “effect” should be “affect,” but that’s the search phrase people use according to my research assistant, Steff: how does dehydration effect the heart!) Dr. B studied over 3,000 peptic ulcer patients and found that all of them responded favorably to being hydrated. Though his theories have gained much [...]
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