food and love, part 2
Gilbert went to an ashram in India and studied, meditated, and prayed as a follower of a Guru. At first I was skeptical of the Guru idea, but in Eastern traditions, a person is so committed to devotion to God that she may obtain a tremendous amount of education, and spend many hours a day [...]
4 Comments • Continue Reading →chocolate: friend or foe?
Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: Is chocolate actually good for me? Will you do a good/better/best on all the carob and chocolate options? I’m craving chocolate after having a baby and want to know what’s best. Answer: It’s a confusing subject because so many products have been made from cacao, the seed of the fruit, the whole food, [...]
34 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 →an interesting green smoothie testimonial
I have lots more testimonials I haven’t posted yet. I’ve blogged in the past about the personality changes and mood improvements that people experience when they toss the refined foods and start eating whole, mostly-raw plant food. Here’s an interesting testimonial from a reader named Grace that came in this morning through the [...]
4 Comments • Continue Reading →Does eating right cause irregular periods?
I just read a highly controversial, really interesting article on Debbie Took’s raw food blog, about the possibility that when a woman eats a vegan, high-raw (mostly raw) diet, she may have irregular periods, very light and infrequent. Evidence is given and a number of professionals are quoted, that indigenous women don’t menstruate like [...]
18 Comments • Continue Reading →Green Smoothie Testimonials, part 7
I have endometriosis and ovarian cysts and have suffered with cramping, heavy menstruation, and low back pain for 20+ years. I have had numerous surgeries to help correct and alleviate the problem with no success. I finally reached the point that my doctors determined a hysterectomy would be my next surgery. I am in my [...]
Leave a comment • 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 →GSG.com diet “problem”: ridiculous joy and energy!
Some really cute 12 Stepper wrote today on that blog about her “problem” of overwhelming happiness and so much energy she’s bouncing off the walls, as a result of a GreenSmoothieGirl plant-food diet and mostly raw food. I have to tell you, I have the same bizarre thing happen to me the more raw I [...]
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