Amorphous Blob of Diet Pepsi Jelly-Sausage
Just got back from the Bay Area–yummy raw food at Café Gratitude in Berkeley (photo below). Taught a really fun class in Oakland (will post photos as soon as someone sends me some–since I forgot my camera), so great to meet y’all who came! So Laura (my best friend for 30 years) and I were [...]
20 Comments • Continue Reading →processed meat: it’s on my “never” list
If you’ve read my books, you know there are two foods I never eat and I don’t let my kids eat either. We are virtually 100% about good nutrition at home, but at a party or in a restaurant, we make good choices but aren’t perfect. The two “over my dead body” foods, though: One, [...]
17 Comments • Continue Reading →Expo West and “health food”
So Tif and I got back this week from Expo West in Anaheim, one of the biggest trade shows in the U.S. After three days, we were still seeing booths we hadn’t been to before. Everything and anything you can find in a health food store. A lot of stuff you’d find in the “organic” [...]
20 Comments • Continue Reading →tips for preventing H1N1 infection
My focus on this site is that when you don’t dump toxins and their byproducts (mycotoxins) into your body en masse in the form of processed foods, animal products, etc., you are stronger in the face of viral and bacterial infections. But these are some interesting, simple, natural suggestions by Dr. Vinay Goyal, who has [...]
28 Comments • Continue Reading →The Healthiest Foods On Earth
One of my favorite nutrition writers is Jonny Bowden. Hope you enjoy his corroboration of what I’ve been saying all this time, that whole foods are The Answer, not obsessively counting grams of whatever. This is from Forbes online: The Healthiest Foods On Earth By Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., CNS, is a board-certified nutritionist [...]
9 Comments • Continue Reading →Green Smoothie Testimonials, Part 10
More Green Smoothie testimonials from my research: Green smoothies are easy and quick to do and keep me full and alert way past lunch time. This past growing season I had access to lots and lots of lettuce. I would use between 2 and 3 cups in my smoothie along with other greens, but long [...]
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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 [...]
8 Comments • Continue Reading →Mark Bittman: western lifestyle causing global warming
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/263 This is a great speech worth your time, by New York Times food writer Mark Bittman. Did you know that our massive meat consumption (which has increased per capita 250 percent globally in the past 50 years) contributes to global warming? Bittman discusses the history of food since 1900, and he [...]
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