Raw Foods and “Funny” Stomachs
Dear Robin, I have a few health related questions I wanted to ask you regarding starting a raw food diet. I consider myself a beginner raw fooder, I have taught myself how to drink green smoothies, learned how to eat cabbage and other greens. Here is my question. I have a history of having a [...]
18 Comments • Continue Reading →raw food diet: why not raw meat?
Talking more about the raw food diet here.Most raw foodists don’t eat animal protein (supermodel Carol Alt is an exception).See my book review here of The China Study http://greensmoothiegirl.com/reviews.html or read the book for why.I won’t go into detail, since I often talk about that huge study in great detail on this site. But also, [...]
4 Comments • Continue Reading →raw food diet: isn’t steaming good? and, my kids come back sick
Update: Yep.All four of my kids puked their guts up at their dad’s family reunion.Just like always.Poor little guys. (Well, one of them is 6’2″, not that little, huh?)Back to the green smoothie diet!So happy to have my kids back.It’s my job to help them recover. My daughters come back from an extended period away, [...]
20 Comments • Continue Reading →the raw food diet and swine flu
I hope you’re undertaking a raw food diet while it’s in season?This is the time of year your body wants to cleanse.If you do, you have much lower risk of getting ill this winter, because you’ll be going into that higher-risk time much cleaner and stronger.And that’s important as we face Round 2 of the [...]
14 Comments • Continue Reading →the raw food diet
I’m going to be talking for a while about the raw food diet.That’s the only “diet” I approve of (the very word is annoying, isn’t it?).Why?First, because it’s the biggest focus of this web site and the program of whole foods I promote: raw plant foods.Of the 9,000 new visitors to this site monthly, many [...]
20 Comments • Continue Reading →enzymes, raw food, stomach acid
An excerpt from the FAQ of my new book coming out next month: Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: How can enzymes and eating raw food be so important when stomach acid would kill any enzymes that came with the food anyway? A: Good question. Some people think that the low pH of the stomach stops salivary and [...]
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 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 →Groundbreaking Green Smoothie Research . . . be a part of it
I want you guys to be thinking about something. In about two days, I will have an interactive questionnaire posted on GSG. Be thinking about what the changes are you have experienced as a result of drinking GS regularly. The questionnaire will automatically generate tabulations for me to use as research, to be [...]
43 Comments • Continue Reading →foods that help digestion . . . part 5
Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: What are foods that help digestion? Some raw foodists eat raw meat. Raw meat and milk have enzymes, so aren’t they good foods? Answer: We’ll leave the Oxford/Cornell China Project out of this discussion, which shows that animal protein causes many diseases. (The primary author of that pivotal study, [...]
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