Blog Search for: MYTH: “My cancer just happened” After my class in Carlsbad, a young mother of two small children waited to talk to me. She said, “You told your story of how you were desperate? I am… Dr. Connealy in Cali, Dr. Contreras in Mexico Earlier this month, I had the great privilege to study (after speaking to a group of 300) with Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D., in Irvine, California, and then Francisco Contreras, M.D…. Psst! Don’t tell anyone I’m an M.D. recommending nutrition info! A woman after class my class in St. George a few weeks ago said to me, “I’m a nurse, and an E.R. doctor told me about your site. Then he… Traveling is No Excuse to Eat Crap A man behind me on my recent flight to Budapest, Hungary, phoned his wife right before takeoff and whispered, “I’m on a plane with Green Smoothie Girl.” I laughed, and… Julie Eliminates Dairy, and Look What Happens! Like me, new GSG reader Julie got rid of dairy and sugar. That change solved Cade’s problem 17 years ago, and Julie’s little girl’s identical problem very recently. (My son… Is more than one quart of green smoothie too much? “Can you get too much green smoothie?” I did a video answering this question here: Watch this video on YouTube How things change, from age 8 to age 18 Sometimes in my lectures, I encourage the moms of young children to make the change NOW while they’re still “in control” of so many things in the home, including diet…. Gratitude, the magic elixir Kristin’s on vacation all week, and I’m on vacation all next week. She left me the Perfect Suitcase as a Christmas gift. I’d been telling her I had a great… Video: Margaret Says Green Smoothies Brought Her Hearing Back—and Its Effect on Lupus? Check out what Margaret told me after my class in Carlsbad, California. She is an elegant, classy lady who has more than her share of suffering from systemic lupus and… Two Great Recipes and an Awesome New Ingredient! I recently gave a lecture in St. George, Utah and stayed with my longtime friends, vegan raw foodists Denley and Jan, whose kitchen and fridge contents always inspire me. Denley… How much weight should I gain in pregnancy, and should I shift to whole foods now? Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: How much weight should I gain in my pregnancy? I want to eat whole foods—but should I do it while I’m pregnant? Video answer here: Watch this… “I need to gain some weight!” I have been studying a massive amount of information in the past few months about over 80,000 toxic chemicals and metals in our environment. Where they come from, what they…