Category: Healthy Weight Search for: How much fat should I eat? Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: How much fats do you take in a day? From what I gathered from your book, it looks something like: 1 tablespoon flax oil in green smoothie,… What Changed When We Switched to Whole Foods 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… Are Europeans healthier than we are? So as you can see, Europeans have fast food. McD’s is found in 10 locations in the very hip and cosmopolitan city of Barcelona, for instance. They don’t… Who you gonna call, Part V: top-secret advice! So I just wrecked the pedestal underneath the Fat Diet Docs and celebs, the personal trainers, the network marketers’ pills, potions, and juices, and the blood type and metabolic typing… Who You Gonna Call, Part VII: The Guys Telling You to Eat for Your “Type” Joe Mercola’s been hyping his metabolic typing program to his 1.5 million readers. You, too, can pay big bucks for it, as soon as he’s done creating it. … Who You Gonna Call? Part III: Nutrition Advice from Personal Trainers My friend Cheryl told me at the gym the other day that she got online with a “Virtual Personal Trainer.” This guy has quite a following here locally and… Who You Gonna Call? Part II: I Have More Stuff to Say About the Diet Docs I thought I was done taking down the high-protein, fad-diet, doctor-scam-artists. But I want to say a bit more, starting with this quote from “Dr. Atkins’ Health Revolution”: … Who You Gonna Call? Part I: Fat Diet Doctors and Celebs This starts a multi-part blog about the false gods we worship in the field of nutrition. First, I often wonder why people buy diet programs from overweight doctors in… Childhood Obesity Facts Before I go on to list some sobering childhood obesity facts, here’s the one that hits me hardest: Yale University found that overweight children are routinely teased and bullied by…