... One green smoothie at a time!

I am so fortunate to be visiting the home of Tamara Grenier, the founder of Sacred Medicine Roots.

This delcious green smoothie has greens (from her garden on Nantucket Island), fresh peaches and frozen bananas.

Tamara is an amazingly inspiring and gifted women!

Sacred Medicine Roots:

The guiding principle of Sacred Medicine Roots is based on the knowledge that all life springs from the Earth and returns to the Earth in a continuous cycle, and everything we need to exist, flourish and thrive has been gifted to us by the planet.

Sacred Medicine Roots was dreamed into being as a means of weaving together ancient traditions and the skills I have acquired over a lifetime. Sacred Medicine Roots is influenced by Shamanism, an ancient system of healing based on a reverence for the natural world, the cycles of nature and a respect for all of humanity; it is about returning to our sacred roots.

We are living during times of great challenge and great opportunity. Humans are being called to evolve and grow as individuals in order to serve and contribute to the collective awakening. Healing ourselves and our relationship to others, to Mother Earth, and to Spirit is critical for our own personal fulfillment and for the future of humanity.

By promoting healing through plant-based nutrition, Earth-based spirituality, shamanic healing techniques and medicinal herbs, Sacred Medicine Roots’ programs will educate and empower individuals to take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing and live the fullest expression of their soul with balance and awareness in all aspects of their lifestyle.

Wow - as if it wasn't cheesy (and toxic, nutrient void and fattening) enough to eat one or the other, Denny's has combined deep fried & breaded cheese sticks and a grilled cheese sandwhich on processed white bread!!! 

S.A.D. at it's worst!

The whole Denny's new menu story is here: http://www.nrn.com/article/dennys-update-2-4-6-8-value-menu

Awesome Huffington Post article by John Robbins about Coca Cola's Vitaminwater that does not contain any vitamins.

I found this life size vitaminwater sign at the drive-through at Carl's Junior. It looks like CJ is now promoting its "healthy" drink menu - HA!

Excerpt:
"Now here's something you wouldn't expect. Coca-Cola is being sued by a non-profit public interest group, on the grounds that the company's vitaminwater products make unwarranted health claims. No surprise there. But how do you think the company is defending itself?

In a staggering feat of twisted logic, lawyers for Coca-Cola are defending the lawsuit by asserting that "no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage."

Does this mean that you'd have to be an unreasonable person to think that a product named "vitaminwater," a product that has been heavily and aggressively marketed as a healthy beverage, actually had health benefits?

Or does it mean that it's okay for a corporation to lie about its products, as long as they can then turn around and claim that no one actually believes their lies?"

Full story:
The Dark Side of Vitaminwater

By now everyone knows that hi fructose syrup is bad for you on many levels. This article about a U.S. study dives even deeper:

Aug 2 (Reuters) - Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same.

Tumor cells fed both glucose and fructose used the two sugars in two different ways, the team at the University of California Los Angeles found.

They said their finding, published in the journal Cancer Research, may help explain other studies that have linked fructose intake with pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest cancer types.

"These findings show that cancer cells can readily metabolize fructose to increase proliferation," Dr. Anthony Heaney of UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center and colleagues wrote.

"They have major significance for cancer patients given dietary refined fructose consumption, and indicate that efforts to reduce refined fructose intake or inhibit fructose-mediated actions may disrupt cancer growth."

Americans take in large amounts of fructose, mainly in high fructose corn syrup, a mix of fructose and glucose that is used in soft drinks, bread and a range of other foods.

Politicians, regulators, health experts and the industry have debated whether high fructose corn syrup and other ingredients have been helping make Americans fatter and less healthy.

Too much sugar of any kind not only adds pounds, but is also a key culprit in diabetes, heart disease and stroke, according to the American Heart Association.

Click this to read full story

This slam campaign towards McDonald's having smoothies should have launched on April 1st.

Thank goodness IT IS A JOKE!