Transform Your Life with Green Smoothies: Transformation Talk Radio Interview with Tera Warner

- Audio Interview with Lynnet McKenzie and Tera Warner

Would you like to have more energy and better health? Do you want radiant skin, sparkling eyes, and an abundance of energy? Have you wondered about eating more greens or doing a juice cleanse?

Not too long ago, the original Green Smoothie Goddess herself — Tera Warner – participated in an awesomely wonderful and informative feature online radio interview. It was aired on a show called Opening to Ecstasy, hosted by Lynett McKenzie, on Transformation Talk Radio.

The interview is fun, informative, yet truthful and touching all at the same time!

Some of the topics discussed in the interview are:

• Identifying True Hunger
• How to Include More Greens in your Diet (and why!)
• Two Specific Foods You Should Avoid
• Creating a Positive Relationship with Your Body and Your Food
• How Green Smoothies can fight Cancer, IBS, Diabetes, and more…

This is truly a wonderful and inspirational interview, folks! I listened to the entire interview (I estimate it’s about an hour long), and I’m really glad I did! I’m sure you’ll want to listen to all of it, too. 

So make sure you don’t miss this one — listen now! Just click on the play button below to tune in to the show, and green smoothie goddess Tera Warner will teach you how to transform your health with green smoothies and gusto!

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Raw Babies Recipe: Refreshing Mint Smoothie

Green smoothies are perfect for children of all ages. You can introduce them to babies as young as 5-6 months old. You always want to start babies off with new foods slowly. And remember, mother’s milk is always best!

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Earth Day Family Fun

People around the world will be celebrating Earth Day on Friday, the 22nd of April for the 41st time this year. Today more than ever we need to be reminded of the importance of protecting and preserving the “well-being” of our Earth, the only one we have!

Earth Day is a name used for two different observances, both held worldwide annually. While some people celebrate Earth Day around the time of the vernal equinox, others observe the occasion on April 22 each year. Earth Day aims to inspire awareness of and appreciation for earth’s environment. It is currently observed in more than 140 countries around the world.

What is the exact background of this special day?

The April 22 Earth Day, founded by Senator Gaylord Nelson, was first organized in 1970 to promote ecology and respect for life on the planet as well as to encourage awareness of the growing problems of air, water and soil pollution.

Some people prefer to observe Earth Day around the time of the March equinox. In 1978, American anthropologist Margaret Mead added her support for the equinox Earth Day, founded by John McConnell. She stated that the selection of the March Equinox for Earth Day made planetary observance of a shared event possible.

How can we celebrate Earth Day with our families?

Kids of all ages enjoy activities held outside and Earth Day happens to be just one of those days where there is a bounty of fun activities we can do in and around our home. Try one of these fun ideas to make this upcoming Earth Day memorable and meaningful for your family:

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A Glowing Green Smoothie Aloha from Hawaii!

We received so much amazing feedback from our last 21-Day Green Smoothie Detox that we’ve been saving a few of the loveliest letters from participants for you!

With WISH, The Women’s International Summit for Health, just around the bend on March 8th, 2011, we thought we’d share a letter from our new friend, Lisa Barros, from Hawaii.  Like many who discover and become fans of  our programs, she found that one good thing led to another!

Enjoy her touching words and beautiful spirit!

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Green Smoothie Gorgeousness!

by Marie-Claude

Raw Mom Marie-Claude created this green smoothie recipe as she was coming off of the 21-Day Green Smoothie Detox. There’s one starting in just a few days if you’re itching to do a bit of inner cleaning after the holiday dinners and overeating that usually comes at this time of the year! You can learn more about it and register to reserve your place here. Enjoy this easy peasy recipe that any multitasking mama can whip up in a minute!

Easy Peasy:

* 1 mango

* 3\4 cup of pineapple

* the pulp of 1 grapefruit

* 3-4 leaves of Swiss chard

* 1 handful of cilantro

Makes about 20 oz

Blend it well and enjoy!

There are just a few days

The Green Smoothie Halloween Howl – Our Contest Winners!

- by Stacey Terry

I was abducted by aliens!
Whisked away by wild dingoes!
Hi-jacked by guerilla hillbillies!!

(sigh)… Oh, the best laid plans of mice and Queen-co-ordinators!    Okay, so maaaaybe none of those excuses are true…  though at least the last one has an itty bitty grain of accuracy.  My passion for green smoothie work met its match when it tried to compete with my passion for rockabilly last week and I found myself rehearsing and working on Old No. 3 Trio songs more often than spending time in front of the computer.   My apologies for not bringing you the Halloween contest winners sooner, but if it makes you feel any better we had a couple of great gigs on the weekend.  hehe!

Our 10-Day Healthy Halloween Howl contests drew to a close on November 7th.  It was a freaky and fun challenge, and we received some great positive feedback and helpful comments from folks.  We love when health can be the focus of ANY holiday! And just wait until you see some of the pictures!  It makes me TOTALLY excited every time Keely sends me a gem! You’re going to love checking out our winners below! Read more »

In Honor of International Green Smoothie Day We’re Thinking BiG: “Believe in Green”

Ooooh eeee!

Yesterday was officially International Green Smoothie Day and I am delighted to report that our Believe in Green program has lifted off.

We’re starting the event with a fabulous interview with the “creator” of green smoothies, Victoria Boutenko. I love Victoria (who doesn’t?!) and it’s been a pleasure to watch her skyrocket to success over the last few years with the popularity of “green smoothies.” We felt it important to pay special tribute to her work and so she was the key speaker for our preparatory day.

In that interview with me she shared some of her unusual personal habits, which I absolutely love, and if I could adopt them myself I would. Unfortunately skinny dipping isn’t looked favorably upon in downtown Montreal. I’ve had the pleasure of connecting with Victoria on many occasions and this was really a special treat!

You can still access this interview at any time by signing up for Believe in Green.

We set a target of $10,000 in donations, and we’ve nearly reached the $6000 mark by now. It’s exciting, encouraging and inspiring to watch the numbers rise! Thank you so much for all those who are helping to spread the word and make this happen.

Last night at around 6pm Eastern, Robyn Openshaw, also known as: Green Smoothie Girl, came to the stage to share her helpful information on how to get the kids on board healthy eating, and how to get the whole family started on a healthier path to whole foods no matter where you’re starting from.

Robyn is a single mom of 4 kids (3 of them are teenagers, so I TOTALLY take my hat off to this woman!) and she’s self-employed. In the moments when I think I’m crazy to be doing the things I do, I think of her and remember there are crazier.

All kidding aside, I LOVE Robyn’s work and think her get-real approach to raw food is the perfect message for so many people who struggle with a 100% ideal.

I need to give BIG thanks to Blendtec who is sponsoring this event with a fancy, shmancy, brand new Blendter to the winner of our Ripple Maker award. Every year for International Green Smoothie Day we award one (sometimes two) lucky participants with a new blender. All they have to do is host a green smoothie event or do something to get the word out about green smoothies. The person who touches the most lives with their event will win the blender!

It’s not the easiest task in the world, but for a prize like this, we want to honor it with a worthy endeavor to make a difference out there. It’s a thrill to know that seniors’ centers, and elementary schools in Mexico have become the stompin’ grounds for green smoothies because of this event.

If you’ve not yet signed up, you can still access ALL the interviews when you come onboard. We set a target of $10,000 in donations and until we reach our goal, we’re going to keep the gates open! We busted the $6000 mark, so all we need is 400 more people to join us for this green smoothie event and we’ll be home free.

Thanks so much for your support of this event!

Love and leafy greens,

Tera

p.s.

Oh my! I didn’t even mention that 100% of the money we generate for this event goes to the Lower East Side Girls’ Club!

BiG: Believe in Green: 10 Day Challenge, 10 Big Thinkers (August 15-24th 2010)

Dear Passionate People-Lover,

With all this talk about oil spills and ozone layers it can be a pretty overwhelming to talk about “saving the planet”. Especially when you consider the fact that so many of us are struggling to save ourselves! The fact is, the rates of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, ADD, autism and infertility are rising as fast as the rates of green house gas emissions!

This is no coincidence!

It’s no accident that in a world of soda pop, plastic wrap, and microwaveable meals, we’ve started to see a lot more diabetes, arthritis, obesity and even cancer taking the lives of the people we love. Let’s look at the facts:

• World Watch Magazine reported that over 50% of annual greenhouse gas emissions come from animals raised for food.
• A UN Report supports the fastest solution to reducing ghg emissions is transition to a plant-based diet.
• Eating a plant-based diet dramatically reduces the risk of cancer, diabetes, heart disease and obesity.

Essentially, if we add up all the cars and factories and things that give off toxic gases it still doesn’t beat the greenhouse gas emissions coming from the cows, pigs, chickens, goats and other animals we use for “food.” And the bottom line is that if we stopped using these animals for food, we would improve our overall health and well-being.

I see a win-win situation happening here!

Maybe before we start saving up for solar panels, we could sprout clover and just start eating more fruits and vegetables? Maybe instead of spending millions of dollars in environmental debates, we could plant Swiss chard and wheat grass in our window sills? Read more »

Nettles – The Holistic Health Hero of Our Wastelands

by Fiona  Hollis

Nettles, nettles everywhere! ‘Ouchy’ weeds that grow in and on anything. Resilient and persistent, nettles grow tall and proud in almost any location. This mysterious plant has some of the best security systems in place, designed to protect their precious leaves with millions of tiny syringes loaded with poison. A veritable electric fence of defense surrounds this plant.  Who would have thought this needle wielding warrior could be such a holistic health hero!

Aside from being a super plant – vitamin and mineral packed with many, many healing and therapeutic values – nettles are used to make paper, dye, rope, linen like fabric, and insect repellent. A green that serves many a need.

In England, there is an annual nettle eating competition at a pub called, The Bottle Inn. I called and asked them about the art of eating raw nettles – it seems that as the sting is only on the upper side of the leaf – the trick is to  fold the sides of the nettle in, and then roll the nettle up – so there is no upper side exposed to the mouth. I was a little confused, “Doesn’t the sting escape when chewed?” I asked… “Yes, sometimes  - your mouth goes kind of numb,” was the reply. If that option sounds a little unnecessarily traumatic, – why not make a smoothie, juice or tea? Read more »

Beet Greens and Baby Spinach: Recipes from the 3-Day Green Smoothie Challenge

My name is Tanya and I read about the Green Smoothie Queen for the first time on the Raw Diva’s website.

Now I have to say I was more sucessful with the 3 day challenge than with the first challenge I with the Raw Diva 7-day detox I did.  (heheh… Unfortunately I had a few slip ups my first time around, but it got things in motion!)  It has been an interesting process incorporating more raw foods and yummy green smoothies into my diet.

My boys (5 and 3) are very accepting and willing to try the smoothies (even the not so tasty ones).  Even my husband has also joined me on my journey, so I am very excited that this may work!   Since the Raw Diva challenge three weeks ago,  I have planted a garden for fresh produce and I’m making small changes daily.  I know myself and if I go totally whole banana, I Read more »