What 10 Years of Green Smoothies Taught Me About the Art of Healthy Eating
Let’s take willpower out of the equation…
Spinach, kale, celery, cucumber, apple, ginger, and turmeric.
This is the rather intimidating list of ingredients I’ve been ingesting in the form of a green smoothie almost every day for the last 10 years.
To understand the magnitude of this achievement, we need a quick rewind to my childhood. There, we find a well-meaning mother struggling to get her stubborn son to eat even the tiniest serving of veggies, let alone green things like kale and spinach. The best she could manage was some well-disguised carrots and potatoes in meat-centered casseroles and the occasional bribe for eating a few slices of cucumber on the side.
So, imagine her surprise when I started eating (or drinking) spinach, kale, and celery on a daily basis! But this was a special time — the start of my healthy living transformation — and I was highly motivated to change (a serious cancer scare can do that to you). When The World’s Healthiest Foods showed me that spinach was the most nutrient-dense thing on the planet, I knew I had to find a way to get more green stuff into my body.
Still, despite this surge of motivation, there were two serious obstacles in my way: 1) eating these…
