Posts by Molly Patrick
Carole Gentry Avoids Cholesterol Medication by Eating Plants + Summer Succotash
Carole grew up eating a vegetable-heavy diet without even realizing it. When she got married in her 20s, she began cooking more meat and dairy. After 30 years, she was in chronic pain from inflammation. She had thyroid, liver, and cholesterol problems, and had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes along with diverticulitis. When a…
Read MoreMy Whole-Food Plant-Based Answer for Cold Cereal Cravings + Cold Grain Cereal (Instant Pot & Stove Top Instructions)
I have gone through various cereal phases in my life. When I was little my mom used to dish up leftover brown rice for breakfast, and add fruit, raisins, and rice milk. She would sometimes cook buckwheat and millet for breakfast as well. When I started going to sleepovers, my love of Rice Krispies made…
Read MoreA Different Kind of Revolution + Whole-Food Plant-Based Pizza Burgers
Making the choice to eat a healthy plant-based diet screams empowerment and revolution. When we make food choices that are different from the ones that are ingrained in our society, we break the predictable cycle of: Convenience food-to-doctor-to-pharmacy-and-repeat. If everyone in this country had the knowledge and the access to make the not-so-radical decision to…
Read MoreTim Gets Off His ADHD Medication by Switching to Plants + Orange Miso Dressing
Tim Drescher grew up eating what he thought was a healthy diet. He exercised regularly and enjoyed more veggies than a lot of people he knew. However, at age 50, he knew that he could feel better. His cholesterol was climbing, he’d been diagnosed with arthritis, and he wasn’t keeping up on the soccer field.…
Read MoreHow to Stop Stress Eating (video) + Plant Based Cream of Celery Soup
Are you ready to stop stress eating all the potato chips and all their friends? Is it time to start eating all that fresh fruit you bought instead of that old, crusty stash of candy sitting in your pantry? Do you want to get back into your kitchen and start cooking plant powered deliciousness? It’s…
Read MoreAnti-Racism Resources and Action Items // Black Lives Matter
Clean Food Dirty Girl is a website and a business dedicated to helping people eat more plants and less of everything else. We do this to help empower people to take their health into their own hands so we don’t have to rely on the medical system for conditions and diseases that are related to…
Read MoreAll the Details of My First Colonic
Two weeks ago I had my first colonic. I didn’t do much research about getting a colonic before I went in because I was worried that if I researched too many details I might back out and not do it. I mean, come on. A stranger inserts a tube up your butthole and flushes literal…
Read MoreJules Reverses Type 2 Diabetes After Switching to a Plant Based Diet + Easy Seasoned Beans from a Can
When I hear stories about people getting healthier, getting off their diabetes medication and reversing their type 2 diabetes because they switched to a whole-food plant-based diet, it lights me up. These are people who otherwise would have continued to feel like crap and be on medication if it wasn’t for this lifestyle change. This change…
Read MoreDr. Stephan Esser on Bone Health, Inflammation and the Immune System + Plant Based Curry Chickpea Salad (oil-free)
Dr. Stephan Esser, MD, is a lifetime advocate for plant based nutrition. He completed his residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School and a Sports Medicine fellowship at Mayo Clinic. He is a nationally sought after speaker and writer on topics related to Lifestyle Medicine and plant based nutrition. He runs healthy…
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