12 Steps to Whole Foods

About the Author
Robyn Openshaw grew up the eldest of eight children, raised on a tight budget where the menu was dominated
by simple plant foods: whole grains and legumes, greens, fruits and vegetables, and nuts and seeds. She has a
Web site, GreenSmoothieGirl.com, with tens of thousands of new visitors monthly, dedicated to helping people
achieve high energy and vibrant health. Its mission is to teach families how to live a whole-food lifestyle
(mostly plants and 60-80% raw) diet that is easy, inexpensive, and delicious in addition to nourishing.
Robyn taught at a university and now lectures all over the U.S. She is the author of 12 Steps to Whole Foods
with over 175 recipes, The Green Smoothies Diet, Healthy Holiday Favorites and several other recipe books,
and a children’s book, The Adventures of Junk Food Dude.
She is a single mom of four competitive athletes with high-caloric needs who help develop and test her
recipes. She converted to a whole-foods, 95% plant-based diet when her oldest child was a year old and
critically ill and underweight. Not only is that boy now a 6'3" standout high school pitcher, but she also cured
herself completely of 21 chronic health conditions, including being overweight, three auto-immune conditions,
transient ischemic attacks and migraines, and the need to wear corrective eyewear.
She received undergraduate and graduate degrees from BYU and the University of Utah and loves “arranging
the elements” in the kitchen, reading and writing, cycling, running, skiing, and competitive tennis.
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