I'm Rib Esselston and you're listening to the Plan Strong Podcast.

Hey everybody, Rip here. I want to welcome you to another bonus episode of the Plan Strong

podcast where I am going to take your questions and answer them. So if you have a question that you want me to consider, just leave

me a voicemail at speakpipe.com forward slash plan strong and I'll also be sure to leave a link in today's show

notes. So this next question comes from Doug and let's be sure to play that message from Doug,

so everybody gets to hear it.

But essentially, Doug wants to know

if having greens in your soups and stews count as chewing or drinking them.

Because if you remember, we are huge fans of people chewing not drinking their calories and especially when it

comes to green leafies and why we want to stay away from all of the green, the green drinks, the smoothies and all that stuff.

Now I'm not saying that you can't ever have these, but what I'm saying is that's

not saying that you can't ever have these, but what I'm saying is if you're doing it on a daily

basis it's become a ritual that's part of your day that's that's probably not the best thing.

Hello, yes, I listened to Rips' podcast about not drinking your foods, your nutrients.

And I was really most concerned about what he said about

Greens, where he said that you should not eat greens and smoothies.

And I understand, you know, it was a great explanation he gave.

And so now I'm wondering, I've been eating greens and smoothies for a long time, as well as in soups.

And I'm wondering if I'm really not doing myself any good at all.

So I guess my question is... not doing myself any good at all.

So I guess my question is can greens be consumed in a soup,

you know, not ground up and blended,

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