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In the American Dietetic Association’s 1997 Position Paper on Vegetarian Diets, they stated that, "scientific data suggest positive relationships between a vegetarian diet and reduced risk for several chronic degenerative diseases and conditions, including obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and some types of cancer.”The better health statistics for vegetarians and

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"I brainwashed youngsters into doing wrong. I want to say sorry to children everywhere for selling out to concerns who make millions by murdering animals."— Geoffrey Guiliano, the main Ronald McDonald actor in the 1980's who quit and publicly apologized. Apology accepted. Now we need to figure out the "ethical" vegetarians who eat at/support the meat-based restaurant. . .

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It has been a while! But I'm back.With a space key I'm having a hard time getting to work properly.I took a road trip to California and got back in September, but I guess it just took me longer than usual to settle back into routine. When you have a couple weeks of freedom to just be able to hop into the car and just drive across the country, seeing new things after a long while, routine gets

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1. Milk is "natural" only for baby calves. Calves have fours stomachs and double their body weight in 47 days. Human babies have only one stomach and a much slower rate of growth. It takes human babies 180 days or so to double their weight, so they don't need nearly as much protein as calves. Cows' milk is 15% protein (it has 15% of its calories as protein); human breast milk is 5 % protein. Much

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Okay, so sometimes you gotta take a break from the seriousness and the brain food and look at the lighter side of things. So. . .here's a huge list of famous veg*ns! They forgot a few, including Anne Hathaway and Leonardo DiCaprio, but it still is a huge list. I was especially surprised to find that Ozzy Osbourne is a vegetarian, considering I once heard he bit, I believe, a bat's head off on

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Consider this: 100 calories of steak has 5.4 grams of protein. 100 calories of broccoli has 11.2, almost twice as much.I’ll go to Answers on Yahoo or any number of forums where people are asking questions about vegetarians and vegans. Then someone will pop in who obviously hasn’t read up on nutritional content or anything about the veg*n lifestyle and say things like “The only place you can get

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Here is an easy to read fact list of some of the endless reasons as to why a veg*n diet is helpful where healthy weight loss in concerned: -Complex carbohydrates, found only in plant-based foods, cannot add directly to your fat stores. There is no such thing as “carbohydrate storage areas” on our bodies. If the body is to try and store the energy of carbohydrates in fat, it has to chemically

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Best Vegan Protein Sources:It’s important to note that everything has some protein (amino acids). Veg*n diets actually provide more than enough protein for the body. For further scientific study on this as well as the devastating effects of animal protein, I highly suggest reading The China Study by Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. However, here are some of the best vegan protein sources:Complete

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Science Daily — The food that people eat is just as important as what kind of cars they drive when it comes to creating the greenhouse-gas emissions that many scientists have linked to global warming, according to a report accepted for publication in the journal Earth Interactions.Both the burning of fossil fuels during food production and non-carbon dioxide emissions associated with livestock

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We all need our vegetables. But, let's face it, we also know that the most important kind - the green ones - can be a bit boring and bland. So, for a drastic increase in your veggie intake, here's an easy and tasty way to do it:green smoothies! The cool thing about these is that you mix veggies in a blender with fruit, and the taste of the fruit actually overrides the veggies. So it doesn't taste

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Behold, quinoa. Pronounced keen-wah.A seed that acts as a grain. A "grain" that is (bonus!) gluten free. A pseudocereal rather than a true cereal, as it is not grass. Cooked just like rice. It is delicious plain, but with the many recipes either for breakfast, lunch or dinner, the options and possibilities where quinoa is concerned are endless. It originated in the Andean region of South America

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You know you wanna.It's a common myth that a vegan is deprived. Sometimes I am even stunned to hear people go so far as to say "nutrient-deprived" as it is well known that fruits and vegetables are the most nutrient dense foods. It makes me want to take them by the hand and treat them to dinner and let them indulge in what we do have, which is essentially everything without the animal products.

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Comparative Anatomy of Eating by Milton R. Mills, M.D.Humans are most often described as "omnivores." This classification is based on the "observation" that humans generally eat a wide variety of plant and animal foods. However, culture, custom and training are confounding variables when looking at human dietary practices. Thus, "observation" is not the best technique to use when trying to

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I’ve been getting a lot of questions recently about the way I eat. I like to say “the way I eat” more first of all, because I don’t really like labels of any kind. Any label evokes some sort of stereotypical image, when each experience, in reality, is different for everyone. Each experience really can’t be labeled. Anyway, the questions range from the common “protein” question to whether I’d eat

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