Double post today (so be sure to read the new post below too!) to mention that today, Oprah and Dr. Oz will discuss the fastest growing disease in America: Type II Diabetes. This “silent killer” is directly linked to diet. I have no doubt that eating meat and high fructose corn syrup will come up …
Feb
04
Feb
04
Stones
No I’m not talking about Mick Jagger & Co. This is a post about something much less entertaining (but arguably more important): kidney and gall stones. In a comment on the Post About Poop, it was pointed out that a vegetarian diet also reduces the risk of kidney stones. Additionally, a vegetarian diet is proven …
Feb
03
A Post About Poop
Another benefit of a vegetarian diet is that it makes you “more regular.” The reason is simple: eating a lot of vegetables, fruits, and grains means consuming fiber, which helps push waste out of the body. Meat contains no fiber. On Oprah’s show about food (which I’m posting about for the third time now… did …
Feb
02
Think A Second Time
I, as many others who are concerned about animal welfare, have compared the livestock in factory farms to the elephant that is poached for ivory and the dolphin caught in fishing nets (nevermind the fact that there are tuna caught in there too). But, it would probably be better for the elephants and dolphins not to bind them in …
Feb
01
Meatless Monday #19: Twice Baked Potato
A veganized version of the original. Ingredients: potato olive oil soy cheese bacon flavored bits chives salt & pepper Directions: 1. Bake the potato (either in the oven or in the mircowave). 2. Once the potato is baked, cut it in half and carefully scoop the potato out of the skin. Save the skin. 3. …
