If you’ve been following along, you should know by now that a vegan diet is a cholesterol-free diet. (The only source of cholesterol comes from animal products: meat, dairy, eggs). So, a plant-based diet lowers your cholesterol, which helps to clear your arteries of cholesterol-induced plaque blockages, which protects you from heart disease and lowers …
Oct
13
Sep
28
Dire Situation
Americans are in dire need of medical assistance. Heart Disease - Heart disease is the most likely reason you’ll die. It is the number one cause of death in the US. – Heart disease kills more Americans than the next four fatal diseases combined. – One in every two Americans will die from heart disease or …
Sep
08
Animal-based High Protein Diets Increase Mortality Rate
A CNN report on the dangers of low-carb, high-protein diets says that “you may live longer if that protein is vegetable-based rather than animal-based.” Now, if I can be brutally honest here (and since it’s my blog, I’m going to be), I find it extremely irritating and even a bit infuriating that people honestly believe …
May
26
This Is Your Milk On Drugs
I thought that by now nearly everyone had heard about hormones in milk. Yet, people continue to buy conventional milk! I’m baffled. Maybe more explanation will finally wake people up about this?! Bovine Growth Hormone Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH), or Bovine Somatotropin (BST), is a protein hormone that cattle naturally produce. Back in 1937, it …
Mar
09
Why Are Vegetarians So Depressing?
by Martha Flumenbaum, from The Huffington Post Animal agriculture is a bigger cause of global warming than cars. You’d be better off driving a Hummer than eating a steak. Eating too much meat can cause heart disease and cancer. Factory farms cause pollution and the people who live near them are getting asthma. Animals on …
Feb
17
How Much Is Too Much?
“Men dig their graves with their own teeth and die more by those fated instruments than the weapons of their enemies.” -Thomas Moffett, Health’s Improvement, 1600 AD Many health experts remind us not to eat “too much” meat. When deciding how much is “too much,” consider these facts: Eating more than 3-5 ounces of meat …
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 …
Jan
06
Reduce Your Risk of Cancer
I just received a letter in the mail from the American Institute for Cancer Research asking for a donation. Along with the letter came a card with tips to reduce your risk of developing cancer. I found them interesting. The card reads: ———- By making a few, simple changes in your daily routine, you can …
Oct
16
Pesticide Facts
According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Academy of Sciences standard chemicals are up to ten times more toxic to children than to adults, depending on body weight. This is due to the fact that children take in more toxic chemicals relative to body weight than adults and have developing organ systems …
Sep
30
For Your Heart
A no-meat menu is a powerful way to achieve good health. Vegetarian and vegan diets significantly reduce the risk of the four largest killers in the US: heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and stroke. Here are the facts on heart disease. The most common cause of death in the US : heart attack How frequently a heart …
