Heart attack is the number one killer in America. To put that another way: Heart attack is the most likely reason you’ll die. And even more frightening, in more than half of heart disease cases, the first symptom is death. But the really sad thing is that heart disease is completely preventable! CNN recently aired a …
May
26
Cheese Addiction Rehab Program
It seems that many vegetarians (myself included*) struggle to make the leap to veganism because of one thing: cheese. I’ve found that most vegetarians agree that eggs are as easy to drop as the meat. And non-cheese dairy has plenty of not just adequate, but downright tasty subsitutes (butter, ice cream, yogurt, sour cream, cream …
Apr
28
Recap of Dr. Oz’s Veganism Show
After being disappointed by Oprah’s veganism show, I wasn’t sure what to expect from Dr. Oz’s veganism show, which aired yesterday… IT WAS AMAZING! Dr. Oz featured the documentary Forks Over Knives, which will be in theaters in May. The movie is based on the research from The China Study, which is a very comprehensive study on …
Mar
03
Pumping Iron
In the past couple of weeks I’ve coincidentally had a few people ask me about iron in a vegetarian/vegan diet, so here’s the full scoop on iron. Why is iron important? Iron is critical to the formation of red blood cells. Chronic lack of iron eventually leads to anemia (low red blood cell count). Anemia …
Feb
24
Ground Beef: Cook The Shit Out Of It… Literally
Feb 5, 2011: American Food Service recalls 3,170 pounds of ground beef due to E. coli contamination Jan 8, 2011: Columbus Meat Market recalls 780 pounds of beef patties due to E. coli contamination Dec 31, 2010: First Class Foods Inc. recalls 34,373 pounds of organic ground beef due to E. coli contamination Aug 30, …
Nov
09
Scandal: The USDA’s Conflict Over Cheese
This front-page New York Times expose on how the government is pushing dairy (while at the same time supposedly shunning saturated fat and obesity) is causing quite a stir. Dairy Management, a marketing and promotion agency created by the USDA to push more dairy down our throats, is doing an excellent job. According to the …
Nov
02
You Are What THEY Eat
We all know the old saying, “You are what you eat.” And it’s true. What we eat literally becomes a part of us. What we eat doesn’t just go in our gut, but it ends up in our blood, our veins, our muscle tissue, our fat deposits, our brain, our hair and fingernails, our organs, …
Oct
13
Fiber 101
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
05
For Your Health: Heart Disease
Take a look around. Do you see what I see? Americans gorging on vast amounts of animal-based products, laden with cholesterol, unhealthy fat, acid-producing protein, and often overly processed and loaded with concentrated oils. We’ve become addicted to these unhealthy foods and unfortunately, they are a breeding grounds for the diseases that are destroying our …
Sep
28
The President’s Doctors
After all the buzz about Clinton’s vegan diet, Wolf Blitzer invited two of the doctors Clinton mentioned to describe this “miracle diet” in more detail. (They’re totally stealing my thunder on my upcoming post about heart disease, but I have a feeling you’ll trust them more than you’ll trust me, so I’m cool with that.) …
