background preloader

Vegetarian Diet

Facebook Twitter

VEGCAST - The Vegetarian Podcast. Staying Vegan — Tips and tricks for the rest of your life. The Ultimate Vegan Guide: Compassionate Living Without Sacrifice. Read the first edition of The Ultimate Vegan Guide for free, right here.

The Ultimate Vegan Guide: Compassionate Living Without Sacrifice

By Erik Marcus I’ve made the first edition of my Ultimate Vegan Guide available for free reading right from this page, since I would hate to think that anyone interested in eating fewer animal products might be hindered by the cost of learning how to do it. Better yet, you can pick up the updated Kindle edition for just 99¢. And the updated print edition costs just $8.95. Want even more detail about the meat industry, and greater motivation to move towards a vegan diet? If you like my books, you’ll almost certainly enjoy my daily blog.

The Ultimate Vegan Guide: Contents AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Part I: Why? 1—Health and the Environment 2—The Ethics of Animal Agribusiness Part II How? 3—Crowding, Not Cutting 4—Cookbooks 5—Vegan Nutrition 6—Eat More Produce 7—Should vs. III Activism 27—Basic Activism & Outreach Appendices. School milk programs being challenged in UK as unhealthy. (NaturalNews) Critics of the United Kingdom's school milk program are becoming more vocal, challenging the widespread national assumption that drinking milk is good for children.

School milk programs being challenged in UK as unhealthy

"From Winston Churchill's wartime order to keep the milk flowing, which was formalized under the 1946 School Milk Act ... the idea that it is natural, healthy and an essential part of a good diet has been unchallenged," writes Andrew Marszal in The Telegraph. That consensus is wavering. Recently, junior health minister Anne Milton suggested that the national program to provide free milk for children under five should abolished. And research continues to emerge that milk is neither an essential nor healthy part of the human diet. As Marszal notes, milk contains no nutrient that cannot be found in a balanced, dairy-free diet. Much of the concern over milk comes from the hormones and antibiotics inserted into it by modern factory farming. Sources for this story include: Vegetarian. Vegetarians live longer and have better health.

Vegetarian

While you don't necessarily have to become a vegetarian to benefit, even moderate reductions in animal protein intake are likely to improve your health. [Printable file] Vegetarians are healthier and live longer than omnivores. There have been many suggestions in the past that people who consumed less meat lived longer. Many isolated communities that were predominantly vegetarian have been observed to have long life expectancies of far exceeding 70years (Hunzakuts, Vilcabambas, mountain dwellers of Turkey, Russian Caucuses).

On examination, vegetarians are more likely to be thin, have lower cholesterol levels: 4.88 vs 5.31mmol/l. A further report in 2003 of the analysis of six studies by Singh et al (with considerable overlap with the previously quoted study) came to similar conclusions (Singh 03). Does eating meat, particularly red meat predispose to cancer? Red meat consumption in mothers may cause fertility problems in male children. Vegetarians in Paradise/Perfect Formula Diet/Persistent Organic Pollutants/POPs. John Tanner suffered an unexpected, sudden cardiac arrest In October 2009.

Vegetarians in Paradise/Perfect Formula Diet/Persistent Organic Pollutants/POPs

Against long odds, he survived, recovered, and began learning about the causes, prevention, and reversal of this nation's leading killer. He has incorporated what he has learned into his website www.nusci.org and is building a non-profit organization to propagate the knowledge of preventing heart attacks and other diseases. He has also started a healthy food delivery business under the name Little Green Forks to deliver healthy meals to people in the San Gabriel Valley.

Tanner is President and CEO of Tanner Research, Inc., a 100% employee-owned company that develops and markets Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software tools to designers of integrated circuits. Tanner Research is among a handful of companies to be named to the "LA Fast 50" five years in a row. Tanner has also created a business unit dedicated to sharing calendars and contact information among multiple PC, Mac, and smartphone users.

Diet for an Imperiled Planet. How Meat Can Destroy Your Health and Cause Heart Disease, Cancer, and Infection: An All-Creatures Health Archives Article - diet, disease, enzymes, exercise, health, herbs, longevity, medicine, minerals, natural health, nutrition, stress, vegan, vegetaria. Eating Animals - by Jonathan Safran Foer. Vegetarian.