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RESOURCES. Are you trying to source quality traditional foods and supplements? The Food Renegade shopping guide can help! The companies listed in the categories below are quality vendors that I believe in and purchase from myself. Please know that some of the links are affiliate links which means that if you choose to buy something, I will receive a small commission for the sale which helps support the work of this blog! Thank you! Click on a category below to view resources: Coconut Products Fats & Oils Butter is my favorite fat, but I go out of my way to ensure it’s from grass-fed cows. Other healthy fats for cooking include grass-fed tallow, pastured lard and duck fat. Most of the olive oils on the market are cut with cheap vegetable oils, so I am sure to only buy Olea Estates 100% extra virgin olive oil from a reliable source for making homemade salad dressings and low heat cooking.

Fermented Food Starters I recommend Cultures for Health for all your fermented food starter needs. Gelatin. How to grow your own living food (and emergency nutrition) with EasyGreen sprouters. (NaturalNews) It's one of the top concerns of people everywhere -- how do we grow our own food for superior nutrition and food sovereignty? How do we store an emergency food supply that can get us through a crisis when conventional food deliveries to grocery stores may be cut off? One of the most powerful answers to all this is sprouting, and sprouting is no more complicated than having a ready supply of sprouting seeds, then adding water and sprouting your own living nutrition for mere pennies a serving. People sprout for three primary reasons: Reason #1) Vegans and vegetarians sprout seeds to eat high-protein living foods which make up the bulk of their diets. Reason #2) Surthrivalists sprout seeds to grow their own emergency foods indoors, using no soils and having a compact food storage benefit (seeds are really tiny, but they sprout into larger foods).

It's almost a form of "micro-gardening" because you're practicing small-scale agriculture right on your kitchen counter. Dr. Enjoy! Sprouters : NaturalNews.com, Natural Health, Natural Living, Natural News. Hate Fish? Try Grass Instead for Omega-3s. Across the United States and even deep in the beef belt of the Midwest, word has spread of the health benefits from omega-3 fatty acids. They lower the risk of heart disease, help clear up varicose veins, boost brain power, beat back depression, and do just about everything useful except for washing your windows. The beef-and-pork-themed diet of America, however, is high in omega-6 fatty acids. Although this type of fat is essential for health, Americans get too much of it.

The ideal ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 should be about 4 to 1, which is likely the ratio humans evolved with. The perception is that fish — particularly the big, overfished and heavy-metal-rich kind — are the only sources of omega-3s and that you have to forego beef and other meats in order to get omega-3s in your diet. While many fish, pound for pound, are the best source of the healthiest omega-3s, any animal that eats grass has omega-3s.

Free-roaming fish Back to basics Ch-ch-ch-chia. DPimentelWorldPopulationFood.doc - Powered by Google Docs. World Animal Foundation - Adopt An Animal. There's little doubt anymore that vegetarianism is going mainstream. In the United States alone, more than 12 million people are vegetarians, and 19,000 more make the switch to a meat-free diet every week. Many others have greatly reduced the amount of animal Cornell University's Dr. T. Of the renowned "China Project" (a long-term study of the relationship between diet and health), "The vast majority, perhaps 80 percent to 90 percent, of all cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and other forms of degenerative illness can be prevented, at least until very old age, simply by adopting a plant-based diet. "2 In study after study, the consumption of animal foods has been linked with heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, and other illnesses.

Other people become vegetarians out of concern for animal welfare. Animals aren't the only victims in slaughterhouses. Unfortunately, much of this waste ends up in our rivers and streams. Lacto-Ovo-Vegetarians eat dairy products and eggs. 4 G. 7 Neal D. Vegetarianism is obligatory. World Prout Assembly: Vegetarianism is the Solution to Overpopulation. Power Plate / a Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) site.

SOS Global Warming - Vegetarianism and Climate Change. Engine2diet. Vegan Food Pyramid | ChooseVeg.com. Why People Must Be Vegetarian. "A fully divine person is a fully human being. A fully human being is fully divine. Right now we are only half a human being. We do things with hesitation, we do things with ego. We don't believe that it is God who arranges all this for our enjoyment, for our experience. A lifetime commitment to a vegan or lacto-vegetarian diet is a prerequisite for initiation into the Quan Yin Method. Vegan Princess. Vegetarian Sites. Vegetarian Recipes. Vegan.