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Meatless Monday: Make 2012 The Year Of Eating Vegan

Ellen Kanner | Posted 03.03.2012

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Ellen Kanner

Maybe you want to go vegan to reduce your carbon footprint. Or because you need to reduce your cholesterol. You do it out of a moral choice or because you've decided salmonella and E.coli outbreaks and food recalls mean steak and eggs are now off the menu -- forever.

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How Agriculture Subsidies Are Making Us Sick

Elizabeth Kucinich | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Taxes, Bill Clinton, Cholesterol, Congress, Sustainable Food, Personal Health, Health Care Costs, Vegan, Obesity, Childhood Obesity, Farm Bill, Mike Tyson, Government-Subsidies, Food Access, Russell Simmons, Food Politics, Neal Barnard, Heart Disease, Farm Subsidies, Food Prices, Kathy Freston, Home News
Elizabeth Kucinich

When it comes to unhealthy food, the primary culprits are meat and dairy, which are high in saturated fat and cholesterol, and over-sweetened processed food.

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Last Week's Amazon #1 Bestseller

Chris Elam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Humane Socety, Harpo, Disease Reversal, Usda, Neal Barnard, Pcrm, Animal Rights, Veganist, Vegan, Oprah, Plant-Based Diet, Dietary Guidelines, Kathy Freston, Food News
Chris Elam

Kathy Freston's new book, Veganist: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, Change the World, details the tremendous physical and environmental benefits of a vegan diet in shocking but ultimately affirming terms.

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Meatless Monday: The Year of No Excuses

Ellen Kanner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Skinny Bitch, Neal Barnard, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Vegan Kick Start, Mark Bittman, Meatless Monday, Green News
Ellen Kanner

Why go meatless? A little mad cow and E.coli in tainted beef here, a little heart disease and cancer there. Americans may love their beef, but it does not love us back.

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Meatless Monday: The Vegan Kickstart

Ellen Kanner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lone Vegan, Neal Barnard, Susan Levin, Pcrm, Alicia Silverstone, 21-Day Vegan Kickstart, Vegan, Green News
Ellen Kanner

The Kickstart, from the folks at Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, comes complete with meatless recipes, meal plans, an iPhone app, cooking demos and tips from experts.

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Meatless Monday: Meatless Meals Make The Freshman 15 Old School

Ellen Kanner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Freshman 15, Neal Barnard, Alice Waters, Ann Cooper, goveg.com, Food, Meatless Mondays, Green News
Ellen Kanner

Welcome, college freshmen. Your education begins today. What you learn in class matters of course, but the great thing about being a freshman is wha...

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The Essential Vegetarian Reading List

Bruce Friedrich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dean Ornish, Skinny Bitch, Veganism, Neal Barnard, Caldwell Esselstyn, Quantum Wellness, Skinny Bastard, RIp Esslestyn, Kathy Freston, The Engine-2 Diet, Vegetarianism, The China Study, T. Colin Campbell, Pcrm, Media News
Bruce Friedrich

I (strongly) suggest that all vegetarians read (and own) all these books, so that you can recommend them articulately and loan them to friends and relatives.

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The Weight Loss Hype: Why Counting Calories Never Works

Kathy Freston | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Dean Ornish, Calorie Restriction, Personal Health, John Mcdougall, Neal Barnard, Weight Loss, Diet, Vegetarian Diets, Healthy Living News
Kathy Freston

There is a diet that works -- consistently -- at helping adherents to lose weight and keep it off, and which has a very high compliance rate.

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