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Why I Recommend Organic Foods To My Weight Loss Patients

Dr. John Salerno | Posted 12.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Heart Disease, Dr. John Salerno, Vegetarian, Organic Food, Dieting, Nutrition, Health, Vegan, Fats, Weight Loss, Diet, Organic, Wellness, Living News
Dr. John Salerno

I recommend organic foods for my weight loss patients because I want them to eat nutrient dense foods, thus you have to begin with the dirt.

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American Public Health Association Supports Ban On Milk And Meat

Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 12.23.2009 | Living

Read More: American Public Health Association, Fda, Hormonal Meat, Milk, Rbgh, Beef, Health, Vegan, Hormones, Vegetarianism, Living News
Samuel S. Epstein

The Cancer Prevention Coalition has announced that the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association has voted to oppose the sale of hormonal rBGH milk, and meat adulterated with hormones.

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4 Steps To Ensure You'll Keep Your New Year's Resolution

Neal Barnard, M.D. | Posted 12.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Health, Vegetarian, Vegan, Fat, Obesity, How to Lose Weight, Wellness, New Year's, New Year's Resolution, Dieting, Nutrition, Exercise, Weight Loss, Balanced Diet, Plant Based Diet, Living News
Neal Barnard, M.D.

If you've made a New Year's resolution to lose weight, chances are your resolve doesn't last very long. But if you follow these simple steps, you're more likely to keep your resolution--and keep off the weight.

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A Delicious Analysis of Veggie Burgers

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 12.08.2009 | New York

Read More: Home Cooking, Vegetarian, Recipes, Cooking, Restaurants, Vegan, Burgers, Veggie Burger, Cafe Colonial, Lower East Side, New York News
Big Girls, Small Kitchen

When the patties I ordered at Cafe Colonial arrived, I took one bite of them and was reminded in both taste and texture of these Sweet Potato Black Bean Burgers.

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Alanis Morissette and Author Anna Thomas Make "Love Soup"

Alanis Morissette | Posted 12.04.2009 | Books

Read More: Healthy Eating, Soup, Slideshow, Cooking, Music, Anna Thomas, Health, Books, Alanis Morisette, Love Soup, Vegetarian, Buddhsim, Vegan, Eating Disorders, Alanis Morissette Party, Meditation, Alanis Morissette, Books News
Alanis Morissette

A few nights ago, I invited the luminous Anna Thomas to come to my house, along with 25 of my girlfriends, to learn how to make soup from her. She just released a book called "Love Soup".

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First Impressions

Cornelia Guest | Posted 12.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Plant-Based Diet, Vegetarian, Vegan, Living News
Cornelia Guest

At a recent dinner party, the most important thing we needed to do aside from delicious food was for people to realize that a plant-based diet isn't just nuts and berries -- it's a whole lot more and a lot of it is food that they eat already.

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Top 10 (Recent) Developments On Factory Farming And Vegetarianism

Kathy Freston | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Chickens, Thanksgiving, Vegan, Environment, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Factory Farms, Presidential Turkey Pardon, Climate Change, Thanksgiving Commentary, Vegetarianism, Jonathan Safran Foer, Global Warming, Food Politics, Living News
Kathy Freston

One of the joys for which I am giving thanks is all of the recent attention on a topic that is near and dear to my heart -- the cruelty and environmental harm involved in raising animals for food.

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Thanksgiving Turkey Substitutes: The Least Appetizing Choices (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Veganism, Tofurkey, Thanksgiving Turkey, Vegetarian, Turkey, Vegetarian Turkey, Thanksgiving, Vegan, Slidepoll, Food, Turkey Substitutes, Vegetarianism, Green News

Here at HuffPost Green, we appreciate the positive effect that vegetarians are having on the environment, especially come Thanksgiving time when milli...

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Quench Your Thirst With Tofurky Soda This Thanksgiving (For A Good Cause)

Posted 11.16.2009 | Impact

Read More: Jones Soda, Paws, Animals, Tofurky Soda, Tofurky, Thanksgiving, Vegan, Impact News

We don't know about you, but when we think of sitting down at our Thanksgiving table, we can't wait to carve a glorious, gelatinous hunk of Tofurky an...

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Going Vegetarian: Plain, Simple And Sane

Marissa Lippert | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Eating Animals, Vegetarian, Vegan, Food, Vegetarian Diet, Plant-Based Diet, How to Go Vegetarian, Wellness, Jonathan Safran Foer, Marissa Lippert, How to Become a Vegetarian, Living News
Marissa Lippert

Whether you're already a vegetarian or a newcomer to the plant-based diet, you've likely contemplated how to get your daily essential nutrients and what exactly those fundamentals are.

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Avoiding Factory Farm Foods: An Eater's Guide

Nicolette Hahn Niman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Vegetarian, Eating Animals, Farmers Markets, Vegan, Factory Farms, Nicolette Hahn Niman, Food, Meat, Free Range, Jonathan Safran Foer, Living News
Nicolette Hahn Niman

Eventually, I mostly gave up on supermarkets and began exploring new ways to get at the good food I was seeking. My goal was simple: I wanted all my food to come from places I would enjoy visiting.

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Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

Laurie David | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Factory Farms, Laurie David, Sustainable Food, Jonathan Safran Foer, Vegan, Eating Animals, Green News
Laurie David

This book is a game changer. Eating Animals offers an impassioned argument against animal cruelty and for a more informed, responsible relationship with our food.

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Dispatches From the Whole Foods Produce Aisle

Chris Holt | Posted 11.10.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Vegetarian, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Whole Foods, Joyce Carol Oates, Organic Food, Dating Advice, Vegan, David Sedaris, Comedy News
Chris Holt

Girls who make their own clothes, speak five languages, and are into communist poetry can be found sprinkled throughout the store. Hipster chicks aisle ten. Feigned bisexual sensibilities aisle five.

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Eating Animals: Foer Gets The Facts On Factory Farms

Kerry Trueman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Vegetarian, Factory Farming, Climate Change, Swine Flu, Vegan, Meat, Industrial Agriculture, Jonathan Safran Foer, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Eating Animals, the searing indictment of factory farming by Jonathan Safran Foer, has got the champions of cheap chuck denouncing the celebrated novelist's latest work as just another piece of fiction.

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Michael Pollan's 'Hummer-Driving Vegan' Claim Debunked

Kyle Cassidy | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Enviro, Wend, Debunk, Prius, Michael Pollan, Vegan, Green, Media, Huffington Post, Meat, Hummer, News, Kyle Cassidy, Green News
Kyle Cassidy

Michael Pollan stated that "A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef-eater in a Prius" at the Pop-Tech conference last Saturday. The only problem is, the statement isn't true.

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The Moral Ferocity of Eating Animals

Dr. Andrew Weil | Posted 10.28.2009 | Books

Read More: Veganism, Farming, Animal Cruelty, Vegetarian, Factory Farming, Why Our Health Matters, Books, Dr. Andrew Weil, Agriculture, Vegan, Factory Farms, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Omnivore's Dilemma, New Books, Vegetarianism, Michael Pollan, Books News, Farms, Food Politics, Eating Animals, Food, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News
Dr. Andrew Weil

If you eat meat from factories you have not absorbed the reality of factory farms. If you truly understood what happens inside these windowless animal jails and abattoirs, you simply would not eat this meat.

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Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals Turned Me Vegan

Natalie Portman | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books

Read More: Veganism, Natalie Portman, Farming, Everything Is Illuminated, Animal Cruelty, Vegetarian, Factory Farming, Books, Agriculture, Vegan, Factory Farms, Omnivore's Dilemma, New Books, Vegetarianism, Michael Pollan, Farms, Food Politics, Eating Animals, Food, Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Foer, Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals, Natalie Portman Vegan, Natalie Portman Vegetarian, Portman, Jonathan Foer, Thanksgiving, Books News
Natalie Portman

Jonathan Safran Foer's book Eating Animals changed me from a twenty-year vegetarian to a vegan activist.

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Days 3 and 4 - My Week of Environmentally Responsible Living

Shravya Reddy | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Transport, Sustainability, Carbonfootprint, Bicycling, Emissions, Organicfarming, Climatechange, Vegetarianism, Water, Vegan, Green News
Shravya Reddy

For all those looking for a way to lessen their carbon footprint, the bottom-line remains that a dietary shift is the single most effective way to do so.

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Alicia Silverstone On Living Your Best Life

Huffington Post | Priyanka Boghani | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Food, Veganism, Losing Weight, Kind Diet, Vegetarian, And Saving the Planet, The Balanced Life, Vegan, Alicia Silverstone, Plant-Based Diet, Vegetarianism, Dr. Dean Ornish, Plant-Based, Nutrition, The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Living News

If you really want to make a change on this planet, a plant-based diet is the easiest, fastest way to get there.

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Help! My Daughter's a Vegan

Donna Fish | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Food Production, Food, Vegetarians, Parenting and Food, Vegan, Living News
Donna Fish

Am I supposed to be happy about this?  For the first time as a parent, I find myself almost getting into fights about food. I know it pushes my b...

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The Conscious Cook: Hit the Spot with Healthy and Humane Foods

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books

Read More: Factory Farms, Humane Society of the United States, Vegetarian, Tal Ronnen, Cooking, Vegan, Cookbooks, Books News
Wayne Pacelle

Whether you are a vegan, vegetarian, or committed meat eater, Tal Ronnen's book can help you down the path of higher-quality, good tasting, humane eating.

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Eco Etiquette: Can You Be An Environmentalist Without Being Vegetarian?

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Meat Consumption, Vegetarian, Green Advice, Vegan, Green Living, Environmentalist, Meatless Mondays, Flexitarian Diet, Carbon Footprint, Green News
Jennifer Grayson

A funny thing happens when you don't berate your friends for not subscribing to your particular eco-philosophy and instead encourage them to make small changes: Those smaller changes lead to larger ones.

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HLN's Jane Velez Publishes New Book

Dr. Belisa Vranich | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Addiction, Recovery, Jane Velez-Mitchell, Books, Vegan, Hln, iWant by Jane Velez, Overconsumption, Jane Velez, Jane Velez-Mitchell Book, Memoir, Media News
Dr. Belisa Vranich

Part memoir, part how-to book, peppered with behind-the-scenes of TV journalism, Velez courageously chronicles her quest from "insanity to clarity, from egocentricity to altruism, from alcoholism to activism."

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A Solution For Diabetes: A Plant-Based Diet

Kathy Freston | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Vegetarian, Type 2 Diabetes, Health, Vegan, Plant-Based Diet, Diabetes, Kathy Freston, Wellness, Benefits-of-Vegetarian-Diet, Living News
Kathy Freston

The doctors and scientists I've talked with seem to be saying the same thing: a diet high in animal protein is disastrous to our health, while a plant-based diet prevents disease and is restorative to our health.

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The Feminist's Dilemma

Ari Solomon | Posted 12.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Land O'Lakes, Animal Cruelty, Animal Rights, Peta, Cows, Dairy, Health, Vegan, Green News, Feminism, Green News
Ari Solomon

I'm a proud feminist, as anyone who cares about the plight of women on our planet should be. In many parts of the world, women are still treated as pr...

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