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- Ellen Goes Vegan
- A Vegan Doctor Addresses Soy Myths and Misinformation
- Robert Cheeke - Exclusive EVEN Interview
- Dr. Michael Greger Launches New Website!
- The Price is Wrong for Animal Testing
- Got Ethics?
- Mimi Kirk wins PETA's Annual Sexiest Vegetarian Woman Over 50 Contest
- Just a Little More About Starch and The Starch Solution
- 5 Top Rated Vegan Bakeries in the US
- Vegan Centenarian 100+ Years Old Credits Her Healthy Vegan Diet for Her Great Longevity
- Can GMOs Help End World Hunger?
- NUTRITION DURING VEGAN PREGNANCY
- Colleen Patrick-Goudreau - Exclusive EVEN Interview
- Fighting for America's Children
- The Fat Vegan
- WARNING! Hot Cars Kill Dogs
- Summer Vegan Barbecue Recipes
- Companies that Do and Don't Test on Animals
- PCRM Sues USDA Over Deceptive Dietary Guidelines
- Dr. Orestes Gutierrez - Exclusive EVEN Interview
- Targeting Diabetes
- Want to GO GREEN? GO VEG!
- USDA Demonizes Starch, While Promoting Meat, Dairy, and Disease
- John Robbins - Tools, Resources and Information
- Forks Over Knives
- Organic Industry Structure
- Livestock is Responsible for 51% of Greenhouse Gas Emission
- 21 Day Vegan Kickstart
- Karen Davis, PhD - Exclusive EVEN Interview
- Are Spiritual People Moving Toward Veganism?
- Frequently Asked Questions
Ellen Goes Vegan
Ellen DeGeneres Launches New Website
Going Vegan with Ellen offers FAQs, Recipes, Tips and other interesting information. Check it out!
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A Vegan Doctor Addresses Soy Myths and Misinformation
by Holly Wilson, MD
Soy has long been recognized as a nutrient-dense food and as an excellent source of protein by respected dietitians and clinical nutritionists. (1) The soybean contains all of the essential amino acids, as well as an impressive list of micronutrients (vitamins and minerals). Micronutrients in rich supply in soy include: calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, vitamins B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B9, C and zinc. Fiber and omega-3 and 6 fatty acids are also present in soy. The composition of these nutrients varies among preparations, but is in the highest quantity in whole soy foods such as edamame (whole soy beans), soy milk, tofu and tempeh.
Yet despite the powerful health benefits of whole soy foods, myths and misinformation regarding the 'dangers' of soy consumption are being widely circulated and presented as fact. I will address a few of these myths by taking a closer look at some of the sources of confusion and controversy. >>MORE
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Robert Cheeke - Exclusive EVEN Interview
Vegan Bodybuilder, Motivational Speaker, Author
Read an exclusive EVEN interview HERE with vegan, Robert Cheeke.
Also,
an article From Scrawny to Brawny HERE
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Dr. Michael Greger Launches New Website!
A year in the making, NutritionFacts.org is a labor of love featuring all the videos from all past Latest in Clinical Nutrition DVDs split into hundreds of bite-sized topical segments that can be searched and shared. Everything's free. It's noncommercial (no ads, not selling anything), strictly science-based with links to all the primary source citations. Dr. Greger will be uploading a brand new video every day, seven days a week, for at least the first 365 days!
Dr. Greger's dream is for this to grow into an authoritative source on the latest in plant-based nutrition, so be sure to check it out!
Michael Greger, M.D.
Director, Public Health and Animal Agriculture
Humane Society of the United States | Humane Society International | Humane Society Institute of Science and Policy
2100 L St., N.W. | Washington, DC 20037 | t (301) 721-6461 | f (202) 676-2372
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The Price is Wrong for Animal Testing
$16 Billion Wasted on Animal Testing Every Year!
Bob Barker is bringing attention to the animals who suffer when household products are tested on them. Bob Barker Wants YOU to be a Caring Consumer!
Non-animal tests available today are cheaper, faster, and more accurate at predicting human reactions to a product than the animal test ever were. More and more companies are switching to non-animal tests as consumer support for cruelty-free products grows.
The price is never right on products tested on animals. - Bob Barker
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Got Ethics?
New Mercy for Animals Anti-Milk Parody Ad Takes On Dairy Industry's Sexist PMS Marketing Campaign
Mercy for Animals wants consumers to know that milk comes from exploited, abused and grieving mothers. Like humans, cows only produce milk when they are pregnant or nursing. In the dairy industry, cows are forcibly impregnated in what the industry refers to as a "rape rack" and then kept in a constant cycle of pregnancy and lactation.
Watch Video Here
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Mimi Kirk wins PETA's Annual Sexiest Vegetarian Woman Over 50 Contest
Mimi is a raw vegan from Ramona California, and on September 23, 2011 she will turn 71!
You can read more about her on 30 bananas a day.
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Just a Little More About Starch and The Starch Solution
by Dr. John McDougall
My new publisher, Rodale Inc., with a target date of April 2012, is making great progress on my new book, The Starch Solution. The initial manuscript has been sent to their editors.
People continue to ask me the same questions: Why do you use the highly inflammatory word "starch"? Why, especially, in the title of your new book? No one will buy it. Starch is for laundry. Starch is white glop. Starch makes you fat.
My answer: What better way to poke a sharp stick in the reader's eye than with the word "starch"? I want to get people's attention and force a reaction. More importantly: "Starch" is the correct scientific term for the foods people need to eat. >> MORE
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5 Top Rated Vegan Bakeries in the US
No Calories Just to Look, and Cruelty-Free!
Blissful Chef, Christy Morgan, names her top 5 vegan bakeries in the US.
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Vegan Centenarian 100+ Years Old Credits Her Healthy Vegan Diet for Her Great Longevity
CHANNEL 8 TV NEWS, KGW.com
A Vegan woman celebrating her 108th Birthday is the oldest in Multnomah County, in the US, and may be the oldest in the entire state. [of Oregon]
Strict Vegetarian Centenarian Loreen Dinwiddie lives at Cherry Blossom Cottage in Southeast Portland, in United States of America. A centenarian is a person who has accomplished living to over 100+ years of age. A SuperCentenarian is the rarest of all, and is a person whose longevity has reached 110 years old.
"I grind my own soybeans [into powder] and add it to Belgian waffles [mix] and I grind my own grains and add it to my breads. And I'm a huge fan of oatmeal, which gives you more energy than any other food." She says the television set is her least favorite invention because it makes "people fat and lazy."
Only 2 years shy of being a SuperCentenarian, Loreen Dinwiddie looks amazing for her age, her mind is still sharp as a tack, she speaks eloquently, and looks better than many other centenarians. Her skin is clear and radiant with hardly any of the wrinkles you would expect for her age. She eats no red meat and credits her healthy vegan diet of vegetables, nuts and fruits for her long life.
She is yet another Vegan Centenarian, and she attributes her youthfulness and wonderful health to her vegan diet and says it has been instrumental at keeping her feeling great all these years.
Source: KGW CHANNEL 8 NEWS
See also
Loreen follows a fully plant-based VEGAN diet.
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Can GMOs Help End World Hunger?
[No!]
by John Robbins
Can gentically engineered foods help feed the hungry? Are anti-GMO activists and over-zealous environmentalists standing in the way of the hungry being fed?
The hope that GMO foods might bring solutions to malnutrition and world hunger was never more dramatically illustrated than when Time magazine ran a cover story titled "Grains of Hope." The article joyfully announced the development of a genetically engineered "golden rice." This new strain of GM rice has genes from viruses and daffodils spliced into its genetic instructions.
The result is a form of rice that is a golden-yellow color (much like daffodil flowers), and that produces beta-carotene, which the human body normally converts into Vitamin A. >> MORE
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NUTRITION DURING VEGAN PREGNANCY
Pregnant or planning for pregnancy?
Check out this recent article by Reed Mangels, PhD, RD, VRG nutrition advisor, and co-author of VRG's brochure, Vegan Nutrition in Pregnancy and Childhood.
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Colleen Patrick-Goudreau - Exclusive EVEN Interview
Compassionate Cooks
Read an exclusive EVEN interview HERE with vegan, Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, Author and Educator on Living Compassionately and Healthfully
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Fighting for America's Children
The average American eats 75 pounds more meat and 30 pounds more cheese each year, compared with a century ago. We're eating more sugar and oils, too. Where are we putting it? All around our waistlines. Meat, cheese, and junk food are fueling the childhood obesity epidemic.
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The Fat Vegan
by Dr. John McDougall
You may consider this title an oxymoron—a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms, but in real life this concurrence is all too common. You may also think the title is offensive. My intention is to help, not to provoke anger. People who have declared themselves "vegan" have said "no" to eating all animal-derived foods. At extraordinary personal costs, many of these guardians labor tirelessly to protect the welfare of all animals. Fat vegans, however, have failed one important animal: themselves.
>> Read MORE of The Fat Vegan
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WARNING! Hot Cars Kill Dogs
Every year, dogs suffer and die when their guardians make the mistake of leaving them in a parked car—even for "just a minute"—while they run an errand. Parked cars are deathtraps for dogs:
On a 78-degree day, the temperature inside a parked car can soar to between 100 to 120 degrees in just minutes, and on a 90-degree day, the interior temperature can reach as high as 160 degrees in less than 10 minutes.
Animals can suffer brain damage or death from heatstroke in just 15 minutes >> MORE
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Summer Vegan Barbecue Recipes
Food is a great form of outreach for the animals. There are a lot of folks that don't want to hear about the suffering that is inherent to the meat industry but are intrigued by trying out new foods.
[Source: In Defense of Animals]
Beer Can Tofurky
Caesar Salad Burger
Macaroni Salad with Peppered Tofu
Pink Lemonade Cupcakes
Crab Cakes with Tartar Sauce
Tuscan Lemon Cake
Spare Ribs w/3 Different Types of Glazes
Coleslaw
Three Beans Salad
Creamsicle Cupcakes
Mojito Bars
Antipasto Pasta Salad
Recipes for the above cruelty-free vegan dishes have all been potluck-tested!
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Companies that Do and Don't Test on Animals
You can search by company name or by product type to find out which of your favorite products are cruelty-free.
>> SEE LISTS HERE
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PCRM Sues USDA Over Deceptive Dietary Guidelines
At a time when Americans are in the worst physical shape in history and childhood obesity is at unprecedented levels, the government cannot beat around the bush or kowtow to agribusiness. Click to read more about PCRM's POWER PLATE
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Dr. Orestes Gutierrez - Exclusive EVEN Interview
Read an exclusive EVEN interview HERE with vegan, Dr. Orestes Gutierrez.
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Targeting Diabetes
Groundbreaking PCRM Study Shows the Dramatic Impact of a Low-Fat Vegan Diet
More than 20 million Americans have diabetes, a condition that greatly increases the risk of heart problems and other complications. A new study has shown that a low-fat vegan diet treats type 2 diabetes more effectively than a standard diabetes diet and may be more effective than single-agent therapy with oral diabetes drugs.
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Also, be sure to read the Vegan Diet How-to Guide for Diabetes as well!
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Want to GO GREEN? GO VEG!
USPS "Go Green" Stamps---Missing the boat?---Missing the Point!
The United States Postal Service says it is doing its part to "Go Green" by designing a series of 16 Go Green stamps, showing what each of us can do to promote the health of our environment.
It's baffling whenever lists of "solutions" consistently omit going veg as the most effective way to go green. Were it not so tragic, it might be laughable how one's moving toward a healthful, plant-based diet is conveniently sidestepped.
Everyone wants to jump on the Go Green bandwagon, but composting, changing lightbulbs and picking up litter (although wonderful efforts!) do not have the powerful impact that kicking meat and dairy out of our diets would have. So since USPS excluded a Go Vegan! stamp, the greenest stamp of all, we'll just have to write it on the envelope ourselves. Go Veg!
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USDA Demonizes Starch, While Promoting Meat, Dairy, and Disease
by Dr. John McDougall
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the government agency responsible for the health of Americans, has recently enacted two national nutrition policies that limit the consumption of starchy grains and starchy vegetables, two traditional food groups that have provided the bulk of human diets for all of recordable history...Children, however, are encouraged to eat turkey sausages, egg patties, cheese omelets, chicken quesadillas, beef eggrolls, hot dogs, hamburgers, pepperoni pizza, roast beef, deli ham, chocolate milk, and margarine.
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John Robbins - Tools, Resources and Information
Is It Wrong to Eat Animals?
John Robbins discusses the horrific conditions in factory farms and the contempt for animals that exists there.
(VIDEO)
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Forks Over Knives
The Dr. Oz Show!
Finally, some guests who pack a punch and don't skirt the important issues. Watch Lee Fulkerson and Drs. Campbell, Esselstyn, and Barnard on the Dr. Oz Show talking about the health benefits of a whole food, plant-based diet.
Click below to watch the videos:
[Note: The Dr. Oz segment is broken into the 4 parts listed below. Be sure to come back to the list below to find the continuing segment.]
Diet Changes Lower Disease Risk — Part 1
Diet Changes Lower Disease Risk — Part 2
5 Foods that Cut Cancer Risk — Part 1
5 Foods that Cut Cancer Risk — Part 2
Learn about their upcoming documentary Forks Over Knives.
WARNING! This movie could save your life!
Source: T. Colin Campbell Foundation
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Organic Industry Structure:
Acquisitions by the Top 30 Food Processors in North America as of June 2009
Note that most of the acquisitions occurred between December, 1997, the date USDA published the first draft of the proposed national organic standards, and October 2002, the date the national organic standards were implemented. >> MORE
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Livestock is Responsible for 51% of Greenhouse Gas Emission
Climate Change and Meat Consumption
A recent authoritative report published by the World Watch institute, authors Goodland and Anhang concluded that over 51% of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions come from Livestock.
In the aftermath of the Copenhagen climate change summit, it is vital the following information be disseminated to the public as well as to our political leaders.
A widely cited 2006 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Livestock's Long Shadow, estimates that 18 percent of annual worldwide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are attributable to livestock....however recent analysis by Goodland and Anhang co-authors of "Livestock and Climate Change"
in the latest issue of World Watch magazine found that livestock and their byproducts actually account for at least 32.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, or 51 percent of annual worldwide GHG emissions!
The main sources of GHGs from animal agriculture are:
Deforestation of the rainforests to grow feed for livestock.
Methane from manure waste. – Methane is 72 times more potent as a global warming gas than CO2.
Refrigeration and transport of meat around the world.
Raising, processing and slaughtering of the animal.
Meat production also uses a massive amount of water and other resources which would be better used to feed the world's hungry and provide water to those in need.
Based on their research, Goodland and Anhang conclude that replacing livestock products with soy-based and other alternatives would be the best strategy for reversing climate change. They say "This approach would have far more rapid effects on GHG emissions and their atmospheric concentrations-and thus on the rate the climate is warming-than actions to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy." >>MORE
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21 Day Vegan Kickstart
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
This program shows you how a plant-based diet will help you:
drop pounds
lower cholesterol and blood pressure
improve blood sugar
—in just three weeks!
Based on research by Neal Barnard, M.D., one of America's leading health advocates, this program is designed for anyone who wants to explore and experience the health benefits of a vegan diet. Low-fat vegan (plant-based) diets are the easiest way to:
trim excess weight,
prevent diabetes,
cut cholesterol,
lower blood pressure,
prevent and reverse heart disease, and
reduce cancer risk.
They even trim our carbon footprint!
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Karen Davis, PhD - Exclusive EVEN Interview
United Poultry Concerns (UPC)
Read an exclusive EVEN interview HERE with vegan, Karen Davis, President and Founder of United Poultry Concerns.
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Are Spiritual People Moving Toward Veganism?
New Article by Dr. Will Tuttle
Question: In the last couple of decades, how much of a change do you think there's been in the perspective of spiritual people about the human relationship to nonhuman animals?
Overall, I've seen a gradually increasing tempo of change among "spiritual people" about our routine mistreatment of animals in the 3 decades I've been a vegan and activist, and I'd say that >>MORE
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Frequently Asked Questions
By Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr., MD
Can I Change?
Many patients have told me how difficult it is to change. They mention how hard it is to maintain this nutrition plan when dining with friends and relatives, during work hours, while traveling, both in the United States and abroad. But you can do it. Many others have. The key is to remember that the rewards are greater than the frustration.
I have experienced this phenomenon myself and watched it in every patient with whom I've worked: after twelve weeks of eating no animal foods, dairy, or added oils, you lose your craving for fat.1 You then begin to appreciate more than ever before the natural flavor of grains, vegetables, legumes, and fruit. You develop a series of menus that you especially enjoy. Occasionally, friends get interested in what you are doing, and daringly invite you to their homes for no-fat meals. You discover restaurants that actually will cater to your needs.
You can change. While switching to a strictly plant-based diet may seem challenging at the start, all you have to do is stick with it. The satisfaction of new tastes and, above all, the health rewards make it no contest.
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1 R. D. Mattes, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, March 1993: "Fat Preference and Adherence to a Reduced-fat Diet."
Source: Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr.
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