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Tuesday, February 09, 2010

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Jeff Nelson, 02.02.2010
In my last entry, I explained how our three kids were lucky enough to be selected to perform in the Joffrey Ballet's production of CINDERELLA at the Music Center in downtown Los Angeles last weekend. I...
Walter E. Jacobson, M.D., 02.06.2010
I saw a commercial on TV for the new season of "The Apprentice," which indicated that Rod Blagojevich, the ex-Governor of Illinois, is going to be one of the show's contestants. Certainly, I'm not surprised. Over the years, Americans have made heroes...
Vegparadise Blog, 02.05.2010
With hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and fires wreaking havoc throughout the world and with terrorist attacks a possibility, it becomes urgent that all citizens be prepared for emergencies.A Vegetarians in Paradise reader in New York City wrote to us following the...
Bryanna Clark Grogan, 02.05.2010
"Potted Tofu" in a green salad. (The British pot-- or preserve-- meat or shrimp, so why not tofu?)http://veganfeastkitchen.blogspot.com/2010/02/potted-tofu-miso-marinated-tofu-thats.htmlI haven't made this recipe for a long time-- it is in my first and second books, but I have added a way of storing...
John Davis, 02.03.2010
I'm John Davis, manager of the International Vegetarian Union, which was founded in 1908 to bring together all the vegetarian groups around the world. Today we have about 120 vegetarian and vegan organizations as members, those groups in turn have hundreds of thousands of...
The Healthy Librarian, 02.02.2010
"We are always on the lookout for movies that "speak to our condition" (a Quaker phrase) and reveal new possibilities for our lives. We love dramas that touch on universal experiences, knock down barriers between people, and evoke our compassion. We...
Joel Fuhrman MD, 02.02.2010
Approximately 1300 men who had been diagnosed with prostate cancer were followed for two years to document their dietary patterns and recurrence or progression of their disease. In this study, two specific animal foods were found to be risky - the men...
Colin Campbell PhD, 02.01.2010
It seems not a day goes by without someone expressing to me how important it is to spread the information about plant-based nutrition. Decades of laboratory research, human studies on diet and disease, and hundreds of academic publications from researchers and clinicians...
Julieanna Hever, MS, RD, 02.01.2010
"Noritos" is a concept I came up with many years ago, thanks to my wheat allergy...making sandwich wraps using nori wraps instead of tortillas... Plus, sea vegetables (including Nori as well as Hijiki, Wakame, Dulse and Kelp) are filled with minerals...
Micco, 01.30.2010
When I woke up this morning, all I could hear was the tapping of rain against my window. I pulled down my blinds to see soggy grey clouds and umbrellas shuffling down the street; it made me immediately fall back into bed...
Vegan Vagabond, 01.29.2010
If there is one thing that I have learned, since becoming a vegan, that has helped me the most in my travels, it is to set my mind right. I used to set myself with high expectations and demand that my expectations...
Miranda Nelson, 01.26.2010
There are may reasons why shifting towards a plant-based diet is desirable, whether it be for one's health, the earth, or the suffering of animals. People need to make a connection between the food the eat and the way they feel. Processed...
Michael Greger MD, 01.26.2010
Influenza pandemics, triggered by bird or swine flu viruses, have the potential to kill millions of people. The influenza virus has existed for millions of years as an innocuous intestinal virus of wild ducks. What turned a harmless waterborne duck virus...
Ruth Heidrich PhD, 01.21.2010
The Perfect Formula Diet just another "diet" book? Not by a long shot! This book presents just the facts, but in a way that is so convincing that you have to wonder why anyone would put up with anything less than the...
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