Veganism

I honestly never thought that in a city as large as Los Angeles finding a doctor who is familiar with a vegan diet would be a problem. Turns out it is. (Part of the problem is that in the US there is a frightful lack of nutrition training in medical curriculum, and often Doctors just [...]  

Vegan Restaurant Guides. By Eccentric Vegan on December 20th, 2009 Print This Post. To help vegans, vegetarians, and people who love them find veg restaurants, we have two fantastic website options: ...  

Millions of people will start diets this New Year's Day. But many of those weight-loss plans aren't healthy or sustainable. As a dietitian, I encourage Americans to start 2010 with a healthy vegan diet. Abundant research has shown that people who maintain a healthy weight over the long-term tend to eat a plant-based diet.  

The hardest part of eating vegan is explaining to the family that the flamingo tongues at the Saturnalia banquet still count as meat. Today's Groupon gets you nutritious, delectable food in a classy environment. For $10, you get $25 worth of gourmet vegan fare at Karyn's Cooked. Whether you're fully vegan, are thinking about taking the plunge, or you merely want to purge your body of animal products after the particularly heavy-eating holiday...  

We partied at Vegan Drinks like never before. This slideshow proves it! Excellent photography, Mr. Mitchell. Danielle Konya of Vegan Treats baked vegan cookies on NBC's The 10! Show. Representative Dennis Kucinich, Democrat from Ohio and two-time presidential hopeful, told Reddit in an interview that he wants everyone to eat vegan brownies. (Hey, me too!) Scroll over to about minute 18 to watch him answer this question: "If you were made...  

We've never been disappointed by any of the cookbooks put out by these two ladies, and Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar: 100 Dairy-Free Recipes for Everyone's Favorite Treats is no exception. Their recipes dispel the notion that vegan food has to be bland and boring. The book comes filled with colorful pictures and easy, dairy-free recipes for all of your favorite cookies and then some. Our personal favorites are the Peanut Butter Oatmeal...  

Heeeey, vegans! Looking for a tasty break from the holiday fair at Union Square? The Greenmarket has your back with these sweet and savory prepared vegan foods. Here's what I discovered on a Saturday visit: Breezy Hill Orchard offers a spectacular carrot-raisin cookie for $2.75. Filled with carrots, roasted walnuts, raisins, and oats, this is one hearty, moist, and chewy cookie. (And may I add, huge.) Do yourself a favor and buy two...  

Make vegan versions of traditional favorites This year, I’m dreaming of a green Christmas—where animals aren’t abused, the environment isn’t polluted, and people are healthy and light. Here are five reasons why I’ll be having a vegan feast instead of eating animal flesh this Christmas: 1. ‘Tis the season for peace and goodwill. Only a Grinch [...]  

We love eggnog at the holidays. But eggnog is listed as a cautionary food in terms of health and contamination, because it contains raw eggs. Here is my vegan eggnog recipes for serving with or without alchohol.Contributor: Marilisa Kinney SachtelebenPublished: Dec 18, 2009  

I have a 15 month old that is allergic to milk, eggs, chicken, PEANUTS, nuts, and peas. So, I kind of have to put her on a vegan diet. For those who were vegans since babies, did you drink soy milk? That’s all I can give her and I know a lot of vegan recipes [...]  

Looking for an alternative to leather? Green Shoes uses Lorica which they claim is durable, soft, lightweight, and water-repellent. It looks and breathes like natural leather and comes in a wide range of colours; red, purple, navy blue, dark green,...  

Filed under: Rum, Newspapers, Vegetarian/Vegan, In 60 Seconds Photo: _lem, Flickr. Brunch isn't all bloody mary's and mimosas -- an increasing number of bars are offering more cocktail varieties for daylight drinking. The cocktail heard around the world: A "rum rebellion" is happening in bars across the country, pink umbrella and all. One sister loved the vegan Banana Everything Cookies; the other found them chalky. And that's...  

Cute & Friendly Vegan/Vegetarian CookbookBeth Bee has assembled an awesome collection of vegan/strict vegetarian recipes and assembled them, along with other useful information, in a cute, friendly and tough little cookbook. It contains 82 different, simple-to-make strict vegetarian/vegan recipes. You won't want this book just for the receipes, though, it also has over 250 pen & ink and block print illustrations, hand-silkscreened davey...  

I know many Buddhists are vegetarians, and some Chinese, at least, expect their Buddhists to be vegetarians (or at least abstain from beef). I am not.This story from the NY Times should explain it... perhaps because the editors of the Op-Ed page are themselves not vegetarians. Let's go to the quotes...[W]hen people ask [whether it is wrong to kill animals for human consumption], they almost always find a variety of resourceful answers that...  

It should surprise you to learn that going on a gluten free diet can reduce or eliminate Rheumatoid Arthritis symptoms. For example: in 2001, one US study confirmed that going gluten free clinically benefits rheumatoid arthritis patients. In this study 66 patients with active rheumatoid arthritis were randomly assigned to either a vegan gluten free diet (38 patients) or a well balanced non-vegan diet that included gluten (28 patients). The...