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What to Serve The Goddess

Thanks to Mother Jones Are Happy Gut Bacteria Key to Weight Loss? Imbalances in the microbial community in your intestines may lead to metabolic syndrome, obesity, and diabetes. What does science say about how to reset our bodies? By Moises Velasquez-Manoff | Mon Apr. 22, 2013 3:00 AM PDT A few years before Super Size Me hit theaters in 2004, Dr. [...]

Is Your Medicine Vegan? Probably Not

Is Your Medicine Vegan? Probably Not by ELIZA BARCLAY  Thanks to NPR March 15, 2013 6:42 PM Enlarge image Heparin is an anticoagulant and the prescription version is made from pig, raising concerns for vegans. Rob Kim/Landov Go looking for animal products, and apparently you will find them everywhere. That’s the takeaway from the book Veganissimo A to [...]

Should a 12 year old be a vegan?

I answered this question posted on ivu-veg: Send an email to this link to subscribe to ivu-veg: ivu-veg-news-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. My 12 year old wants to become a vegetarian. How can I support her but ensure she is getting proper nutrition? My response: A vegan diet is better not worse for a 12 year old. The only [...]

Wine for Vegetarians and Vegans

  Be careful what you buy, says the Observer’s wine writer – and try his six recommended bottles To a facarnivore like me, some wines seem explicitly designed to put off vegetarians. The syrahs of the northern Rhône, for example, often have a note of bacon fat, pinot noir from Burgundy frequently has a gamey [...]