“New” Diet Reduces Bodily Toxins in Just 5 Days

Call Now to Find Out How You Can Lose Your Toxins and Feel Great in Just 5 Days!
Just kidding. You don’t have to call, simply read on:
I don’t mean to proselytize, but a new study just demonstrated one of the powerful effects of changing to a vegetarian diet: significantly reduced bodily levels of harmful environmental [...]

June 11, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health, Science & Technology  3 Comments

Al Gore Denounces Factory Farming

Al Gore says he’s going to get crazy in order to get politicians to take note of the urgency of climate change.  And, well, if those ideas sound a little too crazy, he does have other ideas.   Along with increased energy efficiency, relying on sustainable agricultural practices is the way forward.  The funny is up [...]

November 25, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Politics  No Comments

Martha Stewart To Have A Vegetarian Thanksgiving

Jonathan Safran Foer has been talked about and to in nearly every major media outlet since his book Eating Animals came out.  Where  Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma tiptoes around the treatment of factory farmed animals, Eating Animals blows the doors wide open on the modern day “farm”.
In an email to Erik Marcus of vegan.com, Jonathan [...]

November 22, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health  No Comments

Heart-Healthy Diets Put To The Test

The summary by Jennifer Warner from WebMD Health News about the health merits of various dietsis is as succinct as one can be. It details the results of a review of diet and health disease studies by Andrew Mente, PhD, of the Population Health Research Institute and colleagues (published in the Archives of Internal [...]

May 11, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Health, Science & Technology  No Comments

Meatless January in Chicago: Urban Outreach, Food, and Politics on the South Side

Chicago health commissioner Dr. Terry Mason has a message for Chicagoans who enjoy devouring meat in all its fat-dripping, artery-clogging glory: Don’t do it.
As part of his campaign to slim down waists and lower blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol citywide, Mason is encouraging everyone to join him in going vegetarian for January.

Chicago Tribune
Dr. Mason [...]

January 15, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Health, Politics  One Comment

PETA wants Insurance Carriers to Charge Meat-Eaters Higher Premiums

Insurance carriers charge smokers more, so why not charge omnivores more as well, suggested PETA in a letter to to Blue Cross Vermont President Bill Milnes Jr. PETA Vice President Tracy Reiman writes, “By giving your policyholders a financial incentive to go vegetarian – and penalizing those whose meat-based diets fuel our nation’s worst health [...]

November 18, 2008  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Health, Politics  3 Comments

Boston’s 13th Annual Vegetarian Food Festival

I visited the 13th Annual Boston Vegetarian Food Festival on Saturday. As I had expected, vegetarian was code word for vegan. Whereas vegetarians have become more public and accepted, vegans are still deemed to be outliers and plain weird. While I cannot say for certain what percentage of the visitors were vegan [...]

November 4, 2008  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment