If Cows Could Eat Us!!! Really??!

An article in Time magazine says, If a cow could eat you, it would. It wouldn’t give a hoot about your feelings. It wouldn’t kill you quickly or humanely and it certainly wouldn’t worry about whether it was right to make a meal of you in the first place. It would ask itself one question: … Continue reading →

Balance Baby, Balance!

Back to my soapbox here about these fad diets. So hard to make people understand the importance of eating a balanced healthy diet, sans processed food and meat. A recent article in The Guardian says that — A diet rich in meat, eggs, milk and cheese could be as harmful to health as smoking, according … Continue reading →

The Healthy Eating Plate From Harvard

Look at this plate above. I see no reason to eat meat! There are plenty of plant based healthy protein choices available to constitute a plate like the one above. The healthy eating plate from Harvard is a slight variation on USDA’s My Plate and is more thorough in terms of providing basic nutrition advice. … Continue reading →

The 2012 Vegetarian Food Pyramid

A handy link to what it means to be vegetarian from the University of Michigan Health Service: http://www.uhs.umich.edu/vegetarian

5% Of Americans Consider Themselves Vegetarians – Gallup Poll

According a Gallup Poll, 5% of Americans consider themselves vegetarians. Believe it or not this is down from the 6% who identified themselves as vegetarians in 1999 and 2001! According to the Poll results, almost all segments of the U.S. population have similar percentages of vegetarians, suggesting that most stereotypes of who is and is … Continue reading →