Pescatarian Diet - Articles
The Risks of a Vegetarian Diet
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Lucky V.
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A vegetarian diet might in fact be masking a potential eating disorder according to the recent study published in the April issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.The results found that twice as many teens and nearly double the number of young adults who had been vegetarians reported having used unhealthy means to control their w ...
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Are vegetarian diets OK?
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Dr. Marion Nestle
I can’t believe the number of times I have been asked that question but it has just come up again in the context of recent complaints about the health and environmental hazards of eating meat. So here, once again, is my nutrition academic’s take on the nutritional implications of vegetarian diets.Full disclosure: I eat meat. Humans ar ...
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Vegetarian Diets Reverse Diabetes
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Dr. Heather S.
Improving control of your diabetes can be as simple as changing your diet. In this interview from the Huffington Post, Kathy Freston talks to Dr. Neal Barnard, whose research has demonstrated that diabetes can be controlled and even reversed with a vegan diet.Image from api.ning.com
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Saving Money on a Vegetarian Diet
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David D.
I know of someone who was trying to make the shift to a vegetarian bodybuilding diet and complaining about how much eating veggie was costing him. It’s a common enough worry, and it some ways it makes sense; after all, you may have had lots of practice finding cheap cuts of meat, but that knowledge hardly applies to tofu! In addition, a lot o ...
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Dieting
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Weight Master E.
DIET! One of the most dreaded words in the English language...it means giving up all those delectable desserts, it means working out, it means the end to happiness as we know it, well, maybe I over-exaggerate the traumatizing effects of dieting, but that's what it feels like when you're on a diet. So, why is it that dieting is so hard? Like any ...
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To diet or not to diet
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Douglas R.
The debate rages on:In one corner, we have the current champion: The Atkins/South Beach/Abs/Fat Smash/ You on a Diet KID.In the other corner, we have the challenger: Healthy LifestyleAnd the winner is…..With sales of $58 billion in 2007, the diet industry kicks butt. Healthy Lifestyle butt.But maybe 2008 is a comeback year for Healthy Lifest ...
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Vegetarian Diets Need Adequate Nutrient Content
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Mark D.
If you are a vegetarian, you are probably reaping the health benefits of a great diet. According to Susan Havala Hobbs (author of Being Vegetarian For Dummies), research has proven that vegetarians have lower rates of coronary artery disease, some forms of cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity . Vegetarians are also less likely to hav ...
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Vegetarian diet safe at all ages
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Obi Jo
http://benkazie.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/vegetarian-diet-safe-at-all-ages/ It is increasingly clear that vegetarian diets, whether exclusive, or predominantly so, are becoming more common. It is also clear that they are essentially healthy diets in every respect, political ideology aside. What has been of concern is the impact of vegetarian diets ...
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