Nutrients Necessary for a Vegetarian Diet
If you're thinking of becoming a vegetarian, be sure to do it carefully. Sometimes, vital nutrients that are found in meat sources are lacking in vegetarian diets when they lack variety.
For exam ...
Yoga and Vegetarianism
In traditional yoga, a vegetarian diet is recommended as being ideal for mental and physical health. Do you think it is important to be a vegetarian to get the most out of yoga? I am personally not a ...
Yay vegetarians!
Vegetarian diets have been increasing in popularity for a long time now. And it’s no surprise; vegetarians typically ingest less fat, have healthier body weights, less incidence of heart disease and ...
Lifelong Vegetarianism Connected to Lower Rates of Colon Cancer
According to a group of German researchers, a lifelong vegetarian diet can lead to a significantly lower risk of developing colon cancer. The study followed nearly 10,000 people, of whom about 2,000 w ...
Pitfalls of Vegetarianism
While being a vegetarian has many benefits to your health as well as the environment, there are some serious problems that can arise if you fail to take the proper supplements. B12 and other B-vitami ...
Myth Buster: Vegetarian food is low in protein
Most people who want to go vegetarian feel that they will end up with a diet that is deficient in proteins. However, this is not true. It is said that a proper vegetarian diet, that contains ...
Vegetarian readers share tales of temptation
Strict vegetarians, sometimes vegetarians and unapologetic meat-eaters all responded to a story about a vegetarian who struggles with cravings for meat.
Some readers were haunted with dreams of fried ...
A complete vegetarian, fat free mexican meal
I was craving a mexican dinner the other night, but being vegetarian and on a fat and dairy free diet, I had to get creative. Here's what I did:
I used soy strips (chunked TVP, which I always ...
A great website on raising the family vegetarian
I was raised vegetarian but I didn't have the greatest experience in terms of making sure I had a balanced diet (I had lots of problems like anemia and general low energy, etc.) so I was happy to fi ...
