April 2010
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"It's Time to Retire The Pyramid."
Tuesday’s Natural Health: The Food Guide Pyramid is outdated. The Power Plate is the best (meat-free) answer. Check it out at http://bit.ly/b3RFwm
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BBQ Meat? No way: BBQ Tofu? Yum!
Monday It’s Vegan Night! An all-American, stick to your ribs BBQ Tofu and mashed potatoes meal at http://bit.ly/c9IU2y
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Welcome to VegMoms
Raising a vegan or vegetarian child? For kid-friendly vegan recipes, health news, inspiration and more check out my new site for VegMoms: http://bit.ly/cJuKC5
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The Skinny on Sleep
Tuesday’s Natural Health: How many hours of sleep do you get on average? For most people, even those of us who pride ourselves on living a healthy lifestyle, the answer is: Not Enough. But even a minimal lack of sleep has been linked in some studies to both obesity and a higher risk of diabetes. Just three nights of staying up too late and getting up too early increases insulin resistance,...
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Quinoa: Don't say it. Eat it!
Monday It’s Vegan Night: We serve two incredible quinoa salads at the natural foods market where I work, one with black beans, the other cranberries and walnuts. I love quinoa and I know other people do, too. But I think a lot of people don’t even try this protein-packed ancient grain because they’re veg and don’t want to butcher anything, including this...
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Must Have Milk?
Friday’s News + Gathering: The National Institutes of Health is pumping out some udderly confusing reasons why lactose intolerance may not be as big of a problem as many people seem to experience. The gas, bloating, abdominal pain, diarrhea and more that many people (including one of my daughters) experience from dairy products doesn’t necessarily mean those people should avoid...
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Schooled in Food
Thursday’s Working for Change: When I was a kid, the only thing the culture at-large taught most of us about food was:
1) Fast food restaurants, microwaves and TV dinners will make our lives easier.
2) Buying soda was somehow going to help the world “sing in perfect harmony.”
3) As long as breakfast cereals had cute, funny-named characters on the packaging and a prize in the...
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Ways kids can show vegan pride
Wednesday’s Vegan Kids: Encourage your child’s pride in his or her vegan lifestyle. Here are some fun ways you can support that:
1) Buy her a cool veg-message T-shirt or bag from PETA’s catalog online.
2) Offer a great vegan snack he can take to call.
3) Visit a farm sanctuary, and help your child create a class report about it.
4) Volunteer together at an animal shelter.
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Easy, Healthy Guacamole
Monday It’s Vegan Night: This recipe is in our book The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Vegan Eating for Kids and we can’t think of a better way to kick off warmer weather than eating a good bowl full of guacamole and some tortilla chips.
Easy Vegan Guacamole
(yields 1.5 cups)
4 ripe avocados (but not overly ripe)
1/2 tsp. cumin
juice of 1/2 a lime
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 cup frozen...
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Jamie Oliver is oliver the place!
Thursday’s Working for Change: Is it just me, or are we all seeing Jamie Oliver all over these days? And I haven’t even seen Jamie’s Food Revolution USA show on ABC (we don’t have a television that gets channels since we opted to not get a converter when it went digital, so now we just watch DVDs and skip all the network/cable stuff). From everything I’ve read,...