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"Weight gain over 5 years in 21,966 meat-eating, fish-eating, vegetarian, and vegan men and women in EPIC-Oxford. Int. J. Obes. (Eond.) 30, 1389-1396. 112. Sanders, T. A?Ellis, F. R., and Dickerson, J. W. (1978). Studies of vegans: The fatty acid composition of plasma choline phosphoglycerides, erythrocytes, adipose tissue, and breast milk, and some indicators of susceptibility to ischemic heart disease in vegans and omnivore controls. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 31, 805-813. 113. Slattery, M. L., Jacobs, D. R., Jr., Hilner, J. E., et al. (1991)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"In middle age, he decided to become a vegan. "Now, I must admit, it is no problem for me to be a vegan," Wareham said, leaning forward. "My mother was an Adventist, and my father was not. I grew up on a farm, and I milked the cows, and I never did care for milk. I don't particularly care for eggs either." "For quite a few years, I read the concerns about vegans not getting enough vitamin B)2 or protein or calcium; you know how it goes," he said. "They said even the amino acids in vegetables were not adequate. But we began to find out that much of these were old wives' tales." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Entrees All of these recipes are vegan. In parentheses, I have included chicken, fish, or meat substitutions. If you decide to use chicken, fish, or meat, prepare it using the least fatty method, such as broiling or boiling. But try the vegan recipes first. You might be pleasantly surprised! I realize that the dishes I offer in the thirty-day meal plan might seem a bit overwhelming to prepare at first. That is why I'm including these easy-to-make entrees. None should take more than thirty minutes to prepare." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"As testament to the food allergy theory of asthma, research indicates that a vegan diet helps relieve asthma symptoms. In a research study of 25 asthma patients, 71 percent of those who went vegan—no dairy products, milk, eggs, meat, or fish—experienced a significant improvement in asthma symptoms after only four months, with that number hitting 92 percent after a year. Experts say that vegan diets help asthma patients simply because they eliminate common food allergens like milk products and eggs." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"The Candle Cafe Cookbook: More than 150 Enlightened Recipes from New York's Renowned vegan Restaurant by Joy Pierson, Bart Potenza, and Barbara Scott-Goodman is a testimony to all the delicious dining options available to vegans out there. SuperFoods HealthStyle: Proven Strategies for Lifelong Health by Steven G. Pratt and Kathy Matthews goes down the list of the "superfoods" that you need to live your fullest life. Vegetables by James Peterson is a comprehensive guide to buying, storing, and of course preparing sixty-four different vegetables." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"R] Mineral Cosmetics Lipstick 100 percent vegan in twenty-six shades. Ingredients: castor seed oil, jojoba seed oil, mica, carnauba wax, candelilla wax, shea butter, orange peel oil, tocopherol, titanium dioxide, iron oxides, ultramarines, pigment violet www.nmineralcosmetics.com.au Valana Minerals Sparkle Lips vegan Lipstick Ingredients: cocoa butter, candelilla wax, castor oil, meadowfoam seed oil, avocado butter, macadamia nut oil, mica, titanium dioxide, iron oxide www.valanaminerals." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Now, I must admit, it is no problem for me to be a vegan," Wareham said, leaning forward. "My mother was an Adventist, and my father was not. I grew up on a farm, and I milked the cows, and I never did care for milk. I don't particularly care for eggs either." "For quite a few years, I read the concerns about vegans not getting enough vitamin B)2 or protein or calcium; you know how it goes," he said. "They said even the amino acids in vegetables were not adequate. But we began to find out that much of these were old wives' tales." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Risk of overweight and obesity among semivegetarian, lactovegetar-ian, and vegan women. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 81, 1267-1274. 111. Rosell, M., Appleby, P., Spencer, E., and Key, T. (2006). Weight gain over 5 years in 21,966 meat-eating, fish-eating, vegetarian, and vegan men and women in EPIC-Oxford. Int. J. Obes. (Eond.) 30, 1389-1396. 112. Sanders, T. A?Ellis, F. R., and Dickerson, J. W. (1978)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"You can certainly survive on a vegetarian and even a vegan diet, and there may be compelling ethical reasons to avoid animal products. However, during my fifteen-year stint as a professor at a medical school that espouses vegetarianism, I encountered very few long-term vegetarians and vegans who were in thriving good health. This is largely because the eating habits of most vegetarians in this country make them pasta and grain dependent. They might be more appropriately called "grain-etarians." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Finally, if you're a vegan (or even a vegetarian), don't buy the vegan propaganda that you get all the B12 you need from plant food. You don't. The only really good form is found in animal products, so take a supplement. stomach acid, autoimmune disease, and enzyme disruption—it's perfectly possible to eat adequate amounts of B12 from foods like mollusks (clams, oysters, etc.), liver, beef, fish, and eggs but still develop a deficiency. The real indicator of whether or not B12 supplementation is necessary in the elderly is the symptoms that exist." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"In my bio on the ActivistCash Web site, CCF claims that I "attack all foods that don't fit [my] vegan agenda."13 Actually, I don't have a vegan agenda, nor is it my goal to get everyone to eat the way I choose to. Naturally, the fact that I personally happen to eat a mostly vegan (devoid of animal products) diet does influence my advocacy work. I also think a diet that resembles my own would be optimal for most people. Does that mean that I have some secret plan to change everyone's eating habits to precisely match mine? Absolutely not." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"Finally, if you're a vegan (or even a vegetarian), don't buy the vegan propaganda that you get all the B12 you need from plant food. You don't. The only really good form is found in animal products, so take a supplement. stomach acid, autoimmune disease, and enzyme disruption—it's perfectly possible to eat adequate amounts of B12 from foods like mollusks (clams, oysters, etc.), liver, beef, fish, and eggs but still develop a deficiency. The real indicator of whether or not B12 supplementation is necessary in the elderly is the symptoms that exist." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Of course, vegetarians, and even strict vegans, can succumb to fat in other forms like french fries, potato chips, and other greasy fried foods. A vegan diet rich in whole grains, legumes, fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, olives, and seaweed that is enriched with oils for stir-frying and in salad dressings results in a diet that derives about 15 to 20 percent of its calories from fat. Nutritional Supplements Vitamin E. For more than 35 years, clinicians have used vitamin E in the medical management of benign breast disease." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "One of the best ways to achieve a high-fiber and low-fat diet is the vegan diet. This is a vegetarian diet in which absolutely no animal products are consumed. Strict vegan diets, which are typically very low in saturated fat and dietary cholesterol and high in fiber, can help maintain or achieve desirable blood levels by especially lowering the total cholesterol and the LDL cholesterol.99 Specific fruits or vegetables may also have a particular positive effecr on serum lipids. Raw carrots may have a more potent effect on lowering cholesterol than do oat products." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Experts say that vegan diets help asthma patients simply because they eliminate common food allergens like milk products and eggs. This means that you don't have to go tocally vegan to help your asthma, but you do have to identify which foods trigger an asthma attack and eliminate them from your diet. You can do this by process of elimination: eliminate one food item per week and see if your asthma symptoms change during the week. On the other hand, not all asthma relief is about subtraction." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"I prepare vegetable juices and powdered drinks with pure water. I am vegan and use appropriate supplements. I practice aerobics during the a.m. hours and yoga later in the day. I use an exercise bike, power walk, and run. The behavioral aspect of the program opened me up to self-analysis personally and objectively. Establishing goals over the years led to my very successful business in a health-related industry. I am trim, firm, look better as I age, and still read Gary's books. ALSTON, 92 YEARS OLD I retired from the merchant marines at age sixty-five." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Applying myself to the protocol, feeling centered with a new sense of values, I soon said "no" easily and lost seventy-five pounds, to size 18.1 am vegan today, use the protocol, and enjoy the world of real food, delicious tastes, and an athletic life in a healthy, attractive body. I volunteer in needy countries where my nursing skills help me help other people, bringing positive, vital energy. ANCELO I was 300 pounds. I had high cholesterol and blood pressure, high hemoconio-sis (abnormal hemoconia count in blood), and hepatitis B." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Well-planned vegan and other types of vegetarian diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including during pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood and adolescence. Vegetarian diets offer a number of nutritional benefits, including lower levels of saturated fat, cholesterol, and animal protein as well as higher levels of carbohydrates, fiber, magnesium, potassium, folate, and antioxidants such as vitamins C and E and phytochem-icals. ..." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "The average vitamin D levels were higher in the raw vegan group than in the control group, despite an extremely low dietary intake of vitamin D, indicative of the increased personal sun exposure. If you live above 38 degrees north latitude (above Baltimore, St. Louis, Denver, and San Francisco), the sun is too weak from mid-fall through the following spring to stimulate significant vitamin D production. Other challenges are aging, as our skin becomes less efficient at producing vitamin D, and excessive fat layers that inhibit production." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Vegetarian, vegan, and macrobiotic diets are not necessarily inappropriate as long as certain parameters are monitored. These include regular physical exams and prenatal checks, appropriate weight gain, and laboratory testing. Even women that have done well or seemingly well on these diets prior to pregnancy may not do well when pregnant or nursing. Orher women may suffer from an inadequate caloric intake because of their fear of weight gain, inadequate education about pregnancy, or insufficient money to purchase enough nutritious food." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"We are vegan, eat raw vegetables, juice, and invent nutritious recipes using a dehydrator. I am involved in community affairs. Our outlook is cheerful. We love spreading the word. CHARLES My journey toward improving my health began when I attended a health seminar. I worked in construction as an iron worker and had several accidents. During my younger years, I held several jobs at a time and developed hypertension. It was time to rebuild my physical system. I considered my energy to be adequate for an aging man." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"This makes the point that a vegan diet makes one less susceptible to activating the diabetic genes. In the case of fat, the accumulation of fat in the cells shuts off intracellular signaling of insulin. Researchers at the Pennington biomedical research center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, studied ten young men who were in reasonably good health, putting them on a high-fat diet. What they found is that in only three days the men accumulated significantly more intramyocellular fat. The first point this makes is it's really easy to build up intramyocellular fat on a high-fat diet." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"DIET, vegan. A vegan is a strict vegetarian who does not eat meat, fish, eggs, milk and dairy products generally, He, or she, eats no animal products at all. By selecting a number of products from the plant kingdom they claim their diet is adequate. As the vegan diet is deficient in Vitamin B12 which may lead to anaemia, supplements are available. Some vegan products have this vitamin added. Their rule is to combine legumes with other cereals, seeds or nuts at the same meal. The combination is claimed to be equal to one animal based. DIGESTIVES. Digestants." - Thomas Bartram, Bartram's Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine: The Definitive Guide (Get the book.)

"The rest of the time, we stick to a healthy, whole food, organic, vegan diet. Instilling these healthy eating habits in our kids is so, so important—I really can't emphasize it enough. These lessons, if conveyed early on, will endure long into adulthood. If you give your child healthy food and explain your reasons for doing so, I predict he won't want more than the occasional slice of pizza, or candy bar, or whatever his favorite blue-moon indulgence might be. Turn to the page 240 of resources section for my family's favorite blue moon treats." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "VegWeb also has great vegan and vegetarian recipes. Carrageenan Carrageenan is used as an emulsifier, or thickener, in many different foods: baked goods, frostings, dairy products, processed cheeses, chocolate milk, jams and jellies, pie fillings, relishes, barbecue sauces, yogurt, pimento olive stuffing, and some soy milks, including the best-selling soymilk in America, Silk Soymilk. A 2001 study published in Environmental Health Perspectives showed that degraded forms of carrageenan can cause serious gastrointestinal problems, including ulcerations and gastrointestinal cancers." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Women who eat dairy animal products and dairy products in particular might be five times more likely to have twins (and the risk for pregnancy complications that come with multiple births) than vegan women, according to a May 2006 study in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine. And in a study published in the July-August 2007 issue of Harvard Magazine, even cows that haven't been fed bovine growth hormones might produce milk that has adverse effects on human health, since the milk-producing cows are kept pregnant and lactating for three hundred days a year." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Finnish researchers had 20 people with rheumatoid arthritis do this, instructing them to follow a vegan diet (meaning, no meat, fish, poultry, or dairy products). Another 20 people, also with the disease, maintained their usual eating habits. Three months later, those on the vegan diet reported less pain, fewer swollen joints, and generally better health. After the study, some of the people on the vegan diet returned to then old eating habits. Guess what? Their symptoms worsened. My Healthy Sevens eating plan isn't vegan, but it does follow the basic principles of the Paleolithic diet." - James A. Duke, Ph.D., The Green Pharmacy Anti-Aging Prescriptions: Herbs, Foods, and Natural Formulas to Keep You Young (Get the book.)

"Similarly, being on a strict vegan diet for three months led to improved sleep and less pain in a group of FM patients. The diet used is called the living food diet: all food is served uncooked and consists of fruit, berries, vegetables, mushrooms, nuts, seeds, legumes, and cereals. With such a diet, vitamin supplements are a must. Diets such as these are usually less than 2,000 calories per day and so lead to weight loss—a side benefit." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"The problem with the vegan diet is that vegetables do not supply all the essential amino acids needed for healing and immune function. It is important that vegetarians and vegans eat a wide variety of fruits and vegetables to get as many of the essential amino acids as possible. Many are gulping down amino acid concoctions to replace these lost amino acids, but I discourage this practice since most are high in free glutamic acid, which can produce the same damage as MSG." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"According to Robert Leakey, one of the leading medical anthropologists in the world, the human diet was primarily a vegan chimpanzee diet with an occasional bite of meat. Through simple logic, we can see that a brown bear is clearly more carnivorous than a human by looking at its claws and teeth, and yet a brown bear eats a diet of 95-97 percent raw plant food. The longest-living Hunza people of northern Pakistan live on a diet that contains less than 1 percent meat. Consider that between 1840 and 1974, the quantity of meat eaten per person in the United States increased five times over." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

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