Terry Wahls is a medical doctor who has overcome multiple sclerosis through diet, alternative medical treatments, meditation and exercise, and teaches others to do the same Dr. Terry Wahls is my idea of a heroine. I admire her because she’s a conventional medical doctor who had the courage to step outside of the medical box, [...]
Chicago Vegan Examiner Marla Rose interviewed Eric Sharer RD on the benefits of a healthy vegan diet to prevent and control Type 2 Diabetes During the interview, Marla Rose and Eric Sharer referred to Paula Deen’s coming-out-of-the-diabetic-closet as a spokesperson for pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk and their $500-a-month diabetes drug, Victoza. Excerts from Marla Rose’s [...]
Some of you may have read my previous comments on cake, and suspected that it was only the beginning. You were right of course. I am now all about food. I have strong thoughts about foods I’d like to eat, so strong I can almost taste them. Interestingly, aside from cake daydreams, they are not [...]
Tags: cake, food addict, food cravings, food cravings during pregnancy, pregnancy cravings, pregnant vegetarian, pumpkin cake
I have a confession to make. Some of you are going to hate me for this. At least a little. I have not puked once since I got pregnant. I don’t feel queasy in the mornings, and lately I don’t feel queasy at all. In fact, the worst I have felt since getting pregnant is [...]
I’ve heard that ‘real’ cheese is addictive, and I believe it. I think it’s the casein. One of the hardest things for me to give up when I went vegan was parmesan cheese. I was used to eating it on just about everything. Eventually, long after the parmesan addiction had lost its grip, I found [...]
There are Things They Don’t Warn You About Before You Get Pregnant, Probably For the Good of the Species. I thought pregnancy would have a couple of upsides. Besides, of course, a tiny precious baby at the end. I figured it would be the one time in my life I’d finally have a decent set [...]
Tags: first trimester pregnancy, pregnancy, pregnancy and diet, pregnancy farts, pregnancy stories, sore boobs
Enthusiastic convert to healthy plant based diet unintentionally loses weight along with the meat, and wants to know how to keep his weight up and eat healthy too. Hello Savvy Vegetarian, I recently started changing my diet. I am juicing fruits and veggies and cutting out meat. I feel GREAT! I am very excited about [...]
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This vegetarian pregnancy series is written by Zoë Keeland, the youngest and most pregnant daughter of Savvy Vegetarian. She’ll continue to produce new episodes until her brain completely dissolves into mush. Veg gets pregnant Having been married for almost six years, and casually trying to get pregnant for most of the time, I had mostly [...]
Dr. John McDougall has written an article to set the record straight about Steve Job’s pancreatic cancer in relation to his long time vegan diet. In this long and informative article, Dr. McDougall uses cancer statistics and research to show that Steve Jobs most likely would have had pancreatic cancer since he was in his [...]
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Eat Better and Improve Your Health For Less Money, by Katherine Manning Families are trimming their budgets, and two areas of spending that create a drain on finances are food and health care. The two fields seem unrelated, but could not be more connected. One easy way to eat better, improve health and lower the [...]
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