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Celebrity Interviews/ Health/ Nutrition/ Veganism/ Video

Watch: John Pierre, Celebrity Fitness Guru, Exercise and Diet Tips

At Southern California’s ‘Healthy Taste of LA’ event this November, the Cows met up with John Pierre, celebrity fitness guru who has worked with such celebrities as Ellen Degeneres and Emily Deschanel. John Pierre is a nutrition and fitness consultant who has devoted over 25 years to helping and improving the lives of others through his expertise in the areas of nutrition, geriatrics, fitness, green living, women’s empowerment and…

December 13, 2013 By Ken Spector

Health

Trans Fats Are Found in Animal-Based Foods

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is working to eliminate artificial trans fats—those commonly found in processed foods, including desserts, microwave popcorn, frozen pizza, margarine, and coffee creamer—from the food supply, saying that they can raise LDL, or “bad,” cholesterol and cause heart disease. According to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, there’s “no safe level of consumption of trans fat.” The American Heart Association recommends limiting the amount of trans fats…

December 11, 2013 By PETA

Cooking/ Health/ Juicing/ Nutrition/ Veganism/ Video

Watch: Dr. Alan Goldhamer And Getting Over Your Addiction to Salt, Oil and Sugar

At Southern California’s ‘Healthy Taste of LA’ event this November, the Cows met up with Dr. Alan Goldhamer, the founder of TrueNorth Health Center, a state-of-the-art facility that provides medical and chiropractic services, psychotherapy and counseling, as well as massage and body work. Dr. Goldhamer has supervised the fasts of thousands of patients. Under his guidance, the Center has become one of the world’s top training facilities for doctors wishing…

November 29, 2013 By Ken Spector

Celebrity Interviews/ Health/ Nutrition/ Video

Watch: Dr. Neal Barnard on the Vegan Diet, Preventing Alzheimers, and Your Health

At Southern California’s ‘Healthy Taste of LA’ event this November, the Cows met up with Dr. Neal Barnard, the founder and director of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. PCRM (http://pcrm.org) is a nonprofit organization that promotes preventive medicine, conducts clinical research, and encourages higher standards for effectiveness in research. Dr. Barnard, is a highly respected doctor who advocates a plant food diet for optimal health, and is a longtime vegan…

November 12, 2013 By Ken Spector

Events/ Health/ Nutrition

Don’t Forget to Eat Your Veggies

November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month, so remember to eat plenty of vegetables and other healthy vegan foods to help prevent Alzheimer’s disease as well as cancer, strokes, heart disease, and other life-threatening illnesses. Research shows that people who avoid “bad fats”—the kind found in meat, eggs, and dairy products—cut their risk of Alzheimer’s disease by about two-thirds. A recent study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease suggests…

November 11, 2013 (Last Updated: April 18, 2018) By PETA

General/ Health/ Nutrition/ Veganism

Down With Mystery Meat!

It’s National School Lunch Week: Do you know what your kids are eating? If they’re still trying to force down mystery meat, it’s a toss-up. Yep, that gray matter that was the butt of so many jokes when we were kids is still around, but now it’s more disgusting than mysterious. We know that a lot of mystery meat is actually “mechanically separated meat,” which is made by sending animals’…

October 8, 2013 By PETA

General/ Health/ Nutrition/ Veganism

An Overview of What Vegans Eat on a Daily Basis

The phrase, “a vegan diet,” is generally associated with a way of eating that is bland, restrictive, and tasteless. Vegans do not eat meat, cheese, dairy or eggs, but the selection is never-ending and chock-full of delicious choices. It is a major misconception that vegans can only eat salads and tofu. Here is a look into what vegans do eat and enjoy: Fruits and Vegetables Yes, this may be…

September 26, 2013 By PureVegan

Health/ Recipes/ Veganism

Great Vegan Snack Ideas to Pack in Your Child’s Lunch

Is your child vegan and you can’t seem to think of any good snack ideas to pack in their lunch? It’s no surprise that sometimes being vegan can be a bit tricky, especially for younger children who are constantly being exposed to candy, chips and cookies. Although most snacks that are marketed towards kids are not usually vegan, there are many tasty options that are vegan, healthy, delicious and won’t…

September 6, 2013 (Last Updated: September 26, 2013) By PureVegan

Health/ Nutrition

9 grams of saturated fats and 258 mg of cholesterol gone in just one breakfast

From GO Veggie! – Your partner in better health choices So you decided to seek a more plant-based diet by going dairy free and egg free, and possibly even meat free. In the case of allergies this decision can be involuntary, and other times it is a conscious choice from internal belief systems or a decision towards better health. No matter the path that got you there – vegan, vegetarian,…

August 12, 2013 By eric

General/ Health

Are OTC (Non-vegan) Lubricants Creating a Public Health Crisis?

Article contributed by Liz of Good Clean Love, whose company mission is to increase the quantity and quality of love relationships in the world; it offers a line of premium quality organic and natural intimacy products that are vegan, cruelty-free, and made with edible ingredients. As a culture, we have gained an awareness of the importance of natural high-quality ingredients in our food. The demand for healthy food is ever…

August 8, 2013 (Last Updated: August 15, 2013) By HappyCow

Celebrity Interviews/ Events/ Health/ Travel/ Veganism

PlantBuilt Vegan Bodybuilding Team Showdown

Last weekend HappyCow member, Christy, shared the stage with a group of vegans that formed to compete in a natural bodybuilding show in Austin called the Naturally Fit Super Show. It would be the largest gathering of vegans at a bodybuilding show ever. Though I wasn’t on the team I thought it would be a fun goal to work toward and I busted my butt in the gym to attempt…

August 3, 2013 (Last Updated: August 6, 2013) By eatyourveggies

Health/ Nutrition

What is Gluten?

The word gluten has skyrocketed in popularity and seems to carry a negative connotation, but what exactly is it? Gluten is a protein found in the grains wheat, barley and rye. Although experts think celiac disease used to be a rare disorder and once believed to affect one in every 10,000 people, it is now estimated that 2.5 million people may have celiac disease. Shockingly, only about 150,000 people have…

June 20, 2013 (Last Updated: June 12, 2013) By PureVegan

Health/ Veganism

The Healthy Vegan

The Vegan lifestyle is arrived at via many different paths. Some come to it by taking a stand against factory farming, and animal cruelty, while others want to be kinder to the earth, and then there is the awareness of the health benefits of a plant based diet. However you end up arriving, once you get here, the days of worrying about Vitamin B-12, and how you’ll get your protein,…

June 15, 2013 (Last Updated: June 12, 2013) By Jennifer C

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