I’ve posted before about the some of the common diet mistakes and pitfalls that vegetarians face. Eating a vegetarian diet doesn’t necessarily equate to eating a healthy diet and we all need to be mindful of how we’re feeding our bodies. This week on HuffingtonPost.com’s Healthy Living page, Kristin Kirkpatrick, M.S., R.D., L.D.and manager of [...]
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Paul McCartney’s Daughter Offers a Refreshing Take on Vegetarian Cooking
Paul McCartney has been the celebrity ambassador to vegetarians for as long as I’ve been alive. Long before it was cool to be vegetarian, he was making it look cool. Now his daughter, Mary McCartney, is following in his footsteps with a wonderful new book called simply “Food” and she spoke with the New York [...]
3 Great Reasons to Cook Vegetarian at Home
We talk an awful lot about all of the moral and ethical reasons for eating vegetarian, both here and throughout the vegetarian community. But sometimes it’s just nice to remember the joyful, delicious or more simplistic reasons to enjoy the vegetarian lifestyle and to cook vegetarian meals at home. I was reminded of this yesterday [...]
Washington Post Food Editor Goes Vegetarian
I always enjoy hearing about well-known people who adopt the vegetarian lifestyle, especially if they’re well-known for their work with food. This weekend, on Boston’s NPR radio station, WBUR, Washington Post food editor Joe Yonan “came out” as a vegetarian and they’ve posted part of their interview with him on their website. It’s a great [...]
A Nutritionist’s Guide to The Different Types of Vegetarian Diets
As the first month of new year is almost over, there are likely to be a number of people who decide to switch to a vegetarian diet, or at least try it on for size. I thought that now would be a good time to post a short primer on the different types of vegetarians [...]
How to Get the Most out of Your Vegetarian Diet
For people who are just embarking on a vegetarian lifestyle, planning a diet that meets all of your nutritional needs can be a little confusing. Even for those of us who have been eating vegetarian for a while, there can be gaps in our vegetarian diets that leave us wanting in some areas of nutrition. [...]
It’s the Meat-Eaters Who are Asking for More Vegetarian Options
It’s another one of those things that makes you say, “Huh, makes sense.” You’d think that the rise in vegetarian and vegan eating would result in more vegetarian options and more vegan and vegetarian friendly menus, but a story this weekend in the Columbus, OH paper, Columbus Alive, says it’s the carnivores who are bringing [...]
5 Great Holiday Gifts for Vegetarians
The season of shopping like mad is upon us and the holidays will be here before we know it. They always are. I love the holiday season more than any other time of year and I always make a huge ordeal of trying to find the perfect Christmas gift for everyone on my list. For [...]
These Vegetarian Celebrities May Be Diverse But They All Agree On One Thing
I like to read about different vegetarian celebrities. I admit to a certain amount of interest and curiosity about famous people in general, but I’m more interested in the thought and feeling that went into people’s choices to become vegetarians or vegans. Over the weekend, Gulf News ran a neat article profiling several vegetarian celebrities [...]
30 Reasons to Go Vegetarian During World Vegetarian Month
The Huffington Post just shared a cool list of 30 reasons to go vegetarian and some of them (or the sum of them!) may be just what it takes to convince you or a fence-sitting loved one to give vegetarianism a try. Here are some of the ones that really leap out at me: First, [...]
