Veggie Links for 11-Dec-2006
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I found
this article about the Hallelujah Diet… interesting. Its Christian creators are promoting this highly-restrictive raw-food-based vegan diet as “God’s way”, claiming it’s what the bible tells us to eat.
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Here’s a great interview with Ironman triathlete and all-around super vegan athlete Brendan Brazier.
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In light of the recent E. coli outbreaks in the US,
this advice is offered for buying and preparing fruits and veggies.
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OK,
this one doesn’t really have to do with anything vegetarian, but the story of an Arizona community college’s Artie the Artichoke mascot totally cracked me up.
Hi, Jul, and thanks for linking to one of my posts! Before I became vegetarian sixteen years ago (been almost-vegan for fourteen, no dairy, no eggs, I eat honey occasionally, though I’ve rarely eaten honey lately), I had trouble building muscle mass. I’m by no means muscular or athletic, but I was so scrawny and a bit flabby as a meat-eater–I actually have visible arm and thigh muscles now. No matter how much I exercised and worked out back then, rarely were any of my muscles visible. The less animal products I ate, the more muscle I seemed to grow, and my muscles seem to stay harder now for longer. I’m not sure if it may mostly be that there’s less fat surrounding my muscle tissue (and maybe in many vegetarians in general), but I think both complex carbohydrates and minerals from eating lots of vegetables are more important to muscles than many people claim; people focus too much on protein. I feel–and I think look–best when I eat higher proportions of vegetables, especially greens.
Happy veggie eating!
Fran
Hi Fran! Thanks for stopping by.
That’s great that near-veganism has been so good for your muscle definition. I would love to see similar results as I cut down on dairy products, but I have a feeling I’m going to have to start working out more regularly to deserve that.