Are you interested in the latest healthy vegetarian and vegan diet information out of the Mayo Clinic? 
The basic message is this – in order to obtain addequate nutrition, you need to be sure to eat a varied diet full of fresh ingredients and whole grains.  
Many foods in a tradional meat/milk/egg diet can be substituted easily.  If you are vegan, you can replace cow’s milk with a fortified soy, rice, or almond milk.  You can replace cheese with soy cheese, rice cheese, or nutritional yeast flakes.  Replace your eggs with tofu or when baking, use 1Tablespoon flax seed meal with 3 …read more

Have you heard of the Flat Belly Diet? 
I thought, “Flat belly? Not at 42.” I dismissed the idea, accepted that I am what I am.  Then, tonight I was surfing around, looking for new recipes and I see that Prevention magazine has a whole Flat Belly Diet section. Prevention magazine?  My grandma reads Prevention magazine and she’s way older than I am.
The Flat Belly Diet is not about vanity, it’s not about abs of steel, it’s about getting rid of that layer of fat around your middle that settles in at middle age. The fat is more than unsightly – it is dangerous. …read more

The beginning of a new year coincides with the beginning of a whole lot of new diets. People are hoping to finally get down to a ‘healthy’ weight, or at least to get rid of those 10 pounds of holiday weight-gain as quickly as possible. And with the massive popularity of the book Skinny Bitch, more people than ever are hoping that a switch to a vegetarian or vegan diet will be the way to do it.
But will dropping meat really help you lose weight? Perhaps, but not necessarily. While there is some research out there which suggests that vegetarians …read more