Vegans and vegetarians will want to be sure to vote for the VegNews 2009 Veggie Awards. Weigh in on your choice of foods like vegan ice cream or cheese, vegetarian people, and favorite vegan restaurants, bakeries, travel locations, etc.
Winners will be announced in the November-December 2009  Best of Vegetarian issue of the VegNews.
Voting will soon be drawing to a close, so get over there now and get started. By voting, you enter for a chance to win some great prizes.
*The Grand Prize is a Tropical Getaway For Two at Big Pine Key.
*First prize is His and Hers Urban Bags with …read more

As some people already know, Australians are special people. So special they don’t need to worry about the evils of trans fat in their diet.
Lydia Buchtmann of Food Standards Australia New Zealand:

There’s not a huge percentage of trans fat in the Australian diet. We’ve been carrying out a formal review with dietary modelling, and the preliminary findings have been that 0.6 per cent of our total kilojoules come from trans fat, which is well below the World Health Organisation’s maximum limit of 1 per cent.

Australian health experts want their citizens to focus more on saturated fats, the main cause of …read more