September 2nd, 2010 by Savvy Veg
From Dr. Gabe Mirkin’s Health & Fitness Ezine, 9.2.10
Dear Dr. Mirkin: How does drinking fruit juice increase risk for heart attacks?
The CARDIA study shows that all sugared drinks, including fruit juices, raise total cholesterol, the bad LDL cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood pressure (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, August 13, 2010).
People who drink fruit juice also have [...]
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August 25th, 2010 by Savvy Veg
Article excerpt from A Month Without Monsanto, published 8.26.10 by YES! Magazine, via CommonDreams.org
Author April Dávila wondered what it would take to cut the GMO giant out of her family’s life. She found that Monsanto was far more entrenched in our food supply than she’d ever realized.
“Unfortunately, with the exception of a few national brands (check out Annie’s, [...]
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August 11th, 2010 by Savvy Veg
EarthTalk® From the Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine
Dear EarthTalk: I know that local food has health and environmental benefits, but my local grocer only carries a few items. Is there a push for bigger supermarkets to carry locally produced food? Maria Fine, Somerville, MA
By eating locally sourced foods, we strengthen the bond between local farmers [...]
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June 30th, 2010 by Savvy Veg
Why this rant about processed foods?
Humans have been processing their food in various ways for thousands of years, right? Freezing, drying, preserving and canning come to mind.
So what’s the problem? I recently sampled a brand of veggie burger which shall remain anonymous as there isn’t much to choose between the various brands.
I found the veggie burger [...]
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April 29th, 2010 by Savvy Veg
Dr. Gabe Mirkin’s Fitness and Health E-Zine April 18, 2010
This month, separate studies from Denmark and Italy show that heart attack risk is lowered by replacing saturated fats with good carbohydrates that do not cause a high rise in blood sugar, while heart attacks can be caused by replacing saturated fats with carbohydrates that cause [...]
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April 13th, 2010 by Savvy Veg
By July Gerstein, courtesy The Daily Green: Interview with Jill Carle, co-author of ‘College Vegetarian Cooking’
Being vegetarian in college can be difficult, but Jill Carle, 23, wouldn’t know. She’s the author of College Vegetarian Cooking but she’s not vegetarian. She never has been — but her sister and the book’s co-author Megan Carle, 25, is. [...]
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April 7th, 2010 by Savvy Veg
A few days ago, I read the Mercola agave article that’s generated lots of buzz recently – Beware of the Agave Nectar Health Food Fraud. It sounded not unreasonable, for Mercola, so I posted a link on my FB fan page. I immediately lost 2 fans who hate Mercola. It seems that people either love or hate [...]
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March 30th, 2010 by Savvy Veg
Question for Savvy Vegetarian:
Ref: Kick the Junk Food Habit, Go Veg, Lose Weight
So if the mice continued to grow fatter and fatter, even after switching back to the plant based low fat diet (aka vegan diet), is there anything we can do to flush out the bad bacteria or something so that when we switch [...]
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March 10th, 2010 by Savvy Veg
From Dr. Gabe Mirkin’s weekly health & fitness ezine:
Doctors have known for more than 20 years that Helicobacter pylori, the bacteria that causes stomach and upper intestinal ulcers, causes stomach cancer. An article in the Archives of Internal Medicine showed that it also may be the most common cause of pernicious anemia or lack of [...]
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January 12th, 2010 by Savvy Veg
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SV Blog, Recipe Collections, Holiday Menus, Newsletter, New Look
Since last summer, Savvy Vegetarian has had a new look, an upgraded naviagation system, and other technical improvements, to make the site prettier, more accessible, easier to read and faster to load. We’ve been performing SEO miracles on the recipe pages to make it easier [...]
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