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Healthy Eating Guidelines
Following healthy eating guidelines is easy with the right information and the right food choices.
Really healthy diets nourish your body perfectly, keep you slim, and protect you from high cholesterol. Preventing heart disease, diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, obesity, etc. is worth a little effort to follow healthy eating guidelines, wouldn't you agree? A fully plant-based vegetarian or vegan diet is the best way to accomplish this.
- Did you know that 72% of the US population is overweight, mainly due to wrong food choices?
- Worldwide, heart disease is the #1 death cause. Are you aware that we can avoid many cases of heart failure with the right healthy diet alone?
You have heard the phrase "rubbish in - rubbish out", and that's the same with the food you give to your body. It is hard to prevent heart disease if you eat a lot of processed food and saturated animal fats. These foods have no nutrition that your body needs, and the leftovers are deposited as fat in your arteries - or stimulate hormones that attract cancer.
Why are animal products so bad for us, even if traditions, doctors, and big industries tell us the opposite? Find out more with these healthy eating guidelines.
Easy Healthy Recipes
Eating healthy is much more easy and fun if you know where to look for your food! To ease your way into a healthier diet, I have collected these delicious easy healthy recipes that are vegetarian or vegan, so you can get the maximum health benefits from them.
These recipes also include heart healthy, low cholesterol, and low calorie recipes. You will be amazed how good food can taste without any animal products at all!
For friends of the little extras in life, take a look at the healthy snacks and desserts. Cookies anybody? Look no further than here.
Asian foods are our personal favorites, so I am happy to share our best Indian and Thai vegetarian recipes with you as well.
Healthy Diets
The best healthy diets for us humans are fully plant-based whole foods that pack the nutrients and energy, without the bad fats and empty calories. Find out more about specific healthy diets and healthy eating guidelines that may work for you. Discover which of these healthy diets could be beneficial for your needs.
So how do you become vegetarian - or how can you simply add more vegetarian food into your diet?
Take a look at these interesting facts about the vegetarian diet, vegan diet, raw vegan diet, and macrobiotic diet.
Healthy Living Tips
Have you heard that fighting the flu with natural superfoods works much better than popping pills?
Would you like to eat healthy and buy the best quality nutrition for your family, but don't want to pay more to follow healthy eating guidelines?
Are you aware of the healing powers of medicinal herbs that can be used in many meals, to reap their health benefits?
Do you want to exercise more to stay healthy, but simply can't find the time? Do you wonder how to combine your busy schedule with heart-healthy daily exercise?
Find out the answers to these and other questions here with our healthy living tips.
Greenhouse Effect And Global Warming
A Worldwatch Institute study from 2009 found that animal factory farming collectively creates up to 51% of all greenhouse gases on the planet. This is much more than formerly assumed and substantially exceeds the global warming contribution of ALL cars, planes, trains, etc. worldwide combined!
Not only does animal factory farming pollute air and water, it also wastes land, fossil fuels, food grains, and leads to land degradation and loss of bio diversity.
Research shows that 20 vegetarians can live of the same farm land that is required to feed just one meat eater. Imagine what this could mean for fighting world hunger!
Crops needed to feed farm animals use almost 50% of US water supply and a whopping 80% of US agricultural land. Farm animals - not people - consume 70% of total US grain production.
Going green is easier than you think and does not even cost much. Look at the steps that you can take immediately without waiting for clean energy or expensive devices.
You can save huge amounts of greenhouse gases by going green with food and going green at home.
Factory Farming - Human Health Hazard And Animal Cruelty
Industrial factory farming operations are raising large numbers of animals in close confinement with the purpose of producing meat, eggs, or milk in the fastest, most efficient, and cheapest way possible for human consumption. More than 81% of cows and more than 50% of pigs and chickens are now raised in the US this way.
Long gone are the days where 'happy cows' feed on vast grasslands and pig families roam around on the family farm. Factory farming with its continuous quest for efficiency in food production comes at a high price for human health, animal welfare, and the environment.
Find out about factory farming food facts, health risks, and animal cruelty that may change your outlook on food forever.
Animal Rights
In the USA alone, 10 billion animals are killed for food every year. In addition, many more animals are abused and killed for the purposes of research, fashion, entertainment, sport, pet trade, etc.
Find out more about the latest animal rights updates and legal victories for animal cruelty laws.
Do you believe - like many others - that it is OK to wear faux fur? You may be in for a surprise! Take a look at the latest atrocities of the fur industry in our Skin Trade - The Movie review.
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