Brighter Days FB Giveaway|Rudi’s Organic Bakery

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Rudi’s Organic Bakery Brighter Days Facebook Giveaway Inspires Happier Healthier Life Release, Boulder, Colo. Feb. 8, 2012, Rudi’s Organic Bakery: Rudi’s Organic has always been about living free – free of artificial ingredients, preservatives and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) – and is now sharing its optimistic attitude with its fans to inspire families to live [...]

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Happy Healthy Veggie Love Bites for Valentine’s Day

Chocolate Valentine Cookies

For Valentines’ Day, boycott the commercialism, and treat yourself and your loved ones to happy, healthy (sort of) love bites all day long That is not to say there can’t be chocolate. What is Valentine’s Day without chocolate? A day or two before Valentines Day, make special chocolate treats for your loved ones, or people [...]

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Nature’s Path Love Crunch Granolas, The Lovin’ Cereal

Love Crunch Granola

Nature’s Path Granolas Help Little Love Miracles Happen Everywhere, One Crunch at a Time Nature’s Path is one of my favorite sustainable green organic non-gmo privately owned food companies – and come to think of it, one of only a few such companies in existence. So, when Nature’s Path offered samples of their new love [...]

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Vegan vs Non-Veg Dispute Over Food and Kids

Couple Argue Over Food

Advice for love-lorn non-vegetarian with veg defender of animal rights girlfriend. She wants to raise her children vegetarian and doesn’t accept any other lifestyle choices. Message: My girlfriend very recently became vegetarian again. She was vegetarian and then vegan many years ago and then slowly started eating some meat again for the past few years [...]

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Dr. Terry Wahls Reverses MS Through Plant Based Diet

Dr. Terry Wahls

Terry Wahls is a medical doctor who has overcome multiple sclerosis through diet, alternative medical treatments, meditation and exercise, and teaches others to do the same Dr. Terry Wahls is my idea of a heroine. I admire her because she’s a conventional medical doctor who had the courage to step outside of the medical box, [...]

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Jackie’s Holiday Pumpkin Cake with Chocolate Chips

Pumpkin Cake

Pumpkin Cake with Chocolate Chips: A Holiday Dessert Enjoyed by Pregnant Women Any Time This holiday dessert recipe is the very one that Zoe Keeland talks about in The Pregnant Vegetarian Episode 4: Food Addict, with the kind of passion experienced only by pregant women. The rest of us at Savvy Vegetarian haven’t been lucky [...]

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Vegan RD|Diabetes Prevention & Healthy Vegan Diet

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Chicago Vegan Examiner Marla Rose interviewed Eric Sharer RD on the benefits of a healthy vegan diet to prevent and control Type 2 Diabetes During the interview, Marla Rose and Eric Sharer referred to Paula Deen’s coming-out-of-the-diabetic-closet as a spokesperson for pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk and their $500-a-month diabetes drug, Victoza. Excerts from Marla Rose’s [...]

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The Pregnant Vegetarian #4: Food Addict

Pumpkin Cake

Some of you may have read my previous comments on cake, and suspected that it was only the beginning. You were right of course. I am now all about food. I have strong thoughts about foods I’d like to eat, so strong I can almost taste them. Interestingly, aside from cake daydreams, they are not [...]

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Vegetarian Cooking While Camping: How to Do It Right

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Good response to my post on veggie camp cookery (forget it & live on sandwiches) – many great ideas on how to do veg camp cooking right Some of the responders felt my pain, but most comments revealed my ignorance and lack of creativity on the subject. Some hinted that I might need an attitude [...]

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The Pregnant Vegetarian #3: Blood Sugar Vampire

Pregnant Zoe Keeland

I have a confession to make. Some of you are going to hate me for this. At least a little. I have not puked once since I got pregnant. I don’t feel queasy in the mornings, and lately I don’t feel queasy at all. In fact, the worst I have felt since getting pregnant is [...]

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