Dr. Gabe Mirkin’s Fitness and Health E-Zine April 18, 2010 Eating good carbohydrates keeps blood sugar low which can prevent heart disease and ultimately preventing heart attacks. 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 [...]
Savvy Vegetarian tips on how to cook tofu and tempeh. There are many tasty tofu recipes and one tempeh recipe. Tempeh however can be used as a substitute for tofu. Question for Savvy Vegetarian: Hello. After a lot of back and forth, I have finally settled in to my vegetarian lifestyle. I am having trouble [...]
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Advice on complete proteins and vegetarian nutrition for a mother who would like her nine month old baby to have a pesco lacto ovo vegetarian diet. Dear Savvy Vegetarian, I have been a pesco/ovo-vegetarian for several years. I had my first child last summer, who is a healthy, thriving nine-month-old now. It is my intent [...]
How To Lose Weight on a Vegetarian Diet: Cut the Cheese Calories in cheese and cheese in processed foods are reasons for unexplained weight gain in a vegetarian diet. Cut the cheese for vegetarian weight loss. A while back we received a letter from a reader who was asking about vegetarian weight loss. She had [...]
Being a vegetarian college student is difficult, healthy eating impossible! With the help of Jill Carle, author of College Vegetarian Cooking, life gets easier. 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 [...]
Ayurvedic herbs for prevention of diabetes According to the Journal of Health & Longevity, it is estimated that by the end of 2010, almost 40% of Americans over 65 will have type 2 diabetes. Eating vegetarian can help in preventing diabetes (or even cure it in some cases). But there is one way of preventing [...]
Message for Savvy Vegetarian: Hello, I discovered this website researching about veganism, since I have recently decided to go vegan; formerly being an ovo-lacto-vegetarian for about a year, when I was 16. I’m now 17. I have a huge problem, and wanted to ask for advice: When I told my mother of my meaning to not [...]
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Agave nectar and agave syrup. Is it good? Or just as bad as high fructose corn syrup? Dr. Mercola and Madhava’s Craig Gerbore have very different views. What is the the truth? 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. [...]
Sometimes it’s hard to find diabetic desserts. Convert dessert recipes into sugar free desserts with Stevia sweetener, a natural sugar substitute. Diabetics and hypoglycemics are always looking for sugar free desserts. And sometimes it’s hard to find diabetic dessert recipes, especially vegetarian, vegan or gluten free. But more and more people, especially vegetarians, are becoming [...]
