How to Get Enough Healthy Veg Calories to Avoid Weight Loss

Maintain A Healthy Weight

Enthusiastic convert to healthy plant based diet unintentionally loses weight along with the meat, and wants to know how to keep his weight up and eat healthy too. Hello Savvy Vegetarian, I recently started changing my diet. I am juicing fruits and veggies and cutting out meat. I feel GREAT! I am very excited about [...]

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The Economic Advantages of a Vegetarian Diet

Plateful of Money

Eat Better and Improve Your Health For Less Money, by Katherine Manning Families are trimming their budgets, and two areas of spending that create a drain on finances are food and health care. The two fields seem unrelated, but could not be more connected. One easy way to eat better, improve health and lower the [...]

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7 Yr Old Sugar Addict Reluctant to Go Vegan with Dad

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Dad goes vegan for weight loss, tries to get son to give up sugar & eat his cooking Message for Savvy Vegetarian: First of all, thanks for creating the Savvy Vegetarian web site! A little story about myself: I have struggled with weight issues most of my adult life. Recently I decided (educated myself) that [...]

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Savvy Vegetarian: Judith Is Vegan, SavvyVeg Is Not

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Response to vegan former Savvy Veg fan: Every step taken toward a more plant based diet is positive and deserves respect & support. Message for Savvy Vegetarian: “I was so excited to find your site and have recommended it to tons of folks and posted it on Facebook walls for my clients. I was horrified [...]

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Dr.Gabe Mirkin: How to Help Prevent Dementia

Dr. Gabe and Diana Mirkin

Dr. Mirkin recommends testing & treatment of blood vessel disease, plant based diet & daily exercise to help prevent dementia & Alzheimers disease I have published quite a few articles from Dr. Mirkin’s newsletter, because he generously gives out so much important information about health issues which affect us all, and he does it very [...]

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Dr. Gabe Mirkin|Exercise, Sugar, Diabetes, Insulin, Diet

Dr. Gabe Mirkin

Dr. Mirkin clearly connects exercise, sugar, insulin, diet and the development, progression and prevention of diabetes Sugar and Refined Carbohydrates in Your Diet, from Dr. Gabe Mirkin’s Fitness and Health E-Zine April 17, 2011 Exercise Helps to Prevent Diabetes Sugar cannot enter resting muscles unless insulin is there to drive the sugar into muscles. However [...]

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15 Ways to Gain Healthy Weight on a Vegetarian Diet

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1 yr vegetarian losing weight on plant based diet, wants to gain healthy weight with no processed food Question for Savvy Vegetarian:   I have been a vegetarian for a little over a year now. I have completely ceased eating fast food because when I did it eat on occasion, it made me feel sick. [...]

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Adopting a Plant-Based Near Vegetarian Diet for Health

Judith Kingsbury

Like Bill Clinton (watch video), Trent at Simple Dollar tries plant based near-vegetarian diet, after doctor says health problems later in life w/o diet changes. I just read a lovely blog post by Trent, who blogs about money at The Simple Dollar. About 5 weeks ago, he decided to try a plant based or vegetarian [...]

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Vegetarian Diet & Health Over 55: Lower Cancer Risk

Never Too Late

Plant based diet, vegetarian diets protect health, low-fat vegan diet critical for lower cancer risk, heart attack risk, reversing diabetes – Dr. Neil Bernard According to the latest research from AICR, 1 in 3 “older adults” (55 and up) don’t know about the connections between diet and disease, or think that it’s too late to [...]

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Insulin Insensitive Diabetes, Exercise & Plant Based Diet

Dr. Gabe Mirkin & Diana Mirkin

span style=”color: #000000;”>Dr. Mirkin suggests intense exercise and eating a healthy vegetarian diet  or plant-based diet can control blood sugar and reverse insulin insensitive diabetes From Dr. Gabe Mirkin’s Health & Fitness Ezine, 9.9.10 Dear Dr. Mirkin: Does intense exercise control diabetics’ blood sugar better than casual exercise? Savvy Veg Note: Dr. Mirkin – who is [...]

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