What?! I Have to Eat Healthy AND Exercise?

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News Flash: A healthy vegetarian diet does not make you physically fit. SavvyVeg is living proof that you can be a long-time vegetarian or vegan and still be physically unfit. Until my mid-forties, I never thought about exercise because I was hyper-active at least 12 hours a day - raising children, doing housework, gardening, cooking, […]

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Pregnant Vegetarian 8: Has pregnancy been too easy?

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I’ve had it awfully easy, and I’m starting to get suspicious. When you get pregnant, it seems, you join the secret society of Women Who Have Given Birth. Now that I am nice and round, and it is too late for me to run to the condom aisle and prevent my fate, they are telling […]

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A Few Bad Ads from Google Adsense

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Savvy Vegetarian is a free content site, supported mainly by Google Adsense A few times a year, someone gets upset by an ad and writes to tell me about it. The following is my typical response. Message for Savvy Vegetarian: By having an ad such as this one (link expired) on your site, you’ve lost […]

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Pregnant Vegetarian 6: Doctors and Nutrition

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Zoe Gets Off Her Soapbox And Back In The Produce Section Well, I had to get a new Obgyn. Thanks a lot Corporate America. My employer changed insurance companies and now my former doctor is out of network. So, off to the new doctor, and a rehash of the I’m-a-vegetarian conversation. Sigh. Apparently, Obgyns do […]

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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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The Pregnant Vegetarian 4: Food Addict

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Food Cravings During Pregnancy: Let the Pregnant Vegetarian Eat 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 […]

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Vegetarian Camp Cooking: How to Do It Right

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Helpful Tips from Readers on Veggie Camp Cooking I had a terrific response to my vegetarian camp cooking post (forget it and live on sandwiches). 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 adjustment. Carrie […]

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Pregnant Vegetarian 3: Blood Sugar Vampire

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Baby … slurping my blood sugar like a little vampire 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 […]

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Have a Stress Free Veg or Vegan Thanksgiving

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Major Source of Vegetarian Stress: Thanksgiving Dinner with Non-Veg Family I can’t believe that Thanksgiving is next week! It sneaks up on me like that every year! But it’s OK. Thanksgiving is not such a big deal - anymore. Back in my turkey days, I used to stress over Thanksgiving dinner: Get the bird cooked […]

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7 Yr Old Sugar Addict Won’t Go Vegan with Dad

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Dad goes vegan, wants son to give up sugar & eat healthy 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 there are tremendous flaws in the western diet. When I […]

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