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A GUIDE TO THE VEGETARIAN FOOD PYRAMID

Being a vegetarian means facing greater challenges in providing enough nutrients to your body. Health care specialists have actually created a vegetarian food pyramid that helps vegetarians pinpoint the foods they should eat to maintain good health. Vegan or not, every person can take some lessons from the guide.The pyramid was developed by Arizona State University researchers and, like the omnivorous food pyramid, comprises 5 layers. Naturally, dairy and meat products are omitted from the vegetarian version. Instead, it contains whole grains, protein foods, nuts and seeds, vegetables and fruits as well as oils a vegetarian should consume. Even though it's a healthier lifestyle choice, going vegetarian doesn't mean a person is free from portion control measures, especially if they're overweight.In medicine, there is no magic bullet or panacea that can cure all that ails mankind. Similarly, vegetarians shouldn't rely on just one type of food to provide all the [Read More..]

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WHAT WOULD BE THE BEST SPANISH LANGUAGE SLOW COOKER/CROCK POT COOK BOOK?

My housekeeper/cook is Honduran, I need to purchase her a cook book written in Spanish. The perfect book would be Spanish on on side, English on the other. Ms. Daisy, a la-de-dah French cooking is not my style. I am more in the Germanic/Italian side of the menu. I like rice and beans,but not at every meal. [Read More..]

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FOUR BASIC BENEFITS OF VEGETARIAN FOOD

As we all know, a large number of diseases are caused by eating too much fatty and greasy food. Therefore, for their own health, there are more and more vegetarians who mainly eat vegetables and reject or eat very little meat in their daily diets. Generally speaking, there are mainly four basic benefits of vegetarian diet.First, vegetable food can make you healthy.Vegetarian diet contains very little saturated fat, so it can lower the blood pressure and the level of cholesterol. Germany has carried out a study, which showed that the probability of suffering from heart disease for the vegetarians who eat meat occasionally is only one third of that for the general person, and the morbidity of cancer for them is half of that for the general people. What's more, vegetarian diet can also play a diet therapy effect.Second, vegetarian food can make you beautiful.The vegetarian way is quite effective [Read More..]

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