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3 Reasons Your Diet Isn't Working and How to Do It Better

Posted on: Jun 14, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Whether you've been working against 10 pounds or 200, losing weight and keeping it off can be one of the toughest challenges.

Does Meat Kill More Americans Than Cigarettes Do?

Posted on: Mar 13, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The West's three biggest killers -- heart disease, cancer, and stroke -- are linked to excessive animal product consumption.

Restaurants Should Get With the Times and Add Some Good Vegan Food to the Menu

Posted on: May 3, 2011, Source: Huffington Post

People are eating less meat and dairy and they want more vegetarian and vegan options when they're eating out.

8 Cheap Ways to Eat Vegan (You Don't Have to be Rich to Eat Healthy)

Posted on: Mar 28, 2011, Source: Huffington Post

Eating vegan, or veganish, is about choosing to disengage from an industry that makes us sick, abuses animals, pollutes the planet, and squanders precious resources.

Why a High-Protein Diet May Make You Fatter

Posted on: Mar 17, 2010, Source: AlterNet

Health expert Dean Ornish says high-protein dieters 'may lose more weight because they are losing water weight. But by the end of the year, the weight usually returns.'

How Factory Farms Are Pumping Americans Full of Deadly Bacteria and Pathogens

Posted on: Jan 12, 2010, Source: AlterNet

We're getting sicker and sicker, thanks to gruesome conditions in animal agriculture nationwide.

Factory Farmed Meat Can Trigger a Global Pandemic That Wipes Out 60% of Those Infected

Posted on: Jan 8, 2010, Source: AlterNet

The chicken and pork industries have wrought unprecedented changes in bird and swine flu. Billions could die in a deadly flu pandemic, the likes of which we have never seen.

Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause a Pandemic

Posted on: Jan 5, 2010, Source: AlterNet

The chicken and pork industries have wrought unprecedented changes in bird and swine flu. Billions could die in a new pandemic.

10 Signs Vegetarianism Is Catching On

Posted on: Nov 29, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Martha Stewart promotes a vegetarian Thanksgiving? Recently, much attention has been lavished on the horrors of factory farming and the advantages of a meatless diet.

Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Eating Animals' Book Will Fundamentally Change the Way You Think About Food

Posted on: Nov 3, 2009, Source: AlterNet

"He is the Michael Pollan of a younger generation: grittier and more daring, more insightful and decisive."

There Is a Way to Help Avoid Heart Disease and Diabetes: You Are What You Eat!

Posted on: Oct 30, 2009, Source: AlterNet

A plant-based diet is both preventative and healing, whereas a diet high in animal protein is destructive to our health.

A Solution For Diabetes: A Vegan Diet

Posted on: Oct 7, 2009, Source: AlterNet

More Doctors and nutritional scientists are saying that a diet high meat is disastrous to our health, while a plant-based (vegan) diet prevents disease and is restorative to it.

Is Eating a Plant-Based Diet a Cure for Cancer?

Posted on: Sep 24, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Experts are saying a plant-based diet is not only good for our health, but it's also curative of the very serious diseases we face.

Meatless Mondays: Do Something Good for the Earth and Your Health

Posted on: Jul 5, 2009, Source: AlterNet

A new campaign is focused on convincing the world not to eat chickens, pigs, and other animals -- just one day per week.

Eating Meat Is Not Natural

Posted on: Jun 14, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Eating meat is a relatively recent phenomenon in human evolution. And our bodies have never adapted to it.

Will We Still Eat Meat, Drink Milk, and Fry Eggs in 2109?

Posted on: Jun 7, 2009, Source: AlterNet

The world will be a much better place in 100 years if we rethink the way we eat.

Our Appetite for Animals Is Taking Us Toward Apocalypse

Posted on: May 15, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Cutting your meat-eating habits is one of the most impactful ways you can prevent drastic changes to our climate.

Are We So Addicted to Meat That We Can't See Where the Swine Flu Came From?

Posted on: May 4, 2009, Source: AlterNet

A virus like swine flu is a completely predictable outcome of our cruel and appallingly filthy factory farming systems.

13 Breathtaking Effects of Cutting Back on Meat

Posted on: Apr 21, 2009, Source: AlterNet

The meat industry contributes to land degradation, climate change, air pollution, water shortage and pollution, and loss of biodiversity.

Red Meat or Chicken? Why It's Wise to Stay Away from Both

Posted on: Apr 15, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Cutting out red meat while still eating chicken doesn't address the fact that the industrial model for raising both is very bad for the environment.

The Startling Effects of Going Vegetarian for Just One Day

Posted on: Apr 2, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Sometimes, solutions to the world's biggest problems are right in front of us. The following statistics are eye-opening, to say the least.

The Weight Loss Hype: Why Counting Calories Never Works

Posted on: Mar 27, 2009, Source: Huffington Post

Diets that require rigorous participant logs and calorie counting are destined to fail. There is a better way.

The Danger of Meat-Heavy Diets

Posted on: Jul 28, 2008, Source: AlterNet

The Atkins, eat-lots-of-meat diet is about as unhealthy as they come. But you'd never know it from media coverage.

Getting Past the 'Protein Myth' That Keeps People from Quitting Meat and Dairy

Posted on: Jun 2, 2008, Source: Huffington Post

The way Americans obsess about protein, you'd think protein deficiency was the number one health problem in America. Of course it's not.

Eating Vegetarian Is Taking Global Warming Personally

Posted on: Nov 29, 2007, Source: Huffington Post

If you want to decrease you carbon footprint, you can start with your dinner plate.

You Call Yourself a Progressive -- But You Still Eat Meat?

Posted on: Mar 13, 2007, Source: AlterNet

Eating a plant-based diet is an easy, cheap way to end animal cruelty and clean up the environment. Why, then, are so many progressives still clinging to their chicken nuggets?

One Bite at a Time: A Beginner's Guide to Vegetarianism

Posted on: Mar 1, 2007, Source: Huffington Post

How to become vegetarian -- and help save the environment -- in six easy steps.

Vegetarian Is the New Prius

Posted on: Feb 6, 2007, Source: Huffington Post

Livestock destroy the environment, so fill your bowl with veggies instead of veal.