It must have felt unnatural at first, to eat animal flesh. After all, we’re not so far removed from animals ourselves. Perhaps it even felt cannibalistic. There might not have been that much intellectual distinction between humans and other animals. When humans were pure vegetarians, they were living in harmony with the earth and with the other creatures co-habiting the planet with them. Their closest animal relatives, apes, were vegetarians. Eating the products of the earth, like plants, grains and fruits that they could gather and eat would have seemed the natural order of things. Continue reading →

Vegetables do not have to be boring. Cooking frozen vegetables in the microwave to go with dinner is an easy rut to get stuck in. You might eat them plain or mix them with a little butter or salt and pepper. No doubt, even if you eat different vegetables every night, the frozen vegetables get old. Vegetarians especially need to add interest to their vegetables. The veggies comprise so much of a vegetarian’s daily nutrition that boredom could have disastrous results. If you are bored with your vegetable fare, read on. Here are five ways to make eating your vegetables a little more fun. Continue reading →

Do you ever think about how far we’ve diverted from the path of our pre-historic ancestors and their““` eating patterns? Consider how the earliest humans evolved, and what they ate. They were hunter-gatherers and did not evolve with the characteristics of carnivores. Humans aren’t made to tear animals apart and eat their flesh. When you look at carnivorous animals, such as wild cats, you can see their teeth are designed to rip and tear, not chew. Continue reading →

Many people understand the many benefits that a vegetarian diet can have for your health and the environment, but few realize exactly how many different subsets of vegetarianism there are. When it comes to vegetarianism, many people choose to be either a lacto-vegetarian or an ovo-vegetarian.

In this article, we will attempt to explain some of the differences between these two diets so that it will be easier for you to figure out exactly which type of diet you should take on for yourself. Continue reading →

Fresh fruit and vegetables deliver premium health benefits if you can pick them and eat them readily, say specialists in this field. The longer produce is exposed to air and light, the quicker the vitamins and other nutrients break down. It may take several days, or even weeks after harvest for it to reach a grocery store, and then reach you.

On the other hand, produce that is designated for freezing is flash-frozen near to its source, quickly locking in the nutrients. In fact, frozen could be more. When cooking vegetables, don’t boil away valuable vitamins. Frozen veggies like corn and peas, broccoli, and butternut squash, can now be steamed quickly and conveniently the way Steam Ease does it. Independent lab analysis compared steaming of broccoli to conventional stovetop boiling. The results showed that Steam Ease technology retains 1.5 times more vitamin C and 40% more folic acid than boiled. More information is online at Omsteadfoods

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You’ve certainly heard the expression many times, “You are what you eat.” Have you ever really thought about what it means? And do you think about it when you’re making food choices?

In some ways, we do become what we eat, literally. Have you ever seen an example of your blood plasma after eating a fast food hamburger? What was previously a clear liquid becomes cloudy with the fat and cholesterol that’s absorbed from eating a high-fat hamburger. Continue reading →

Beans and lentils are sometimes forgotten as food cures because they are not the most exciting or tasty foods around but they are extremely nutritious and should be included as a part of a healthy diet. Both beans and lentils are packed full of fiber and protein and contain very little fat. Beans and lentils are rich in both antioxidants as well as phytochemicals and they are beneficial in fighting a number of diseases deemed as chronic such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, stroke, inflammatory diseases, osteoporosis and depression. Continue reading →

Peppers come from the genus “Capsicum” and the variety among peppers are tremendous. There is mild flavored, to sweet to dangerously hot. No matter whether you enjoy the taste of the mild Anaheim or bell pepper, the medium cascabel or the fiery jalapeno or Tabasco, enjoy peppers on a regular basis as they are delicious tasting and also are virtually fat free. Peppers come in a wide range of colors such as light, medium and dark green; gold; orange; bright red and all the way up to dark red; yellow peppers from pale to bright; browns from medium to extremely dark and some peppers are even purple in color. Continue reading →

The body enjoys the richness of raw vegetables, as cooking foods tends to destroy much of the nutritional value in regards to the vitamins and minerals inherent in the food. One option that is delicious and simple to do, not to mention convenient on those days when a person is short on time, is to turn your vegetables into drinks by juicing them. In case you are concerned that the high quantity of fiber will be lost by breaking down the vegetables in a juicer, that will not happen, as plenty of fiber will be retained even in the juice state. In fact, there is enough fiber in vegetable juices to more than supply the body’s need for it. Continue reading →

Veggies boast so many nutritional benefits that it is difficult to isolate which ones are better than others. Continue reading →