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The video below is of Tony Gonzalez making a vegan shake and explaining some of the different fruits and vegetables that he puts in his shake – all of the packages I noticed were from Trader Joe’s!! Oh, I love Tony Gonzalez more and more! To top it off, he talks about how the acai berry is a very important part of his shake because of it’s high antioxidant levels. In the video he uses Sambazon rather than MonaVie, but I’ve been doing a ton of research lately on the difference

Notes from Charlotte Gerson Lecture: Toxins are in our food due to processing, preserving, pesticides, bleaching, excess fats and proteins that your body can not break down properly, etc. Toxins are also enzyme inhibitors so as long as there are too many toxins in the body, the enzyme systems can’t work and you can’t digest properly, you can’t assimilate the nutrients that your body needs properly, you can’t break down the fats and proteins to their end products and so they a

If there is only one thing you pay attention to on this entire website, it should be this video. I find myself sharing this video with anyone who is questioning whether dairy is really as good for them as they had thought. Below is a link to the video as well as corresponding notes I have taken from the video. Perils of Dairy Lecture by Dr. John McDougall p.s. skip the first 15 minutes of this lecture - it’s just a lot of thank you’s to people at this conference… Cow’s Milk

About the Gerson Therapy Overview of Gerson Therapy, its history and basic protocol. Click here for article by Paul Fassa Books and DVDs available from the Gerson Library http://www.youtube.com/gersoninstitute Scientific papers supporting the Gerson Therapy. Explanation of missing information and why Dr. Max Gerson’s work is censored on Wikipedia. Gerson Documentaries The Gerson Miracle http://www.hulu.com/watch/180363/the-gerson-miracle The Gerson Miracle, with Polish subtit

Most people assume if you’re vegan that you must not like to see cute little piggies and cows getting slaughtered. It just breaks your heart so much that you just decided to take one of the most essential proteins that we as humans eat and just ditch it from your diet for the sake of the animals. I’m not saying that this isn’t a huge part of it, because once you open your eyes to the way we treat our livestock in this country, it definitely does help you avoid meat and dairy

Below is a post from dcvegan.com that I thought was a great read: Ramblings of A Vegan Mama Will You Raise Your Child Vegan?? That, my friends, is the most asked question of a pregnant vegan. I can’t count how many times friends, strangers and relatives asked me THAT question, with eyebrows cocked. So my response was to raise my eyebrows right back and say “Why wouldn’t I?” It is mind boggling to me that one can look at a perfectly healthy person whose strong sense of moralit

When my first daughter was about 6 weeks old, she started projectile vomiting quite frequently after nursing. I met with a few pediatricians as well as a few lactation consultants and questioned whether it was the fact that I had recently started eating dairy again (after being vegan). All of them said that it was not possible that the dairy would be causing it. Well, after many weeks of elimination diets and researching on my own, I found hundreds of stories on www.motheri

In terms of protein intake, the RDA recommendation says that 1 out of every 10 calories you consume should come from protein and exactly how much that is depends on your weight. You should be consuming approx. .5 grams per pound that you weigh so half your weight. Also a common fallacy is that you need to combine proteins at each meal to make them complete. Just make sure you eat a variety of foods (fruits, veggies and grains) and you will get all your amino acids. Soy beans

Click here to read this GREAT article from Planet Green on why milk is not good for us or the environment. Below is a general list from the article of why milk is not good, but I would recommend reading the article in it’s entirety. Environmental Reasons to Avoid Milk: 1. Dairy cows produce waste 2. Let me repeat: dairy cows produce lots and lots of waste (and greenhouse gases) 3. Milk production ultimately leads to climate change 4. Milk often contains unwanted ingredien

Graham Hill, founder of Treehugger.com (an incredible source for anything to do with living a green lifestyle) is questioning how eating meat can or should be a part of a system of sustainable agriculture. A meat-eater himself, Graham recently collected some facts on how a meat eating diet contributes to both our health and our environment. Perhaps if Graham Hill still needs some more facts, he should read John Robbins’ book, “The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save