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The Healing Effects a Vegetarian Diet has on your Post-Baby

The Healing Effects a Vegetarian Diet has on your Post-Baby Body The breastfeeding vegetarian diet doesnt vary all that much from the pregnancy vegetarian diet. Protein recommendations are the same, vitamin B-12 recommendations are higher, and the recommendations for iron and calories are lower than during pregnancy. But the key in ensuring your healthy vegetarian diet is also helping you recover from the stresses of giving birth and taking care of your newborn is healthy fats. Healthy fats and oils ... Read More »

Variety is the Spice of your Vegetarian Childs Diet

Eating habits are set in early childhood. Choosing a vegetarian diet can give your childand your whole familythe opportunity to learn to enjoy a variety of wonderful, nutritious foods. Offer your child a wide variety of grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and soy products, keep it simple and make it fun, and theyll learn good eating habits that will last them a lifetime. Children raised on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes grow up to be slimmer and healthier and even ... Read More »

Variety in your New Vegetarian Diet

Youve weighed your options carefully, studied the pros and the cons, and decided that the vegetarian lifestyle is right for you. But where do you start making the changes? Do you go cold turkey? Do you adopt a more gradual approach to transitioning to vegetarianism? However you choose to make the change, you can begin to achieve the health benefits of vegetarianism by significantly cutting down on the amount of meats consumed, and making vegetables, fruits, legumes, and whole grains ... Read More »

Transition family

If youre considering moving to a vegetarian diet as an adult, you probably want to pass on this good nutrition and improved way of eating to your family as well. In fact, its your responsibility as a parent to nurture your children and help them develop physically, mentally and spiritually. But that can be hard to do, especially in a culture where our children are bombarded with messages from fast food restaurants in the media. How do you teach kids to ... Read More »

Spirituality

How do you feel spiritually when you eat a meal that contains meat? Youve probably never given it any thought, but that may because spiritually you feel nothing after eating a meal of meat except tired and sluggish. A diet of meat makes our bodies less functional, and we think of nourishing our bodies in terms of our organs and blood, but we dont often think about how what we eat can impact the most important organ in our body, ... Read More »