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Lazy Vegetarians Who Choose the Wrong Carbs Risk Health

Weve all been there. Weve just come in from a long day at work and the last thing on our minds taking the time to prepare a healthy, nutritionally sound vegetarian meal. But choosing a refined or enriched carbohydrate over the beneficial carbohydrates that a solid, well-balanced vegetarian diet offers defeats the purpose of your decision to live a vegetarian lifestyle, and thats for optimal health. Consuming refined carbohydrates presents different hazards to your health. The over-consumption of refined ... Read More »

Vegetarians and heart disease

No matter what your reasons for eating a more vegetarian diet, theres no denying the obvious health benefits that are derived from the elimination of red meat from your diet. On average, vegetarians have lower levels of the blood fats, cholesterol and triglycerides than meat eaters of similar age and social status have. High levels of blood fats are associated with an increased risk of heart disease. Lacto-ovo vegetarians, those who eat eggs and dairy products, which contain cholesterol-raising saturated ... Read More »

Keeping off the Fat

Keeping off the Fat Every year more and more people are becoming more health conscious. This can probably be because of some major event in their lives or maybe they saw themselves in the mirror and didn t like what they saw. Regardless of what the reason is you now hear more about people and their health than you use to in the past and some of these people have even added a low fat vegetarian recipe to help them when ... Read More »