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Going Vegan in the New Year: Seven Tips for Success
Whether you are diving head first into a vegan lifestyle for the new year, or beginning a transition to veganism over the next months, here are seven tips to increase your chances of success. Learn...
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Raising Vegan Children: Please Share Your Experience
photo credit: Can Stock Photo/ftlaudgirl Despite media pieces aimed at discrediting vegan diets for kids, vegan children clearly can thrive when they have appropriate diets. For a project I’m working...
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Vegan Children and Vaccines
A couple of weeks ago, I took myself to the pharmacy for the first of two doses of the shingles vaccine. I didn’t want to do it at all. For one thing, I’m highly needle-phobic. (I don’t even have...
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On Privilege, Priorities, and Processed Foods in Vegan Diets
Lately it seems that every restaurant chain is scrambling to add some type of vegan meat to their menu. And these new products are so excellent that they appeal to vegetarians and meat-eaters alike....
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For World Vegan Day: 5 Things to Know About Veganism
November 1 is World Vegan Day marking 75 years since the word vegan was coined. Even though the concept of veganism has been around for a while, there are plenty of misconceptions about it. Here are...
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Giving Up Dairy is a Good Idea. And It’s Easier than You Think
According to social media, Joaquin Phoenix’s Oscar acceptance speech has a lot of people asking whether it might be a good idea to ditch dairy. The answer is yes. In the name of compassion and...
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Prepping the Vegan Pantry for a COVID-19 Quarantine
On any given day I’m well prepared to be quarantined. I have stacks and stacks of books waiting to be read on my bookshelves and kindle, plus supplies for all kinds of craft projects, and plenty of...
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Vegan For Life: Updated, Revised, Expanded, and All-New
I’m excited to announce that a completely updated and expanded edition of Vegan for Life is headed into the world. Its pub date is May 12, 2020 and it’s available for pre-order now. My co-author Jack...
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Vegans and Bone Fractures: New Findings and Best Practices for Keeping Bones...
New findings from the EPIC-Oxford study in the U.K. have raised questions about vegan diets and bone health. In this study, which included around 55,000 (mostly white) subjects, vegans had a 43%...
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Finding the Best Vegan Diet (And Why It’s Not Low-Fat)
It’s been quiet on this website for a long time while I’ve had my attention on several all-consuming projects. One was the new edition of Vegan for Life. By the time that book was published last May,...
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Going Vegan: Five Tips for Success
Whether you’re diving headfirst into a vegan diet or making a gradual transition to more plant-based eating, you’ll maximize your chances of success by learning a little bit about nutrition, finding...
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Veganism – and Gardening – for Justice and Compassion
Here in western Massachusetts, there is a blanket of snow on the ground, but I’m dreaming about my garden. It’s what gardeners do. If we’re not out and about among the flowers, we’re planning and...
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Carnivore Diets, Vegan Diets, and Pseudoscience
Earlier this year, I spent a weekend with family members who my husband and I don’t see often but with whom we remain close. We had organized the weekend, helping with travel arrangements and costs,...
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Defining Veganism (And My Dinner Date with a Big Game Hunter)
When I first moved to western Massachusetts, a new acquaintance invited my husband and me to dinner with a couple she wanted us to meet. She said we had a lot in common with them because of the “food...
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