Dr. Greger has a video to share with your paleo friends, Paleo Diets May Negate Benefits of Exercise. He tackles the myth that plant foods raise insulin levels more than meat.
The video above is part of Latest in Clinical Nutrition: Volume 22 available for download or DVD (all proceeds go to charity). In Volume 22, Dr. G also takes on the idea that has been making the rounds for a while, that saturated fat does not contribute to heart disease.
Dr. Michael Greger of NutritionFacts.org has just released Latest in Clinical Nutrition: Volume 20. Lots on gluten in this one!
Ginny Messina has a great article on the latest wave of ex-vegans listening to their bodies in Disordered Eating, Restrictive Eating, and Ex-Vegans.
The Vegetarian Resource Group just posted What is the Amount of Oxalate in Seitan?
Dr. Kim A. Williams, the president-elect of the American College of Cardiology, suggests that patients go vegan in the New York Times article, Advice From a Vegan Cardiologist.
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Dr. Michael Greger’s Latest in Clinical Nutrition Volume 17 DVD is now available.
Check it out at NutritionFacts.org!
Since my last request for support, these have been the more popular posts:
Eat Right for Your Type: Debunked Again?
Clinical Trial of Methylcobalamin
Austrian Vegetarians: Good News?
But the most popular post by far was…drum roll please…
Petition: Veggie Burger at McDonalds
I read a survey not long ago that found one of the main reasons people do not go vegan is from not having options in restaurants. So, my readers are apparently savvy about this importance of this issue.
By the way, that petition still needs 56,000 more people to sign, so please keep passing it on.
Wile my vitamin K2 series has some ardent followers, they are not many in number. Frankly, I’d much rather be beating up on the blood type diet, but K2 is a topic that anti-vegans bring up a lot and the research seems important, so I will plug on with it.
If you feel this work is worthy of support, please see how in the box below. Thank you!
Circa 2003, McDonalds had a veggie burger in many of their Southern California locations (see the article McDonald’s launches Veggie Burger in Southern California). I had it a few times and it was quite good. McDonalds says that it was not a popular item, so they removed it.
Ten years later, maybe it’s time they tried it again. Kathy Freston is circulating a petition on Change.org, McDonald’s: It’s Time For A Healthy, Meatless Option (Please!).
I’m not getting behind this effort so that hardcore vegans have something to eat at McDonalds, but rather for the number of animals that could be spared a lifetime of suffering just from meat-eaters trying this burger and eating it occasionally. Why order two big macs, when you can lose weight and reduce your risk of heart disease and diabetes by ordering just one Big Mac and a McVeggie?
Ginny Messina, MPH, RD has a new book out, Never Too Late to Go Vegan, for people 50 years and older. She writes about it here:
Never Too Late to Go Vegan: The Book!
And she had an interesting post last week, Vegan, DASH, Mediterranean—Which Diet is Best?
I have updated the PeaCounter.com database to the latest USDA Nutrient Database Release 26.
If you don’t know about Pea Counter, it’s a site where you can record the foods you eat, see what nutrients they provide, and compare to your recommended requirements.
Due to my oxalate research hiatus, it’s been awhile since I’ve made a post dedicated to asking for support.
As many of you know, I am the co-founder of Vegan Outreach. Vegan Outreach focuses on reaching students at colleges across the country with our booklets promoting compassionate eating. This past Fall was another record-breaking semester in which our leafleters personally handed booklets to 987,551 students at 884 schools.
This level of person-to-person outreach was so mind-blowing that Dan Murphy from Drover’s Cattle Network has claimed that we must be lying about our numbers (see Lies, damn lies, and vegan statistics).
Vegan Outreach is currently in the midst of our year-end donation drive and, in addition to annoying Dan Murphy, anything you give to Vegan Outreach will be doubled! Donations to Vegan Outreach are tax-deductible. Click here.
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Dr. Greger has recently released Volume 16 of his Latest in Clinical Nutrition DVD series. And, all of his DVDs are now available for downloading, too.
Volume 16, of which the tri-weekly videos are now running, includes some interesting info on meeting an “RDA” for antioxidants.
Check it out at NutritionFacts.org!