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    Robert Cheeke, president of Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness, on getting protein on a vegan diet.

    Published on May 12th, 2011 07:38 AM

    From the news...

    http://www.lvrj.com/blogs/sherm/Eati...e_animals.html


    Eating great, but hold the animals

    Posted by Sherman Frederick
    Wednesday, May. 11, 2011 at 12:04 PM
    If you would have told me that at the age of 59 I'd be a vegan, I not only would have told you you were crazy, I would have bet you a steak dinner on it.

    But, that's what has happened. After surviving prostate cancer last June and heart bypass in July, I'm that weird kind of vegetarian called a vegan.

    As guys at the newspaper now joke, I am now truly "The Complete Las Vegan."

    Anyway, there's a new movie coming out extolling the virtues of a plant-based diet. I'm not one of those people who feel the need to convert others to my way of thinking, worshipping or eating. But, I think this diet is worth thinking about. So, I'll point you to a new movie coming out called "Forks over Knives." The official website is here. And the trailer is below.

    (Postscript: I became a vegan through a process that started with my cardio rehab at Mountain View Hospital. One of the books recommended said that a plant-based diet had been shown to actually reverse heart disease. In the course of that class, I went from meat eater, to vegetarian to vegan. And I'm not lookin' back. The guy I followed was a Dr. Dean Ornish. You can read more about him here.)





    A comparative anatomy lesson on natural carnivores versus natural herbivores and omnivores. What diet are humans actually built to thrive on?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFROlwe-m3Y ...



    Archeologists recently unearthed a burial site in Turkey containing the bodies of 60 Roman gladiators.

    Tests to their remains led researchers to conclude that the gladiators all ate an exclusively-plant-based ...



    From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QWMD...eature=related

    Go Vegan Radio's Bob Linden interviews Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn about the benefits to your heart from a plant-based diet. Dr Caldwell believes that the best way to tackle heart disease is to encourage people to stop consuming meat and dairy products. He says that the healthy vegan diet can also reverse heart problems. Highly recommended listening. Please forward a link to part 1 and 2 of this interview to all your friends and family members.

    You can listen to part 2 of this interview at:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdeo13sBOgE

    Olympic gold medal winner Carl Lewis describes how his best athletic performances came after he eliminated all animal products ...