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    Re: What did you eat today? (5)

    Typical meal for me since I am dieting down for a bodybuilding contest. I try to not take in any fruit during this time, supplement with protein powder drinks, and if I want to eat something to fill...
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    Re: Soy Protein Shakes

    Protein is a big molecule, but hopefully your digestive system can break it down into the amino acids that comprises it. And you should only take in the amount of protein that your digestive system...
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    Re: Soy Protein Shakes

    You have to remember that soy is just a bean. A bean with alot more amino acid/protein in it than others, but still a bean. It will not be like whey or egg protein powder shakes that are animal...
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    Re: Forbidden cures and natural healing

    What?:confused:
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    Re: Forbidden cures and natural healing

    You should be aware of CODEX then. They want to take herbs and label them as drugs, in which you won't be able to get them easily, and if the pharmacuetical companies get their hands on it (since...
  6. Thread: Adding Fat

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    Re: Adding Fat

    Chickendude is right! I forgot that I add agave nectar instead of honey to the energy bites.

    Agave nectar is a sweetener that can now be found in healthfood stores and some of the organic...
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    Re: Adding Fat

    For my kids I love to make these energy bites for them. After making them so many times, I have been adding other things like dried fruit, and of course molasses and dulse flakes into the bites....
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    Re: Adding Fat

    I am raising teenage boys. I have found that when they are to begin their growth spurts, they get a little pudgy in the middle. My first son had about ten pounds extra, and then in two months he grew...
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    Re: Children: Favorite vegan foods

    Usually, if the food you eat is hard to digest, then it travels down the small intestines and into the large intestines with bacteria "growing" on it. The bacteria eat the undigested food and...
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    Re: Children: Favorite vegan foods

    Just a little note. I cook alot of my legumes with seaweeds (Wakame or my famorite is Kombu cause it is so big that I can get it out afterwards) to make it easier to digest. You can also sprout the...
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    Re: Is a vegan diet ecologically sustainable?

    As with everything in life,
    where there is a will
    there is a way.

    It is funny how humans can do something when society/science says that it can't be done,
    and then a group of humans says...
  12. Thread: Bean sprouts

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    Re: Beans, sprouted or not?

    I think worrying causes the ageing process to proceed faster also. :)
  13. Thread: Bean sprouts

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    Re: Beans, sprouted or not?

    I have heard about beans being sprouted in the Raw Food Diet explanations. They might even tell you about the aging process, which could be based on digestion properties of food (if you have a hard...
  14. Thread: Just starve?

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    Re: Just starve?

    I just wanted to give the mom's point of view.

    As a mom of four, when one of my kids tells me something that will make me have to change my routine, I get very frustrated at the beginning. In my...
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    Re: Whole Foods' Animal Compassionate Program

    When Whole Foods first came here to Michigan, USA, I was really happy. It was like all vegetarian. Then all the meat cases came in, and things starting showing up in the deli case with meat in them....
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    Re: Children: Favorite vegan foods

    Today I made a breakfast cake: whole wheat, unbleached flour, flaxseed meal, dulse flakes, sucanat, grapeseed oil, rice milk, grated carrots, ground up crystallized ginger, cinnamon, with a steusel...
  17. Thread: Vegan Raw Food

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    Re: Vegan Raw Food

    I am not a raw foodist (yet :) ) but during the summer I will say that my diet seems to naturally want to go that way. Something about raw cool, crisp, and water-filled vegetables is what my body...
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    Re: Tofu still a popular choice?

    When I think of raw tofu, I think of just the curded soybeans. Nothing added. Perhaps water in the packaging (and magnesium sulfate for antibacterial action).

    What I love is all the cookbooks out...
  19. Thread: Vegan athletes

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    Re: Vegan athletes

    There doesn't have to be less protein. I am a bodybuilder and I am taking protein powders (just as before, it is just not whey) in between my meals. There seems to be pea, hemp, brown rice, and...
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    Re: Vegan athletes

    A downhill ride after 30 is it? Wow, I didn't know that. At 40+, I will say that I feel about as great as I did in my late 20's. The fatigue is from working out and not snapping back as fast as I use...
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    Re: Whole Foods' Animal Compassionate Program

    In a world of black and white, this would not be acceptable. But since the reality is usually gray, I say that this is at least a step in the right direction. Fair and humane treatment is bringing...
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    Re: Proud to eat healthy!

    I try to buy organic and cook alot of my own meals:
    YogiTea's kombucha green tea starts off the day
    Breakfast 1:
    raspberry juice with black currant juice added
    3 banana with walnut muffins (with...
  23. Thread: Vegan athletes

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    Re: Vegan athletes

    When I first went vegan I got alot of energy. I would say at the fifth month, there was a dip in the energy level and even in the well being part. I told myself that it would past (perhaps toxins...
  24. Re: if you could change anything about the way you raised your child...

    I did the whole Santa, tooth fairy, and the Easter bunny thing with my kids. It was the thing to do. As they got older, I told them about Kris Kringle and how he did the Santa thing when he was alive...
  25. Thread: Vegan athletes

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    Vegan athletes

    Any athletes out there? I have been athletic for most of my life and been vegan for three years. I am just starting to see a drop in my energy levels. Had to back off and recuperate a little longer...
  26. Re: if you could change anything about the way you raised your child...

    Nothing. They are growing up into responsible, sensitive, loving, and wonderful adults. Mistakes have been made, but they were corrected along the way and made a positive impact on them and me. It...
  27. Thread: Vegan snacks

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    Re: Bedtime Snack

    Sleepy time tea is really good. Anything with valerian or skullcap (herbs) will do too (the main ingredient in the tea).
    My ritual for getting to sleep is knitting lately. Calms my thinking down to...
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    Poll: Re: How much organic stuff in your life?

    Last week I learned a lesson about reading the stickers on the organic fruit. I bought some organic oranges (mostly for the zest part in my muffins) and as I was washing the oranges one had a 4...
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    Re: Cravings~Don't give in...

    When I have cravings, I start looking for what my body is trying to tell me. Is it the calcium that I need? or the protein? or even the vitamin D and K that is added? I then try to eat the foods that...
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    Re: Any vegan parents out there?

    All the other things I would have had to do when my kids were younger if we, our family,went vegan way back then. Our vegan family now consists of a 17, 15, 13, and 11 year old. We've been vegan for...
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    Poll: Re: How much organic stuff in your life?

    Where is the choice of:

    I buy organic all the time.

    I buy organic, or not at all. I will wait for weeks for a pepper to come into the store, and just like now for organic lemons. I buy not only...
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