ARTICLES AND RESEARCH

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• Staying Healthy and Living a Vegan Lifestyle
  This is a really great one-page summary of the benefits of living a vegan lifestyle for us, the animals, and the environment. I especially like all of the links to more detailed information, including medical information, animal welfare information, and even being vegan on a budget! Thanks to Kathy and Kate for sharing this resource!

• National Institute of Health Nutrition Update for Physicians: Plant-Based Diets
  Excerpt: Physicians should consider recommending a plant-based diet to all their patients, especially those with high blood pressure, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or obesity.
   

• Plant-based Diets (NutritionFacts.org)
  Excerpt: The #1 killer in the US – heart disease – was found to be almost nonexistent in populations with diets centered around whole plant foods. Heart disease may be effectively treated with a plant-based diet...A plant-based diet may also help in averting and/or slowing certain cancers (like breast cancer, prostate cancer, cervical cancer, colon cancer, as well as BPH, benign prostatic hypertrophy). This is in part because plant foods contain anti-aging, anti-cancer antioxidants (on average 64 times more than animal foods,  fiber, and phytochemicals, which in some cases can even help repair DNA damage.

• Muscling Out the Meat Myth, Dr. T. Colin Campbell, author of The China Study
  Excerpt: There’s hardly another myth in nutrition so insidious yet so intractable as that which encourages us to believe that consuming lots of high-quality protein– basically the stuff of animal-based foods – makes for fitness, bigness, and strength of body.
  

• CNN Interactive Obesity Map, 1985 - 2006
  Click on each year and see how obesity is growing throughout the U.S.
  

• Vegetarian Diets From the viewpoint of Preventive Medicine and Dietics (International Vegetarian Union)
  Excerpt: A vegetarian diet is now scientifically recognized as being effective in the prevention of adult disease.
  

• Can Genetically Engineered Foods Trigger Gluten Sensitivity?
  Excerpt: Wheat is not a genetically modified organism (GMO). But evidence suggests that genetically modified foods, such as soy and corn, may help explain the recent explosion of gluten-related disorders, which now affect up to 18 million Americans.
  

• Just Because Science Can Genetically Engineer Foods, Doesn't Mean We Should, Forbes Magazine
  Excerpt: Science has a credibility problem.  It has for too long been used to distort food and twist the natural into long lasting Twinkies and nutritionally void Lunchables. 
  

• Rearing cattle produces more greenhouse gases than driving cars, UN report warns
  Excerpt: Cattle-rearing generates more global warming greenhouse gases, as measured in CO2 equivalent, than transportation...Livestock are one of the most significant contributors to today’s most serious environmental problems.