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Health & Nutrition from A-Z

We began this archive as a means of assisting our visitors in answering many of their health and diet questions, and in encouraging them to take a pro-active part in their own health.  We believe the articles and information contained herein are true, but are not presenting them as advice.  We, personally, have found that a vegan diet has helped our own health, and simply wish to share with others the things we have found.   Each of us must make our own decisions, for it's our own body.  If you have a health problem, consult your physician or health care consultant.

Table of Contents

Alcohol

~Sodium, Caffeine, and Alcohol

Alzheimer's Disease

~Alzheimer's Disease

~Alzheimer�s Disease Can Be Safely Prevented and Treated Now

Amino Acids

~Plant Foods Have A Complete Amino Acid Composition

Angioplasy

~The Angioplasty Debacle

Apnea

~Sleep Apnea: Too Fat to Breathe

Arthritis

~Arthritis

~Foods and Arthritis
~Other Health Benefits
~Preventive Medicine and Nutrition: Arthritis

Asthma

~Information on Vegan Diets

Atherosclerosis

~Atherosclerosis

Atkins

~Atkins Scientific Research � Deceit and Disappointment
~Low-Carb Diets Take a Punch
~THE SKINNY ON ATKINS
~THE SKINNY ON ATKINS � (Part II)

Autism

~Review of the Evidence that Diet Causes Autism

Bacteria

~Beneficial Bowel Bacteria � Our Neglected Friends

Blood Pressure

~Over-treat Your Blood Pressure and You Could Die Sooner

Blood Type Diet

~Eat Right for Your Type?

Body Building

~Weightlifters Add Beef to Muscles Without Eating it

Bones

~Parents' Guide to Building Better Bones

Caffeine and Coffee

~Coffee � Pleasure and Pain
~Sodium, Caffeine, and Alcohol

Calcium

~Calcium
~Calcium and Strong Bones

~
Calcium Does Not Benefit Children
~Calcium in Plant-Based Diets

~Calcium in the Vegan Diet
~Parents' Guide to Building Better Bones
~Preventing and Reversing Osteoporosis
~Vegetarian Starter Kit: Vegetarian Foods: Powerful for Health

Cancer

~Breast Cancer Statistics

~Breast Cancer Truths and Dairy Lies
~Cancer and IGF-1: Another Reason to Avoid Milk
~Cancer and the Vegetarian Diet
~Cancer Prevention and Survival: Food Choices for Health
~Cancer Prevention and Survival: Food Choices for Health - Part 2
~Cancer Prevention and Survival: Food Choices for Health - Prostate Cancer
~Cancer Prevention and Survival: Women and Cancer�Opportunities for Prevention
~Fish Promotes Breast Cancer
~Foods for Cancer Prevention
~Heart Disease, Cancer, Stroke
~Information on Vegan Diets

~Milk and the Cancer Connection
~Other Health Benefits
~Prostate Cancer
~Saving Yourself from Cancer � the Prostate (case in point)
~The Atkins' Cancer Revolution
~Vegetarian Starter Kit: Vegetarian Foods: Powerful for Health
~What's Wrong With Dairy Products?

Carbohydrates

~Carbohydrates and Fiber
~Study shows high-carb, vegan diet causes major weight loss

Casein

~Casein Protein - The Dangers

Children

~Feeding Vegan Kids
~Vegetarian Diets for Children: Right from the Start


Cholesterol

~Cholesterol
~Cholesterol and Heart Disease

~Controlling Cholesterol
~Saturated Fat Affects More Than Your Cholesterol
~What is the Most Effective and Safest Way to Lower Your Cholesterol as Determined by Scientific Studies?
~In Cholesterol Lowering, Moderation Kills

Colon Cancer

~Colon Polyps and Colon Cancer

Coronary Artery Disease

~Changing the Treatment Paradigm for Coronary Artery Disease: Shifting the Paradigm
~More Than Coronary Artery Disease: Making the Change
~Resolving the Coronary Artery Disease Epidemic through Plant-Based Nutrition


Coumadin

~Coumadin, Vitamin K, and a Plant-Based Diet

Crohn's Disease

~Paratuberculosis and Crohn's Disease: Got Milk?

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)

Dairy

~Breaking the Food Seduction
~Breast Cancer Statistics

~Breast Cancer Truths and Dairy Lies
~Calcium
~Cancer and IGF-1: Another Reason to Avoid Milk
~Cow's Milk: A Natural Choice?
~Cow's Milk May Raise Type 1 Diabetes Risk
~Dairy Products Avoidance
~Dangers Of Milk And Dairy Products - The Facts
~Don't Drink Your Milk!
~Marketing Milk and Disease
~Milk and the Cancer Connection
~Paratuberculosis and Crohn's Disease: Got Milk?
~Parents' Guide to Building Better Bones
~Perspectives on Dairy
~Saving Yourself from Cancer � the Prostate (case in point)
~Say 'No Way' To Milk Whey Protein
~The Pancreas � Under Attack by Cow-Milk

~The Pus-Bacteria Moustache Marketing Milk & Disease
~Vegetarian Starter Kit: What about Milk?

~What's Wrong With Dairy Products?

DHA

~DHA benefits nervous system function, cardiovascular health

Diabetes

~Can a Vegan Diet Cure Diabetes?
~Cow's Milk May Raise Type 1 Diabetes Risk
~Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for reversing diabetes

~Diabetes

~Diabetes Case History
~Diet and Diabetes
~Diet and Diabetes
~Diabetes and Low-Fat Vegan Diet
~Information on Vegan Diets
~NZers urged to beat diabetes by opting for vegan-style diet
~Other Health Benefits
~REVERSING DIABETES: Harnessing the Power Within  Ourselves
~REVERSING DIABETES: With a Low Fat Vegan Diet
~Spotlight on Diabetes
~The Pancreas � Under Attack by Cow-Milk
~Type-2 Diabetes � The Expected Adaptation to Over-Nutrition

~Vegan Diet Good for Type 2 Diabetes
~Vegan Diet Reverses Diabetes Symptoms
~Vegetarian Starter Kit: Vegetarian Foods: Powerful for Health

~VegVine - Instant Veggie Enlightenment
~What's Wrong With Dairy Products?

Diet

~Atkins Diet Alert

~Breaking the Food Seduction
~Carbohydrates and Fiber
~Debunking the "Zone Diet"
~Diet and Diabetes
~Health Risks of High-Protein Diets
~Information on Vegan Diets
~Lose a Half Pound a Day by Correcting Your Setpoint
~Multiple Sclerosis
~On Becoming Vegan
~PLANT-BASED NUTRITION
~Proof that the Atkins Diet Works Like Chemotherapy By Sickness-Induced Starvation
~Protein
~Sodium, Caffeine, and Alcohol
~Study shows high-carb, vegan diet causes major weight loss
~The Atkins' Cancer Revolution

~The South Beach Diet
~Veganism in a Nutshell
~Vegetarian Diets for Children: Right from the Start
~Vegetarian Starter Kit: Foods That May Be New to You
~Vegetarian Starter Kit: Vegetarian Diets for Pregnancy
~Vegetarian Starter Kit: Vegetarian Foods: Powerful for Health
~Vegetarian Starter Kit: What about Milk?
~We Endorse the things that make you feel and look your best: Low-Fat, Vegan Diets, Daily Exercise, and Love

Digestion

~Straining for Relief � Damage Everywhere

Diverticulitis

~Diet Causes Diverticular Disease
~Straining for Relief � Damage Everywhere

Eggs

~Eggs Are For Easter

Fats and Oils

~CHEWING THE FAT ON FATTY ACIDS AND FISH OIL
~Essential Fatty Acids
~Fat and Cholesterol: Primary Poisons
~Fish and Shellfish: Contamination Problems Preclude Inclusion in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans
~Fish Oil Doesn�t Help Heart Attack Patients in Biggest Study
~JAMA Studies Missing the Mark
~MYTH: Vegetable Oils are Healthful
~Saturated Fat Affects More Than Your Cholesterol
~The fat you eat, is the fat you wear
~The Truth about Olive Oil

~Turn Off the Fat Genes
~Vegetable Fat as Medicine
~Why Do You Avoid Adding Vegetable Oils?

Fiber

~Straining for Relief � Damage Everywhere

~Carbohydrates and Fiber


Fish

~Confessions of a Fish Killer
~Fish and Shellfish: Contamination Problems Preclude Inclusion in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans

~Fish Can Cause You Heart Disease
~Fish is Not Health Food
~Fish Oil Doesn�t Help Heart Attack Patients in Biggest Study
~Fish Promotes Breast Cancer
~New Study Finds Eating Fish Does Not Protect the Heart

Folic Acid

~Folic Acid Supplements are a Health Hazard

Food

~Carbohydrates and Fiber
~Foodborne Illness

~Foods and Arthritis
~Foods for Cancer Prevention

~How to Eat Right to Reduce Stress
~Seven Best and Seven Worst Foods

Gout
~Gout is on the Rise

Green Tea
~
L-Theanine: How a Unique Anxiety Reducer and Mood Enhancer Increases Alpha Waves and Alertness

Hair Loss

~Hair Loss?

Headaches

~Headaches

Heart Health and Disease

~Atherosclerosis
~Changing the Treatment Paradigm for Coronary Artery Disease: Shifting the Paradigm
~Cholesterol and Heart Disease

~Cholesterol as Determined by Scientific Studies?

~Heart Disease, Cancer, Stroke
~Information on Vegan Diets
~More Than Coronary Artery Disease: Making the Change
~Other Health Benefits
~Resolving the Coronary Artery Disease Epidemic through Plant-Based Nutrition
~The Atkins' Cancer Revolution
~Top U.S. Cardiologist Spreads Vegan Message in India
~Vegetarian Starter Kit: Vegetarian Foods: Powerful for Health
~What's Wrong With Dairy Products?
~What is the Most Effective and Safest Way to Lower Your Cholesterol as Determined by Scientific Studies?

High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

~High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
~Vegetarian Starter Kit: Vegetarian Foods: Powerful for Health

High Protein Diets

~Low-Carb Diets Take a Punch
~THE GREAT DEBATE: HIGH VS. LOW PROTEIN DIETS

~We Endorse the things that make you feel and look your best: Low-Fat, Vegan Diets, Daily Exercise, and Love

Homeopathy

~Homeopathy � Still Crazy After All These Years
~Homeopathy: A Position Statement by the National Council Against Health Fraud (1994)

~The True Story of Oscillococcinum

Homocysteine

~Folic Acid Supplements are a Health Hazard

Hormone Replacement

~Hormone Replacement

IGF-1

~Cancer and IGF-1: Another Reason to Avoid Milk
~Don't Drink Your Milk!
~Milk and the Cancer Connection

Iron

~Iron

~Iron Content of Some Plant Foods
~Iron in the Vegan Diet

Irritable Bowel Syndrome

~Chained to the Bathroom - The McDougall Newsletter

Kidneys
~Red meat ups kidney cancer risk
~Save Your Kidneys�Part 1

Liver
~The Liver � Savior from Our Own Abuses

Low Fat Diets

~JAMA Studies Missing the Mark

Macular Degeneration

~Macular Degeneration: Blind from the Western Diet

Mad Cow Disease

~Mad Cow Disease

~Mad Cow Disease Articles

Magnesium

~Preventing and Reversing Osteoporosis

McDougall

~Atkins Scientific Research � Deceit and Disappointment

~Fish Can Cause You Heart Disease
~Fish Promotes Breast Cancer
~Gout is on the Rise
~Introduction to New McDougall Book � The Starch Solution
~Just a little More about Starch and The Starch Solution
~The 10 Most Important Health Reports of 2004
~The Liver � Savior from Our Own Abuses
~The Starch Solution

Meat

~Breast Cancer Statistics
~Meat in the Human Diet

~Saving Yourself from Cancer � the Prostate (case in point)

Medications

~NutritionMD.org
~Sick People Take Medications � Healthy People Are Drug-Free

Menopause

~Menopause

Menstruation

~Menstrual Pain

Migraines

~Migraines

Multiple Sclerosis

~Multiple Sclerosis

Myths about Vegetarianism

~Myths about Vegetarianism

Nutrition

~NutritionMD.org
~PLANT-BASED NUTRITION


Oils

~CHEWING THE FAT ON FATTY ACIDS AND FISH OIL
~Essential Fatty Acids
~Fish and Shellfish: Contamination Problems Preclude Inclusion in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans
~Fish Oil Doesn�t Help Heart Attack Patients in Biggest Study
~JAMA Studies Missing the Mark
~Multiple Sclerosis
~MYTH: Vegetable Oils are Healthful
~Saturated Fat Affects More Than Your Cholesterol
~The fat you eat, is the fat you wear
~The Truth about Olive Oil

~Turn Off the Fat Genes
~Vegetable Fat as Medicine
~Why Do You Avoid Adding Vegetable Oils?


Omega 3's

~DHA benefits nervous system function, cardiovascular health
~Essential Fatty Acids
~Fish and Shellfish: Contamination Problems Preclude Inclusion in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans
~Fish Oil Doesn�t Help Heart Attack Patients in Biggest Study

Osteoporosis

~Calcium and Strong Bones
~Got Osteoporosis?
~Information on Vegan Diets

~OSTEOPOROSIS
~Osteoporosis
~Other Health Benefits
~Preventing and Reversing Osteoporosis
~Resisting the Broken Bone Businesses: Bone Mineral Density Tests and the Drugs That Follow
~What's Wrong With Dairy Products?

Parkinson's Disease

~
Dairy Products Linked to Parkinson's Disease
~Does a vegan diet reduce risk for Parkinson's disease?
~Parkinson's Disease

~Parkinson's Disease and a Plant Based Diet
~Parkinson�s Disease and Other Diet-induced Tremors
~
Vegan Diet May Reduce Parkinson's Risk

Pain

~Menstrual Pain

~Migraines

Pollution and Pesticides

~A Cesspool of Pollutants: Now Is the Time to Clean-up Your Body

Potatoes

~Potatoes Are Pillars of Worldwide Nutrition

Pregnancy

~
Feeding Vegan Kids
~Pregnancy and the Vegan Diet

~Vegan Nutrition in Pregnancy and Childhood
~Vegetarian Starter Kit: Vegetarian Diets for Pregnancy

Prostate

~Cancer Prevention and Survival: Food Choices for Health - Prostate Cancer
~Prostate Cancer
~Prostate Trouble: Steps to Improving the Flow
~Saving Yourself from Cancer � the Prostate (case in point)

Protein

~A Brief History of Protein: Passion, Social Bigotry, Rats, and Enlightenment~Health Risks of High-Protein Diets
~Casein Protein - The Dangers

~
Complementary Protein Myth Won't Go Away!
~Plant Foods Have A Complete Amino Acid Composition

~Proof that the Atkins Diet Works Like Chemotherapy By Sickness-Induced Starvation
~Protein
~Protein in the Vegan Diet
~Protein Myth
~Protein Overload
~The Atkins' Cancer Revolution
~The Great Debate: High vs. Low Protein Diets
~The South Beach Diet
~Where do you get your protein

Renal Disease

~Nutrition and Renal Disease

Saturated Fats

~Saturated Fat Affects More Than Your Cholesterol

Sleep Apnea

~Sleep Apnea: Too Fat to Breathe

Sodium

~Sodium, Caffeine, and Alcohol


Soy

~Soy � Food, Wonder Drug, or Poison?

~Soy and Your Health

Starch Solution

~Introduction to New McDougall Book � The Starch Solution
~The Starch Solution

~Just a little More about Starch and The Starch Solution

Stress

~How to Eat Right to Reduce Stress

Stroke

~Heart Disease, Cancer, Stroke

Sugar

~Sugar, Coated with Myths

Surgery

~American Association of Endocrine Surgeons Presidential Address: Beyond Surgery

Thyroid

~Iodine and Thyroid Function
~Thyroid Deficiency Strikes One in Six

Vegan Body Building

~Weightlifters Add Beef to Muscles Without Eating it

Vegan Diets

~Can a Vegan Diet Cure Diabetes?
~Information on Vegan Diets
~PLANT-BASED NUTRITION
~Protein
~Seven Best and Seven Worst Foods
~Study shows high-carb, vegan diet causes major weight loss

~Veganism in a Nutshell
~Vegetarian Diets for Children: Right from the Start
~Vegetarian Starter Kit: Foods That May Be New to You
~Vegetarian Starter Kit: Vegetarian Diets for Pregnancy
~Vegetarian Starter Kit: Vegetarian Foods: Powerful for Health
~Vegetarian Starter Kit: What about Milk?
~We Endorse the things that make you feel and look your best: Low-Fat, Vegan Diets, Daily Exercise, and Love
~What's Wrong With Dairy Products?

Vegetable Fats and Oils

~VEGETABLE FAT AS MEDICINE

Vitamins and Minerals

~Iron

~Iron Content of Some Plant Foods
~Iron in the Vegan Diet
~Parents' Guide to Building Better Bones
~Plants, not Pills, for Vitamins and Minerals

~Vitamin B12 Deficiency�the Meat-eaters� Last Stand
~Vitamin B12 in the Vegan Diet

~Vitamin D recommendations have been raised, but not enough
~Vitamin D: Values for Normal Are Exaggerated
~Vitamin D2 Is as Effective as Vitamin D3 in Maintaining Circulating Concentrations of 25-Hydroxyvitamin D
~Vitamins and Minerals
~What makes Dr. Fuhrman's Eat To Live Formula Unique

Water

~Water
~Wake Up To Water

Weight and Weight Loss

~Atkins Diet Alert

~Lose a Half Pound a Day by Correcting Your Setpoint
~Permanent Weight Control
~Proof that the Atkins Diet Works Like Chemotherapy By Sickness-Induced Starvation
~The Atkins' Cancer Revolution

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The Meat Free Zone (MFZ) campaign is intended to make the MeatFreeZone logo as recognizable a symbol as the "Smoke Free Zone". The idea was originally conceived  when The WARM Store in Woodstock, NY, was in operation throughout the '90's (Woodstock Animal Rights Movement).  The store was truly a meat free zone as it was the first cruelty-free, Vegan, socially conscious animal rights store in the United States.  Now  that  the Vegan and Vegetarian movements have been growing so rapidly, more and more people are showing concern about the food in their diet and their overall  health and nutrition.  Many people are giving up eating fish, chicken, beef, pork (pigs ), dairy (milk, cheese, yogurt, ice cream) and eggs.  Headlines of Mad Cow disease, E-coli and salmonella are in the news with greater frequency.  Vegan and vegetarian recipe cookbooks are standard now  in all bookstores and many restaurants have added Vegan and Vegetarian options to their menus. We hope you will help us with the Meat Free Zone campaign by putting the signs up in your homes and workplaces and by spreading them to all the vegetarian and vegan restaurants that you know and frequent.  And someday we will have true "meat free zones" in establishments that serve meat. (d-5)

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