The Vegan and Vegetarian Secrets Blog …

According to the Nutrition Research Center, this is what happens to your body within 1 hour of drinking a can of soda:

 -10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system, which is 100 percent of your recommended daily intake. You’d normally vomit from such an intake, but the phosphoric acid cuts the flavor.

-20 minutes: Your blood sugar skyrockets. Your liver attempts to maximize insulin production in order to turn high levels of sugar into fat.

-40 minutes: As your body finishes absorbing the caffeine, your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, and your liver pumps more sugar into the bloodstream. Adenosine receptors in your brain are blocked preventing you from feeling how tired you may actually be.

 -45 minutes: Your body increases dopamine production, causing you to feel pleasure and adding to the addictiveness of the beverage. This physical neuro response works the same way as it would if we were consuming heroin.

>60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, which boosts your metabolism a bit further. High doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners compound this effect, increasing the urinary excretion of calcium. The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (You have to GO!) Your body will eliminate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was otherwise heading to your bones. And you will also flush out the sodium, electrolytes and water. Your body has eliminated the water that was in the soda. And in the process it was infused with nutrients and minerals your body would have otherwise used to hydrate your system or build body cells, bones, teeth.

-60 minutes: The sugar crash begins. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You start feeling like crap. Time to grab another?

If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the U.S. would save:

• 100 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the homes in New England for almost 4 months;
• 1.5 billion pounds of crops otherwise fed to livestock, enough to feed the state of New Mexico for more than a year;
• 70 million gallons of gas — enough to fuel all the cars of Canada and Mexico combined with plenty to spare;
• 3 million acres of land, an area more than twice the size of Delaware;
• 33 tons of antibiotics.

If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the U.S. would prevent:

• Greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 1.2 million tons of CO2, as much as produced by all of France;
• 3 million tons of soil erosion and $70 million in resulting economic damages;
• 4.5 million tons of animal excrement;
• Almost 7 tons of ammonia emissions, a major air pollutant.

Sourced by: Kathy Freston

Imagine if the world went vegan for one day… We could save the environment, your health, world hunger and the animals.

Ref:  Animal Freedom Day

Check out the below details all about cucumbers…

1. Cucumbers contain most of the vitamins you need every day, just one cucumber contains Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Zinc.

2. Feeling tired in the afternoon, put down the caffeinated soda and pick up a cucumber. Cucumbers are a good source of B Vitamins and Carbohydrates that can provide that quick pick-me-up that can last for hours.

3. Tired of your bathroom mirror fogging up after a shower? Try rubbing a cucumber slice along the mirror, it will eliminate the fog and provide a soothing, spa-like fragrance..

4. Are grubs and slugs ruining your planting beds? Place a few slices in a small pie tin and your garden will be free of pests all season long. The chemicals in the cucumber react with the aluminum to give off a scent undetectable to humans but drive garden pests crazy and make them flee the area. (WOW)

5. Looking for a fast and easy way to remove cellulite before going out or to the pool? Try rubbing a slice or two of cucumbers along your problem area for a few minutes, the phytochemicals in the cucumber cause the collagen in your skin to tighten, firming up the outer layer and reducing the visibility of cellulite. Works great on wrinkles too!!! (DOUBLE WOW)

6.. Want to avoid a hangover or terrible headache? Eat a few cucumber slices before going to bed and wake up refreshed and headache free. Cucumbers contain enough sugar, B vitamins and electrolytes to replenish essential nutrients the body lost, keeping everything in equilibrium, avoiding both a hangover and headache!!

7. Looking to fight off that afternoon or evening snacking binge? Cucumbers have been used for centuries and often used by European trappers, traders and explores for quick meals to thwart off starvation.

8. Have an important meeting or job interview and you realize that you don’t have enough time to polish your shoes? Rub a freshly cut cucumber over the shoe, its chemicals will provide a quick and durable shine that not only looks great but also repels water.

9. Out of WD 40 and need to fix a squeaky hinge? Take a cucumber sliced rub it along the problematic hinge, and voila, the squeak is gone!

10. Stressed out and don’t have time for massage, facial or visit to the spa? Cut up an entire cucumber and place it in a boiling pot of water, the chemicals and nutrients from the cucumber with react with the boiling water and be released in the steam, creating a soothing, relaxing aroma that has been shown the reduce stress in new mothers and college students during final exams.

11. Just finish a business lunch and realize you don’t have gum or mints? Take a slice of cucumber and press it to the roof of your mouth with your tongue for 30 seconds to eliminate bad breath, the phytochemcials will kill the bacteria in your mouth responsible for causing bad breath.

12. Looking for a ‘green’ way to clean your faucets, sinks or stainless steel? Take a slice of cucumber and rub it on the surface you want to clean, not only will it remove years of tarnish and bring back the shine, but is won’t leave streaks and won’t harm you fingers or fingernails while you clean.

13. Using a pen and made a mistake? Take the outside of the cucumber and slowly use it to erase the pen writing, also works great on crayons and markers that the kids have used to decorate the walls!!

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

—James A. Froude, English historian (1818–1894)

Do you know what all of these listed foods have in common?

• Asparagus
• Bananas
• Berries
• Carrots
• Chili peppers
• Chocolate
• Ginger
• Licorice
• Nuts
• Pumpkin
• Soy

Well …. Many healthy vegan foods are loaded with natural ‘aphrodisiacs’ — nutrients and chemicals that boost your and your partner’s sexual arousal and performance.

Research has shown that vegetarians enjoy greater amounts of the nutrients that help boost sexual health and performance — such as vitamins A, C, and E and potassium–than meat-eaters do.

To find out exactly what the above foods can do for you or your lover visit PETAs ‘GoVeg’ site today.

The survival of civilization has been threatened by nearly five millennia of testosterone-driven patriarchal authoritarian dominance. This one-sided distortion in leadership has led to a gravely out-of-balance world that emphasizes the masculine trait of protection at the expense of the feminine’s life-giving contributions for growth….In order to restore life and vitality to our world, it is now necessary to reintegrate the complementary values of the Sacred Feminie.

  ~ Spontaneous Evolution

The world is dangerous not because of those who do harm, but because of those who look at it without doing anything. 

~ Albert Einstein

 

The testing began… and the verdict is in…

I’m officially IN LOVE with ‘Go Max Go Foods’ new Candy Bars, bugger finding myself a handsome vegan prince to kiss (well at least right at this very nano-second anyways, lol)… this gal’s got it sorted on those cool Aussie nights with her new favourite friend and self-proclaimed vegan product of The Year.

Drum-roll please… The vegan version of a ‘Snickers Bar’.

Let me start by saying that unlike men, these babies won’t ever make me cry, unless they disappear off the market that is (*No offence guys, I love you, but until I have the honor of actually being kissed and swept off my feet by the veggie prince of my dreams I guess I’ll be reveling with my alternate Beloved a little while yet… ‘Vegan Chocolate’ (giggles) cause these candy bars make me VERY HAPPY. Infact I think they send me into some kind of psychedelic vegan trance they are that Wickedly Good.

“Thanks Go Max Go Foods” you’ve made my heart sing so very much louder with these Spectacular Chocolate Creations! But don’t take my word for it folks, read more about them below and discover just how tempting they truly are then go out there and get your veggie rocks off with these sinfully luscious treats.

I’ll see you on the other side of my self-induced-vegan-snickers-coma. So if I don’t come out alive you’ll know I’ve died a very happy lil vegan munchkin!

These Candy bars will literally ROCK Your World…

‘Go Max Go Foods’ candy bars are covered with their signature-recipe rice-milk chocolate. Light and lovely, it makes dairy-milk chocolate positively passé. Four fantastic chocolate flavoured bars to choose from, this will get your senses drooling…

If your idea of the perfect candy bar is layers of dry roasted peanuts, buttery-tasting caramel, and rich peanut nougat, sweetly wrapped in a delicious chocolately coating, then smile BIG because, the Jokerz™ bar is the one for you – a vegan Snickers bar that is extraordinarily tantilizing, better than the real deal from what I remember of my carni days and as I said before my new best friend. It’s more-ish people, you’ll love it (unless you don’t… in which case I can’t help you anymore and you may need to stop reading this post now and go get test’s done to see if your taste-buds are in correct working order). 

Next up is the Buccaneer™ bar which is rich, fluffy, chocolately nougat covered in a creamy chocolately coating, and it’s the vegan version of a ‘milky way bar’. The kids will love this one, I did and I’m a big kid so just take my word for it okay!

Now imagine that same rich, fluffy, chocolately nougat topped with a layer of thick, buttery-tasting caramel all wrapped up in a very creamy, rice-milk chocolate coating. If this gives you sweet dreams of traditional ‘Mars Bars’, then the Twilight™ bar is what you need to sink your teeth into (it’ll blow your mind back to your liquid meat dairy-eating days that’s for sure but without the foul aftertaste of pus filled dairy milk that is left behind – Cruelty Free all the way here folks – how sweet the song).  

And last but not least if you crave a gently sweetened moist and tender coconut candy bar topped with three whole dry roasted almonds and covered in a luscious chocolately coating… hang out in your own Heavenly bliss with this veganized version of a ‘Bounty Bar’ called the Mahalo™. It’s absolutely sublime and fit for the Gods.

Hmmm, I’m getting delirious just writing about these vegan prodigy’s, but before I go and succumb to more of my chocolate filled fantasies let me finish up by saying that I highly recommend you taste your way to Paradise with all four of these seductive sensations. Enjoy BUT be WARNED however as all of these babies are feverishly ADDICTIVE, so tread carefully if you so choose and don’t send yourself to hospital from a vegan chocolate overdose (hehe), but then again I might just see you in the waiting room cause I think by the time I’m finished with these naughty little treats myself I’ll be up for a doctors appointment to recover and bring me back to reality from my own cosmosis anyways.

So as you can see, I’ve unashamedly been totally Seduced by the simple things in life yet again and to be frank I’d gleefully let ’Go Max’ hitch a ride on the back of my scooter anytime, at this point infact I’m hoping and praying that Max will add more treats to the selection in the future. I for one can’t wait for the next climax to arrive!

Peace and Happy Indulgence to You,
Rebecca

PS> And yes in case you are wondering, I’ve given up and surrendered ‘My Vegan Prince Charming’ fantasy for Go Max, he’s got me hooked and today that’s good enough for me.

Manufacturer: www.GoMaxGoFoods.com

Grab yours in Oz from: www.CrueltyFreeShop.com.au