The Vegan and Vegetarian Secrets Blog …

Isn’t it a delight that Veganism truly continues to flow and grow all over the Globe.

Are you continuing to commit to a life of cruelty-free living by actually showing others what Veganism really is, rather than keeping your thoughts to yourself?

Just how much DO you want to bring Ethical Living into your life and the World around you?

How serious ARE you about living the life of an ethical consumer and helping educate others in a positive manner about cruelty-free revelations?

It’s pretty simple really … after all vegan living is so much easier on your health, the environment and we can never forget about the animals lives it saves along the way. So have fun, enjoy vegan living, and continue to show your own *ethical* message to the world (in whatever way you feel is appropriate or needed). After all in my humble opinion sometimes us humans need a little *shaking* to wake up from our immunity and sleepwalking through life to be shown the REAL Issues in today’s world.

Continue to show the world by your own example, as Gandhi said, “You must be the Change you want to see in the World.”

It’s that simple, it can be that easy, and so why then do so many fall by the way side? Because they don’t understand just how powerful they really are when living by example.

They think creating a life of ethicalness must surely involve some more complicated strategies, or worse yet depletion of one’s favorite foods!

There are doubters and there are believers. Where do YOU stand?

Doubters continue to doubt and their life remains the same, believers create and manifest and their lives change for the betterment of al of humanity and continue to do so along the journey each and every day.

Believe in the simplicity, believe in the power, believe in yourself and above all (also well state by Gandhi)…

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”

Now I personally feel the above statement to be true as a vegan, for example I might not be-able to neither help nor save ALL the Animals out there that need a voice, however the ones I can and do save from torture, death and cruelty are forever gracious for a life of peace and harmony in return. So make sure you keep at it my vegan friends, give it all you’ve got to give, then some more…  In this time of universal deceit, telling the truth and especially showing it is such a revolutionary act on behalf of the entire Planet… it’s such a selfless compassionate quest that it cannot be mistaken for anything but NOBILITY and an absolute Blessing to Mother Earth!

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?

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!!

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Do you drink soy milk or eat tofu? You might be drinking toxic chemicals found in soybeans sourced from China (but called “natural” or “organic”).

NaturalNews was a contributing source to the Cornucopia Institute’s new soy product scorecard that reveals the astonishing lack of integrity by some of the most famous soy product companies in the world. At the same time, this report also tells you which soy companies have integrity! Read it yourself to learn about the winners and losers in the soy industry:

http://www.NaturalNews.com/026294.html

Vegan and Vegetarian Living lifestyles and food are becoming so popular these days that we are often getting questions about what kinds of foods to keep on hand in the pantry or for those emergencies.

When maintaining a healthy whole-foods vegetarian or vegan diet it’s essential to have a well-stocked pantry, you may be wondering what should be kept in the pantry and on hand so as to never run out of cooking ideas and flavors for my meal preparation.

Well if you’d like to make your veg*n life a little easier in the kitchen, then look no further at this list of ‘must-haves’, which are the basics of a well stocked whole-foods pantry. No matter what form of diet you are following these basics will come in handy for you always.

–> Pantry Basics and Food Staples <–

Spices and herbs of all kinds like…

As for the other items that will come in handy no matter what diet you follow, keep these on hand as well and you’ll always be-able to mix up a quick meal easily…

• Pasta Sauces
• Tomato Paste
• Diced Tomatoes
• Tomato sauce or ketchup
• Wasabi Paste
• Tabasco Sauce
• Soy/Rice/Hemp/Nut Milks
• Canned Beans (chickpea, butter beans, kidney etc.)
• Brown/Jasmine/Basmati Rice
• Sun-Dried Tomatoes
• Seaweeds (Arame, Nori, Dulse)
• Red Wine Vinegar
• Apple Cider Vinegar
• Balsamic Vinegar
• White Wine Vinegar
• Brown Rice Vinegar
• Bragg’s Liquid Aminos
• Tamari Soy Sauce
• Extra-Virgin Olive Oil
• Coconut Oil
• Sesame Oil
• Agave Nectar
• Maple Syrup
• Brown Rice Syrup
• Miso Paste
• Vegetable stock cubes, powder or liquid
• Vanilla Extract
• Coconut
• Baking Soda
• Organic Sugar
• Non-Aluminum Baking Powder
• Cornstarch
• Organic flour/s
• Cocoa/Carob Powder
• Grains
• Nuts and Seeds
• Rolled oats
• Egg Replacer

So there you have it, our top list of basics to get you started along with your vegan or vegetarian meal planning. With the above list of foods in your cupboard and any fresh fruits and vegetables you will never fall short of a hearty, delicious healthy vegan or vegetarian meal no matter what.

Here’s an interesting ‘Meaty’ story published in The Age today:

A steady diet of red meat makes the body more susceptible to a virulent form of intestinal bug that can cause bloody diarrhoea and even death, according to a study to be published on Thursday.

Researchers in the United States and Australia said persistently eating red meat appears to prime the body for exposure to this potent form of Escherichia coli (E. coli).

The meat naturally contains sugar molecules called Neu5Gc that accumulate in cells lining the intestines and blood vessels.

These molecules also act as a sort of magnet for the toxins exuded by the E. coli strain, thus making it easier for the poisons to enter the blood stream, they said.

“Prior meat eating would set one up for the toxin to bind when it shows up,” explained Ajit Varki, a researcher at the University of California at San Diego, one of the study’s co-authors.

The Neu5Gc molecule is virtually absent in other foods such as fish, poultry and vegetables and fruits, Varki told AFP in an email exchange.

The investigation, published in the London-based journal Nature, is led by Travis Beddoe of Monash University in Melbourne.

In experiments, the team first tested the affinity of the E. coli bacteria for Neu5Gc using cultured human cells in a lab dish.

“The human samples showed the presence of the Neu5Gc toxin binding sites in the gut and the kidney, the two target organs for the disease,” said Varki.

The researchers then confirmed the positive results using genetically modified mice in which the gene which naturally produced Neu5Gc was suppressed.

E. coli is found in the lower intestine of animals and humans. Many of its strains are harmless, but others can cause serious, sometimes fatal health problems.

There are about 75,000 cases of E. coli-related to food poisoning every year in the United States, including an average of 60 fatalities, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia.

Most outbreaks have been traced to undercooked ground beef tainted with faecal matter post-slaughter.

E. coli can also be transmitted through unwashed vegetables grown in farmland irrigated by sewage-contaminated water. 

ScienceDaily (July 18, 2008) — Many heavy meat eaters believe they eat a lot of meat because of the taste. But according to groundbreaking new research the reason that a beef burger tastes better than a veggie burger to some people has more to do with values than actual taste.
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Authors Michael W. Allen (University of Sydney), Richa Gupta (University of Nashville), and Arnaud Monnier (National Engineer School for Food Industries and Management, France) conducted a series of studies that examined the symbolic meaning of foods and beverages. They found that when it came to tasting meat or soft drinks, what influenced participants was what they thought they had eaten rather than what they actually ate.

The authors note that meat has an association with social power, and people who scored high in the authors’ Social Power Value Endorsement measure believed that a meat-containing item tasted better than a vegetarian alternative, even when both products were actually identical (one was mis-represented). Similarly, participants who supported the values symbolized by Pepsi (Exciting Life, Social Power, and Recognition) gave a more favorable rating to the product they thought was Pepsi—even though they were drinking the low-price Woolworth cola.

Participants were told that they would taste either a beef sausage roll or a vegetarian alternative roll, and that they would drink either a Pepsi or a Woolworth Homebrand cola. Some received the item they were told they would receive and some were given the similar-tasting item.  Then they filled out a questionnaire about values and taste, along with their current food and soft drink consumption.

“Our present findings may have implications for efforts to promote better eating habits,” write the authors. “Heavy meat eaters claim that they eat meat because it tastes better than other foods, such as meat substitutes. Our results challenge that claim. Participants who ate the vegetarian alternative did not rate the taste and aroma less favorably than those who ate the beef product. Instead, what influenced taste evaluation was what they thought they had eaten and whether that food symbolized values that they personally supported … strategies that might persuade heavy meat eaters to change their diet include changing the cultural associations of fruits and vegetables to encompass values that meat eaters endorse (e.g., power and strength), or challenging heavy meat eaters’ assumptions about what tastes good by using in-store (blind) taste tests or showing them results of studies such as this one.”

Ref: for this story and more studies visit Science Daily