Thank you Health Ranger for re-posting this article from The Guardian, which explains an eating disorder called “orthorexia nervosa.” This “disorder” label is given to people who have beliefs about what foods are “good” for them and what foods are “bad” for them, and who adhere to those beliefs when making food choices, thus resulting [...]
Eating Healthily is a Serious Mental Disorder
June 29th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Diet, Veg News
Tags:Diet·eating disorder·healthy·orthorexia nervosa·Vegetarian
Fake Chicken
June 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · vegan
Time magazine reported yesterday that the University of Missouri has had a huge breakthrough in the creation of fake chicken meat. Not only does it LOOK like chicken it TASTES like chicken too. So this makes me wonder, assuming that you really wouldn’t notice a difference between real chicken and the new fake chicken, how [...]
Tags:Chicken·fake meat·Poultry·Time (magazine)·University of Missouri
Meatless Mondays! Mongo Salad
May 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Lunch, vegan
I celebrated Meatless Monday today with a huge lunchtime vegan salad: Organic baby lettuce Organic bibb lettuce Organic green onions Organic carrots Organic cucumbers Chickpeas Walnuts Fennel* Organic pink lady apple* I’ve added apples to my salads before, but since Kate introduced me to adding FENNEL I’ve become a fennel devotee. Wow is it delicious! [...]
Tags:Lunch·salad·vegan·Vinaigrette
The Veganized Double Down
May 19th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Health, vegan
This is hilarious. Or sad. I’m not sure which. Remember on April 12 when KFC introduced their artery-clogging, blood pressure-blasting, heart-stopping sandwich called the “Double Down?” “The one-of-a-kind Double Down features two thick and juicy boneless white meat chicken filets (Original Recipe(R) or Grilled), two pieces of bacon, two melted slices of Monterey Jack and [...]
Meatless Monday: Vegan Coconut Rice Pudding!
May 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Desserts, vegan
Meatless Monday Mania is sweeping the nation! Even Mario Batali is doing it!! In case you haven’t heard, “Meatless Monday” is an international non-profit initiative in association with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to reduce meat consumption by 15% to improve personal health and the health of our planet. And while I personally [...]
I’m back!
May 5th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Life, yoga
Helllooooooo! It’s been a long time. I’m sorry I’ve neglected you, Dear Blog. I needed to take a break for awhile but I’m ready to roll again Since I last wrote, quite a bit has happened! 1. As you know, last year a group of yoga teachers began speaking out against Virginia’s law that required [...]
Teaching Yoga is Not a Crime
December 1st, 2009 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary
November 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
Last weekend I had the THRILL of visiting the Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary in Poolesville, MD for their annual Thanksgiving WITH The Turkeys celebration. It was AWESOME! I got to meet the turkeys And even pet them: This turkey’s name is Opal and she was rescued from a factory farm, barely alive. Her feet are [...]
Tags:factory farming·poplar spring animal santuary·Thanksgiving·Turkey
