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Pastimes : Vegetarians Unite! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (560)	7/8/2002 3:40:58 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Respond to of 2067

Cool...<g> by the way, my current cholesterol reading was 167, I'm still using the Red Yeast Rice..... GZ

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (560)	7/8/2002 7:36:07 PM
From: daffodil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2067

The cover story on this week's Time magazine is "Should You Be a Vegetarian? Millions of Americans are going meatless. Is that a healthy thing?" time.com As one might suspect given the subtitle, the article was "balanced" between pros and cons. Almost all of the cons, however, dealt with the needs of babies, children, and teens, particularly with a vegan diet. Most of us would not be surprised by the thesis that babies need milk. And I'd bet (although the article doesn't state) that 90% of vegan moms breastfeed their infants. In other words, the major "cons" mentioned by the article are probably not a concern to most vegetarian adults nor to their offspring. Most vegetarians know that an unbalanced veggie diet may lead to a vitamin B12 and/or D deficiency, but I think it's good that they point that out. Most adult vegetarians I know are well-advised on this point, but I also know that many teen vegetarians proceed with more heart than knowledge and, unless carefully guided by parents willing to learn about and adapt to their child's new diet, often wind up with deficiencies of one sort of another. So it's good that they remind veggie teens and their parents of these needs. Overall, though, I was disappointed that the article spent so much time on trivial matters (how do you define a vegetarian) and surprised that the article wasn't more positive about the virtues of a vegetarian diet. A year or so ago, Time ran an excellent article obviously targeted at Boomers, titled something like "you're over 50. Can you reverse the bad habits you've had up till now?" That article raved about the powers of good habits of exercise, moderation, and diet late in life, but this article wasn't nearly so positive. Interestingly, the profile of the author in the very front of the magazine tells how he became a cold-turkey vegan in the hopes of losing weight, then after three weeks succumbed to a grilled-cheese sandwich with bacon. "Chili and steaks and sausages weren't far behind..." One questions the likelihood of anyone sustaining an overnight carnivore-to-vegan diet solely for the purpose of losing weight, and also wonders whether he has a little bit of a need to justify that the healthy vegetarian diet he abandoned wasn't such a good thing after all. }=>---------->>>>

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (560)	7/8/2002 10:26:31 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Respond to of 2067

On the CBS Evening News tonight they had an article about the calorie restriction diet, I've been reading about it but it seemed like some kind of fringe idea... tonight there was a whole report about the benefits of this diet... what will they think of next? calorierestriction.org GZ

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (560)	7/9/2002 7:01:30 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2067

Should We All Be Vegetarians? By RICHARD CORLISS Posted Sunday, July 7, 2002; 10:31 a.m. EST FIVE REASONS TO EAT MEAT: 1) It tastes good 2) It makes you feel good 3) It's a great American tradition 4) It supports the nation's farmers 5) Your parents did it Oh, sorry ... those are five reasons to smoke cigarettes. Meat is more complicated. It's a food most Americans eat virtually every day: at the dinner table; in the cafeteria; on the barbecue patio; with mustard at a ballpark; or, a billion times a year, with special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame-seed bun. Beef is, the TV commercials say, "America's food"—the Stars and Stripes served up medium rare—and as entwined with the nation's notion of its robust frontier heritage as, well, the Marlboro Man. For the whole article: time.com GZ