While I was in Chicago last month I did most of the meal prep for my family. I wanted to be sure I had vegan food to feed myself and my family, one of which was recovering from surgery. Because most of them weren’t regularly vegan I also wanted to be sure they didn’t feel […]
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Nana Kwaku and I are addicts. So are you! We all have addictions to food in some form or another. Many of the foods we eat and crave have an addictive nature. Sugar, salt and fat all activate our brains and our desire mechanisms. Food manufactures know this fact well and use that knowledge to their
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You probably have heard people (like me here on this site) talking about raw food or living foods or live food. You may have wondered what that is and why it matters. Let me explain. First of all people call it a variety of things. Some say raw food, some say living or live food.
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Some people promise that if you go vegan you will …. be skinny, never have health problems, whatever. You know, reach Vegan Nirvana. You may feel disappointed in yourself because you haven’t gotten there. You may still be overweight. You may still get sick from time to time. You may find yourself falling off
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A key to being able to keep true to your healthy eating commitment to yourself is having the skills you need to keep your meals enticing and satisfying. If you are bored with what you are preparing you are much more likely to succumb to temptation and fall back to your old eating pattern. As
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Recently a reader commented about a recipe, asking if pasta was healthy because she heard that it wasn’t from someone. (Thank you BTW, I love questions and comments.) I thought it would be a good idea to talk about the recipes here and how to decide if any given recipe is right for you and
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This post is adapted from a post that originally appeared on our other site, www.opare.net. A key to being able to keep true to your healthy eating commitment is having the skills you need to keep your meals enticing and satisfying. If you are bored with what you are preparing you are much more likely
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When you are new to veganism or considering making the transition it can seem overwhelming. But fortunately it doesn’t have to be. Here are suggestions and tips that I have gathered from interviewing four black vegans for the Black Vegetarian series. Each of these women have or are dedicating their work to helping our Afrikan
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Meet A. Breeze Harper, author of the book Sistah Vegan: Black Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health and Society and a blog by the same name. Breeze shares her journey from fibroid tumors to health, her efforts to share what she has learned with her children, and her work studying how race and gender and
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When you first go vegan you may wonder what you are going to eat. Chances are many of the things you already eat can easily be “vegan-ized.” There are many vegan dairy and meat substitutes on the market that can help. Especially when you are new to the lifestyle these can help with the transition.
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