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Hypocrisy - A Taste Of Extreme Divinity - 2009

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• Vegetarian Recipes: Detoxification

  By admin on January 25, 2009 | No Comments

  When people talk about detoxification and cleansing the body of harmful toxins, it’s often seen as a fringe element of vegetarians. People really don’t like to think about harmful toxins building up in their colons or in their arteries, but it’s often a by-product of a carnivorous diet. A diet that’s high in fat and processed foods tends to slow down our digestive systems, and our elimination processes are also interrupted. This can allow harmful bacteria and toxins to accumulate and can create a general feeling of sluggishness, as well as a host of digestive disorders, such as irrit...

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• Vegetarian Recipes: Why Vegans Don’t Eat Eggs

  By admin on January 24, 2009 | No Comments

  As a prospective vegan, you may be wondering exactly why vegans make the dietary choices they make. And you may also be hesitant to adopt these choices until you yourself understand and accept them. In this article, I will explain the two major vegetarian positions on eating eggs to help you make your decision. The sub-category of vegetarian I will cover, ovo-vegetarians, accept the normal consumption of eggs because they do not believe that doing so conflicts with an ethical vegetarian diet. They do not see eggs as living things and subsequently do not make the connection between consuming ...

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• Quick and Easy Low Calorie Vegetarian Recipes

  By admin on January 23, 2009 | No Comments

  The shops these days are full of all sorts of goodies suitable for the vegetarian. So longer do you have to satisfy yourself with an omelette or salad. And because there is such choice you can choose low calorie options. Also there are now a number of meat substitutes if you wan to go that way. Vegetarian bacon - yes really - look in the frozen food cabinet - adds that something to lots of dishes and I frequently use it, even when cooking for omnivores. Rice Salad This has quite a long list of ingredients, but is still quick and easy. I haven’t given amounts as you can alter them to su...

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• Vegetarian Recipes: Vegetarians and Cancer

  By admin on January 23, 2009 | No Comments

  You might have a general idea that eating a vegetarian diet is more healthy for you. But do you really know how much less the incidence is of certain types of cancers among vegetarians? Vegetarian diets—naturally low in saturated fat, high in fiber, and replete with cancer-protective phytochemicals—help to prevent cancer. Large studies in England and Germany have shown that vegetarians are about 40 percent less likely to develop cancer compared to meat-eaters. In the U.S., studies of Seventh-Day Adventists, who are largely lacto-ovo vegetarians, have shown significant reductions in cance...

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• Vegetarian Recipes: Bowels and Stomach Digestion

  By admin on January 20, 2009 | No Comments

  Many of the health benefits derived from a vegetarian diet have to do with creating a healthy environment in the bowels and stomach. Our digestive systems, from prehistory on, were designed to metabolize vegetable matter, more than animal products. Fruits, vegetables, legumes and nuts provide the kind of dietary fiber our digestive systems need to function properly. The Western diet that’s high in processed and refined flour and sugar, and in animal products that are laden with hormones and antibiotics, are actually anathema to our insides. When the digestive system doesn’t function and ...

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• 10 Facts You Never Knew About Coffee

  By admin on January 12, 2009 | No Comments

  he next time you are at your favorite coffee shop and someone catches your eye, here are ten interesting coffee facts that you can use to break the ice: 1) Coffee is considered an aphrodisiac.  Because it contains a high dose of caffeine and other various alkaloids, studies have shown that coffee can increase stamina and the overall length of intimate sessions. 2) Although coffee has been a part of the Arab culture for thousands of years, it did not become part of the western world until the 1500s.  Before that time, priests believed that coffee was a drink of the devil.  Pope Clement VIII ...

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