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How To Lose Weight Without Being Hungry

August 27th, 2010

I wrote the following article for anyone who wishes some content for their blog or newsletter. I know how hard it is sometimes when life and writer’s block get in the way, so I thought I’d share this with my fellow authors and publishers. I hope it helps. All I ask, if you use it, is to include the entire article verbatim from Title on thru the “bio box,” keeping any links intact. Thanks and enjoy! :)


How To Lose Weight Without Being Hungry All The Time

Many people find it hard to stick to a diet. There are a lot reasons for this, including social pressure from friends and family urging you to indulge in a false sense of moderation. (You know, the “Just this one treat won’t hurt” line?) But, perhaps the biggest reason for giving up on a diet is feeling hungry. However, hunger is not a requirement to losing weight!

Now, you’re probably thinking I’m going to recommend sweating it all off in an exercising frenzy, but that’s not it at all. Instead, there’s a simple, healthy, trick to what you eat that ensures you won’t be hungry and yet still consume fewer calories than you currently do (which means weight loss will follow naturally).

The secret is to consume only whole foods in their original, unprocessed state. For example, instead of a slice of apple pie, grab an apple — or even two if you want! Instead of carrot cake, some carrots.

The thing is, in both cases, the sugars in the whole foods are carried along in a complete package of fiber and nutrients, thus slowing their absorption and leaving you satiated (i.e., feeling satisfied) versus loading you up with empty calories that do nothing to physically fill you up.

Better yet, eat LOTS of green, leafy vegetables, like kale and collard greens, and cruciferous veggies, like broccoli and cauliflower. These wonders of nature pack an even greater concentration of nutrients into still fewer calories, and their extra volume makes it almost impossible to overeat!

And, don’t just add them to your meals, start out your meals and snacks with these foods. Serve up a huge salad or a big bowl of bean soup with kale, and before you know it, you’ll be so stuffed you won’t even want to think about a greasy burger or sugary and fat-laden dessert. It really works. Give it a try!

By the way, you can even have “pasta” on a diet too. That’s because there exists such a thing as calorie free noodles made exclusively of fiber. They have zero net carbs and are very filling. Just add a hearty vegetable pasta sauce or stir-fried veggies and maybe some tofu for protein, and you’ve got yourself a delicious, healthy, and satisfying meal.

Erin Dame is the author of Vegan Done Light, a low-calorie, low-sodium cookbook and long-running monthly nutrition newsletter, as well as several guides on health and diet.


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O’Soy, It’s Not Vegan

August 15th, 2010

Woopsy, just noticed something about one of my favorite soy yogurts…
it ain’t vegan!

It turns out, the probiotic cultures in Londonderry, NH-based :)
Stonyfield Farm’s O’Soy yogurt are grown in dairy.

So, here’s the question of the day for those of you who consider yourself vegan: Do you have any foods or drinks (ahem, Guinness anyone?) which you know aren’t technically vegan, but that you consider “close enough” to eat anyway?


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NASA Scientist Resigns Over Monkey Experiments

August 5th, 2010

In response NASA’s (National Aeronautics and Space Association) plans, announced late last year, to use squirrel monkeys in a series of new radiation tests, and after first attempting to get them halted, NASA engineer April Evans has resigned from a job she’s made clear she really enjoyed.

I think we can all applaud her self-sacrifice, especially in these hard economic times, and lend our voices to the cause in support.
(See below for a couple ways to do so.)

But first, I should mention, I also find myself applauding NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Jr.—at least in the following exchange. How he handled being interrupted, and at such close range, by an animal rights activist at the International Space Development Conference (ISDC) earlier this year was admirable.

So true! The ACLU gets heat all the time for speaking up for those with whom many of us disagree, but they’re just seeing the bigger picture that we all have those rights and silencing and censorship are not the answer.

As for the tests, they would seem cruel and completely unnecessary; don’t we already know what happens to people due to radiation at a wide range of exposure levels?

Take action today, either thru PETA or the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). Actually, the recipients of each are different, so let’s use both these routes!


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Dr. Campbell Responds

July 25th, 2010

As a graduate of Dr. T. Colin Campbell’s Plant Based Nutrition certificate program through eCornell, and having him to credit with providing the final straw to my giving up dairy and eggs so many years back by way of his book The China Study, it’s with great interest that I’ve observed the latest challenge to his findings and indeed motives (yikes!) and his generous and courteous response.

Back in 2006, Dr. Campbell addressed a more organized coalition of naysayers from those sharing the belief that cholesterol and animal fat are good for you. His response was unequivocal and hit back at the Weston A Price Foundation (WAPF) and the like. It also gave him a chance to report on the unexpected success of the book, having sold some 100,000 copies in 18 months!

This time the critique was from an individual. The attractive Denise Minger. A vegetarian turned raw foodist occupying the area of the Venn diagram where the twain do not meet, which is to say, her diet now includes raw meat. And, of course, a blogger. ;)

It just goes to show, once again, the power of citizen media. These little brain dumps called posts have a way of making the rounds (sometimes), and hers apparently caused enough of a stir and was spreading enough misinformation that the good doctor saddled up to the keyboard to lay down some facts. I encourage you to read them in turn. Here’s what she wrote.

It may well be that a response would not have been necessary had she not deleted some comments that attempted to clear things up straight away (you’ll read about that in the next link). Thankfully, VegSource handled the publishing of Dr. Campbell’s response.


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Carded at 36

July 12th, 2010

Please excuse me while I revel in a meaningless triviality and pretend it’s of consequence. Just this weekend, I was asked for my license (“carded”) at the grocery store for the 12-pack of non-alcoholic beer among my foodstuffs. OK, I know, you’re probably saying woop-de-doo, but I’m saying, woohoo! Hey, gotta celebrate the small things, right?

I wasn’t even wearing a baseball cap, my balding, almost shaved head serving as a billboard of sorts for the fifteen years since the privilege of imbibing certain fermented beverages had been governmentally granted me.

Better yet, the teller was a young man who himself appeared quite shy of the state sanctioned 21 years of age. Only if the questioner had been of the opposite sex could I have been more pleased. LOL.

Of course, it’s not the first time since entering my third decade of life that I’ve been carded, nor the latter half of those ten, but it’s still something I choose to take as a minor compliment despite the fear of employer reprimand that may have prompted it.

Leave A Comment: What’s the oldest at which you’ve been asked for proof of age… so far? (Senior discounts don’t count!) ;)


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Vegan Done Light for the Kindle

July 3rd, 2010

Woohoo! After a couple weeks of playing with the formatting, I finally got my Vegan Done Light cookbook listed in the Amazon Kindle store.   :)

None of the automatic conversion tools, whether online or executable, did a very good job, no matter the source filetype, so it ended up being a very manual process of making a change, viewing the preview, making a change, viewing the preview, ad infinitum.

I can say, it looked great when I published it, but it seems, at least in the free Kindle for PC software, that it managed to goof it up a bit yet. I’m hoping it survived better in the actual product. If you have a Kindle, please let me know how it looks on the device itself.

The good news is the pictures came thru in beautiful full-color (the preview showed them in black and white, so I wasn’t sure they would), and of course, the recipes are there, even if the pagination split a couple of them unexpectedly. So, still good stuff!

Furthermore, according to Amazon’s rules, it’s priced significantly lower on their site than mine, which should make up for any formatting issues that might remain and help get these healthy meals and snacks into the hands of many more who need them.

Note: The sample they send you has the picture, nutrition information, and ingredients for the first recipe, but not the instructions. To get the full sample, just enter your first name and email at VeganDoneLight.com.

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