Vegetarian Star2009 June 28

How A Prince Stays Fit: Prince Alwaleed Is Vegetarian

Written by Vegetarian Star on Sunday, June 28th, 2009 in Business.

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Prince Alwaleed, who’s full name is (take a deep breath) Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, is often called the Arabian Warren Buffet.

A member of the Saudi Royal family, Alwaleed is the nephew of the Saudi Arabia King Abdullah, and the grandson of the first Lebanese prime minister after independence Riad as-Solh.

He’s ranked by Forbes as one of the top 25 richest people in the world and amassed his fortune through the stock market and real estate.

Dealbreaker.com recently got some insight on how Warren Buffet of Arabia keeps his body as well as his portfolio healthy.

“In 1985 he earned an M.A. with honors in Social Science from Syracuse University. During that time, he recalls, he put on a lot of weight. He’s been extremely health-conscious ever since and is now a strict vegetarian who avoids fatty foods, exercises every day and devotes himself to keeping fit. He is a keen cyclist who makes habit of riding for at least one hour a day, although he concedes to keeping a phone handy for deal making. He also puts swimming, walking and skiing on his agenda whenever possible.”

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Stella McCartney Says Family Not Out To Convert Meat Eaters

Written by Vegetarian Star on Sunday, June 28th, 2009 in Environment-Eco-Green.

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With Paul McCartney’s Meat Free Monday campaign getting so much press, some flexitarians and meat eaters may wonder if they will relentlessly be harassed into total vegetarianism.

Granted, many vegetarians would like this to take place, but Paul’s daughter, Stella McCartney, is reassuring people that the family’s less meat approach is about trying to reduce some of the impact consuming meat has on the planet.

“It’s ok to just give up meat for one day, it doesn’t make you a vegetarian if you hate vegetarians, it doesn’t make you a cranky, hemp wearing pot smoker,” Stella said, in the UK Telegraph. “It’s alright, it’s allowed – it doesn’t make you a kind of the person you don’t want to be. It just means you are doing something positive.”

Of course Stella and the family still adhere to their strict vegetarian values. But they’re not trying to point fingers at everyone. They just feel everyone should, ahem, “give it up,” at least once a week.

“If everyone gave it up on a Monday it would be more effective than everyone stopping driving their car on a Monday. We are not perfect. It’s so important to get that across because it’s like oh, those bloody Maccas, talking again about not killing cows! It is boring. But the reality is, I like to think I am trying to do my little bit. I will turn off a light when I leave a room; I will turn off a socket if I don’t want to be using the socket. And those are tiny little things.”

via treehugger.com

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Was Farrah Fawcett Vegetarian?

Written by Vegetarian Star on Sunday, June 28th, 2009 in Actresses.

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Actress Farrah Fawcett succumbed to cancer on the same day Michael Jackson passed.

One restaurant owner who’s place Farrah frequented claims she always ordered the vegetarian dish.

Antonietta Terrigno, owner of Osteria de Medici in Kensington, Alberta in Canada was reflecting on the actress and said, “She was a vegetarian so she had the Pasta Primavera. She was with a friend and they were very friendly.”

This was back in 2006. Was Farrah a vegetarian who kept quiet about her diet and lifestyle? Or did she embrace the diet later in life?

Our thoughts go out to her family, friends, and fans.

via calgarysun.com

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