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Lisa Edelstein Coco Eco Mag

The lovely Lisa Edelstein is gracing the cover of Coco Eco Magazine. Inside, this longtime vegetarian shares her advice for transitioning into a meatless diet, what she feels are the most important green issues and more.

Edelstein must love the idea of Meatless Mondays, because she recommends going vegetarian for a day to help people get adjusted and acquainted.

“Slowly jumpstart your culinary journey with a once-a-week commitment by leaving the animal products out of your repertoire for a single day/three full meals.”

“View it as a fun experiment rather than as a sacrifice – you might just discover that the food addictions you once had for bad-body-munchies end up shifting over to edibles that actually make you feel revitalized (and are healthy, to boot).”

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WWE wrestler Daniel Bryan and Miami Dolphins football player Ricky Williams have made headlines this week, for in the ring and off the field performances.

Vegan Bryan recently won the U.S. WWE Wrestling competition while Ricky has been asked to endorse a set of health and fitness equipment.

So nice to see the stereotype of scrawny, vegetarian men get broken. As you can see from their pictures, neither is lacking in meat on their bones, although you’ll find it missing in their diets. Between the two athletes, who would you rather…

"The American Dragon" Bryan Danielson, aka. Daniel Bryan. Credit-ShawnSavior on Wikimedia Commons

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“I’ve always loved animals. When I was growing up, we had pets, and I was taught early on that you have to respect animals. All of the animals I have ever known, especially dogs, either like someone or they don’t. They can run up to some people and lick them, yet with others they just walk off because they are nervous. I always think that kind of thing probably says a lot. I honestly believe they have a sense about people and what they are like. But their charm is also their trust; when you have a pet, they have to trust you to take care of them. And that’s why I get so angry when you see animals hurt by [guardians] whom they trust.”

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Cloris Leachman says being vegetarian is so great for her body scent, not even the stress from the camera spotlight gives her a need to wipe under the armpits.

“If you don’t eat meat, you don’t smell… I don’t ever wear a deodorant,” Leachman said.

Whoa, there, Cloris. Did your Dancing with the Stars partner agree that carrots did that part of the body good?

So there is at least one study showing the female species enjoyed the sweat from the vegetarian male armpits more than a meat eater’s.

And mainstream deodorants may be tested on animals and contain ingredients that are sourced from animals or that are harmful to humans and the environment. But that doesn’t mean you have to adhere to the granola eating, no deodorant (and maybe even hairy armpit) stereotype.

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Bill Clinton doesn’t do dairy, but he enjoys drinking almond milk. This and other details were revealed to Wolf Blitzer on CNN as Clinton explained how he’s participating in a study to determine if individuals can reverse their heart disease damage by eating vegan. A little bonus for Bill is that his body is looking as sleek as it did in his high school yearbook.

“I live on beans, legumes, vegetables, fruit,” Clinton said. “I drink a protein supplement every morning. No dairy. I drink almond milk mixed in with fruit and a protein powder. So I get the protein for the day when I start the day out. And it changed my whole metabolism and I lost 24 pounds. I got back to basically what I weighed in high school.”

Bill isn’t quite a vegan, as he still eats fish occasionally.

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Kirsten Vangsness plays Penelope Garcia, the technical analyst of the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit on Criminal Minds with a warm and quirky personality that has a knack for finding all the right answers quickly.

Vangsness told Mother Nature Network about her green activities on the set of Criminal Minds, which include installing a water filter instead of using plastic bottles. She is almost a full time vegetarian, eating wild caught fish occasionally.

Wild fish beat their farmed counterparts in many areas of nutrition and eco-friendliness. They have more usable omega-3 fatty acids, less fat, are packaged without the use of artificial dyes to the flesh and come with less pesticides and environmentally destructive chemicals found at  higher levels in farmed fish like endocrine disrupting flame-retardant additives.

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TLC’s Freaky Eaters features Dr. Dow and JJ Virgin coming to the intervention of people with some strange and dangerous eating compulsions. There’s a young lady who needs 30 cans of cola a day. The cheeseburger addict. And tonight at 7PM, there’s Daniel, a young man who is compelled to eat raw meat.

Listening to Daniel describe this obsession with phrases like “one of those quiet things where you do it on your own” and “this is nice.”, one could almost make frat boy jokes about the pastime that didn’t start until he left the confines of his parents’ home.

However, eating raw meat is no joke and Daniel is putting himself at risk for consuming harmful bacteria and becoming ill with infections like Trichinellosis, also called trichinosis, which result in eating uncooked meat. Not that the stuff’s any healthier cooked…

From TLC:

“Using intense nutritional and behavioral therapy, they attempt to convince Daniel to give up his life-threatening obsession before it’s too late.”

A clip from a man who eats approximately 1,400 cheeseburgers a year is below.

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Bob Harper is the 2010 spokesperson for Farm Sanctuary’s Walk for Animals, which spans across 78 cities in the U.S. and even includes a virtual “no walk” walk. The Biggest Loser coach’s popularity has certainly helped Farm Sanctuary’s cause, as well as draw attention to the welfare of farm animals and the vegetarian and vegan lifestyle. In an exclusive interview with Farm Sanctuary, Harper discusses how growing up on a cattle farm made cows his favorite farm animal, his views on modern farming and how going vegan has changed his life.

Growing Up On A Cattle Farm In Tennessee:
“I have to tell you that because I grew up on this cattle farm it was just the way of life then. On the farm I grew up on the cows were treated relatively respectfully. They had pastures, they lived a good quality of life, of course until their death. To me there was more compassion back then because now … the thing that really pains me … is that these factory farms are just treating these animals like they’re light fixtures, like they’re not real and don’t have blood running through them. It’s just shocking to me.”

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