Vegetarian Star

Fran Drescher gave a lot of credit to a vegan diet for her weight loss success and overall good feeling she’s gained since eliminating animal products from her diet.

Guess that means she traded sour cream and lard-refried bean and cheese dips for healthier versions like her white bean hummus spread.

“This can also be made with garbanzo beans,” Drescher says of the dip. “It’s a super healthy snack, it’s high in protein, it’s vegetarian.”

Watch the clip below for instructions on making Drescher’s white bean dip.

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Kellie Pickler was a guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show where she displayed her new hairdo!

Pickler’s sleek, almost bald look was created to support one of her closest friends who was diagnosed with cancer.

“It’s just hair!” she said. “I will be honest with you, I was a little nervous and she was too. [We thought], ‘I hope we don’t have some crazy birthmark or wort or mole or something . . . but we had fun.”

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Alicia Silverstone met Amy Heckerling almost 20 years ago on the set of Clueless. Much has changed for both writer-director Heckerling and Silverstone since the 90s, but both are united again for the production of Vamps, a film set for release this November starring Silverstone as one of two female vampires in New York City.

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Vegan Treats, a vegan bakery in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania owned and operated by Danielle Konya, was recently named a top 10 bakery of World’s Best Bakeries by American Express.

In addition to having a large celebrity clientele, Konya may now be given more fame by appearing on the Food Network sweet competition, Cupcake Wars.

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Mark Bittman agrees that the new soda ban in New York pushed by Mayor Bloomberg is a step in the right direction toward fixing America’s health problems. But more can be done, as he explains in an interview with The Daily Ticker.

Bittman is asking fast food establishments like McDonald’s to make calorie content more visible and start offering more plant-based options.

“If McDonald’s wanted to make a dent in obesity, they could do something much better than posting calorie counts,” he says. McDonald’s could “encourage the consumption of smaller sodas rather than encouraging the consumption of bigger sodas. What I say to them is: how about falafel? How about hummus? How about more plant-based food that’s becoming much more mainstream in the U.S.? People know what this stuff is.”

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Mayim Bialik and other Jewish vegans are in the middle of Rosh Hashanah. Although honey is often used as a sweetener for recipes and dips for breads like challah, strict vegans view the bee’s product as animal and need alternatives to help celebrate the New Year.

Bialik has one delicious-sounding vegan honey cake you might want to try.

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Fran Drescher joined the club of people who take responsibility for their own health instead of relying on pills and expensive treatments to cure them.

The Nanny star was suffering from several medical issues when she decided to ignore her doctor’s recommendations for more drugs and prescribed herself, an alcohol-free, gluten-free, vegan diet.

Showcasing her newly trimmed figure on The Wendy Williams Show, Drescher described how she lost weight and gained energy and a great complexion

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“Americans toss out nearly every other bite of food. We squander up to 40 percent of the nation’s food supply each year — throwing away, on average, 20 pounds per person per month — while making excuses for our wastefulness. This is shameful enough. Now consider the nightmare that billions of animals — who feel anxiety, fear and pain every bit as profoundly as we do — endure on factory farms, in transit to slaughter and at the slaughterhouse itself. Nowadays, they are confined to cages and crates, their babies are taken away from them and they are kicked and prodded and deprived of everything that makes their lives worth living just so that we can take their milk or kill them for their flesh. And then we toss half of it all into the trash. This may be one of the most compelling reasons yet to go vegan.”

—Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder of  People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals on a report released by the Natural Resources Defense Council on food waste.

Photo: David Shankbone/Creative Commons

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