Vegetarian Star

Fitness Magazine has named its top 20 celebrities who look good on camera and sweat hard off it.

“Bionic and iconic, these game changers have inspired us over the years to perspire and put our best body forward. Take a cue from our 20 favorite masters of motivation as they share their secrets to getting better, fitter, stronger than ever.”

A few of these icons happen to be athletes who’ve recently adopted vegan diet principles.

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Scott Jurek sees a vegan diet not only as a way to power his 100+ mile runs when healthy, but also as a way to recover from the occasional injury.

He told Vegetarian Times one of his favorite ways to use “food as medicine” is adding the spice turmeric to a dish.

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Jennifer Nicole Lee, fitness model, actress, motivational speaker and author, has published her third diet and nutrition book, The Jennifer Nicole Lee Fun Fit Foodie Cookbook: JNL’s Secret Super Fitness Model Fat Blasting & Muscle Fueling Recipes.

Known as “JNL” to her fans and the fitness community, Jennifer received an email from a fan who wanted to know if a vegetarian could also be a “fun, fit foodie.”

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Michelle Obama has launched an online recipe contest for children, aged 8-12, to develop healthy meal ideas and earn a chance to sit as a guest of honor at a White House State Dinner.

Choosemyplate.gov is recommended as a resource for parents and children looking to create these healthier meal ideas and the site recognizes a vegetarian diet as one that “can meet all the recommendations for nutrients,” the key being to “consume a variety of foods and the right amount of foods to meet your calorie needs.”

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Son Bobby is showing the South the wonders of quinoa and even Paula Deen can create a meal without bacon and butter.

The recycled glass tumbler must be half-full.

Paula and Bobby went into the kitchen together for an episode of Paula’s Best Dishes and made things not all vegetarian, but did manage to produce a nice portobello mushroom sandwich.

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What advice would you give to an overly concerned grandmother who, against mom’s wishes, feeds her grandchild a Happy Meal and thinks tofu over ground beef is cause for a call to the Child Protection authorities?

“Dear Prudence”, a regular feature at Slate, is suggesting granny take her Centrum Silver and any other supplements that help the elderly think because “lack of ham and Swiss doesn’t rise to the same level of concern as beating and molestation” and “probably half the children in Berkeley, Calif. would be removed from their homes if this constituted child abuse.”

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A video of Bill Gates praising the efforts of companies that create plant-based alternatives to animal products has been uploaded to YouTube.

According to Gates, the rise of faux meat and dairy products is “quite a phenomenal thing.”

“So all these companies that are taking these animal products — the milk, the eggs, the chicken, the beef — and actually coming up with a way using largely plant-based material to make these things that are both cheaper, probably more healthy, less cruelty involved, less greenhouse gas emissions.”

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The June 2012 issue of Vegetarian Times features two athletes who power their Olympic training sessions with plant-based meals.

Mary Whipple is a champion coxswain who’s scored both a Gold and Silver medal in previous Olympic games. Dotsie Bausch is a seven-time U.S. National bike racer who says, “It makes no sense to me that anything would have to undergo one second of suffering so that I could enjoy it.”

The Olympic team hopefuls shared a pre and post workout snack they might enjoy as part of preparing for the July 2012 games.

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