Vegetarian Star

Dr. Neal Barnard, President of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a group that advocates a vegan diet for optimum health, gave the Diet Detective an interview where he shared his opinions on what foods he would and would not eat.

Here are few highlights:

Diet Detective: Dairy?
Neal Barnard: Great for a calf. Period.

Diet Detective: What’s always in your fridge and pantry?
Neal Barnard: Oatmeal, tempeh and tofu, green veggies, apples, oranges, pears and the occasional frozen vegan pizza.

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Tom Parker Bowles, the son of the Duchess of Cornwall, has ticked off quite a few vegan parents for criticizing their decision to raise their kids as such.

The author of The Year of Eating Dangerously, who’s admitted to eating dog, cobra and foie gras, said on an episode of UK’s ITV’s This Morning that, “‘All these ridiculous hippies who bang on and tell us that we shouldn’t be eating this, we should be eating vegan raw diets…for children, that’s child abuse, I think.'”

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Russell Simmons has written a letter to New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley giving his input on the controversial soda ban in the city.

Sure, an excess consumption of sugary drinks may lead to weight gain. But there’s good evidence that dairy products cause the same harm.

If you’re going to ban the fizzy Slurpee, ban the moo juice too, says Simmons in his letter.

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British comedian Jimmy Carr has lent his face and public financial faux pas to a PETA UK campaign for vegetarianism.

He sparked controversy when he was accused of being allegedly involved in a scheme to avoid taxes that got the reprimand of Prime Minister David Cameron.

But eating meat and dairy may be costlier on a country’s tax system because of the high costs of medical treatment for diseases linked to animal products.

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Jillian Michaels has written an editorial on how America can help those in poverty by making reforms to the food stamp program. You’ve already witnessed how purchasing vegan items on the grocery list might be one benefit to recipients as it may help dollars stretch.

Now Michaels is proposing changes to the program that insist those dollars be spent on more wholesome food. As usual, these types of opinions tread the fine line between Big Brother taking care of the unfortunate and destroying their freedom of choice. And unless the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP designs an overhaul that both encourages and makes it feasible to eat well on a vegetarian or vegan diet, all the banning of sodas and chips won’t do much for the country’s poor.

But Michaels makes some good points.

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It must be nice to have a personal juicer. Whether that means he or she personally squeezes the strawberries over your blender while you stand around in Big Bird slippers or just provides you with packaged samples of laboratory formulated products, who knows. But Salma Hayek has one and he’s sharing some beauty tips for those of us who have to get our own fingers dyed from crushing berries every morning.

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Everyone has a favorite food they find hard to part with once making the big decision to go vegan. Actress Anne Hathaway said giving up cheese was the hardest part she’s played offscreen.

In the July issue of Allure, Hathaway said she stuck to some pretty strict dietary rules to shape up for the catsuit in the Batman saga The Dark Knight Rises.

“Cheese is amazing … (but) once you’re over the cheese hump, there’s nothing really left,” she said.

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Chaka Khan has added another accomplishment to her long list that includes Grammy award-winning tunes.

Khan revealed she lost weight and helped curtail a few health problems by adopting a vegan diet.

“My weight loss had to occur, because I was diagnosed with Type-2 Diabetes and I also had high blood pressure,” Khan said. “And I’ve been on medication for that since last year until the beginning of this year.”

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