Vegetarian Star

Vegetarian and vegan macho men, here’s your chance to sample a protein powder designed especially for you.

Tony Gonzalez‘s All Pro Science company has a completely vegan protein powder made of brown rice, pea and hemp protein. But you don’t have to be a manly man to benefit from this. As Tony shows below, this powder makes an excellent supplement that all vegetarians (including women) can add to their breakfast and snack shakes.

Here’s how you can win the vegan version of All Pro Science protein powder.

* For 1 chance to win, leave a comment on this post saying why you want All Pro Science vegan protein powder.

* For 2 chances to win, leave a comment on this post saying why you want All Pro Science vegan protein powder AND RT this post on Twitter (e.g. RT@vegetarianstar Giveaway Tony Gonzalez All Pro Science Vegan Protein Powder. You may also want to include the All Pro Science Twitter handle @allproscience ). If you’re Re-Tweeting this post, you must also include your Twitter handle in the comment. If you’re Re-Tweeting this post and you also want to win vegan All Pro Science, you must leave a comment too. Don’t forget to follow All Pro Science @allproscience.

Contest ends on Tuesday, October 12th at midnight Pacific Time. Winner will be randomly chosen and notified by email by Friday, October 15th.

Still need convincing? Watch the video of Tony making a smoothie with bananas and other goodies with vegan All Pro Science protein powder.

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Alberto Contador, a third time Tour de France winner, is blaming bad meat on testing positive for a banned substance in the competition.

Contador alleges he consumed beef contaminated with Clenbuterol, a substance sometimes given to cattle to increase their growth rate, which is also an asthma drug that some athletes use as a stimulant.

“It’s a case of food contamination in which I’m the victim,” Contador said,according to the Wall Street Journal. He told a radio station that people he had dined with had complained about the quality of the meat, which was brought for the team at a shop in Spain. If anti-doping officials in Spain find him guilty, Contador could lose his 2010 Tour de France title and be banned from cycling for 2 years. However, there is data that shows Contador and other people can be victims of cows who dope.

Back in 1991, the FDA was alerted that the drug, normally only possessed by veterinarians, was being used to gain competitive advantage in animals. The FDA states that Clenbuterol residues can cause heart and lung function problems for people who have eaten the liver or meat of animals given the drug. In addition, several short-term illnesses in Europe have been traced to people eating meat contaminated with Clenbuterol.

In Spain, where Contador consumed the meat, Clenbuterol controversy had reared its head several times. In two outbreaks in 1990, 135 people who consumed contaminated beef that was verified positive for Clenbuterol were hospitalized for symptoms of increased heart rate, muscular tremors, headache, nausea, fever, and chills. An earlier outbreak with similar symptoms made Clenbuterol a suspect, but nothing was confirmed.

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What made Vanilla Ice decide to drop burgers for curries and veggie pizza? A cholesterol number that was way too fat and not in the “ph” way.

The rapper who’s been avoiding meat for three and a half years said, “I had high cholesterol. You know how some people can have a bunch of cheeseburgers and get high cholesterol? Mine was hereditary. I tried being vegetarian for three months, and it brought my cholesterol from over 300 to 133 without drugs.”

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Forks Over Knives, a documentary that suggests America’s health problems can be overcome by a switch to a plant-based diet, has partnered with Whole Foods and the store’s Healthy Eating Partner, Rip Esselstyn, author of “The Engine 2 Diet,” to offer a series of pre-screenings of the film. Whole Foods Market in Philadelphia sponsored the first screening, which sold out in July.

The following are some of the tour dates for when “Forks Over Knives” will be screening in a city near you. For exact time and location, check with your local Whole Foods Market.

• Nashville, TN–Wednesday, October 6th

• Chicago, IL–Tuesday, October 19th

• Fort Collins, CO–Wednesday, October 20th

• Los Angeles, CA–Thursday, November 11th

• Portland, OR–TBA

• Seattle, WA–TBA

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Casino owner Steve Wynn is rumored to be experimenting with the vegan lifestyle and now, it appears, according to a report from the Las Vegas Review Journal, he’s sharing the good news with all of his employees as well.

Wynn has ordered an 88-minute DVD to be distributed to all his employees at Wynn and Encore, ensuring the tapes are available in Spanish, French, German, English and adapted for the hearing impaired.

The DVDs came with a note about health:

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Tony Gonzalez‘s nutritional supplement company, which includes a vegan protein powder, All-Pro-Science, is helping to fight breast cancer during the month of October, which happens to be Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Throughout the month of October, All-Pro-Science will make a donation to the National Breast Cancer Foundation Inc. each time a customer uses the code “PINK” during checkout. Using the code will also allow customers to get a 20% discount off their purchases.

“With the month of October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I wanted APS to give back to a foundation that is helping our mothers, sisters, grandmas, etc. out there fight this horrible disease,” said Tony Gonzalez, co-founder of All Pro Science, Inc. “I encourage everyone to use the code PINK when they purchase so that we can make a big impact and help support the National Breast Cancer Foundation’s mission of saving lives through early detection.”

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Russell Brand

Russell Brand has a new book out, Booky Wook 2: This Time It’s Personal, a follow up to the autobiography My Booky Wook, which described much of Brand’s trials of sex and drug addiction and rehab. Brand took to Twitter to pose for a lovely unoffiical promo photo, showing his love for veggie snacks too.

A description from Amazon says Booky Wook 2 is told from a more sober Brand and “ushers in an unforgettable and raucous ride through chat shows, tabloid scandals, and Hollywood, all the while detailing Brand’s search for the contentment that fame can’t quite grant.”

Speaking of drug-free, sobriety and rehab, Brand never had a “relapse” in vegetarianism, as he discussed in My Booky Wook.

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This weekend at PETA’s 30th anniversary gala, Pamela Anderson revealed she thinks eating vegan has helped her symptoms of Hepatitis C, a disease she contracted in 2002.

“I have Hepatitis C and I feel great, which I think has a lot to do with my diet,” Anderson said. “I feel better, I always feel healthy, but I feel better.”

A vegetarian diet has been shown to ease several ailments of the liver, including the final stages of liver failure, but one study found a diet in vegetable proteins helped with a condition known as Hepatic Encephalopathy, sometimes a complication of Hepatitis C that is marked by changes in mental processes like brain fogginess, confusion and forgetfulness.

Published in Digestive Diseases and Sciences, the study found that a “vegetable-protein diet resulted in overall clinical improvement, decreased hepatic encephalopathy index scores, decreased arterial ammonia levels, improved performance on intellectual tasks, and in one case, markedly improved protein tolerance.”

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