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"Meat is for Pussies" John Joseph

If a man had been given the opportunity to write Skinny Bastard, the male component to the best selling vegan diet book by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin, Skinny Bitch,  John Joseph would have been the ideal candidate.

His latest book due out May 15, Meat Is For Pussies, appropriately titled as the guide for how to “get fit, kick ass and take names” is meant to shatter the myth that going meatless takes away the manly in anyone with a Y chromosome.

The Dish is Vegetarian has an exclusive excerpt from the book that tells men they can either “continue living like a pussy” or take charge of their health.

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A couple of months ago, Dr. Oz put three Chicago firefighters on a vegan diet.

Mauricio “Mo” Tirado, Egnechles “Iggy” Brown and Doug Crowley have all since lost 20-30 pounds each, according to an article in the Chicago Sun-Times.

Crowley was able to stop taking cholesterol medication, Brown is excited he can see his abs again and oatmeal is starting to grow on Tirado.

The men plan to stick to their diets as much as possible and say that if they do ever consume meat, it will be in very small amounts.

Dr. Oz enlisted the help of The Engine 2 Diet author Rip Esselstyn, a Texas firefighter who got his team into better shape by convincing them to eat vegan at the firehouse.

“Firehouses are the dumping ground of all of America’s leftovers — you couldn’t create a better atmosphere for unhealthy eating,” Esselstyn said. “It’s such a masculine culture — they think you need to eat dairy, eggs and meat and if you don’t you’re a little sissy girl.”

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PepsiCo’s CEO Indra Nooyi is vegetarian.

So is the fact that she runs a company known for its sugar high and salty good times an oxymoron?

Nooyi told CNN’s Money that ultimately consumers have the responsibility to know when enough is enough and if they all exercised, obesity wouldn’t exist.

“If I look at our portfolio, I think you can classify them into three groups: “fun-for-you foods” like Pepsi, Doritos, Lays, and Mountain Dew, “better-for-you” products like Diet Pepsi, PepsiMax, Baked Lays, Sobi Life Water, Propel, all of these products, and “good-for-you” products like Quaker, Tropicana, Naked Juice, Gatorade,” Nooyi said.

So guess the idea is lay off the fun-for-you foods and devour the good-for-you ones.

Now, if only the vending machines would stock more oatmeal and Naked Juice.

Still, you have to give PepsiCo credit for making a huge change to its products seven years ago without adding the costs to consumers when it banned all trans fat.

Maybe in a few years we’ll see sodas sweetened with the less addictive cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup.

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Jillian Michaels "The Master Your Metabolism Cookbook"

Jillian Michael‘s new cookbook, the follow up to last year’s diet and health book, Master Your Metabolism, has just been released.

The Master Your Metabolism Cookbook is filled with 125 recipes and The Biggest Loser coach’s pumpkin cranberry muffins are vegan.

The muffins are sweetened with maple syrup and use coconut and olive oils in place of butter.

Because of its higher saturated fat content, coconut oil was once thought of as the black sheep of vegetable oils.

While partially hydrogenated or processed coconut oil should be avoided, unprocessed varieties in moderate amounts are beneficial, as they’ve been shown to both treat hypothyrodism and boost the immune system.

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According to Look to the Stars, John Salley is the executive producer of Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days.

Simply Raw follows the lives of six Americans with diabetes as they switch from a life of junk food to a raw, vegan one and alleviate their diabetic symptoms without medication.

Several notables in the health and food industry make appearances, including Super Size Me‘s Morgan Spurlock, raw food activists Tony Robbins and Woody Harrelson and Eat to Live author Joel Fuhrman.

Dr. Neal Barnard, president of the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine, an organization that promotes a vegetarian diet for health and strict ethics in animal research, has written a book describing a similar program based on studies that a vegetarian diet can prevent, control and reverse the symptoms of diabetes.

The trailer for Simply Raw can be viewed below

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Bethenny Frankel is about 7 months pregnant now, and she’s definitely feeling the effects, including having to urinate every couple of hours and bloating.

She said that her face was “literally deformed so much that I look like a different person.”

To cut down on bloating, Frankel has reduced her salt intake and has taken to eating mostly vegetarian.

This shouldn’t be hard, given the fact she’s already demonstrated cooking dozens of vegetarian recipes.

Processed meats, such as bacon, sausage, deli cuts, hot dogs and frozen dinners can be full of sodium, and a group called the Center for Science in the Public Interest has urged the USDA to establish maximum levels of sodium content in these foods.

Recently, some studies have found the risk of developing heart disease and diabetes in those who consume processed meats greater than those who don’t.

The red tape of Capitol Hill can be thicker than oatmeal you forget to add enough water to.

Why wait for the government to say certain levels of salt in meat is “healthy?”

Whether you’re pregnant or not, cut all meat from your diet and always be able to recognize yourself in the mirror.

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On a recent episode of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, Jamie Oliver is peeved whenever the pink milk he thought he sent packing from the school cafeteria in the town where he’s trying to change people’s eating habits showed up only days later.

Just like Jamie found out french fries count wonderfully as a vegetable, he learned pink milk, despite the sugar content, makes a good source of calcium according to USDA standards.

“Clever! I never thought that if you put sugar in everything they’d eat it more!” Jamie said.

If we only had more Jamies to challenge the dairy milk requirement in schools across the country, our students would be in better shape.

According to Healthy School Lunches, flavored milks such as strawberry or chocolate, may contain as much or more sugar than soda.

Not to mention the numerous studies that have linked cow’s milk to health ailments like constipation, obesity, anemia, ear infections, respiratory issues and cancer.

Pink milk will definitely not turn boys into strong men.

And to think it was soy milk and male boobs people were worried about.

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Recently we told you about chef Dave Lieberman, author of 10 Things You Need To Eat, and his bravado regarding his quinoa cooking skills.

Seems Dave recommends you buy his book to teach you how to cook it, versus reading the instructions off the package.

Having never tried Lieberman’s advice, we’ll bite our tongues, especially since he recommends some many other tasteful, vegetarian foods.

In the 10 list of things, only one item, seafood, isn’t plant based.

Take a look at some of the others you may want to add to your shelf or refrigerator.

Tomatoes–“Loaded with lycopene, a phytochemical that gives tomatoes their color; strong anti-cancer and cardiovascular-protective properties. Slightly sweet, savory and acidic.”

Avocados–“Loaded with monounsaturated fats and contain no cholesterol; high in potassium (60% more than a banana) and fiber; low in calories.”

Nuts–“Contain Omega 3 fatty acids, improves energy levels, lowers coronary heart disease, raises HDL cholesterol (good kind), lowers triglycerides (bad kind).”

Berries (all)–“Loaded with nutrients and enormous levels of antioxidants.”

Want more superfoods? Visit here to read the entire list.

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