Vegetarian Star

A big slice of vegan birthday cake goes out to the following vegetarian or vegan celebrities.

• Rosie O’Donnell (52)

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2012 saw a lot of awesome vegetarians, vegans and plant-loving people make headlines.

Here are a few of Vegetarian Star’s favorite.

#5. Vegetarian Olympics.
The 2012 London games made America proud with plant-based eaters like Mary Whipple and Dotsie Bausch who shared their medal-winning veggie meals with the media. And UK based Fry’s fed fans and athletes with their delicious meatless items like vegetarian mince meat. Go team VEG!

#4. Vegetarian journalist Candy Crowley moderates presidential debate.
The first female to do so in 20 years. Maybe the first vegetarian ever.

#3. Hell’s Kitchen competitor opens vegetarian sushi restaurant.
Reality TV isn’t always nice to vegetarians, but reality business may be as Guy Vaknin‘s Beyond Sushi shows what you can do with a roll of seaweed beyond Flipper.

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Rosie O’Donnell spoke with Entertainment Tonight about her recent heart health scare and how she hopes switching to a vegetarian diet will help erase some of the damage she’s done to her health over the years.

“I’d like to say I had a heart attack — because women especially like to say heart event. I’m like ‘No, it’s a real heart attack,'” she emphasized. “But I’m feeling better, I’m following the doctor’s orders, and it’s totally made me change the way that I was living.”

A study found that 13% of physicians recommend a low-fat vegetarian diet for their heart patients, although it’s recommended all do. O’Donnell has chosen to follow this advice, regardless of any RX.

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Rosie O’Donnell has experienced weight loss success since adopting a vegetarian diet and hopes to be on her way toward recovery from a recent cardiovascular scare by keeping animal products off her plate.

Doesn’t look like she’ll be eating the hot dog named after her at Pink’s Hollywood anytime soon.

Rumor has it she’d rather have it removed from the menu entirely.

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Rosie O’Donnell has announced on her Twitter account that she’ll be “eating like Bill Clinton.”

The shift towards a plant-based diet comes after a visit to the hospital for heart attack symptoms. O’Donnell O’Donnell learned her left anterior descending artery was 99-percent blocked. The comedian is also using this experience to speak out on the heart attack symptoms of women vs. men.

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