Vegetarian Star

Salma Hayek has teamed up with Juice Generation’s Eric Helms to offer a cleansing system complete with vegan foods, Cooler Cleanse.

Hayek has been a fan of Helm’s juices and had him frequently ship them to her, including before her wedding.

The two have finally made their shared loved for juice a business and offer juices in the flavors of green juice, grapefruit mint, red juice with beets and apples, young coconut water, and nut milk sweetened with date.

The juices are made in NYC and cleanses are 3-5 days.

For those that want to nibble, raw vegan foods are available and include a cashew cheese ravioli and sunflower falafel.

The meals are prepared by Matteo Silverman, the chef behind the underground supper club 4 Course Vegan in Williamsburg.

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“I try to make sure that I eat something green. I think that’s just a really good rule of thumb. I love all different kinds of vegetables, but the green ones are generally the best for you and the best for your diet.”

—-Molly Ringwald to PEOPLE at the Ragu Recipe for a Good Start program kickoff in New York.

Ragu carries a line of organic sauces that come in Traditional, Garden Veggie and Cheese.

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Kathy Freston had a chat with Dr. Dean Ornish, best known for his diet and lifestyle approach to treating  on protein, healthy body weight and weight loss.

Here are a few highlights:

On the dangers of animal protein:
DO: Diets that are high in animal protein are usually high in saturated fat, which promotes both heart disease and cancer. A recent study reviewed by Dr. Steven A. Smith in The New England Journal of Medicine found that high-protein, low-carbohydrate diets accelerate atherosclerosis (blockage in arteries) through mechanisms other than traditional risk factors such as changes in cholesterol and triglycerides.

Should you count calories or fat?
DO: In my experience, if you eat predominantly a whole foods, plant-based diet that is naturally high in fiber and low in fat and in refined carbohydrates, and if you eat it mindfully, you don’t have to count anything to lose weight. You feel full before you consume too many calories.

What are those good carbs again?
DO: Good carbs are whole foods. These include fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and soy products in their natural, unrefined, unprocessed forms.

Because these good carbs are unrefined, they are naturally high in fiber as well. The fiber fills you up before you eat too much. For example, it’s hard to get too many calories from eating apples or whole grains, because apples are naturally low in calories and high in fiber, which causes you to feel full before you consume too many calories.

Read more at the HuffingtonPost.

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Mario Batali was given a vegetable challenge and he took it!

Food and Wine asked Batali to create three recipes featuring vegetables and to pair those meals with appropriate wines.

Batali hinted that he not only enjoyed the task, but personally feels vegetables should be the center of the meal.

“Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate,” Batali said and added that the main course should be primarily from the “garden.”

Of course any seasoned vegetarian knows protein can be both represented on the plate and from the garden, given the numerous sources of plant proteins like chickpeas and beans.

One of Batali’s star vegetables was grilled asparagus with red pepper zabaglione, paired with a fruity Tuscan red wine.

Now you know asparagus can be paired with red wine, but can peas be paired as well?

Visit Food and Wine to find out.

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Lake Bell was recently on The Rachael Ray Show where she told the audience not only was she a vegan, but she’s also a foodie who loves to cook.

Not to mention she  made her most shocking confession yet.

She can give Ronald McDonald a run for his money.

“I heard that you make a vegan version of a Big Mac?” Rachael asked Lake.

“Everybody calm down, but it’s true!” Lake said.

Lake promised that if her new HBO series How To Make It In America does well, she’ll go back to the Rachael Ray Show and give everyone the recipe.

You know what that means.

Email your family, friends and neighbors to recruit them to be on the How To Make It In America street team to get the word out.

If everyone loves Lake, all the veggies can get their Big (faux) Mac on.

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Jonathan Safran Foer spoke with Ellen DeGenres on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, where he created the scenario of whether or not people agree it’s okay to eat meat.

Foer said that while most people say yes, the answer may change when you consider the consequences of modern day factory farming like reduced antibiotic efficiency, environmental damage and pregnant animals living unnatural lives confined in cages.

“Nobody wants that,” Foer said. “I don’t care how much or how little you care about animals.”

Watch the clip for more.

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Kelly Ripa gets no points for eating even smaller portions of meat for dinner, but her snack choice throughout the day is one to look at.

US Magazine hints that Ripa ditches the beef jerky and opts for almonds instead.

When you consider the benefits of nuts like almonds, you’d have to be nuts not to incorporate them in your diet.

The Mayo Clinic says nuts offer good for your cholesterol unsaturated fat, omega 3 fatty acids that you’d normally have to be a pescatarian to get, fiber and vitamin E.

And according to the Food and Drug Administration, a serving of nuts a day (1.5 ounces, or 42.5 grams) may help prevent heart disease when you follow an otherwise healthy diet.

Grab your favorite mix of almonds, hazelnuts, peanuts, pecans, pine nuts, pistachio nuts or walnuts today.

They’ll give you the energy you need to complete Ripa’s routine for getting your own arms of steel.

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Amar’e Stoudemire is on a break from practicing with the Phoenix Suns and says he’s using the time off to go on a 4 day vegan fast.

“With my four days off, I’m really taking time off to purify my body, and get my body in top shape for these last 16-17 games. So right now, I’m on a vegan fast.”

Although he may opt of out his contract and become a free agent, he hints that he’ll stay in Arizona if the team can “meet his number.”

His hard work and dedication to putting the best in his body has earned him 22.1 points and 8.7 rebounds per game this season.

Is this why AZ Central calls him a “predator fueled by vegetables?”

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