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We hearGwyneth Paltrow is interested in putting yoga into the curriculum at inner city schools.
Before you roll eyes and insert snide remark about making fixing the outdated buildings and designing programs to raise standardized test scores a priority, it may interest you to know the kids in South Central LA, an area known for violence and poverty, are already bending themselves in pretzels.
Accelerated School, named School of the Year by Time magazine, found these classes raised self-esteem and made students more mellow, which resulted in less disciplinary issues in the classroom, according to Yoga Therapy Web.
The same site mentions a study that found that students’ GPAs have been correlated with the degree of participation in YogaEd, a 36 week children’s yoga program.
Gwyneth will provide the cat-stretch and downward-facing dog.
John Salley will create the menu filled with vegetarian entrees.
And Rachael Ray will set up the gardens in the schoolyard from which food is grown and obtained every semester.
It’s celebrities to the rescue to take back the public school system!
That is, the average American consumes too high amounts of omega-6 fatty acids and not enough omega-3s, as reported by a World Health Organization finding.
Some believe the shift in eating more processed foods that are rich in the omega-6 acids, but also refined oils and manufactured fats designed to protect shelf life, may be responsible for the ratio, and recommend supplementing with omega-3 for balance.
According to nutrition guru Dr. Weil, this imbalance may be linked to depression, obesity, hyperactivity and even violence. We need to stop building prisons and provide funding for omega-3 in criminals’ diets. A British study found that violence in prison dropped by 37% after omega-3 oils and supplements were added to the prisoners’ diets.
Brazier believes supplementing is like taking vitamins without ever eating a vegetable and the best way to cure the imbalance is to eat a well rounded diet.
“Taking into account the WHO’s findings on the ideal ratio, those of us who eat a diet that does not regularly contain large amounts of high-temperature fried foods, hydrogenated fats (such as those found in some margarines) or trans fats have no reason to use supplements with a greater ratio of omega-3 to omega-6. It’s just not necessary. If, however, a large part of your diet consists of denatured fats, fried foods and manufactured oils…stop eating them!”
Comments Off on Alec Baldwin “SNL” Performance Is Vegetarian Muffuletta Delicious
Alec Baldwin recently became the 2nd person to host Saturday Night Live for the 15th time–tying for the spot with Steve Martin.
To commemorate the history, associate publisher and editor of New Orleans Magazine Errol Laborde took time to blog about his encounter with the Emmy winning actor in the Big Easy.
During Baldwin’s visit to the Tennessee Williams Festival, he had partaken in New Orleans tradition and eaten a vegetarian Muffuletta sandwich.
A Muffu-whatta?
Muffuletta is a Sicilian sesame bread or submarine style sandwich that originated in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
Traditional muffulettas contain several layers of meat, including salami and capicola, and are covered in an olive salad.
A mouth watering close up photo of a veggie version of the Mufuletta can be seen here to get you excited about trying the recipe.
Makes a good meal to snack on while watching the recent SNL clip you may have missed.
Written by Vegetarian Star on May 19th, 2010 in Animal Issues.
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During today’s unveiling of a PETA sign on her home that encourages pet owners to spay and neuter, the Octomom Nadya Suleman wore a “Fight Breedism” t-shirt, which advocates adopting a pet from a shelter, versus going to a kennel or breeder.
Suleman has agreed to display the PETA sign that reads, “Don’t Let Your Dog or Cat Become An Octomom: Always Spay Or Neuter,” in exchange for $5,000 and a month’s supply of vegetarian meats from the animal rights group (Check out the Boca Burger box on the side).
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Brigitte Bardot has written a letter to Romanian MPs, asking them not to go ahead with a plan to cull thousands of stray dogs in the nation’s capitol, according to The Telegraph.
Plans are under way to pass a law that would allow unclaimed stray dogs to be euthanized after seven days.
“Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law,” the actress wrote. “Stray animals, neglected and threatened on the streets, mirror the fear of a country which fails to approach the future based on the principle of voluntary responsibility.”
Bardot, both a vegetarian and animal rights activist, has personally donated her own money in the past for a sterilization program for stray animals, and she proposes such a program as an alternative to culling the 100,000 that live in Bucharest.
“(Vikram) says, “Who will marry you? Who will tolerate your tantrums and bad behavior?” Top it with my demand that I want a vegetarian yogi who meditates and neither smokes nor drinks.”
But there are several vegetarian websites that are.
If you’re not willing to lock lips with someone who’s got sausage residue on them, finding a vegetarian or vegan partner may be as simple as a mouse click.
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Fat Mike "NOFX" Credit: Squirrelza on Wikimedia Commons
Fat Mike, from the American punk rock band formed in San Francisco, NOFX, is one of the owners of the Thistle Hill Tavern in Brooklyn, New York.
Fat Mike once sang a song mocking vegetarians, and although Vegetarian Mumbo Jumbo contains phrases like, “I don’t feel bad about/Eating something that’s dead/So why should I be sad/For cows getting hit in the head?” he later became a vegetarian, citing that, “people change.”
Definitely for the better.
However, the menu at Thistle Hill Tavern co-owned by the NOFX musician has the “Fat Mike” burger being a beefy, grass fed one, despite the fact there’s a vegan burger also on the menu which comes with fried fennel.
Might this have been coined based on Fat Mike’s days of Vegetarian Mumbo Jumbo?
Or did Fat Mike make a change again for the worse?
In February of this year, Treehugger founder Graham Hill presented his idea for reducing your carbon footprint without giving up meat entirely, his Weekday Vegetarian Plan.
The green living website has now posted Hill’s speech from the 2010 TED conference.
Upset with the fact his lifestyle had more of an impact on the planet than the transportation industry, Hill wasn’t quite ready to go cold turkey (pun intended) and quit eating meat.
“Imagine your last hamburger,” he jokingly told the audience.
By eating vegetarian Monday through Friday and allowing himself to have meat on the weekends, Hill was able to ease his conscience without having his taste buds go through withdrawal.
