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Pita Pit Adds Vegan Black Bean Patty To Menu

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, May 12th, 2011 in Business, Food & Drink, Restaurants.

Pita Pit Spicy Black Bean Patty

In the words of a chain of restaurants featuring fresh, made to order pita sandwiches, “There’s a new protein in town.”

Vegetarian Star can only say, “Yum, yum and triple yum!”

Pita Pit, which has over 100 restaurants in major cities and college towns across the U.S., has put a vegan black bean veggie patty on its list of already friendly veggie pitas like the falafel, the garden and the hummus.

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“Shape” Magazine Tells Why Vegetarians Gain Weight

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, May 12th, 2011 in Food & Drink, Nutrition-Health-Fitness.

You’ve just made the switch to a vegetarian diet, thinking those tofu burgers and sweet potato fries will slim your figure in time for bathing suit season. But two months later, you’re starting to look like the vegan blimp!

While on average, vegetarians and vegans have less issues with obesity than meat-eaters, eating veg may actually cause you to gain weight if not done properly.

Shape magazine has shared some tips for what you’re doing wrong if it’s hard to bend over and tie the laces on your leather-free shoes.

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Moby

“Yeah, I like being vegan, I think it’s good for my health. But honestly, one of the main reasons I’m vegan is because I’m ethically lazy. My friends who eat meat or who eat eggs have to sometimes wrestle with the ethical consequences of their actions. By being vegan, I take the easy way out.”

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Slice Of Celebrity Vegan Birthday Cake To (Drum Roll)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, May 12th, 2011 in Actresses, Birthdays.

Vanessa A. Williams

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

Photo: PR Photos

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Hayley Marie Norman "Fired Up" Los Angeles Premiere - Arrivals

Actress Hayley Marie Norman is a vegan and regular contributor to the blog, This Dish Is Veg.

Norman had the privilege of attending the premiere of Forks Over Knives, a film about preventing and reversing major health conditions through a plant-based diet and has written about her experience.

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Sheryl Crow Tom's of Maine

Sheryl Crow has partnered with animal-friendly and producer of a variety of vegan personal care products Tom’s of Maine for her tour throughout the month of May.

Tom’s of Maine is promoting their vegan Simply White Toothpaste made with natural silicas, an alternative to harsh chemicals that whiten teeth.

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Sonu Sood Bares His Chest For PETA And Vegetarians (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 in Actors, Food & Drink, Videos.

Sonu Sood

Bollywood star Sonu Sood has bared his chest in a new pro-vegetarian ad for PETA India.

“I think we should bring that kind of awareness to everyone that we have to do something for animals – become vegetarians and do good to this Earth,” Sood said.

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Weekday Vegetarian Book Graham Hill

How does Treehugger.com‘s founder do his part to help the environment even though he’s not a full time vegan? He simply eats a vegetarian diet for the majority of the week.

This “Weekday Vegetarian” plan was first discussed at a TED conference in February 2010 and now Graham Hill has written a book on it and published it exclusively to Amazon Kindle.

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