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You Are Your Own Gym
USE THE BODY YOU HAVE TO BUILD THE BODY YOU WANT.
This is a free sample workout from the You Are Your Own Gym 3 DVD set. Get the entire 9 workout program, with warm-up and cool-down from Amazon.
No Gym. No Equipment. Using nothing but your own body, a bit of floor space, and bodyweight exercises that engage many muscles at once, Mark Lauren, elite trainer of US Special Operations troops, has created short, incredibly convenient workouts that simultaneously build strength and endurance while burning fat long after their completion.
Based on the international bestselling book You Are Your Own Gym: The Bible of Bodyweight Exercises - This 3 DVD system for Novice, Intermediate, and Advanced athletes—with three total-body workouts per level—makes use of systematic changes in training intensity and volume to keep you challenged at just the right level, ensuring you the best body of your life, injury-free.
Stop wasting time and money on gyms, gadgets, and other inferior methods of training. They are all poor substitutes for the world’s most advanced fitness machine: Your own body!
This is a free sample workout from the You Are Your Own Gym 3 DVD set. Get the entire 9 workout program, with warm-up and cool-down from Amazon.
No Gym. No Equipment. Using nothing but your own body, a bit of floor space, and bodyweight exercises that engage many muscles at once, Mark Lauren, elite trainer of US Special Operations troops, has created short, incredibly convenient workouts that simultaneously build strength and endurance while burning fat long after their completion.
Based on the international bestselling book You Are Your Own Gym: The Bible of Bodyweight Exercises - This 3 DVD system for Novice, Intermediate, and Advanced athletes—with three total-body workouts per level—makes use of systematic changes in training intensity and volume to keep you challenged at just the right level, ensuring you the best body of your life, injury-free.
Stop wasting time and money on gyms, gadgets, and other inferior methods of training. They are all poor substitutes for the world’s most advanced fitness machine: Your own body!
Where do you get your protein?
Our National Obsession with Protein
It’s a little ridiculous how obsessed we are with protein, and yet the diseases Americans are suffering and dying from are not diseases of deficiency: heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Most likely, we don’t know of any friends with protein deficiency, we see it in countries where the people are starving. They’re not getting protein because they’re not getting food. We don’t have any protein deficiency hospital wards or specialists, but we all know people with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and heart disease. The problem isn’t that vegans aren’t getting enough protein; the problem is that most people are taking in way too much animal protein, saturated fat, and dietary cholesterol.
The truth is that amino acids (the building blocks of protein) are present in nearly every food. As long as you consume a variety of leafy greens, vegetables, seaweed, nuts, seeds, legumes/beans, whole grains, and maybe a bit of soy, and meet your calorie needs daily, you'll be fine on the protein.Too much protein, on the other hand (from a heavy meat diet), is bad for the digestive system and damages the kidneys and liver.
- Our National Obsession With Protein
- Protein in the Vegan Diet
- How to Get Complete Protein In Vegetarian, Vegan Diets
- Protein | VeganHealth.org
Some free E-books worth having
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Simply Heavenly! The Monastery Vegetarian Cookbook by Abbot George Burke
This could very well be the Holy Grail of vegan cooking. Read the reviews on Amazon here. Out of print.
The Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen
Veggie Works Vegan Cookbook by Mark W. Rasmussen
Vegan Cooking For Dummies By Alexandra Jamieson
The 30-Minute Vegan: Over 175 Quick, Delicious, and Healthy Recipes for Everyday Cooking by Mark Reinfeld, Jennifer Murray
Vegan on the Cheap: Great Recipes and Simple Strategies that Save You Time and Money by Robin Robertson
Professional Vegetarian Cooking by Ken Bergeron
The Bold Vegetarian Chef: Adventures in Flavor with Soy, Beans, Vegetables, and Grains by Ken Charney
Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating by Erik Marcus
Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World: Bob Torres, Jenna Torres
Get It Ripe: A Fresh Take on Vegan Cooking and Living by Jae Steele
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
The China Study - The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted
Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss
The Enlightened Kitchen: Eat Your Way to Better Health by Marie Oser
Nutrition In Essence by Sarah Bearden
How to Cook Everything, Completely Revised 10th Anniversary Edition: 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food By Mark Bittman
Vegeatarian Times Online Recipes Database
This database from Vegeatarian Times has more than 10,000 recipes and is free to use.
You can search by simple keyword but the real power comes into play when you can take advantage of the advanced fields to assist getting to the “perfect” recipe.
You can use the fields (below) to limit your search after entering a keyword. We were also able to leave the keyword box blank (a null set), select from the advanced search limits, and get search results.
Advanced Search Options:
+ Category (Egg-Free, Dairy-Free, etc.)
+ Type (Appetizers, Entree, Soups, etc.)
+ Member Rating
+ Appliances Required (Microwave, Slow Cooker, Grill, etc.)
+ Season
+ Holiday/Special Occasion
+ Cuisine (Indian, French, Moroccan, Greek, etc.)
+ Departments (30 Minutes, Veg Lite, Vegan Gourmet, 5 Ingredients, etc.)
+ Course/Meal (Breakfast/Brunch, Side Dish, Stir-Fry, etc.
Source: Vegetarian Times
Tip: Remember to eliminate any oil found in a recipe. It's not necessary and it's just not healthy.
You can search by simple keyword but the real power comes into play when you can take advantage of the advanced fields to assist getting to the “perfect” recipe.
You can use the fields (below) to limit your search after entering a keyword. We were also able to leave the keyword box blank (a null set), select from the advanced search limits, and get search results.
Advanced Search Options:
+ Category (Egg-Free, Dairy-Free, etc.)
+ Type (Appetizers, Entree, Soups, etc.)
+ Member Rating
+ Appliances Required (Microwave, Slow Cooker, Grill, etc.)
+ Season
+ Holiday/Special Occasion
+ Cuisine (Indian, French, Moroccan, Greek, etc.)
+ Departments (30 Minutes, Veg Lite, Vegan Gourmet, 5 Ingredients, etc.)
+ Course/Meal (Breakfast/Brunch, Side Dish, Stir-Fry, etc.
Source: Vegetarian Times
Tip: Remember to eliminate any oil found in a recipe. It's not necessary and it's just not healthy.
Fast Food Nation
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal - the book:
From Publishers Weekly
Schlosser's incisive history of the development of American fast food indicts the industry for some shocking crimes against humanity, including systematically destroying the American diet and landscape, and undermining our values and our economy. The first part of the book details the postwar ascendance of fast food from Southern California, assessing the impact on people in the West in general. The second half looks at the product itself: where it is manufactured (in a handful of enormous factories), what goes into it (chemicals, feces) and who is responsible (monopolistic corporate executives). In harrowing detail, the book explains the process of beef slaughter and confirms almost every urban myth about what in fact "lurks between those sesame seed buns." Given the estimate that the typical American eats three hamburgers and four orders of french fries each week, and one in eight will work for McDonald's in the course of their lives, few are exempt from the insidious impact of fast food. Throughout, Schlosser fires these and a dozen other hair-raising statistical bullets into the heart of the matter. While cataloguing assorted evils with the tenacity and sharp eye of the best investigative journalist, he uncovers a cynical, dismissive attitude to food safety in the fast food industry and widespread circumvention of the government's efforts at regulation enacted after Upton Sinclair's similarly scathing novel exposed the meat-packing industry 100 years ago. By systematically dismantling the industry's various aspects, Schlosser establishes a seminal argument for true wrongs at the core of modern America. (Jan.) Forecast: This book will find a healthy, young audience; it's notable that the Rolling Stone article on which this book was based generated more reader mail than any other piece the magazine ran in the 1990s.
Fast Food Nation (2006) - the movie: a fictionalized feature film based on Eric Schlosser's bestselling nonfiction expose.
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone awarded the film three out of four stars and added, "Eric Schlosser's nonfiction 2001 best seller, Fast Food Nation, started life at this magazine, but the bucking maverick of a movie he has scripted with director Richard Linklater (A Scanner Darkly) is cut from a different side of beef. It's less an expose of junk-food culture than a human drama, sprinkled with sly, provoking wit, about how that culture defines how we live ...
If the movie stayed on topic, we'd have a muckraking probe with roots back to Upton Sinclair's seminal 1906 book The Jungle and extending to Morgan Spurlock's 2004 doc Super Size Me. But Schlosser and Linklater are hunting bigger game. The shit in the burger is symptomatic of a larger contamination.
The film is brimming with grand ambitions but trips on many of them as some characters aren't given enough screen time to register and others vanish just when you want to learn more about them."
Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote, "Richard Linklater's rough-hewn tapestry of assorted lives that feed off of and into the American meat industry is both rangy and mangy; it remains appealing for its subversive motives and revelations even as one wishes its knife would have been sharper ... In the end, viewers waiting for an emotional and/or dramatic payoff will be disappointed. As a call-to-arms, it's highly sympathetic but surprisingly mild-mannered."
Trailer-
You can watch the full film here...
From Publishers Weekly
Schlosser's incisive history of the development of American fast food indicts the industry for some shocking crimes against humanity, including systematically destroying the American diet and landscape, and undermining our values and our economy. The first part of the book details the postwar ascendance of fast food from Southern California, assessing the impact on people in the West in general. The second half looks at the product itself: where it is manufactured (in a handful of enormous factories), what goes into it (chemicals, feces) and who is responsible (monopolistic corporate executives). In harrowing detail, the book explains the process of beef slaughter and confirms almost every urban myth about what in fact "lurks between those sesame seed buns." Given the estimate that the typical American eats three hamburgers and four orders of french fries each week, and one in eight will work for McDonald's in the course of their lives, few are exempt from the insidious impact of fast food. Throughout, Schlosser fires these and a dozen other hair-raising statistical bullets into the heart of the matter. While cataloguing assorted evils with the tenacity and sharp eye of the best investigative journalist, he uncovers a cynical, dismissive attitude to food safety in the fast food industry and widespread circumvention of the government's efforts at regulation enacted after Upton Sinclair's similarly scathing novel exposed the meat-packing industry 100 years ago. By systematically dismantling the industry's various aspects, Schlosser establishes a seminal argument for true wrongs at the core of modern America. (Jan.) Forecast: This book will find a healthy, young audience; it's notable that the Rolling Stone article on which this book was based generated more reader mail than any other piece the magazine ran in the 1990s.
Fast Food Nation (2006) - the movie: a fictionalized feature film based on Eric Schlosser's bestselling nonfiction expose.
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone awarded the film three out of four stars and added, "Eric Schlosser's nonfiction 2001 best seller, Fast Food Nation, started life at this magazine, but the bucking maverick of a movie he has scripted with director Richard Linklater (A Scanner Darkly) is cut from a different side of beef. It's less an expose of junk-food culture than a human drama, sprinkled with sly, provoking wit, about how that culture defines how we live ...
If the movie stayed on topic, we'd have a muckraking probe with roots back to Upton Sinclair's seminal 1906 book The Jungle and extending to Morgan Spurlock's 2004 doc Super Size Me. But Schlosser and Linklater are hunting bigger game. The shit in the burger is symptomatic of a larger contamination.
The film is brimming with grand ambitions but trips on many of them as some characters aren't given enough screen time to register and others vanish just when you want to learn more about them."
Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote, "Richard Linklater's rough-hewn tapestry of assorted lives that feed off of and into the American meat industry is both rangy and mangy; it remains appealing for its subversive motives and revelations even as one wishes its knife would have been sharper ... In the end, viewers waiting for an emotional and/or dramatic payoff will be disappointed. As a call-to-arms, it's highly sympathetic but surprisingly mild-mannered."
Trailer-
You can watch the full film here...
Trailer | Forks Over Knives - The Official Movie Website
From the official website:
What has happened to us? Despite the most advanced medical technology in the world, we are sicker than ever by nearly every measure. Two out of every three of us are overweight. Cases of diabetes are exploding, especially amongst our younger population. About half of us are taking at least one prescription drug. Major medical operations have become routine, helping to drive health care costs to astronomical levels. Heart disease, cancer and stroke are the country’s three leading causes of death, even though billions are spent each year to “battle” these very conditions. Millions suffer from a host of other degenerative diseases.
Could it be there’s a single solution to all of these problems? A solution so comprehensive but so utterly straightforward, that it’s mind-boggling that more of us haven’t taken it seriously?
FORKS OVER KNIVES examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the so-called “diseases of affluence” that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods. The major storyline in the film traces the personal journeys of a pair of pioneering yet under-appreciated researchers, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn.
Read more...
Trailer Forks Over Knives - The Official Movie Website
What has happened to us? Despite the most advanced medical technology in the world, we are sicker than ever by nearly every measure. Two out of every three of us are overweight. Cases of diabetes are exploding, especially amongst our younger population. About half of us are taking at least one prescription drug. Major medical operations have become routine, helping to drive health care costs to astronomical levels. Heart disease, cancer and stroke are the country’s three leading causes of death, even though billions are spent each year to “battle” these very conditions. Millions suffer from a host of other degenerative diseases.
Could it be there’s a single solution to all of these problems? A solution so comprehensive but so utterly straightforward, that it’s mind-boggling that more of us haven’t taken it seriously?
FORKS OVER KNIVES examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the so-called “diseases of affluence” that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods. The major storyline in the film traces the personal journeys of a pair of pioneering yet under-appreciated researchers, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn.
Read more...
Trailer Forks Over Knives - The Official Movie Website
Peter Jennings Reporting: How to Get Fat Without Really Trying
Obesity is fast on its way to becoming the nation’s largest and most costly public health problem. While much of the public debate about obesity has focused on personal responsibility, PETER JENNINGS REPORTING: HOW TO GET FAT WITHOUT EVEN TRYING reveals how federal government agricultural policies and food industry practices are contributing to America’s growing obesity epidemic.
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Alternate link - YouTube part 1
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Alternate link - YouTube part 1
Supermarket Secrets
Channel 4 (BBC) documentary on the factory farming of chickens. Using a combination of undercover filming and scientific analysis, Supermarket Secrets investigates whether the food on supermarket shelves is really as good as it looks, whether prices are as good as they seem and what happens behind the scenes in the production of supermarket food.
Read more...
Supermarket Secrets - Dispatches part 1
Part 2
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Supermarket Secrets - Dispatches part 1
Part 2
The Future of Food - Watch the Documentary Film for Free
The Future Of Food offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.
Alternate site: The Future of Food - SnagFilms
Alternate site: The Future of Food - SnagFilms
More on Food, Inc.
CBS News - The Truth About Food, Inc.
Filmmaker Robert Kenner and Michael Pollan explain their new film, "Food, Inc." to John Dickerson.
Watch CBS News Videos Online
ABCNews - 'Food, Inc.' Challenges the Industry
A new documentary, makes claims about the hidden costs of cheap food.
Watch ABC News Videos Online
Filmmaker Robert Kenner and Michael Pollan explain their new film, "Food, Inc." to John Dickerson.
Watch CBS News Videos Online
ABCNews - 'Food, Inc.' Challenges the Industry
A new documentary, makes claims about the hidden costs of cheap food.
Watch ABC News Videos Online
Food, Inc.
How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It
Food, Inc. - Movie Trailer
Food, Inc. - Movie Trailer- Watch more Videos at Vodpod.
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that's been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Food, Inc. reveals surprising — and often shocking truths — about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.
Read more...
Watch the full movie here
NOW talks with filmmaker Robert Kenner, the director of Food, Inc., which takes a hard look at the secretive and surprising journey food takes on the way from processing plants to our dinner tables.
My health odyssey (part 2)
After seeing the piece about Rip Esselstyn and The Engine 2 Diet on TV that fateful Sunday morning it was off to the internet and particularly Amazon.com to search for answers.
The answers are here:
In addition to The Engine 2 Diet from Amazon, I ordered:
- The Mcdougall Program: 12 Days to Dynamic Health
- Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss
- The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health
- Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure
My health odyssey (part 1)
This was what changed my life (health) for the better.
Like most people, I suppose, I had always thought of myself as a fairly healthy person. Oh, I could tone up a bit, maybe drop about 20 lbs. Then it seemed that once I hit the big five-oh, I started breaking down. I was starting to feel old, tired, with chronic aches and pains. Was this normal aging? Was this the way it was going to be for the rest of my life? Hopefully another 30+ years...
Then things took a turn for the worse. I was having circulation problems in my right leg. I could barely walk 50 yards without serious discomfort, and that distance was shortening. Ok, this was getting serious and I was beginning to get worried- my mind was racing to remember those damned drug commercials (I hate those!) about PAD. I finally, stubbornly, went to my doctor. Diagnosis- atherosclerosis, prescription- surgery, stent. Done.
That was in March of 2006. Jump forward almost 3 years- the problem returns. Worse. This time it has extended to the left leg, too. Surgery, two stents. Done. Follow up prescriptions- statins, Plavix. Was this the way it was going to be for the rest of my life? Hopefully another 30+ years...
Then, one Sunday morning I saw this on television...
After seeing this story I pondered my own declining health and came to the conclusion that this might just be the real answer.
Like most people, I suppose, I had always thought of myself as a fairly healthy person. Oh, I could tone up a bit, maybe drop about 20 lbs. Then it seemed that once I hit the big five-oh, I started breaking down. I was starting to feel old, tired, with chronic aches and pains. Was this normal aging? Was this the way it was going to be for the rest of my life? Hopefully another 30+ years...
Then things took a turn for the worse. I was having circulation problems in my right leg. I could barely walk 50 yards without serious discomfort, and that distance was shortening. Ok, this was getting serious and I was beginning to get worried- my mind was racing to remember those damned drug commercials (I hate those!) about PAD. I finally, stubbornly, went to my doctor. Diagnosis- atherosclerosis, prescription- surgery, stent. Done.
That was in March of 2006. Jump forward almost 3 years- the problem returns. Worse. This time it has extended to the left leg, too. Surgery, two stents. Done. Follow up prescriptions- statins, Plavix. Was this the way it was going to be for the rest of my life? Hopefully another 30+ years...
Then, one Sunday morning I saw this on television...
After seeing this story I pondered my own declining health and came to the conclusion that this might just be the real answer.
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