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HappyCow.net has listings and information on vegetarian restaurants and health stores (including raw and vegan) throughout the world. Great site for travelling.
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site that delivers deliciously inspiring quotes... and more! (Your body and your
mind are actually interconnected, so it’s important to feed them both well!)
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The Complete Protein Myth:
2. "When I first wrote Diet for a Small Planet in 1971, the idea that people could live well without meat seemed much more controversial than it does today. I felt I had to prove to nutritionists and doctors that because we could combine proteins to create foods equal in protein usability to meat, people could thrive on a non-meat or low-meat diet. Today, few dispute that people can thrive on this kind of diet. In fact, more and more health professionals are actually advocating less meat precisely for health reasons, reasons I discussed in 'America's Experimental Diet.' In 1971 I stressed protein complementarity because I assumed that the only way to get enough protein (without consuming too many calories) was to create a protein as usable by the body as animal protein. In combating the myth that meat is the only way to get high-quality protein, I reinforced another myth. I gave the impression that in order to get enough protein without meat, considerable care was needed in choosing foods.
- excerpt from Frances Moore Lappe's 10th anniversary edition of Diet for a Small Planet
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