The Vegan Next Door

10/13/2019

Wish these were federal laws!!

California will be the first state to ban the sale and manufacture of new fur products and the third to bar most animals from circus performances under a pair of bills signed Saturday by Gov. Newsom.

10/02/2019

Avoiding meat and dairy could reduce your carbon footprint from food by nearly three-quarters

09/09/2019

A team led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has identified several women's health benefits from a low-fat diet. The findings, published in the September issue of the Journal of Nutrition, found a low-fat diet commensurate with an increase in fruit, vegetable and grain servings reduced death following breast cancer, slowed diabetes progression and prevented coronary heart disease.

Dr. Ross Prentice, member of the Cancer Prevention and Biostatistics programs at Fred Hutch and his colleagues in the Women's Health Initiative originally launched the Dietary Modification Trial in 1993. The study involved nearly 49,000 postmenopausal women across the U.S. to test whether a low-fat dietary pattern would reduce the risk of breast and colorectal cancers and coronary heart disease. After nearly nine years of dietary change, they found that the low-fat diet did not significantly impact outcomes for these conditions. However, after longer-term follow-up of nearly 20 years, researchers found significant benefits, derived from modest dietary changes emerged and persisted including:

A 15-35% reduction in deaths from all-causes following breast cancer
A 13-25% reduction in insulin-dependent diabetes
A 15-30% reduction in coronary heart disease among 23,000 women without baseline hypertension or prior cardiovascular disease
"The WHI's Dietary Modification Trial has provided women with nutrition and disease prevention insights for some years," Prentice said. "The latest results support the role of nutrition in overall health, and indicate that low-fat diets rich in fruits, vegetables and grains have health benefits without any observed adverse effects."

Unlike other studies examining the link between diet, cancer and other diseases, WHI investigators designed the study as a long-term, randomized controlled clinical trial to limit bias and establish causal conclusions. Participants made intentional dietary changes resulting from learned integrated concepts about nutrition and behavior, taught by trained nutritionists during the first year and reinforced quarterly for nearly a decade.

"The sheer number of new diets and nutrition trends can be overwhelming

09/09/2019

“Researchers from Oxford University found that chicken consumption was associated with a higher risk of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma...and with an increased chance of prostate cancer in men. The findings could send shock waves through the food industry.”

08/27/2019

Vegan in 30 Days is still going! Publisher will now be selling it in a new reformatted version!

08/26/2019

08/22/2019

Mmm Hmm! Docs and diabetic nurse educators say diabetes can't be reversed. Once you have it, you'll always have it. But if your A1c and your glucose are 100% controlled by diet and all symptoms are gone, isn't that a cure? "But it could come back if they go back to their old diet!" they say! Well, if I break my leg, it can heal and be cured, but I can break it again. Just because it was once broken doesn't mean my leg is broken forever. It's the same with diabetes ... you can usually get rid of it with a whole food, plant based diet, but if you go back to your old ways, it will probably come back again. Go vegan!

The doctor described helping her patients through diet as a 'really special feeling'