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Do vegetarian and vegan diets affect menstrual cycles?
by Cristen Conger | August 10, 2011
A Stuff Mom Never Told You listener wrote in a couple weeks ago inquiring whether vegetarian and/or vegan diets can affect a woman’s periods. After doing some digging for studies and expert opinions, the simple answer is that there is no simple answer.
In an earlier post, we took a quick look at the amount of food wasted around the world each year. On the heels of this news, there’s been a new food-related issue gaining attention in the media. Brace yourself, because it might sound crazy: What if we grew meat in labs? I know, I know: [...]
This two-part video discusses the meat we eat. In this case, it shows how cows are slaughtered and butchered in a small slaughterhouse (2,000 cows per year, or roughly 10 cows per working day). Everyone who eats meat should be aware of the process, and this video is completely transparent in showing that process. But [...]
Imagine that men and women are automobiles parked next to each other in a garage. The male car (painted blue, naturally) is a full-sized sedan that gets, oh, 15 miles to the gallon. The gal-mobile is a VW Bug with an imitation flower sitting cheerily in the built-in vase compact car that chugs along at 25 miles to the gallon. Which car gobbles up more gas and emits more carbon? The bigger man-sedan.
According to this video, there are more than 10 million vegans in the United States: But is a vegan diet really good for the human body? According to this long discussion by a former vegan, it is not: A Vegan No More She points out a long list of problems that resulted from her vegan [...]
Good question – should human beings be eating bugs instead of beef?
by Marshall Brain | August 12, 2010
Beef and other agricultural meats have a problem. Several problems actually. To make a pound of beef using modern methods, you need a lot of land (for forage), a lot of grain (for finishing – see this article for details) and a lot of water (both for irrigation and for the cow itself – this page has details). In the process the cows produce a lot of methane, which acts as a greenhouse gas.
Bugs would be better, and the following video makes the case…
If you are trying to eat less meat, or if you are on a diet and trying to cut calories, or if you are looking for an inexpensive form of protein, or if you are into Asian cooking and looking for new ingredients, you may have considered tofu. I came across lots of references to tofu in researching vegetarian/vegan options for the Dukan diet.
But have you ever considered making tofu yourself? Here are the steps…
In the process of learning about the Dukan Diet, I found out about something called Seitan (also known as wheat meat) that I had never heard of before. Seitan (pronounced say-tan) is a high-protein food made from wheat gluten. Gluten is the protein in wheat that allows bread to capture the carbon dioxide produced by [...]
How Carriers and Phone Makers Are Strangling Android (And Google’s Plan to Save It) – “The Google Phone could be a ploy to upset the wireless industry, or it could be an expensive niche device. Either way, it is a bid to take Android back from the companies that seem hell-bent on destroying it…” Scientists [...]
How In-Vitro Meat Works – creating meat without killing any animals
by Marshall Brain | November 18, 2009
Anyone who has a conscience has to pause when thinking about modern meat production. These two videos give you a taste of the practices being used today: Processing the chicks: Processing the meat: It’s especially poignant if you have ever raised pigs or chickens or cows. Pigs in particular, because pigs are definitely as smart [...]
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