Dr. Neal Barnard - Inspiring Millions of People to go Vegan!

Dr. Neal Barnard is an amazing doctor. From past two decades, Dr. Neal Barnard is convincing people that Plant-based diet (Vegan diet) is the best diet for people...

Today is National Doctor's Day in United States. I'm sure millions of people are thankful to Dr. Neal Barnard for inspiring and motivating them to go VEGAN!

Go here to know more about the global icon - Dr. Neal Barnard

1. http://www.pcrm.org/nbBlog

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnHYHjchn6w

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UPQfdIlzaA

Fit Fathers - Benefits of Plant-based Diet

Mothers and fathers play a pivotol role in creating healthy and happy families. Kimatni D. Rawlins is an amazing father of two wonderful vegan daughters. Few years ago, Kimatni led a unhealthy lifestyle. One fine day, Kimatni decided to lead a healthy lifestyle...

Rawlins founded Fit Fathers to help other fathers to lead a happy and healthy lifestyle. Rawlins is a "clean vegan", and helps fathers to thrive on the motto," Eat well, stay active and energize your life". In Fit Fathers you can find everything from, plant-based nutrition to delicious recipes and healthy travel tips to excercise tips.

Please read Rawlins website, http://www.fitfathers.com/meet-kimatni-rawlins/

Food Revolution Network

What we eat every day has enormous impact on our health, environment, economy, community and farmers. It is really important to eat wholesome nutritious food ...

These days, numerous food items is brimming with flavors, chemicals,  pesticides, and most of the fruits and vegetables are "GMO".  John Robbins and Ocean Robbins want to make our food  nutritious and wholesome. They are involved in helping farmers, communities and trying their best to help everyone from children to farmers in United States and across the world to eat wholesome nutritious fare...

Food Revotion Network is a great organization engaged in noble work. If you want know about farmers, supermarkets, organic farming,  healthy food items, environment, clean food, amazing health tips, and global warming, then you should visit http://foodrevolution.org/about/ and
https://www.facebook.com/foodrevolutionnetwork/

Plant-based Diet is Healthy Diet

Dr.Sujata Kelkar Shetty,  a popular Life Coach and Wellness Consultant says that eating plant-based is good for our health and environment.

I recently read a wonderful article, Go Vegetarian , written by Dr Sujata Kelkar Shetty.

http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/zu3gQ16odk9eurDah1JOIK/Go-vegetarian.html

5 Tips for Vegans Visiting Australia

During December my family and I visited Melbourne. Melbourne is a gorgeous city and it's really easy to thrive on Vegan diet.  We stayed at my brother-in-law's home and my gracious co-sister cooked delicious Indian dishes every day. My co-sister told me that many Australians are exploring many vegetarian and vegan dishes, as the health providers often talk about the great benefits of vegetables, fruits, beans and lentils.

1. Airplane Food :We flew to Melbourne from Los Angeles in Quantas.  Quantas airlines is vegetarian and vegan friendly. We ate delicious vegan food for breakfast , lunch and dinner. These days most of the airlines offer vegan meals. Make sure to confirm your vegan meal atleast 48 hours prior to your departure. Visit http://www.happycow.net to get an idea what airlines are offering vegetarian and vegan fare. Always carry nuts, dates and instant oats if you are unhappy with your airplane food.

2. In Melbourne, I went to three grocery stores - Aldis , Woolworths and Coles. All these stores carry rice milk , almond milk and soy milk. I also found many vegan wraps and breads. You can find Tofu in all the grocery stores.  In Aldis I saw many cookie packets, chocolates, wafers labelled as, "Suitable for Vegetarians and Vegans". In bigger cities such as Sydney, and Melbourne go to Indian Grocery stores, and stock on spicy and sweet snacks. Most of the snacks are suitable for Vegans.

3. Food Delivery : If you are staying in an apartment for few months, you can use Eat Now, http://www.eatnow.com. to order vegan food from restaurants near your apartment. For vegan cosmetics and yummy chocolates, you can order online at Vegan Online http://www.veganonline.com

4.Always carry granola, dry fruits and Vegan Bars : When we visited Philips Island and Geelong,  we went to some bakeries and coffee shops. I just saw  everything from cookies to biscuits and muffins to cupcakes loaded with dairy . It is really hard to find vegan food stuff in rural areas in Australia.

5.Great blogs and Facebook : Every day, the Vegan community is growing in cities across the world.
Vegetarian Victoria http://vegetarianvictoria.org.au  , Veganopoulous http://www.veganopoulous.com and Half Pint Vegan Dairy http://halfpintvegandairy.com.au  is filled with lots of information for Vegans visiting Australia.

Vegetarians and Vegans in Pakistan

I grew up in Bangalore, India . While going to school in the morning, my friend Faiza Sultana often told me stories about Pakistan. She told me that are forefathers were from Pakistan. Faiza wished to visit Pakistan to see her distant relatives. Pakistan is India's neighboring country. I also want to visit Pakistan sometime, as I want to see some ancient Hindu temples near Karachi and Lahore.

My friend has not yet visited Pakistan, but she keeps track of everything from cricket to Lollywood and politics to fashion , of Pakistan. Faiza recently sent me the facebook link to Vegan and Vegetarian Pakistan

I was so happy to see the facebook link to Vegan and Vegetarian Pakistan . I grew up with the notion that Pakistani food is synonymous with non-vegetarian food.

Recently, I read another article in outlook India, which reports that the demand for vegetarian food is growing rapidly in Pakistan. I'm so happy that educated Pakistanis are exploring plant-based diet, good for health and our environment.

Healthy Eating Plate

 Michael Pollan, a famous Food Writer, urges people to eat plant-based food.

Michael Pollan's answer to healthy lifestyle is - Eat Food . Not Too Much. Mostly Plants.

Nutrition experts from Harvard School of Public Health have created Healthy Eating Plate.
Healthy Eating Plate is inclined towards wholesome plant-based diet. If you follow the guidelines from Healthy Eating Plate, your health will be in great condition.

The main point of Healthy Eating Plate is, "Make most of your meal vegetable and fruits, half of your
plate". And to eat meat as a condiment!

According to Healthy Eating Plate, protein is found in beans, lentils, nuts and quinoa. Calcuim is found in collards, bok choy, fortified soy milk, beans and tofu. And regular excercise is good for bones.

The blogs - vegan dad , fat free vegan , holy cow , and vegan richa are awash with many tasty plant-based recipes.

Veggietorials

Veggietorials  , a food blog is brimming with many plant-based recipes. Cobi, a vegan in Hawaii blogs about healthy plant-based recipes and has so many healthy plant-based recipes in youtube .

Cobi recently traveled to Alaska, and she posted so many vegan-friendly restaurants and natural food stores in Alaska. I love visiting Veggietorials , as Cobi posts so many healthy recipes and amazing nature pictures .

VegFest in Michigan

I live near Detroit, and it's easy to thrive on a vegan diet. These days almost all the major grocery stores carry vegan food itmes, everything from non-diary milk to ice cream.

If you are in Michigan and if you are interested to know more about the positive impact of plant-based diet on your health and on our planet, then you should attend the great event - VegFeast.

VegFest is organized by VegMichigan, the largest vegetarian organization in Michigan . VegFest is on April 26 in Ferndale . To know more about this wonderful event go to VegFest