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Vegetarian Restaurants and Other Resources
We're approaching one year since the
nuclear accident in Japan. Many animals are still alive, surviving on
their own in the 20 km. exclusion zone. You can support UKC Japan, via Paypal, or (if you can figure out the Japanese), through Amazon's Japanese site. The Japan Cat Network is also entering the exclusion zone and rescuing cats.
Veggie food of the month:
Pomegranate - here's a good video showing how to cut a pomegranate, and make a smoothie with it. heath benefits from vegan health expert Joel Fuhrman, MD
McDougall 10-Day Program from John McDougall on Vimeo.
Many restaurants offer a discount to W
NEW: Cafe Green
District of Columbia
Everlasting Life Coop/Eternity Juice Bar
Nirvana Pedro and
Vinnys
Vegetate (serves dinner menu;
check website for hours)
Gaithersburg
Rockville
Virginia Chantilly Fairfax Woodlands Pure Vegetarian Indian Restaurant Falls Church
Vienna Bakery:
Sticky Fingers Bakery
Other DC Area Vegetarian Resources: Mimi Clark's Vegan Cooking Classes Pangea Vegan Products in Rockville has a great selection of products, especially alternatives to leather clothing. Please note that their retail store is just open on weekends, but you can order online anytime. Potomac Adventist Book and Health Food Store is a good place to shop for food if you prefer to shop in a store where all the food is vegetarian. Adventist celebrate the Sabbath on Saturday, so the store is closed on Saturdays. If you're interested in learning about raw food vegan diets, check out the workshops at Alive and Raw in the Richmond, VA area.
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Vegetarian Society of the District of Columbia Get a free 40 page eating at area restaurants guide from VegDC
About Hexane in Soy Vegetarian Foods; why you must avoid
hexane extracted soy.
excellent chart from cornucopia.org also: the good and bad (hexane-wise) nutrition bars, from Cornucopia Good gluten free vegan recipes at recipes.xgfx.org Read great reviews of area vegan food, with beautiful photos, at The Shenandoah Vegan |
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| Alexandra Paul on a vegetarian diet: "I have
been a vegetarian for 26 years, since I was 14 years old. I read
Frances Moore Lappe’s “Diet for a Small Planet” and the book educated
me on how important it was for the environment to eat lower on the food
chain: raising cows, pigs and chickens to eat is a wasteful way to use
resources, and in a world where the human population is doubling every
42 years, it is essential that we use land efficiently so that everyone
can be fed. For example: if you had an acre of land and you grew
potatoes on it, that acre would yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes. But if
you used that same acre to grow grain to feed cattle, the cattle fed by
that acre would only yield 165 pounds of beef! For every American that
switches to a vegetarian diet, an acre of trees is spared every year.
(Diet for a New America by John Robbins, page 363)
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| Dr. Joel
Fuhrman finds that many of his vegetarian and vegan patients are
deficient in the essential fatty acid DHA. DHA may be a factor for
people with depression, post partum depression, and hyperactivity in
children. While most DHA supplements are derived from fish oil, you can
get vegan DHA (liquid) in vegicaps at |
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Food for Life offers you a way to provide food relief in disaster areas that is vegetarian or vegan.
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Curried cauliflower and potatoes (Aloo Gobi) Health supporting brown rice kimchi recipe Raw avocado zucchini soup recipe MSG-Free Italian dressing recipe Yum-Pur Smoothie: frozen wild blueberries, organic coconut milk, walnut pieces
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Great recipes from Alicia Silverstone's thekindlife.com site |
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You can print out beautiful images of foods to eat/avoid that accompany Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes |
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A small selection of meals prepared by The Vegetable Garden are available in the refrigerated section of My Organic Market. |
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Java Green |
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Interview with Raw Food Expert Lynda Carter
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Not a vegetarian but want to to give it a try and don't know what to eat? These are a few that are most anybody will like: Yuan Fu: Java Green: Sunflower:
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