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Vegan Eating

21st February, 2009 - Posted by admin - No Comments

Vegan Eating

Vegan moms-do you stop your children from eating meat and dairy?

I recently became a vegan for health reasons. I am planning on having children and am just curious about what vegan moms feed their children. What about when they go to a freinds house or birthday parties with cake and icecream? Would they get sick if they were not raised with that kind of food but ate it when they were old enough to go to freinds houses?

Actually, they might get sick. That tends to happen even with people who give it up for a while then try it again after a period of time. Every animal stops drinking milk after infancy. Humans are the only animals that continue to throughout their life and are definitely the only animals who drink the milk of another animal. Even though after age two, we lose 98% of the lactase enzyme in our digestive systems because, by nature, it's not needed anymore.

I'm vegan and when I have kids someday, I would prefer them not to have meat for health reasons. However, I also don't want to hold them from having fun. And I certainly wouldn't want them to come home crying because kids are teasing them or whatever, so I don't think I'd mind if they had cake and ice cream. Or went trick or treating. I don't necessarily think it's the healthiest and I don't really agree with it, but it's a tough decision with kids because you don't want them belittled and coming home with hurt feelings all the time, too.

There are vegan cakes and candy and ice cream, though, too.

Dr. Oz Turns Meat-Eating Cowboy Vegan

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Great Gluten-free Vegan Eats (Paperback) $14.71 Following a plant-based, gluten-free diet is one of the healthiest lifestyle choices around, yet it can be a challenge to create meals that not only match your needs, but taste delicious too. But not any longer! Great Gluten-Free Vegan Eats

Vegan Eats World (Hardcover) $22.02 Description not available.

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Save your good health, your precious dollars, and your beloved Mother Earth, choosing organic products when you shop, and making some of your own essential household supplies.

Right now, the greatest threats to your health and household environment lurk under your kitchen and bathroom sinks. Dermatologists report that more than 90% of serious skin complaints, especially eczema, either are caused or are exacerbated by common household cleaning products; and in most cases, switching to all-organic household products clears-up the skin problems within a week to ten days. Endocrinologists report similar findings with food allergies; when children with serious food allergies begin eating whole foods free of additives and preservatives, their so-called allergies disappear in approximately 80% of cases.

All the cleaning, sanitizing, and deodorizing products you use to keep your home sparkling fresh and squeaky clean also threaten to qualify it as a hazardous waste dump, because they are filled with toxins and volatile organic chemicals that, in only slightly higher concentrations, are approved only for industrial use. Look at the labels on your favorite household cleansers, and then go to the internet to look-up the Materials Safety Data Sheets on those ingredients. Learn, to your chagrin, just how many carcinogens you spread across your kitchen counter in the name of "killing germs." Discover how, when the "scrubbing bubbles" smile at you from your television screen, they actually are flashing you sinister grins. The chemicals that dissolve soap scum also ravage the ecosystem as they float downstream.

Continue your education in your shower caddy, where you will find fewer carcinogens but still will discover all kinds of waxes, petroleum distillates, and harsh cleaners. The most popular hair conditioner, for example, works its miracles on your hair by infusing it with the same chemical found in the most popular household lubricant. And products labeled "botanical" generally contain less than 1% genuine herbal or floral essences.

How to find genuinely organic products

Become an ardent and avid label-reader, learning to read between the lines on the shout-outs and learning to decode the mysteries of ingredients lists. As a rule of thumb, food products with five or fewer ingredients will pass the all-organic test with flying colors, and food products with the tell-tale initials "FD&C" will score epic fails. When you see prepositions like "with" as in "with natural botanicals," you safely may assume that the manufacturers splashed in some floral fragrances at the last minute, giving their same old nasty product a new scent and feel but rendering it no more earth-friendly.

The Food and Drug Administration has begun setting standards and guidelines for "organic" and "green" products. Right now, the two terms are not synonymous. "Organic," as it should, means "made with all natural ingredients"; but "green" most often means the product was made without anything that scientists know will harm people, animals, or the environment. In other words, a "green" product may still be filled with synthetics and derivatives, but researchers have yet to prove they cause any harm.

For total assurance of a household or food product's integrity and purity, buy the one that meets "vegan" standards.

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Vegan Cupcakes Take over the World: 75 Dairy-free Recip $19.99

Skinny Bitch Book of Vegan Swaps by Kim Barnouin (2012, $24.99

The Gluten-Free Vegan: 150 Delicious Gulten-Free, Anima $24.99

The Sexy Vegan Cookbook: Killer Food That Won't Kill Yo $24.99

Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook by Isa Chandra $31.99

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