Vegetarian and Vegan living tips

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Comment by Chris on September 24, 2008 at 12:33am

Thank you for adding that vid, Andie, that's a new one for me, very interesting to see.

Comment by Bean on September 21, 2008 at 6:17am

Thanks for starting this group. I am a vegan and love to talk food. I really, really love food.
~Bean

Comment by JR on September 20, 2008 at 9:07pm

Thank goodness to our evolving society and its manifestation of Wikipedia. I am happy that I will find all information I need to successfully living a vegan life.

It seems daily I need 900IU or (1800g carotene); but no more than 3000IU
Sources of Vitamin A
Vitamin A is found naturally in many foods:
liver (beef, pork, chicken, turkey, fish) (6500 μg 722%)
carrots (835 μg 93%)
Broccoli leaves (800 μg 89%) - Acc. to USDA database. Broccoli florets supposedly have much less - see note[10].
sweet potatoes (709 μg 79%)
kale (681 μg 76%)
butter (684 μg 76%)
spinach (469 μg 52%)
leafy vegetables
pumpkin (369 μg 41%)
collard greens (333 μg 37%)
cantaloupe melon (169 μg 19%)
eggs (140 μg 16%)
apricots (96 μg 11%)
papaya (55 μg 6%)
mango (38 μg 4%)
peas (38 μg 4%)
broccoli (31 μg 3%)
winter squash

Comment by JR on September 18, 2008 at 6:22pm

Tip of the week: even if you are not a vegetarian or vegan, it is amazing how intricate and complex it is to feed your body a properly balance nutrition. Study nutrition! vegetarian and vegan living have highlighted I need to grow my knowledge of nutrition. It is amazing how unlearned I am about nutrition. This measure of my ignorance would have robbed me of a quality long life, but fortunately it is becoming a vegetarian which forced me to learn nutrition and take full ownership of my nutrition.

Comment by tweety on September 14, 2008 at 10:06am

Hello everyone!!

I have been a vegetarian all my life (same with my entire family).
It is great to see that there are other people who are interested in this.
Thanks for starting this group JR!!

Love

Comment by Chris on September 13, 2008 at 11:44am

I'm not a vegetarian but I've been thinking about it. Great idea!

Comment by Anna Oberlin Russell on September 12, 2008 at 11:09pm

Thank you for starting this group!

Comment by JR on September 12, 2008 at 9:32pm

Vegetarian tip for this week: through mix nuts in every meal. Don't skip any meals.
Ending my second week as a vegetarian and vegan. I have had some great sleeping night. I am loving being off of caffein. Wow

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