Raising a child is difficult enough. Add the decision to raise that child vegan on top, and suddenly it seems like everyone you meet is an expert on pediatric nutrition. One low-hanging fruit decision you can answer right away?
The world of Instagram and other social media outlets can make it seem like going vegan is the ultimate cure-all, helping everything from weight loss to mood regulation to improving overall skin health and complexion. So, it can be frustrating – even worrisome – to find breakouts or changes…
One of the biggest complaints I hear from new vegans is that the lifestyle is expensive, or that the cost of vegan foods makes the diet cost-prohibitive. This simply isn’t true – shopping for a plant-based diet shouldn’t be any more expensive than shopping for an omnivorous diet.
Animal testing, also called vivisection, is the practice of carrying out experiments on animals. Vivisection can include physical experiments, like forcing animals to ingest poison for toxicity tests, to repeatedly separating infant animals from their mothers. Animal testing is traditionally used for…
Textured Vegetable Protein, better known as TVP, is one of my all-time favorite vegan foods. In addition to each little soy granule being the perfect little sponge for flavor, it has an impressive nutritional profile, and it’s a super inexpensive way to get protein into any meal from breakfast to dinner…
If you think about it, our bodies are pretty amazing – generally speaking, the human body can create many fats it needs from alternate fats or other raw materials. However, sometimes, it can’t make them from scratch and needs a little help – this is the case for Omega-3 fatty acids…