Training Report – Week 12 of 18

I realize that it has been a long time since my last but this Pfitzinger training plan takes up a lot more time and energy than I thought. Seriously. The Pfitz Plan makes the Higdon Intermediate Plan that I used previously seem like a walk in the park. The most I had ever run in a week […]

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Humans Are Herbivores

Our society has some completely twisted views but the most obtuse and dangerous one of them all is the distorted belief that we are omnivores. Even worse, there are actually people walking our streets who are so deranged that they believe we are carnivores. Forget the fact that, according to biologists and anthropologists who study […]

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I Just Watched Speciesism: The Movie

I just rented a movie titled Speciesism on the Vimeo video website. Wow! I have seen some amazing documentaries lately but Speciesism: The Movie has the potential to permanently alter your view of the world. The movie is about a young man named Mark Devries who started out making a documentary on the topic of animal agriculture. […]

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But Plants Feel Pain Too

One of the things that really surprised me when I went vegan was how negatively some people react when the topic comes up. And of all the comments that I have heard people say when they react this way, this little gem is hands-down the most hilarious… “Plants are alive and feel pain so killing plants is no better that killing animals.” Really? […]

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Where Do You Get Your Protein?

People who are not familiar with vegan nutrition often assume it is really difficult to get enough protein on a vegan diet, and that’s if they even think there is any protein in plant foods at all. FACT #1 Proteins are large molecules made up of chains of smaller molecules called amino acids. There are 20 different […]

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Book : No More Bull!

by Howard F. Lyman This is essentially a follow-up to Howard Lyman’s first book titled “Mad Cowboy”. The book is split into two halves with the second half being all vegan recipes. The topics in “No More Bull!” were primarily covered in the first book but it is obvious that Lyman had more to say […]

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Book: The Thrive Diet

by Brendan Brazier While Brendan Brazier was still a teenager, he discovered that he loved running and later developed a love for biking. After competing in some decathlon and triathlon races, he decided that he wanted to become a professional triathlete. Brazier started researching what it would take for him to advance from the amateur level to become an elite triathlete. Eventually, he […]

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Book : Meatonomics

by David Robinson Simon This book shed a lot of light on how the meat and dairy industries have gained an enormous amount of power over the past four decades. It also exposes the reality of what they are actually capable of and how they actually gain our support under the guise of health. It […]

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Book: Mad Cowboy

by Howard F. Lyman I had blinders on during the first 47 years of my life until I decided to go vegan. I always knew in the back of my mind that something wasn’t quite right about eating meat but just decided not to think about it. When the day came for me to explain […]

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Book: The China Study

by T. Colin Campbell This book is based on The China-Cornell-Oxford Project which was a long-term, observational study on the diets, lifestyle and disease characteristics of 6,500 people in 65 rural Chinese counties. It was jointly funded by the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Cornell University and the University of Oxford and the primary objective was to explore the […]

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