It looks like I haven’t done a special post on how to support JackNorrisRD.com this entire year. So now is the perfect time because you can support JackNorrisRD.com and at the same time get some cooking lessons from vegan nutritionist and cooking instructor Heather Nauta of www.HealthyVeganRecipes.net by signing up for her cooking classes through
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Good article from Christine Kasum Sexton of the Vegetarian Resource Group on preventing age-related muscle loss: Can a vegan diet provide enough protein to slow down age-related muscle loss?
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Just added to the Protein page at VeganHealth.org: “A study out of Boston published in 2011 but performed using data collected during the 1980s, found that vegan and non-vegan, middle-aged women had similar levels of muscle mass despite differences in protein intake of 1.0 g/kg/day for vegans and 1.3 g/kg/day for omnivores (14). However, the [...]
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I will be giving my talk, “Vegan Nutrition: What Does the Science Say”: Indianapolis Thursday, May 10, 7 pm Unitarian Universalist Church 615 West 43rd Street Indianapolis, IN 46208 Snacks will follow the talk. More info can be found at the The Indianapolis Veggie Meetup. Sacramento Area Friday, July 27, 6 PM Baagan “Healthy Alternatives
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I just finished up three days of giving talks on vegan nutrition in Ottawa, Buffalo, and Rochester. The talks all had great turn outs and I had a great time meeting so many wonderful activists. Thank you to everyone who helped put them together, especially the Buffalo Vegetarian Society, the Rochester Area Vegetarian Society, and [...]
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This post is dedicated to my mother, a lover of diet soda, and to Erik Marcus, a non-lover of soda. I forgot to mention an interesting finding in my post Calcium and Stress Fractures in Adolescent Girls – soda was not associated with bone fractures: “When the analyses were further adjusted for soda intake, the [...]
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In addition to Ginny Messina’s response, Reed Mangles, PhD, RD has also written an informative response to Nina Planck’s NY Times article: Vegan Children: Response to NYT Op-Ed Excerpt: “The New York Times opinion piece was concluded with a call to parents raise their children as nonvegetarians and to allow them to choose their own
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Some odds and ends: 1. If you haven’t checked out PeaCounter.com in awhile, I have made it a lot more user-friendly over the course of the last few months. The latest improvements are to allow you to choose either US or metric units when calculating BMI, Ideal Body Weight, or Energy Requirements, and to allow [...]
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Nina Planck is up to her old shenanigans of spreading joy to the world. Ginny’s response: The New York Times, Nina Planck, and Safety of Vegan Diets And Ginny and VeganHealth.org are mentioned in a seemingly related LA Times piece: In vegan debate, one thing parents must agree on
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Two bits of vitamin D2 news: 1. Vesanto Melina, author of Becoming Vegan, kindly passed on a study about vitamin D2 in UV-irradiated mushrooms. 28,000 IU of vitamin D2 was fed to subjects either in the form of a supplement or from mushrooms, one time per week for four weeks. Vitamin D levels increased from [...]
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