A vegetarian lifestyle is becoming more popular as research shows that vegetarians live longer and healthier lives. A vegan vegetarian is the strictest type of vegetarian diet and practiced by the minority of vegetarians. However, while it has the strictist diet regimen, it also reduces your potential for disease by the greatest amount. As with any anything else, the greatest effort often yeilds the most reward.

The vegetarian way of eating isn’t new. As far back as 400 B.C. vegan vegetarians were called Pythagoreans after the famous philosopher who believed that as long as people were committing murder, killing animals, they would not have joy and love in their lives.

Vegans were called Pythagoreans until 1847, when the term vegetarian was coined by Joseph Brotherton in Kent, England at the inaugural meeting of the Vegetarian Society of the United Kingdom. The word vegetarian is a derivation of the Latin word Vegetus meaning whole, sound or fresh. Continue reading →

Diabetes is a health risk that affects 18.9 million people and 6.3 percent of the population in America today. More and more people are turning to a vegetarian diet to help control their need for insulin. A vegetarian diet is lower in fats, oils, sugars and processed foods than the Standard Western Diet.

Diabetes is the medical name given to the condition where the body can no longer use insulin to burn sugar or no longer produces enough insulin (there are two types of diabetes). In either case, a persons blood sugar rises and can cause serious damage to the blood vessels, liver, cardiac disease, stroke and ultimately lead to a coma state and death.

Case studies and research has shown that people who follow a vegan diet for 22 weeks reduce the need to take medication. Of course this should always be followed with regular blood tests and with the consultation of your regular doctor. Continue reading →