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Part 1 The Beef About Going Meatless

1 Why Eat Less Meat?

        (c) Why Not Eat Meat?

(d)Meatless or Vegetarian?

(d)The Many Faces of Meat

(c)Time for a Change

    (d)Expanding Your Mind

    (d)Out with the Old

    (d)In with the New

(c)Jumping Off the Meat Wagon

(c)Meatless and Fancy Free

(c)So You Want to Feel Healthier?

(c)Don’t Follow the Herd

(d)Environmentalism and Meat

(d)Spiritual & Religious Connections

(d)Ethical Arguments

(c)The Cardiologist Said So

(c)The Least You Need to Know

 

2 Smokin’ the Myths on Meatless

(c)Meatless Doesn’t Mean Tasteless

(c)You Can Get Enough Protein

(d)Protein Is As Protein Does

(d)When Enough is Enough!

        (c)Avoid Being Called A Vegetable Dip

(d)Not All Vegetarians Are Liberal

(d)Inspiring Vegetarians

(c)It’s Not Hard

(c)You Won’t Miss It

(c)The Least You Need to Know

 

Part 2 Eating for Health, Meatlessly

3 Define Meatless…

(c)Pescatarian’s Seafood & Eat It

(c)Lacto Ovo Vegetarian: What is That?

(d)A Good Egg

(d)Keeping Your Friendship with Ben & Jerry

(c)Other Terms for Meatless

(c)Ronald MacDonald or Ronald Vegan?

    (d) Hold The Mayo

    (d) No Honey, Honey

(c)Raw Look at Macrobiotics

(c)The Least You Need to Know

 

4 A New Food Pyramid

(c)Beans, Beans They’re Good for Your Heart

(c)Grains for the Brain

(c)Nuts & Seeds

(c)Fruit Cleansing

(c)Build Your Body with Veggies

(c)Why Isn’t Chocolate A Vegetable?

    (d)What’s Wrong with Sugar?

    (d)Don’t Fake the Sweetener Either

    (d)Gooey Sweetness

    (d)Stevia: A Good Choice

(c)Beer & Wine is Vegetarian

(c)The Least You Need to Know

Figure 4.1 Strict vegetarian food pyramid

Figure 4.2 Chocolate lover’s food pyramid (satire)

Figure 4.3 Food pyramid with options of alcohol, dairy, eggs and sweets for the not-so-strict vegetarian

5 Supplements for the Meatless

(c)The Essential Fats

(c)B-12 and Be a Vegetarian

(c)Ironing out Your Mineral Needs

(c)Herbs for All

    (d)Encapsulated Herbs

    (d)Herbs Without Gelatin

                (c)The Least You Need to Know

 

6 Nourishment from the Plant Kingdom

(c)What The Vegetables Tell Me

(d)Roughing It with Fiber

(d)Phytochemical Power

(c)Fantastic Fruit

(d)Quenching Your Thirst

(d)Dried Fruits

(c)Enzymes for Life

(c)What The Body is Made Of

(c)Eating Right for the Seasons

(c)The Least You Need to Know

Figure 6.1 Veggie Pyramid for Hot Weather

Figure 6.2 Veggie Pyramid for Cold Weather

 

Part 3 Veggin’ Out for Your Health

7 The Digestion Question

(c)Chew on This

(c)The Truth is Hard to Swallow

    (d)No, I’m Not Lion

    (d)The Raw Truth

    (d)Is Your Stomach Acid is Placid?

(c)The Colon: More Than Punctuation

    (d)Parasites: Hosting a Party

    (d)Improving Colon Transit Time

(c)Food Safety Concerns

(d)E. Coli: Not Just for Breakfast Anymore

(d)You Want Fries with That?

(d)What’s A Vegetarian to Do?

        (c)The Least You Need to Know

Figure 7.1 Photo of human skull, highlighting teeth

Figure 7.2 Photo of a lion skull, highlighting teeth

Figure 7.3 Illustration of human digestive system

Figure 7.4 Illustration of a lion’s digestive system

Figure 7.5 Illustration of colon showing parasites and bowel pockets

 

8 Meatless for a Healthier Heart

        (c)Clawing Your Way Up the Food Chain

        (c)Circulating Rumors About Cholesterol

        (c)Bypass the Meat Platter

(c)The Kidneys and Blood Pressure

(c)The Least You Need to Know

 

9 In Sickness and in Health

        (c)Lowering Cancer Risks

        (c)Vegetarians vs. Meat Eaters, Who’s Healthier?

(c)The Rest of the Health Picture

(d)Exercise

(d)Clean Water

(d)Fresh Air

(d)Loving Nature’s Sunshine

(d)Attitude

(d)Balance

        (c)Dissecting Additives in Processed Meats

(c)Toxins & You

(c)The Young & the Beefless

(c)No Ham, No Foul

(c)The Least You Need to Know

 

10 Weight Management, Cutting the Fat

        (c)You Are What You Eat

(d)Extra Energy For Exercise

(d)Better Absorption Means Smaller Appetite

(d)Fat Cow Disease?

(d)Hold The Water

(d)Eat More, Weigh Less

        (c)Lean, Mean, Primitive Machine

(d)Feast or Famine?

(d)Hunting For A Meal Deal

(c)My Body, My Strife

(c)No Bone, No Waist?, and a Good, Sweet, Taste

(c)Watch the Pastabilities

(c)Feeling Porky? Forgetaboutit!

(c)The Least You Need to Know

Figure 10.1 Weight loss food pyramid

 

11 The Beauty of Being Vegetarian

        (c) You Do Have the Skin of a Vegetarian

(d)Give Me Some Skin

(d)Feed Me, Heal Me

(d)Vegetarians Get Bioflavonoids

(d)Skinny Dipping

(d)Dry Skin Brushing

(d)Greasy Kid Stuff

(c) Hot Dog You Have Nice Buns!

(c) B.O. No Mo

(c) Beauty and the Beef

(c)The Least You Need to Know

 

12 Fishing for Health

        (c)The Benefits of Seafood

(c)Fresh Fish, Raw Fish, Go Fish!

(c)Catch & Release: Cons of Fish

(d) A Flippant Word From Flipper

(d)Bacteria That Won’t Float Your Boat

(d)Heavy Metal Beyond Radio

(d)The Tumor Rumor

(d)Hey Aqua Farmer!

(c)Feeding on the Bottom

(c)Vegetables from the Sea

(c)The Least You Need to Know

 

13 High Ho the Dairy Oh!

(c)Too Chicken to Eat Eggs?

(c)Got Milk? Got Osteoporosis?

(d)It’s All A Balance

(d)Good to the Last Drop

(c)Growing Hair in All the Wrong Places? No Whey!

(c)Antibiotics for Breakfast

(c)Cow to Bock the System

        (c)The Least You Need to Know

 

Part 4 Starting Your Meatless Lifestyle

14 The First Bite: Where’s the Beef?

        (c)One Bite at a Time

(d)Celebrate For Impact!

(d)Meatless Tuesdays

        (c)The Replacement Diet

(d)Playing Hide the Sausage

(d)This is Getting Cheesy

(c)Fake and Bake

(c)I Can’t Believe It’s Not Meat!

(c)An Acquired Taste

(c)The Least You Need to Know

Figure 14.1 Photo of vegetarian mountain man breakfast

Figure 14.2 Photo of Mediterranean vegetarian meal

 

15 Let’s Talk Shop!

(c)Before You Go to Market

(c)What’s on Your List?

(d)Planning for the Future

(d)Shop Hopping

(c)Introducing Meat Substitutes

(d)Tofu…Gezunheidt!

(d)Tempting Tempeh

(d)Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP)

(d)Making You Falafel

(c)A Closer Look at Produce

(d)A Question of Genetics

(d)Commercially Grown vs. Organic

(d)Hybrid Just for You

(d)Vaccinated Vegetables?

(d)Ripe For the Pickin’?

(c)Shopping on a Shoestring Budget

(c)Bulking Up on Grains

(d)Keen Quinoa

(d)Rice Is Nice

(d)Barely Knew it Existed

(d)Cous Cous, Oh That Tickles!

(c)Health Food Store Guided Tour

(c)The Least You Need to Know

Figure 15.1 Photo of tofu & tempeh

Figure 15.2 Photo of shopper standing in health food store isle, looking helpless, surrounded by hippies going about their shopping

16 Cooking at Home

(c)Making a Smoothie Transition

(c)What to Slap on the Barbee

(c)Holidays & Special Events

(d)What Do We Eat for Thanksgiving?

(d)Snack Attack

(c)The Sophisticated Vegetable

(d)Going Gourmet

(d)Eating for Texture

(c)This Gadget's For You

(c)The Least You Need to Know

 

17 Meatless Meals

(c)American Tofu Pie?

(c)Now that’s Italian

(c)Meatless Mexican Fiesta

(c)Tasty Indian Foods

(c)It’s Greek to Me

(c)It’s An Oriental Art

(c)The Least You Need to Know

 

Part 5 Lifestyles of the Rich & Meatless

18 Mr. Meat-Free Goes to Work

(c)A Poke in the Tofu Ribs

(c)Table Manners for the Meatless

(c)Handling Business Luncheons

(c)When You’re Invited to Dinner

(c)The Least You Need to Know

 

19 Help With Dining Out

(c)Meatless Fast Foods

                              (d)Speedy Salads

(d)Beggin’ for a Bagel

(d)Burgers Without the Burger

(d)Fast Meatless Alternatives

(c)Restaurants at Your Service?

(c)Finding Meat In Unsuspecting Places

(c)Worldly Menus

(c)The Least You Need to Know

 

20 The Traveling Vegetarian

(c)Savvy Vegetarian Travel Advisor

(d)How You Say……Vegetarian?

(d)Anything You Say, Dear

(c)Frequent Flying

(d)Your Choices Have Wings

(d)A Bad Travel Day

(d)The Back Up Plan to the Rescue

(c)Crusin’ for the Vegetarian

(c)Room Service: Room for Improvement

(c)Highway Travels: Avoiding Road Kill

(c)The Least You Need to Know

 

21 The Completely Meatless Family

(c)Date Night at the Steak House

(d)You Gunna Finish That?

(d)Beef Steak? "No Flank You"

(c)Your Meat Eating Spouse?

(d)Not in My Pan You’re Not!

(d)I’ll do the Dishes

(c)Meat Free and Pregnancy

(c)Raising a Vegetarian Child

(d)Weaning Toward Food

(d)Tofu Touting Toddlers

(d)I Was a Teenage Vegetarian

(c)Your Pet as a Vegetarian

(d)Miceless Meals for Kitty

(d)Can Rover go Veg?

(c)The Least You Need to Know

Figure 21.1 Photo of dog begging for an apple

 

22 The Health Nut

(c)The Importance Of Whole Foods

(c)Proper Food Combining

(c)The Mucusless Diet

(d)Healing Crises to the Rescue?

(d)Cleansing Emotions

(c)Meatless Compatibility For Your Blood Type

(d)Type A, The Natural Vegetarians

(d)Type B, B is for Balance?

(d)Type O, Meat Cravers Anonymous

(d)Type AB, Being Difficult

(c)Juicing for Added Nutrition

(c)Fasting Responsibly

(d)Why Fast Anyway?

(d)A Fast Fast

(c)The Least You Need to Know

Figure 22.1 Food Combining Flow Chart

 

23 Making Vegetarianism Your Business

(c)Bulking Up On Money

(c)The Growing Vegetarian

(d)Investing In The Veggie Trend

(d)Always A Rebel

(c)Down to Earth

(d)Is Food Your Business?

(d)Making It All Up

(c)Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

(c)The Business of Helping Others

(c)The Least You Need to Know

 

Part 6 Your Choice Affects the World

24 Saving Planet Earth

(c)Water Use: Raising the Steaks

(c)Air Pollution & Cattle

(d)Waste Deep In Pollutants

(d)Is It Getting Hot Down Here?

(c)Agricultural Land Use

(c)Clear Cut Reasons for Change

(c)The Least You Need to Know

Figure 24.1 showing grain plus pig equals cartoon of man holding sausage.

Figure 24.2 showing grain plus steer equals beef steak

25 A Higher Purpose

(c)The Long Arm of the Religious Law

(d)Ancient Is As Ancient Does?

(d)It’s For Your Own Good

(c)Religion & Animal Eating

(d)Christians—Meating Up In Heaven

(d)Seventh Day Adventists, Vegetarians Seven Days A Week

    (d)Judaism, Is That Kosher?

    (d)Hinduism—Ya’ll Come Back Now, Ya Hear?

(c)Spiritual Connections

    (d)A Tofu Utopia

    (d)All I Need is the Air That I Breathe

(c)Wouldn’t You Like to Be A Philanthropist Too?

(d)Is Meat Murder?

(d)Teach Your Children Well

(c)The Least You Need to Know

 

26 Enlightened Appetite

        (c)X-Rated Meat?

(d)And the Survey Says…

(d)And Your Point Is?

(d)And Of Course, The ‘What Ifs’

(d)Steering Toward or Away From Irradiation

(c)How Now Mad Cow

(d)What Is Being Done

(d) Rarely Well Done

(c)Safety At All Costs?

(c)The FDA Recommended Allowances

(c)The Farm Animal Version of Down Syndrome

(d)Just A Dumb Animal?

(d)Summing It All Up

(c)The Least You Need to Know

Figure 26.1 Radura symbol

Figure 26.2 Cartoon of cow being x-rayed

 

27 The Joy of Being Humane

(c)Bottom Line Is By The Pound

(c)This Little Piggy Went to Slaughter

(c)Chicken, Chicken, Run and Hide

(d)Debunking Debeaking

(d)Foie Gras is Faux Pas

(d)Don’t Gobble A Turkey, Either

(c)Veal, A Cruel Meal

(c)The Makings of A Burger

(d)From The Range to You

(d)What A Downer

(c)E.I.E.I. Ouch!

(c)The Least You Need to Know

 

28 Compassion Passion

(c)Cruelty Free Living

(d)Eye For An Eye

(d)Acute Toxicity Tests--Not So Cute

(d)Animal Test Alternatives

(d)Don’t Be Cruel, Buy Cruelty Free

(c)Who’ll Protect Babe?

(c)Lead By Example

(d)Pobody’s Nerfect

(d)Dissecting The Question

(c)The Rest of the Story

(c)Animals For Profit

(c)Making Your Tail Wag Again

(c)The Least You Need to Know

Figure 28.1 Cruelty Free Symbol on Packaging

APPENDIXES

A Glossary

B Vegetarian Cookbooks

C Web Sites For The Meatless

Sidebars:

Lettuce Explain—definitions

Steer Clear—warnings

Veggie Soup for the Soul—Bet You Didn’t Know

Sprouts of Info—tips

 

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