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If You Are Beginning Your Health Journey, These Posts Might Be Most Useful

• How to Choose a Cereal
• How to Choose Foods that Really are Healthy
• How to Choose Healthier Snack Foods
• Foods You Think Are Healthy That Aren’t
• How to Count Calories
• How to Eat the Right Portions of the Right Foods
• How to Find Whole Grains that are Really Whole Grains
• How to Get Enough Healthy Protein
• How to Maintain Weight-Loss Long Term
• How to Make Healthier Substitutions When Cooking
• How to Maximize Your Work-out Time
• My Top Ten Tips to Lose Weight
• Online Fitness and Nutrition Resources
• On Why You Shouldn’t Give Up
• The Truth About “Calorie Free” and “Fat Free” Butter Sprays
• The Truth About FiberOne Cereal
• The Truth About Special K and Diets In General
• The Truth About Subway

My Most Popular Posts

• Arby’s Good Mood Food (how it’s not so good)
• How to Choose Vegan Protein Bars
• How to Eat When Training for a Marathon
• How to Host a Vegan
• In Defense of Omnivores
• Recovery (on my bout with bulimia)
• Robert Kardashian’s Struggle with Binge Eating
• Sample Vegan Meal Plan
• The Truth About WhoNu Cookies
• What do Vegans Eat
• What to do with Leftover Soup
• Why Veganism, Why Bother?

My Fave (& Hopefully Helpful) Posts

• 3 Under 300 Calories Snacks
• Folk Medicine & Apple Cider Vinegar (A Discussion)
• Gift Ideas for Valentine’s Day
• Going Vegan for Lent
• Health at Every Size?
• Healthy Meal Ideas for Busy People
• Holiday Gifts for Health-Conscious People
• How Parents’ Eating Behaviors Affect Their Children
• How to Choose (& Why You Should Choose) Natural Personal Care Products
• How to Enjoy the Gym (My Top 5 Tips)
• How to Eat Vegetarian Everywhere
• How to Get Over a Funk
• How to Get into the Kitchen More Often & Like it! (and save money, too!)
• How to Host a Vegan When You’re an Omnivore
• How to Save Money on Your Groceries
• How to Use a Tortilla For Every Meal
• Low Calorie Vegetarian Meals
• Motivation to Exercise from Persuasion
• Motivation to Exercise from Pride and Prejudice
• My First Green Monster (video)
• My Letter to My Body
• Non-Dairy Milk Comparison
• On Artificial Sweeteners
• On Dumping Your Scale (video)
• On Following Your Health Bliss
• On Generation Y
• On Motivation; Looking at My Past Self for Motivation (video)
• On Phantom Fat Syndrome
• On The Documentary Food Inc.
• On Will-Power
• Read This Before You Try Hip Hop Hustle
• Read This Before You Try Hot Yoga
• Read This Before You Try Turbo Kick Boxing (TKB)
• Read This Before You Try Zumba
• Snacks: Snacks I Like part one, My Fave 100 Calories Snacks, Two New Snacks
• The Psychology of Physical Transformation
• Three-Ingredient Meals
• Time Management Tips
• Vegan Finds at Costco
• Vegan Finds at Target
• Vegetarian and Vegan Resources
• Vegetarianism 101 (video)
• What an Unhealthy Teenager Eats (well, what I ate)
• “What Are All Those Funny Things in Food?” (Guest post by Jane Hersey of the Feingold Association of the United States.)
• What Do Vegans Eat?
• What is A “Real Woman”?
• What is “Intuitive” and “Mindful” Eating?
• What is Normal Eating?
• What My Boyfriend Taught Me About Healthy Eating
• What to Eat for Thanksgiving if You’re Vegetarian
• Who Motivates You? Part I, Part II, Part III
• Why Boyfriends Make You Fat
• Why Food Labels Are Wrong?
• Why Organics Aren’t a Panacea
• Why Perfectionists Are More Likely to Binge Eat
• Why Setting a Goal Weight Left Me Plagued with Worries
• Work Out Tips (video)
• You Know You’re a Runner When…

Books I’d Recommend
Some of these are more for academic purposes, some are purely contentious or entertaining. I’ll figure out a system to organize them more specifically in the future.

• Bacon, Linda. Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight
• Baker, Steve. Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity, and Representation
• Clark, Nancy. Nancy Clark’s Sports Nutrition Guidebook
• Coetzee, J.M. The Lives of Animals (The University Center for Human Values Series)
• Critser, Greg.Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
• Dennet, Daniel. Kinds Of Minds: Toward An Understanding Of Consciousness (Science Masters Series)
• Finkelstein, Eric. The Fattening of America: How The Economy Makes Us Fat, If It Matters, and What To Do About It
• Foer, Jonathan Safran. Eating Animals
• Joy, Melanie. Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism
• Kessler, David. The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
• Moskowitz, Isa Chandra. Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World: 75 Dairy-Free Recipes for Cupcakes that Rule
• Moskowitz, Isa Chandra. Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar: 100 Dairy-Free Recipes for Everyone’s Favorite Treats
• Moskowitz, Isa Chandra.Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook
• Mulhall, Stephen. The Wounded Animal: J. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature and Philosophy
• Pollan, Michael. Food Rules
• Pollan, Michael. The Botany of Desire
• Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore’s Dilemma
• Power, Michael & Schulkin, Jay. The Evolution of Obesity
• Regan, Tom Regan. The Case for Animal Rights
• Rothblum, Esther (et al). The Fat Studies Reader
• Schuler, Lou. The New Rules of Lifting for Women: Lift Like a Man, Look Like a Goddess
• Scully, Matthew. Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
• Singer, Peter. The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
• Silverstone, Alicia. The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet
• Stewart, Tristram. The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism: From 1600 to Modern Times
• Taubes, Gary. Good Calories, Bad Calories
• Wansink, Brian. Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
• Weasel, Lisa. Food Fray: Inside the Controversy over Genetically Modified Food
• Wilson, Bee. Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee
  

Articles I’d Recommend

• Bittman, Mark. “Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler.” The New York Times (2008)
• Pollan, Michael. “An Animal’s Place.” The New York Times (2002). Web.
• Saval, Nikil. “Show a Man What He Eats: On Vegetarianism.” N+ 14 (207): n.pag. Web. 21 March 2010.

Documentaries I’d Recommend

• EARTHLINGS
• Food, Inc.
• King Corn
• No Impact Man
• Super Size Me
• The End of the Line
• The Future of Food
• The Garden

Vegan Dining-Out Guides (Organized by Restaurant/Establishment)

• 118 Degrees (raw vegan restaurant)
• California Pizza Kitchen
• Claim Jumper (Includes official response from Claim Jumper rep.)
• Jamba Juice
• Interim Cafe (Santa Monica, CA)
• in (& around) Long Beach, CA
• Los Angeles Food Trucks
• The Loving Hut (Several CA locations; state-wide locations)
• The Yard House
• Veggie Burger Comparison (store-bought)