If your Earth Day celebrations take you to the Vegan Earth Day event in Berkeley, California, then you are in for one heck of a treat. Two healthy vegan superstars – and personal heroes – will be taking the stage to deliver powerful messages about food, our bodies, our planet, and how it all works together.
There’s a reason we go gagga over sweets. Along with salty, it’s the primary, first presented taste on our tongues. No wonder starches, fruits, and other natural carbohydrates bring us comfort. For cripes sake, we’re designed to eat them!
Are you flying solo as the only vegan in your workplace? Unless you work at Google, Whole Foods Market, or any other venue where healthy vegan has gone mainstream, you may feel like a lone duck in the lunchroom pond. And when you open your brown bag and dive in, you may even get curious [...]
Imagine vegan, mainstream. The first time I saw the website Vegan Mainstream, I instantly thought, now how perfect is that? If ‘vegan’ were ‘mainstream’, wouldn’t all our lives be easier? Imagine: Strolling into any restaurant, popping open the menu, and navigating to the vegan items. And even better, vegan items starred with ‘no added fats [...]
A very common question that comes up when some people are going vegan is, are there any special dietary considerations that a vegan athlete, or athletic vegan (there is a distinction) needs to make? Yes! BUT they are the same considerations that any athlete needs to make. During my Certification Course in Plant-Based Nutrition at [...]
Is there a vegan event coming to your neighborhood in early 2012? Here are 5 specific veg venues from which to choose, PLUS a resource link for those not listed. Live events are unmatched in their power to get you fired up about your vegan health and fitness – for both you AND the planet. [...]
You’ll be hooked from the first frames of this Panamanian pup’s saga, I know it. Do strays and animals in need of TLC find their way to you, too? Long ago Greg and I resigned ourselves to the fact that animals in need of rescue, a home, or just some good-old-fashioned affection are somehow drawn [...]
When organizing your vegan kitchen – your healthy vegan kitchen, I mean - it helps to keep two things in mind when it comes to food: 1) Just because it’s vegan, it doesn’t mean it’s healthy 2) Just because it’s edible, it doesn’t mean it’s food. Now that we’ve leveled the playing field, it’s easy [...]
When Rip Esslestyn came aboard the plant-based team with the Engine 2 Diet, a new breed of vegans was brought into the limelight with a bigger, brighter light than ever before. With the fire-station rock excitement generated from Rip’s dietary reform at multiple firefighter stations, plummeting the body weight and cholesterol counts of one firehouse hunk after [...]
When it comes to a commitment to get healthier or lose weight with a vegan diet and exercise, having the support of an exercise buddy, team, or group can increase your accountability and motivation. And that – research shows - builds success. While the diet and fitness ‘industry’ make seem rife with carnism, (they are), [...]
Lani Muelrath, M.A. is Vegan Mainstream’s new Health & Fitness Expert. Watch for regular articles from Lani on how to be a strong, healthy, fit vegan.
Lani is also “The Plant-Strong Fitness Expert” and creator of The Body Transformation Formula and Fit Quickies™. She has a Master’s Degree in Physical Education and over 30 years of experience as a teacher, coach, and trainer. She has received awards for her instruction, created and starred in her own CBS TV Show, and her expertise in the area of health and fitness is called upon by examiner.com, Dr. John McDougall’s Health and Medical Center, Dr. Neal Barnard’s 21-Day Vegan Kickstart program, and Engine 2 Diet.com. She is Certified in Plant-Based Nutrition Certification through Cornell University.
Lani has put together a free Fitness and Body Shaping Breakthrough Kit for you which you can download at her website, the Plant-strong Fitness Expert blog, here: 