wiccagirl24

A serving is roughly the size of your fist. Example:

One serving of vegetables: five cherry tomatoes, five sticks of celery, one whole carrot.

One serving of fruit: a medium apple, fifteen large grapes, half a banana.

So how many servings of fruit do you eat in a day? How many servings of vegetables?

Are there any valid medical sites that say a vegetarian diet is unhealthy? I have my list of groups that say it is healthy, but for fairness's sake I'd like to see if there's proof of the other side.

I'm not talking about individual cases; anyone can be malnurished and make bad choices no matter what diet they follow. I mean real valid medical or scientific groups that say vegetariansm is unhealthy.

I know that the traditional method of caviar is to kill the fish and harvest the eggs. However it's becoming more common for caviar farmers to either surgically remove the roe or strip it (almost like milking)

From a UK company called Mottra: "Once the sturgeon is about five years of age the caviar gets gently ‘stripped’ out of the fish. It is then put back into the perfect conditions of the Mottra pools in Riga, Latvia where the sturgeon continues to grow and starts the next year’s process of caviar production. "

Now I'm not talking about the ethics of fish farming, just the simple logistics of how the eggs are obtained. Wouldn't caviar from the company above or ones like it be vegetarian friendly?

http://www.mottra.co.uk/

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-d...

There's the whole protein thing, which just makes me sigh because people don't even know basic facts about where nutrients come from. But there's some pretty funny answers I've heard too. What about you?

I think for me it was the Tropicana orange juice with added fish oil.

Yet again today I saw an answer to a question about gelatin saying that it was alright to eat kosher gelatin. Do people not understand that kosher means following a set of rules that have nothing to do with vegetarianism?

I've been reading some statistics lately, and they vary but the upshot is that only 10 to 20% of Americans eat the recommended minimum of five fruits and veggies in a day. I find that very troubling.

It made me wonder, though, what the average is among vegetarians and vegans. So how do you do on average?

Right now I'm loving Heidi Swanson's Super Natural Cooking:

http://www.amazon.com/Super-Natural-Cooking-Incorp...

Now that summer is coming I'm flipping through my Vegetarian Grill:

http://www.amazon.com/Vegetarian-Grill-Recipes-Ins...

What about you?

Some of mine are:

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other.... ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. ~Albert Einstein

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. ~Paul McCartney

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth -- beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals -- would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals? ~George Bernard Shaw

mar·riage

Pronunciation:

?mer-ij, ?ma-rij\

Function:

noun

Etymology:

Middle English mariage, from Anglo-French, from marier to marry

Date:

14th century

1 a (1): the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law <b>(2): the state of being united to a person of the same sex in a relationship like that of a traditional marriage (same-sex marriage)</b> b: the mutual relation of married persons : wedlock c: the institution whereby individuals are joined in a marriage

2: an act of marrying or the rite by which the married status is effected ; especially : the wedding ceremony and attendant festivities or formalities

3: an intimate or close union the marriage of painting and poetry - J. T. Shawcross

Does it change anything? Does it give you hope?

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId...

It seems to me that we were never taught much about nutrition in school. There was the food pyramid, which is not correct (at least not the one they used when I was in school a decade and a half ago.) We were taught to eat fruits and veggies and "a well balanced diet" but not given much information about what that was.

Now, as a result, we seem to have many problems in society with obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. We have people not understanding basic things like where protein comes from or how much we need. I wish we had learned more about vitamins, minerals, proteins and carbs. I wish we'd learned about different types of diets like vegetarianism. I wish we'd learned more about what foods had what benefits.

What about you?

Blessed be!

It is typically the norm in society for a wife to automatically take her husband's name, with some women keeping their own name or hyphenating to combine the two names.

Same sex couples are not bound by this for obvious reasons, but what do we do? Or what have some couple who have married done? Do you hyphenate? Blend the last names to create something new? Pick one of the names you both like? Keep your own names?

I'm curious what people think.