Health and Nutrition

Famed pediatrician Charles R. Attwood, M.D., F.A.A.P., discusses the issue of supplementation and vegan children.

Nutritional resource for vegans including recipes, meal plans and information about veganism.

Answers to common questions dealing with veganism.

Guide with information, tips, and recipes to help you transition to a plant based diet.

Below you will find quick links to the main nutrition and health related information on the site. By following the links you will not only learn how easy it is to ensure that you have a good intake of all the nutrients you need at all stages of life, but also that following a varied vegetarian diet can help protect against many modern diseases. The Vegetarian Society of the United Kingdom 

A magazine specifically for registered dietitians and other nutrition professionals.

The Vegetarian Journal gives you the latest news in vegetarian nutrition.

An ultimate resource for raw foodists, vegans, and all those interested in taking their health into their own hands by adopting a nutritious organic diet.  We have a full catalog of rawfood links, everything from raw and vegan restaurants, to raw food blogs, and other raw and vegan websites. We have great raw and vegan recipes, and information on eating raw, vegan, and organic, as well as information on healthy supplementation. Our site is currently being remodeled, and we would love any feed back or suggestions.

In addition to the information found here on my website, if you’d like to know exactly what I eat in a day, check out my FitDay Journal. I personally eat 100% Raw Vegan. Most foods are eaten as "mono meals" except when I eat raw meals at restaurants.

Discussion of recent research on the issue of calcium and the adequacy of a vegan diet in preventing osteoporosis.

A guide to keeping children healthy on a diet free of all animal products.A vegan does not eat any foods that contain animal products. This means no beef, chicken, fish, pork or veal; no milk, cheese, butter, eggs, sour cream, or cottage cheese. Instead a vegan eats fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains and legumes.

Explores a variety of topics on nutrition, health and politics.

Provides a complete nutrient breakdown for over 750 different vegetables and byproducts.

Downloadable data sets prepared by the USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory with nutrient values of foods.

"The human body has absolutely no requirement for animal flesh. Nobody has ever been found face-down 20 yards from the Burger King because they couldn't get their Whopper in time." -- Michael Klaper, M.D.

Professional guide to vitamin and mineral supplements, presented by Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health.

Jobs In Dietetics is one of the largest dedicated career opportunity services for professionals in the fields of Dietetics, Nutrition and Food Service. We offer our subscribing members a wide and varied selection of current career opportunities available nationwide.

IPBN - Institute for Plant Based Nutrition is a group of highly motivated, committed plant eaters and growers who bring over a century of life experience to educating all publics about the benefits of plant-based  nutrition. From coast to coast and globally we have lived or traveled and have like minded friends who have encouraged us to make this commitment.

Article showing the nutritional superiority of green vegetables to grains.