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Vegetarian Starter Kit
What type of diet is best for disease prevention and to maintain a healthy weight? The best diet is one that you can stick with for life. A healthy diet is a lifestyle, not a fad that is dangerous or difficult to maintain. Abundant evidence suggests that the most healthful diets set aside animal products and also
Trade Your Smelly Lipitor Bottle for a Vegetarian Starter Kit!
Are you one of the hundreds of thousands who had to dump their Lipitor pills due to Pfizer’s recall? Drugmaker Pfizer recently expanded its recall of the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor after reports of a musty odor in more bottles. This recall affects 38,000 bottles, on top of the more than 300,000 bottles
Vegetarian Starter Kit
Vegetarian Diets for Children: Right from the Start Eating habits are set in early childhood. Vegetarian diets give your child the chance to learn to enjoy a variety of wonderful, nutritious foods. They provide excellent nutrition for all stages of childhood, from birth thr
Vegetarian Starter Kit
The New Four Food Groups Be sure to include a good source of vitamin B12, such as fortified cereals or vitamin supplements. 3 or more servings a day Fruits are rich in fiber, vitamin C, and beta-carotene. Be sur
Vegetarian Starter Kit
Calcium in Plant-Based Diets Many people avoid milk because it contains saturated fat, cholesterol, allergenic proteins, lactose sugar, and frequent traces of contamination, or simply because they don’t feel well after consuming dairy products. Milk is also linked to
Dietas vegetarianas para niƱos desde el inicio
Los hábitos alimenticios se fijan temprano en la niñez. Las dietas vegetarianas le proporcionan a su niño la oportunidad de aprender a disfrutar de una variedad de alimentos maravillosos y nutritivos. Estos alimentos proporcionan una nutrición excelente en todas las etapas de la ni&nti
PCRM Offers New Nutrition Tools
The Vegetarian Starter Kit PCRM has distributed over 300,000 copies of it, and it’s been translated into more than a dozen languages. After years of faithful service, PCRM’s most popular brochure, the Vegetarian Starter Kit, is sporting a lively new look. Readers
Concerned About Bird Flu? Doctors Offer
WASHINGTON—In response to the growing concern over a potential worldwide outbreak of the avian flu, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is offering a free 16-page Vegetarian Starter Kit for worried carnivores. Although the lethal H5N1 strain of the flu has not yet been found in the Unite
Discovery of Strain of Bird Flu in New Jersey Prompts Doctors to Offer Vegetarian Starter Kit
WASHINGTON—In response to the discovery of a strain of avian flu in chickens and ducks in a live bird market in New Jersey, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is offering a free 16-page Vegetarian Starter Kit to worried consumer
Los cuatro nuevos grupos alimenticios
Los cuatro nuevos grupos alimenticios *Asegúrese de incluir una buena fuente de vitamina B12, como cereales enriquecidos o suplementos vitamínico 3 ó más porciones diarias Las frutas son ricas en fibra, vitamina C y be
El Calcio en los Alimentos
El Calcio en los Alimentos Alimentos Calcio (mg) Brócoli, 1 taza, hervido
Information on Vegetarian and Vegan Diets
Vegetarian Starter Kit A good place to begin is the Vegetarian Starter Kit, which is also available in Spanish-language: Guía de Iniciación una Dieta Vegetariana. The Power Plate PCRM's Power Plate offers a healthy alternative to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Pyramid. The Power Pla
Had It With Atkins? Sick of Low-Carb Bars, Low-Carb Beer, and Low-Carb Chewing Gum? Now You Can Trade 'Em In! email this page
The low-carb diet fad is over. Atkins is bankrupt. A low-carb diet is not a long-term solution to weight control and can even be dangerous to your health. But there is an eating plan that works, is easy to maintain, and is great for your health. Send us your unwanted low-carb bars, diet books, etc., and we’ll
Too Fat to Fight: Plant-Based Diet Could Slim Down Military Recruits
Many military recruits are too overweight to enlist. But in a letter to the armed forces, PCRM offered recruiters Vegetarian Starter Kits to combat obesity. “It is not too late for the overweight young people showing up at your recruiting stations,” writes PCRM nutrition education director Susan Levin,
Tips for Making the Switch to a Vegetarian Diet
Convenience foods cut cooking time. Supermarkets and natural foods stores stock a huge array of instant soups and main-dish vegetarian convenience items. Many canned soups, such as minestrone, black bean, or vegetable, are vegetarian. Flavored

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