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Posted on February 8th, 2007 in Articles by Vegan Momma

Raw athlete James Southwood wins Savate kickboxing title with perfect score

London, 09 January 2007 — James Southwood – the raw food vegan athlete who is taking on the nation and the world in French Savate kickboxing – last month sealed his title of British Champion with a brace of victories, becoming the only fighter in the whole country to score a perfect 10 in every event, winning the title without dropping a point.

Savate, or Boxe-Francaise, is a 200-year-old martial art that combines French kicking methods with English boxing to produce a graceful, effective kickboxing style. As a ring fighting sport it is fast growing in popularity. Competitively, it requires stamina, strength, flexibility and the skill to box with an opponent accurately using feet and fists. <more>

Unhappy meals by Michael Pollan

Posted on February 5th, 2007 in Articles, Health/Nutrition by Vegan Momma

Unhappy meal
By Michael Pollan
Published: January 28, 2007

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. I hate to give away the game right here at the beginning of a long essay, and I confess that I’m tempted to complicate matters in the interest of keeping things going for a few thousand more words. I’ll try to resist but will go ahead and add a couple more details to flesh out the advice. Like: A little meat won’t kill you, though it’s better approached as a side dish than as a main. And you’re much better off eating whole fresh foods than processed food products. That’s what I mean by the recommendation to eat “food.” Once, food was all you could eat, but today there are lots of other edible foodlike substances in the supermarket. These novel products of food science often come in packages festooned with health claims, which brings me to a related rule of thumb: if you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid food products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a good indication that it’s not really food, and food is what you want to eat. more