Today is the last monday for January 2010! Lets make this a day to become Meatless or even CertitiedMeatless! Read a nice little blurb about oats and strawberries! Sounds like a tasty treat. Here in the greater NYC area it is wet and dank. For myself to start off the meatless monday and meatless week ahead, I shall have a nice warm bowl of Cream of Wheat with honey and cinnamon! Fantastic eh? Try more ideas at CM-LO.com!
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Meatless Friday is CertifiedMeatless
Friday, January 22nd, 2010For today’s meatless ideas take a look at yesterday’s posts. I posted a couple of fantastic ideas about the Mediterranen Diet. Great things to think about. A real cause of the day is to make some sort of mortification in honour of the hundreds of millions of babies lost because of the horrible federal decision that was legislated on this day back in 1972. Read and think, fast and pray.
CertifiedMeatless on Meatless Wednesday
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010Hello: In the following blog, CertifiedMeatless is presenting another article in our series on the Mediterranean Diet. This fits in well with Meatless Monday, Meatless Wednesday, and Meatless Friday. As you may know, the Mediterrean Diet is rich in seafood and tolerates a low intake of slaughtered landed meats. Bellow is an article from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition:
Reuters Health
Eating the Mediterranean way can help reduce your risk of stomach cancer, a large study from Europe shows.
“The results add to the evidence for the role of the Mediterranean diet in reducing cancer risk and add further support for the need to continue to promote the Mediterranean diet in areas where it is disappearing,” Dr. Carlos A. Gonzalez of the Catalan Institute for Oncology in Barcelona and his colleagues say.
The traditional diets of Greece, Italy and other Mediterranean countries have many health benefits, they point out in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, including protection against cancer. But there is less information on how eating this way might influence risk of specific cancer types. Gonzalez and his team looked at gastric cancer, the second-leading cause of cancer death worldwide.
To investigate whether diet might be protective against the disease, the researchers analyzed data from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study on 485,044 men and women 35 to 70 years old from 10 European countries.
All had been given a score on an 18-point scale based on how closely their diet adhered to the Mediterranean ideal of being rich in fruit, vegetables, legumes, fish, cereals and olive oil, with a relatively low intake of red meat and dairy products.
During nine years of follow-up, 449 of the study participants developed gastric cancer.
People with the highest relative Mediterranean diet scores were 33 percent less likely to develop the disease than people whose eating patterns were furthest from the Mediterranean ideal. Gastric cancer risk fell 5 percent for every one-point increase in a person’s Mediterranean diet score.
Just 23 percent of people diagnosed with gastric cancer will survive for five years, the researchers note. “Therefore, identifying dietary recommendations that can help reduce incidence is important for the effective management of this cancer,” they conclude.
SOURCE: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, online December 9, 2009.
For Meatless Monday – soy just got better!
Sunday, January 17th, 2010CertifiedMeatless keeps giving great information for Certifed Meatless Monday! This is some new information from the US Dept. of Agriculture:
Research Will Help Improve Soybeans and Other Legumes
WASHINGTON, January 13, 2010—U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are part of a team that has sequenced the majority of the soybean genome, providing an unprecedented look into how this important legume crop converts four critical ingredients—sunlight, water, carbon dioxide and nitrogen—into protein and oil, the basic building blocks for many consumer products. The research team from 18 federal, state, public and private organizations published their research today in the journal Nature.
“Soybean and other legumes play a critical role in global food security and human health and are used in a wide range of products, from tofu, soy flour, meat substitutes and soy milk to soy oil-based printing ink and biodiesel,” said Molly Jahn, USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics. “This new information about soybean’s genetic makeup could lead to plants that produce more beans that contain more protein and oil, better adapt to adverse environmental conditions, or are more resistant to diseases.”
This sequencing of the soy genome is the culmination of more than 15 years of collaborative research. The team used a so-called “whole-genome shotgun” (WGS) approach to sequence 85 percent of the 1.1 billion nucleotide base pairs that spell out soy’s entire DNA code. The sequence also provides researchers with a critical reference to use in deciphering the genetics of some 20,000 other legume species.
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Food ingredients can be difficult to decipher
Thursday, January 14th, 2010We at CertifiedMeatless do take pride in providing the public foods that are completely devoid of landed slaughtered meats and their by-products. It isn’t the simplest task to accomplish, I can assure you. To determine if a food is a meatless food, it takes laboratory analysis as well as interviewing the food provider for a beginning. Take it from the British Nurtrition Foundation who provided these comments to their new standards:
“This new guide on food composition data explains the issues and pitfalls in sourcing and using data on food. Information on the composition of foods is vital for a wide range of people, including health professionals, regulators, caterers and those working in the food industry. For example, you can see this in the nutrition information provided on food packaging, and it is important in determining the recommendations about what we eat and drink given by government bodies.”
” ‘Food composition explained’ which is published in the September issue of the journal Nutrition Bulletin is intended to help those new to the field to navigate the complexity surrounding data on our food. This guide was completed on behalf of the EC funded Network of Excellence EuroFIR (European Food Information Resource), and is the seventh in a series of Synthesis Reports from the project, including others on ethnic foods, plant bioactives and health claims.”
Source British Nutrition Foundation
A meatless thought for the day
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010Ever wonder how we became so dependent on meat? It was pretty hard to hunt and get all the sustenance so, we became farmers. Keeping stock of the animals became big business but it led to cutting corners. First
there is the AI leading to more births. Second, there is the cultivation of using ingredients which are foreign to the animals. This in itself led to the downfall of meat quality. What are good reasons to be meatless? Taste and health are. We don’t need all the extra garbage that has been fed to the cattle. Go for wild caught fish
products instead that have been flash-frozen on board. I don’t care what the fishmonger says, this is freshness at its best. It has not been lingering around the Fulton Market. And fresh tastes best to me! See what we have meatless at CertifiedMeatless!
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Friday, January 8th, 2010
Meatless Friday
Guess what? It is already the first friday of the year. A tradition in the Catholic Church is to go to Mass on first friday. Another way of honour and mortification for our Lord is to abstain from meat on every friday. So make it meatless and a meatless friday by checking out the selections at CertifiedMeatless.com! Certified Meatless is a great source for all those meatless food needs! And everything at CertifiedMeatless is absolutely free of all landed slaughtered meat and their by-products! Sounds like a great insurance product if you want to be meatless!