Eating less meat is good for your health and the environment. Now a new study suggests genes may play a role in people's ability to stick to a strict vegetarian diet. Lots of people who experiment ...

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The word diet, at least since the 14 th century, has meant a prescribed course of food. Chaucer used it in reference to the poor widow in the Nun’s Priest’s Tale whose abstemious “diet was in keeping ...

Vegetarianism is no longer simply a fad in our country. While men and women who refrain from eating meat and fish (ovolacto vegetarians) and those who refrain from eating cheese, milk and eggs (vegans ...

Spirituality has led to a growing awareness of the unity of all beings, of our fundamental interconnectedness. For some this reflection has stayed on the level of purely personal enlightenment without ...

Going vegetarian is trendy and popular, along with being a healthy choice, but a large portion of those who say they want to stick with a plant-based diet don't. It might come down to your DNA, ...

A professor of the “politics and philosophy of food,” named Chad Levin, advocates for vegetarianism in a distinctly political advocacy paper in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Ironically, given ...

Could our meat-loving Western diets push climate change over the edge? That was the message of a recent report from U.K. think tank Chatham House, that, even if the world moves away from fossil fuels, ...