Category: Vitamin B Complex

Are you drinking enough water?

8/25/2014

As someone posted on some website, "The toilet bowl is the best doctor."
Well, if it's not the best doctor, it can give you some indication of whether you are drinking enough water. Just remember, when looking at the chart, if you are taking certain types of vitamins, the color can be a deep yellow for a few hours after taking it.

Water has always been something I need to force myself to think about. Drinking it is not natural to me so I'm not as good about it as I should be. But, I have noticed that when I drink plenty of it, I'm on the very low end of the chart.

Drink up!

You can also find a great chart on the US Army website here: http://www.al.ngb.army.mil/PublishingImages/Safety/258_Urine%20Color%20Test_Poster.pdf

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Some cookbooks I use for my plant-based diet

3/26/2014

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Yesterday, Mia Anderson (from my Facebook page) asked if I would share, with you, what it is I eat in a typical day to help others decide if they would want to make the change. First off, don't worry, I am not just eating salad. In fact, I eat many, many delicious warm foods (a lot of Indian). I do start off each day, most days, with a smoothie which can contain any combination of kale, spinach, chard, banana, apple, ginger, mango, pineapple, strawberries (frozen or fresh), blueberries (frozen or fresh), quick cook oats, cashew or almond milk, apple juice, protein powder, cocoa powder. And when I don't feel like having a smoothie, I'll have oatmeal.

My main source of protein is beans (black beans, adzuki, lentil, chickpea) and I nosh on almonds. But, what really makes it easy for me, especially since I love to cook, are four cookbooks I use alternately depending on what I'm in the mood for.

"Karma Chow" by Melissa Costello
"Veganomicon" by Isa Chandra Moskowitz & Terry Hope Romero
"Isa Does it" by Isa Chandra Moskowitz
"Vegan Indian Cooking" by Anupy Singla

Occasionally, I will make recipes from "The Kind Diet" by Alicia Silverstone and "The Moosewood Cookbook" by Mollie Katzen and then there's always the Internet but that takes time and one of my favorite past times is glancing at cookbooks.

I have a few recipes listed on http://www.kathyshealthyliving.com/vegetarian-dishes.html but not as many as I should. I will make a point of adding more up there but if you buy at least "Karma Chow" and "Isa Does It" you will find you have enough delicious recipes in there to get you started.

Of course, I ALWAYS take vitamin B12 (in sublingual form) along with a B complex, calcium/magnesium with D3, liquid D3 along with other supplements.

In the mean time, what I will do in the next day or so is list my favorite dishes from these books with links to the recipes on the Internet. That can get you going.

Hope this helps! Have a great day!

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Are you drinking enough water?

Some cookbooks I use for my plant-based diet

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