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In order to live a healthy life, many factors need to be taken into consideration. We have found that the healthier our diets, the healthier our bodies have become. We at Do Life Right feel at our absolute best when we are following Dr. John McDougall's advice with the McDougall Diet. When a healthy lowfat vegan diet is followed consistently, all types of ailments miraculously disappear. Who doesn't want to live their best life possible for as long as possible? Sign up for Dr. McDougall's monthly newsletter and you will be well on your way to living a long and healthy life.

T. Colin Campbell, PhD, author of, The China Study (link to purchase below) has done some amazing research on the study of cancer in humans. He has come to the conclusion that animal proteins are quite harmful to humans and he has years and years of real scientific data to back him up. Vegetable proteins, on the other hand, are quite beneficial. This amazing book is a must read for those concerned about their longterm health and their desire to live a long and healthy life.

Concerned about the nutrition that your children are receiving? Yes, what is best for an adult is best for a child, too! Children can, and should, eat a healthy vegan diet once they begin to eat solid foods. [Even Dr. Spock started to recommend a vegan diet for children in his later years!] Children should be allowed to breastfeed as long as they want (wanting and needing are the same thing in babies and young children). They should not be forced to wean from breastmilk before they are ready. When left to their own wisdom, many babies continue to breastfeed well into their toddler years. Check out the VegFamily Magazine website. Their newsletter always contains a lot of interesting and helpful advice for the new and veteran vegan family. If you still have questions about how to integrate your vegan child into society, check out these wonderful books.

We have found all of the following books to be life changing in the way that our family views nutrition and how to be have healthy, disease free bodies.

Eating a healthy vegan diet is important. We've met vegetarians that were surviving on potato chips and white bread. This is not a healthy way to live for anyone, whole foods are always better than highly processed foods. Be sure to check out the Vegan Health and Vegetarian Baby (for all ages of children) websites. Are you still confused about what you could actually cook for your family? Check out these books. The recipes are easy, nutritious, and absolutely delicious!

Click here for more information about the Vegan Family Favorites cookbook.

We at Do Life Right believe that it is important to stand up for your core values. Decide what your beliefs are and find others in your own community that have the same ideals. We support the Vegetarian Resource Group of Tucson as a local group that upholds it's tenants very well. Do you live in the Tucson, AZ area or will you be visiting? Try eating at Lovin' Spoonfuls Café, the only all vegan restaurant in the area. The food is excellent and the service is superb.

Southern Arizona specific shopping questions and answers.

To find a vegetarian restaurant in your area (or in an area that you plan to travel to), check out HappyCow's Vegetarian Guide to Restaurants and Health Food Stores. Be sure to add your own reviews, also.

Seek out local groups in your area that promote healthy living. Surrounding yourself with others that want to improve their own lives too is inspiring. In addition to the myriad health benefits of a strict vegetarian diet, there are even more moral and ethical reasons for not eating meat and other animal products. For us at Do Life Right, our vegetarianism is a complete ethical lifestyle decision. We do not use any animal products in any way, to the best of our abilities. For more information about the ethics involved in veg*nism, please check out the following information:

• Vegan Outreach has wonderful pamphlets.
• Consider getting a Free Vegetarianism Starter Guide
• March 20th is National Meat Out Day!
• VegNews Magazine is a great magazine with a great website.
• Here is a great FAQ about veganism.
• Wow! A list of vegetarian themed books and videos for kids.
• How about some PETA Literature for all ages?

Children naturally understand vegetarianism. I have met many a child that was flabbergasted when they found out what they were actually eating. We don't need to scare children into becoming veg*n, but we shouldn't lie to them about what they are eating, either. Here are some fun ethical vegetarian children's nonfiction books that my family and friends have enjoyed a lot:

Books for even the youngest in your life:

Check out SK Publishing for even more great children's books.

Where can you buy additional everyday and specialty vegan items?

There are a surprising number of exciting vegan items popping up at local grocery stores all over the world. However since the adults in our family were not raised vegetarian we sometimes crave marshmallow fluff or pepperonis and other very clearly nonvegetarian foods. These vegetarian versions cannot always be found locally, thus we are happy to take our money and shop online. We are only recommending sites that we have done business with and have been happy with. Books can be purchased through amazon.com as well as some of these great other sites:

Vegan Essentials sells a wide variety of food items, health care items, and clothing. I regularly purchase food items that my whole family loves. I have been equally happy with the shoes and message t-shirts that I have purchased. I have had questions on several occasions and they have always been prompt and courteous. They show that they care about the environment as they recycle their shipping boxes and everything is always very well wrapped and safe.

Dr. McDougall's Right Foods Please use code VRGT upon checkout in order to support the Vegetarian Resource Group of Tucson

Hands down, these quick preparing food items are the best tasting and healthiest quick prepared vegan foods that we have found (and we've tried them all!). The breakfasts are the perfect size meal for us, especially with some fruit on the side. The regular meals make great lunches. They are easy to take to work and add microwaved water or to heat up water in a teapot at home. For supper, we often make baked potatoes, add a cooked McDougall meal, and have a hearty heart-smart meal. I'm getting hungry just thinking about these. Check out all the flavors! I can't recommend these enough. If you have been a vegetarian for a while, beware the beef flavored meals. I had to triple check these to make sure that they really didn't contain beef broth -- they don't!

Pangea is another great online source of vegan products. They usually have a good assortment of nonleather shoes.

Moo Shoes is a great source of fancy nonleather shoes. I purchased a pair of Vegetarian Shoes (yes, that is the brand name) clogs a few years ago and they are still going strong.

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