Word: vegetarian
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...almost every item on the menu. The food was reasonably priced with appetizers around $5 and entrees around $11. The options mainly included jerk and curry flavors true to the spices of the Caribbean. Although the menu consisted mainly of meat dishes, they were a few salads and some vegetarian dishes. After considering the more unusual fare such as ox tails and goat meat, we decided to sample some of the more mundane food...
...grandchildren. "Unfortunately, he's not at all involved in anything I care about," she says. "He does fishing. He takes people out sports fishing, but he's also mixed up in commercial fishing." Don't look for fish or anything animal on Goodall's plate. She has been a vegetarian for nearly 30 years...
...large, open-fronted premises that spill onto the sidewalk at 313 Maha Chai next to the Esso gas station, the Thip Samai Restaurant only serves the quintessential national dish phad Thai (fried noodles, tofu, bean sprouts), which it elevates from ordinary vegetarian staple to high art. The house specialty is a $1.35 version that comes wrapped in an omelette. For an extra $1.35, the deluxe sawng kreung comes with shredded green mango, crab, dried squid, and four large, fresh prawns...
...controlled studies that have been done offer cause for hope. A 1990 study of patients who had coronary heart disease indicated that a regimen of aerobic exercise and stress reduction, including yoga, combined with a low-fat vegetarian diet, stabilized and in some cases reversed arterial blockage. The author Dr. Dean Ornish is in the midst of a study involving men with prostate cancer. Can diet, yoga and meditation affect the progress of this disease? So far, Ornish will say only that the data are encouraging...
...most cited study around?Ornish's in 1990?tested 94 patients with angiographically documented coronary heart disease, of whom 53 were prescribed yoga, group support and a vegetarian diet extremely low in fat?only 10% of total daily calories (most Americans consume 35% in fat; the American Heart Association recommends 30%). Cholesterol changes among the experimental group were about the same as if they had taken cholesterol-lowering drugs. After a year in the program, patients in this group showed "significant overall regression of coronary atherosclerosis as measured by quantitative coronary arteriography." Those in the control group "showed significant overall...