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January 2006—Issue #27
Vegetarian News, Food & More!
Brought to you by VegNews Magazine
**Inside the January/February Issue
**It's All About You: New Features
**V in the News
**Tame Your Sweet Tooth
**Product Spotlight: Little Moon Essentials
**VegTrivia: Win an L.A. Prize Package
**Recipe: Alex Jamieson's Riso Di Basilico
**Book Pick: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
**Sneak Preview: Most Veg-Friendly Places To Live
We thank you for your interest in VegNews, America's premier vegetarian lifestyle magazine. The popular VegNewsletter arrives in your e-mailbox just once a month and is filled with vegetarian news, tidbits, recipes, products, activist alerts, reviews, and more. It's the perfect accompaniment to a VegNews subscription.
Run, don't walk, to the newsstand for our January/February Health & Fitness Issue. Who doesn't get the January bug, that urge to treat our bodies right? You'll find enticing stories, interviews, recipes and so much more. We're also excited to announce three new columns, including The Advocate by Erik Marcus, Healthy Advice by Ilyse Simon,  and VegHome by Regina Leeds. Here's a taste of what's inside:
**15 Veg Athletes Who Inspire Us
**Ultramarathoner Scott Jurek
**Vegetarian Myths Debunked
**B12 & Beyond: Thrive on Sound Nutrition
**A Veg Vacation to Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center
**Skinny Bitch: A Vegan Manifesto in Chic Camouflage
**Veg Detox Plan with Alex Jamieson
**Persia White Exclusive
**Soften the Home with Soy Candles
**Plus... All the usual goods—the latest vegetarian news, must-read books, the hottest new products, celebrity buzz... but we can't give it all away, can we?
The magazine is available on newsstands nationwide and from our website.
Click here to order the Heath & Fitness Issue NOW!
 Those of you who have been reading since our humble beginnings as a movement-centered newspaper know that VegNews sought, as its main purpose, to network the veg communities across the country. Today, it's more important than ever to celebrate the exciting things vegetarians are doing. The following new features spotlight some of our very special readers.
Our Hats Off column highlights one special activist spearheading the cause. If you'd like to nominate someone, or yourself, email hatsoff@vegnews.com
Want to be our Reader Spotlight? Email readerspotlight@vegnews.com and tell us why you should grace an issue of VegNews Magazine.
Finally, we know how hard it is to find that person you connect with on not just a romantic level, but an ethical one, too. Our Bachelor(ette) of the Month could be the one for you. Email romance@vegnews.com to divulge your perfect candidate—who knows, it might be you.
So there you have it, beloved reader. No matter how large VegNews Magazine grows, one fact will remain: it's all about you.
 Less is More
Citizens for Health recently reported that consumers who have tried organics numbered 65 percent in 2005, a jump from 54 percent the previous two years. According to a Whole Foods Market survey in Austin of 1,000 shoppers, 10 percent consume organics several times a week. People are increasingly catching on to the idea that when it comes to food, less really is more, so hold the chemicals, please.
News from Turkey
Each year, Turkish citizens engage in the Feast of the Sacrifice holiday in Adana. While the name pretty much explains itself, one writer, Elif Safak, has published a superb essay on Turkish Daily News admonishing the increasing kitschiness of the ceremony, and with it the total lack of respect for animals as sentient beings. It's worth a read and you can find it here.
Green Singles
Nope, the website Green Singles doesn't refer to lonesome celery sticks. Go to the homepage and you'll find a quote from Dante's Inferno, "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." Those mate-less souls in agreement with this attitude can find like-minded heart throbs with a conscience. Take it one step further and go to their new VeggieLove website and let sparks fly.
 It's three o'clock, and you can feel the craving coming on. Maybe you'll just take a nibble of the office cookies, and before you know it, you've had more than your fair share. Or you've just finished dinner and are sitting down to a movie and start thinking about a bowl of ice cream...
Hey, we all love our sweets. But if you're being dragged around by your sweet tooth, it's time to take action. Follow these tips for more sweets, sans the calories and negative impact:
- Mix a small bit of juice into your water. This way you're getting hydrated and squashing that craving all at once.
- Rediscover hard candy. One Sweet Tarts has less than ten calories, and Brach's Root Bear Barrel, just over twenty. That beats a 200-calorie cookie, and you won't crash coming down off the sugar high.
- Try stevia. It's a natural calorie-free sweetener derived from a root with a slightly bitter aftertaste. This is great for those of you weaning off of Splenda, NutriSweet, and the other artificial sweeteners, which experts have linked to cancer.
- Carbs such as bread, rice, and noodles start breaking down immediately, and this means if you savor them in your mouth, they begin to taste sweet as the sugar releases from them. Taking slower bites can lend a sweet kick to your meal.
- Japanese horticulturists have developed a tablet from fruit berries that, when taken, causes sour foods to taste sweet. Expect to see products containing miraculin, the sweet-causing protein, on shelves soon.
 Vegetarianism has grown chicer than ever, but we still love those companies with a slightly alternative flair. Enter Little Moon Essentials, which makes delightful concoctions out of essential oils that really work wonders. Whenever a deadline has the VegNews staff stressed, we spritz Clear Skies Ahead throughout the office for a little relief. And the Floydian-inspired Shine On Sugar Scrub is heaven in a jar, complete with an adorable wooden scooper. All are made with cruelty-free ingredients and never tested on animals. So put on one of your 70's LPs, light a soy candle, and climb into a hot bath after a rough day.
Visit Little Moon Essentials NOW!
Which Hollywood darling co-produced the award-winning documentary Earthlings alongside narrator Joaquin Phoenix? Email us with the right answer, and you could win a prize package to veg-friendly Los Angeles. Included will be two tickets to the upcoming Genesis Awards in Beverly Hills on Saturday, March 18 and a gift certificate to Native Foods, one of the best vegan restaurants around. Deadline for entries is February 8.
 In our January/February issue, chef and consultant Alex Jamieson dishes up some of her best detox recipes, and you won't believe how delicious they are. The following recipe, from her book The Great American Detox Diet (published by Rodale), is being reprinted exclusively in the VegNewsletter, so bon appetit!
2 cups (2 ounces) loosely packed fresh basil leaves, carefully washed and dried
2 tablespoons pine nuts
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons white or yellow miso paste
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
6 cups cooked brown rice or other whole grain
1. Put basil, pine nuts, garlic, and miso paste into a food processor and begin processing. Slowly add the oil in a fine stream until smooth and creamy. You may need to scrape the sides of the processor down to make sure the mixture is completely blended.
2. Transfer the mixture to a large bowl and stir in the rice or other whole grain.
3. Serve cold as a salad or hot as a side dish.
 VegNews' Book Review Editor Jenny Humphrey takes her job very seriously. Always in search of the hottest new titles, she recently found the veg message in the most unsuspecting of places. An avid fiction reader and writer, Jenny discovered Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which has sold over 700,000 copies since publication in 1984.
The story takes place in Prague during the 1960's Russian occupation of Czechoslovakia. Its political undertones focus on Communist oppression before bursting, at its conclusion, into a full-flung vegan and animal rights manifesto. Rarely does a book of such literary merit and commercial success so explicitly taut this compassionate lifestyle. Kundera writes:
“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.”
Anyone passionate about the movement who enjoys a good, poetic read will enjoy this modern classic.
Click here to order The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The VegNews editorial staff is hard at work on an upcoming feature of the world's most veg-friendly places to live. Do you love your community and think it has a lot of great resources for vegetarians (veg restaurants, parks, progressive thinkers, natural food stores, good public transportation, etc)? We want to know where you live and why. Help us discover the treasures, from which we'll be revealing THE most veg-friendly city/town.
Send an email to homesweethome@vegnews.com with a 400-word or less description on what makes your hometown so special.
One respondent will receive a Vegan Unlimited Spa Basket, complete with Eye Tea, Essential Oil Products Bath Salts, Ecolution Hemp Exfoliation Hand Mitt, Lamas Botanicals Face & Body Wash, Earth Science Papaya-Glycolic Gentle Skin Peel, and two Bluewick Aromasoy Pocket Candles.
We've only got one basket to give away, so if you must have one, go to the source! Take fate into your own hands and order one here. Vegan Unlimited won the 2005 Veggie Award for "Best Online Shopping Experience" and sells everything from chic leather-free wallets and purses to dairy-free chocolate and hemp scarves.
Visit Vegan Unlimited NOW!
Don't miss the February edition of the VegNewsletter. We'll have loads of great veggie tidbits and information to arrive in e-mailboxes everywhere in the beginning of the month.
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