October Is Vegetarian Awareness Month
A vegetarian diet has many benefits including reducing the suffering of animals in factory farms around the world, a reduction in heart disease, cancer and stroke, a decrease in body weight and a decrease in cholesterol. To celebrate Vegetarian Awareness Month in October plan on making some changes to the way you eat.
If you are not a vegetarian follow these tips to celebrate the month:
- Replace one meat based dish each day with a vegetarian dish.
- Choose one day a week to have only vegetarian meals.
- Introduce a new vegetable to your family meals each week.
- Cook more often with grains.
If you are vegetarian you can celebrate by:
- Bring a vegetarian dish to the office to share with your co-workers at least once during the month.
- Try a new vegetable at least once a week.
- Organize a neighborhood pot luck with only vegetarian meals.
- Increase the number of fruit based meals you consume during the month.
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