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Born in Iowa, Allen studied medicine in California and obtained a fellowship at Harvard University to work on sugar consumption. He soon became obsessed with diabetes. In 1913, he privately printed a 1179-page book on diabetes that described hundreds of animal experiments and featured a 1200-item bibliography.
According to Charlotte Alston, lecturer at Northumbria University, Tolstoy had planned to established a vegetarian journal in 1893, with the same title, The First Step. [10] In 1900, it was translated to English by the famous Tolstoy translators Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude , [ 11 ] and in 1905 it was translated again by Leo Wiener .
Tarla Dalal is credited with introducing and popularizing foreign cuisines to the masses. She created vegetarian versions of a lot of non-vegetarian recipes from foreign lands. She revolutionized the cooking industry in India and is the most sold cookbook author in India. [10] Her books have been translated into numerous languages including ...
A new study shows that a person’s ability to stick to a vegetarian diet may be tied to their genetic makeup. As more people go meatless, this biological information could help make the change ...
A second reported that vegetarian diets, including vegan diets, are associated with lower risk for vascular disease, obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes. [248] A third indicated that a vegan diet may be effective for reducing body weight, lowering the risk of cancer, and providing a lower risk of all-cause mortality.
Anna Thomas wrote her first cookbook The Vegetarian Epicure (1972) while still a film student at UCLA. It had a strong impact on the natural foods movement within the American counterculture . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As noted in The Roanoke Times , "for many of the young people turning to vegetarianism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Anna Thomas was the ...
Laurel's Kitchen is a vegetarian cookbook by Laurel Robertson, Carol Flinders, and Bronwen Godfrey that contributed to the rise of the vegetarian movement of the 1970s. It is also the name of Flinder's syndicated news column that she wrote for many years.
"Books can be the perfect prescription to let us know that we're going to be okay," said author and children's librarian John Schu during a panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival. "Stories affirm our ...