Vegan Powerhouse from Down Under

Mike Case is a personal trainer based in Melbourne, Australia. Active in competitive athletics since adolescence, Case learned to love using his physicality and mind to achieve specific goals.

"I wanted to live a life where I worked on my passion and walked what I talked."

Benefits of the Cabbage Patch

A popular main ingredient for sauerkraut Green Cabbage is a tough leafy green cruciferous vegetable, part of the brassicaceae. Also popular shredded into salads, soups and stews this vegetable offers a deep rich flavor to a range of meals. What may be surprising is cabbage has tremendous health benefits offered by the cabbage.

Improve digestive health with Rejuvelac

Probiotics are a great inclusion to plant based nutrition. Foods that are active with live cultures of healthy bacteria are highly beneficial to human intestinal flora as they can help improve digestion. These foods also improve the assimilation of nutrients from all other foods. Even better these sorts of foods have a gentle laxative effect relieving constipation and help breakdown other potential undigested waste material. There are a wide range of food sources of probiotics that typically come in the form of fermented foods. Foods like yogurt and sauerkraut are great sources but can be expensive if store bought and challenging to create from scratch at home. Fortunately there is a great source of these precious probiotic nutrients in an easy to make drink. Rejuvelac.

Vegan Athlete Antjuane Sims

Another plant based athlete, Antjuane Sims proudly proclaims that he is able to achieve superior athletic performance without meat dairy or drugs. Previously after years of consuming a wide range of meat products Sims came to a breaking point. He noticed his body did not digest the animal proteins well, as if his body was not able to break down the meat completely. The very texture of meat began to bother him not to mention the process of having to prepare it. With nothing to look forward to but troubled digestion Sims realized he had to make a serious change in his nutrition.

Vegan JELL-O!

Vegans are well aware the gelatin is never an option. Though many of us grew up with this fun cool and often colorful treat as a dessert or snack. Well now here is a food that can easily take the place of that youthful treat and avoid those messy mashed up bones and animal hooves it takes to make traditional gelatin.

Get Turnt-Up with Turnips

Enjoyed since ancient times, the turnip is a round, apple-sized root vegetable from the Brassicaceae family. It’s white at the bottom with a light purple blush around the top, which appears when the plant has been exposed to sunlight. Native to northern Europe, turnip was a staple of ancient Greek and Roman diets. Turnips thrive best in cold weather and grow up to two feet high, with long and slender hairy leaves, you can buy them all year long. Like other root vegetables, turnips are a great storage vegetable that you can stock before winter arrives. When buying this root crop, make sure to look for firm and heavy roots that have a smooth skin, a sweet aroma, and crisp green tops.

Home Grown Ginger

Historically, ginger has a long tradition of being very effective in alleviating symptoms of gastrointestinal distress. In herbal medicine, ginger is regarded as being excellent at promoting the elimination of intestinal gas and relaxing and soothing the intestinal tract. Modern scientific research has revealed that ginger possesses numerous therapeutic properties including antioxidant effects, an ability to inhibit the formation of inflammatory compounds, and direct anti-inflammatory effects. Considering these amazing health benefits it is probably a great idea to have as much of this plant readily available as possible.

Vegan Bodybuilder Garren Rimondi

Garren Rimondi is a competitive bodybuilder and fitness trainer who has been thriving as a plant based athlete. Surviving childhood cancer taught Rimondi that through proper individualized nutrition, moving one’s body, and keeping a positive, self-familiar mindset, anyone can overcome anything. Diagnosed with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia at the age of four years old he went through ongoing treatment until he was eight years old. Successfully cured in 1994 he has now been in remission for almost 21 years. His experience being treated for cancer influenced his attitude regarding his health. being forever grateful for surviving childhood cancer. He has since been motivated to seek out the best way to maintain and improve his health.

Gluten-Free Vegan Pancakes

Here is a wonderful gluten free pancake recipe using two awesome alternative grains. The next time you are in the mood for preparing a fancy breakfast for your family try this recipe out.

Get Juiced! With Grain Grasses

Sprouted grasses provide incredible health benefits. Containing an abundance of vitamins and minerals and bio-available protein. The best and most efficient way to access these nutrients is by juicing them. The liquid that flows from these leafy blades goes on a direct feed as it is quickly digested and utilized by the human body. Many are familiar with wheat grass but are not familiar with the wide range of grain grasses available. Best of all these grasses can be easily grown at home at a low cost.

Vegan Thanksgiving Recipe

As the holidays approach many vegans will be looking for new recipes that will allow us to remain plant based and enjoy a festive meal this season. Have a look at this delicious holiday recipe courtesy of the Vegan Family House.

Why is Juicing so good for you?

Juicing is becoming more and more popular. Being a regular feature topic on talk shows segments, news articles, and dedicated social media groups advocating the practice. Though some are still not convinced or understand why the practice of juicing carries so many benefits. Read on to improve your understanding.

Gluten Free Tapioca

Tapioca. This is a great food. Versatile and easy to access tapioca can be used as a base in a lot of baking recipes with minimal ingredients and best of all it is gluten free. If this is your first time hearing about this remarkable food here is a brief primer. Tapioca is a starch which comes from the cassava root plant, native to temperate climates such as South America, the Caribbean Islands and parts of Florida.

Feed your Skin.

Many plant foods are extremely healthy. They can provide a full host of vitamins and minerals and help maintain optimum health of the human body. Ever considered what some of these foods can do for the outside of the body though? Skin is the biggest organ on the human body after all. Providing a direct feed of nutrients will benefit long term skin health. So here are a couple of plant based foods that human skin will happily devour.

Buy this, save Bees!

Vegan Honey? That's right, honey has always been a subject of contention among vegans because it is produced by an insect. By the way, Honey is NOT Vegan! Moreover collecting honey can be damaging to bees because it can cause colony collapse consequently destroying and killing entire bee colonies. Bees are incredibly important to the ecosystem as pollinators. If all bees went extinct they would leave a huge hole in the ecosystem that could not be effectively filled by other means of pollination. In addition to that there are so few food crops which reproduce with wind pollination. Fortunately there is a product that will reduce the commercial strain placed on bees.