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2014: Year in Review

  Season’s Greetings, Responsible Eating And Living launched in July of 2011 and in less than four years we’ve made some extraordinary accomplishments in the plant-based food movement and we show no signs of slowing down in 2015.  Let me recap some of our amazing achievements of 2014— The Lone Vegan. At the beginning of…

A Thanksgiving Story: Turkey, Turnips, Transfusions

Over the river and through the woods, to grandmother’s house we go… As a child I loved the images in that song and thought of them every Thanksgiving as my family took off to my grandparents’ home, a one-bedroom apartment in Bayside, New York, where the Matinecock Native American first settled in 2000 B.C.  I’d…

Summer 2014 Fundraising Drive

This year in addition to all of the FREE recipes and podcasts we continue to offer to you, REAL brings you: The Lone Vegan Preaching to the Fire Our 70-minute FREE documentary which tells the story of REAL founder, Caryn Hartglass speaking to 250 cattle producers about climate change. If you have not watched it…

A visit to the Head and Neck Cancer Congress

Early this morning I headed to the Marriott Marquis for the Head and Neck Cancer Congress opening ceremonies where actor Michael Douglas was the featured guest speaker. As an ovarian cancer survivor I am interested in all kinds of cancer research. A few weeks ago, I received an invitation to attend this event, the largest…

Kale and Cancer

Juiced Curly Kale Kills Melanoma Cancer Cells In Culture  Please share this information with family and friends. SIGN UP HERE for updates from Bilal Qizilbash on Kale Research at Mississippi College. Master of Science candidate in Biomedical Sciences at Mississippi College, Bilal Qizilbash, summarizes his research breakthrough in a nutshell: Juiced curly kale kills melanoma…

My Passover Tears

The Passover holiday begins today and so does my ambivalence. I love traditions, story telling, special holiday foods. But I am so torn with the contradictions! The message of Passover, liberation from slavery, is something that resonates strongly for me. Should the holiday just be about the liberation of the Jewish people from slavery in…

REAL Inspiration

There are no coincidences. I met Bilal while renting a car for Responsible Eating And Living. He was managing the car rental office and he asked about my business. I can’t resist an opportunity to talk about food and I told him why I founded REAL and what we do. I had no idea until…

“The Doctors are Out”

“Doctors are Out” OR “I’m not a Health and Wellness Expert, I just play one on TV.” I don’t watch a lot of television. Yesterday morning I was informed about a discussion on The Doctor’s show regarding vegan and raw food so I went to their website and watched the clip. Jillian Michaels was very…