Vegan nutrition encompasses the nutrients vegans require for a balanced diet. It is an important part of a vegan's life, as it is the foundation for determining which foods should be consumed based on their lifestyle choices. A balanced vegan diet includes: whole grains, pulses and legumes, a variety of vegetables, nuts and seeds, a variety of fruits, fungi (mushrooms), sea vegetables (laver, arame, kombu)and mineral foods (for a B12 source). There are many vegan food guides available through the American Vegan Society and the Vegetarian Resource Group. Sufficient amounts of all the essential nutrients required for human health are easily obtained from the these guidelines. Vegan nutrition usually refers to the intake and balance of nutrients throughout a day, and therefore is dually classified under dietary regimes and practices.

The problem isn't that Obama hasn't given specifics. He has. In fact, the 2008 Democratic race is by far the heaviest on policy of any nominating contest in recent memory. It's just that voters who aren't paying close attention--and that's most of us--can't "hear" the specifics over all his talk about airier concepts like hope, unity and change.

loned animals in the production of meat and daily products. While experts do not expect to see cloned animals or their milk on supermarket shelves anytime soon, due to the high cost of producing a cloned animal, the fact that the FDA concluded that "extensive evaluation of the available data has not identified any subtle hazards that might....

As I have written numerous times I like the taste of zucchini. In fact on Saturday I cooked a rather safe beef stir fry that had an entire home grown Lebanese zucchini sliced up and quartered. However, this article is a tale of woe, not a celebration of my culinary successes.

Mayor's focus on turning New York into surveillance city - Mayor Bloomberg has said New Yorkers must face the fact that they're being watched by security cameras all the time. He wants to follow the model in London and dramatically increase the number of cameras in New York City. The city is already beefing up its surveillance in various places.

RZA addressed the current internal beef between Wu-Tang and Ghostface Killah in a recent interview with MTV News. Ghostface Killah had expressed his disappointment in the fact that his new album, Big Doe Rehab was being released on the same day as the new Wu-Tang album, 8 Diagrams, which has now been moved to December 11.