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Confessions of a Converted Carrot Cruncher I am a vegetarian. I am also an atheist and a feminist. But of the three philosophies which largely inform my thinking and determine my conduct, it is my decision not to eat wobbly-kneed calves and squint-eyed pigs which has got me into the most trouble. In fact, my allegiance to tofu has proved to be more of an incitement to argument and criticism than my allegiance to the likes of Richard Dawkins and Germaine Greer. Who would have believed it? Read more...   When I Asked God Ririan shares Swami Vivekananda's moving poem "When I Asked God". When I Asked God for Strength, He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face, When I Asked God for Brain & Brawn, He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve, When I Asked God for Happiness, He Showed Me Some Unhappy People... Read more...   No-Diet Day - Wearing the Blue Ribbon May 6th was International No-Diet day, which was started in 1992 by Mary Evans, director of Diet Breakers. People around the world celebrate this day by wearing a light blue ribbon, but what exactly does the ribbon symbolise and what is this day all about? Cari Corbett-Owen from Mind Over Fatter explores. Read more...   Blaming Others... Right from the time we are little, we are taught to blame others for things that happen to us! Remember when we bumped our head and it was the table's fault, when Mom was late to fetch us from school, it was her fault, when we lost a book it was somebody else's fault! Read more...   The Many Ways to Sweep “When I was 13, my family would send me up to the mountains around the monastery to collect edible plants for our evening meal. These foraging trips were the only work I enjoyed doing. Otherwise, I tried every trick I could to avoid work on my family’s farm. I was still in school but it held no interest for me; my anger was a welcome barrier to learning anything the teacher was teaching. Read more...   Anorexia – in the Open or in the Closet? “My name is Maureen and I am an anorexic.” Actually I am not sure that every anorexic is one for life. I became anorexic way back in the days before it had a name.  I was a teenager who was not eating very much. I was taken to the family doctor who told my mother to make and or buy my favourite foods and get me to just eat a little bit at a time... Read more...   Life After Menopause – Optimism or Oxymoron? The plain truth is that for most of us, menopause is a huge change.  Perhaps not all of us experience night sweats, soaking the sheets in the dark hours.  Perhaps not all of us have hot flashes or flushes and want to rip our clothes off just to get some relief… Before you go and leap off a tall building, wait, there's more.  More good stuff I mean! Read more...   Why Vegan? A Personal Progression "We had a boar pig named Horace.  We thought he was great - until the day when he was three years old and was no longer 'useful'.  Off went Horace… Where did he go?  To be made into sausages… Horrors!!!  No more sausages for me, thank you very much! Another Vegetarian was born!" Maureen Cram takes us through her journey to becoming a Vegan. Read more...   My Brush with Breast Cancer For many years I have "looked after myself".  Eating healthy foods, no animal products, exercising regularly, gynaecological checkups on a regular basis… So perhaps you can imagine how shocked I was to discover that a lump in my right breast that I had had for fifteen years suddenly changed at the beginning of 2006. I was diagnosed as having breast cancer. Read more...   Mind Over Fatter - Escaping the Dieting Cycle Cari Corbett-Owen shares her very personal journey through teenage anorexia, diet and fitness obsessions and being trapped in the mental jail of eating, body and food concerns until she came to a point where she finally felt comfortable and healthy in her body. She used what she discovered to create the highly successful non-dieting alternative - Mind Over Fatter. Read more...

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