is 'Vegetarian Awareness Month' Today the statistics on chronic
disease are alarming. Every minute in our country approximately
two people die from disease - the leading cause of death among
men and women in the U.S. This year an estimated 1,400,000 new
cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the U.S. alone. And nearly
a decade after the Surgeon General first warned that 68 percent
of all disease was diet-related, we still haven't grasped the
full impact of our food choices. "When you examine the
connection between diet and disease, the saying you are what you
eat has an entirely new meaning," said Stacey Vicari, president
of the non-profit educational group EarthSave. This October
EarthSave is celebrating Vegetarian Awareness Month with it's
"Save Your Health - One Bite at a Time" campaign. The theme of
the campaign is to eat less animal foods and more plant foods -
a shift toward vegetarian eating. The trend in the medical
evidence has become clear; if you significantly reduce your
consumption on meat and dair