Watermelon’s beautiful red color results from the health-promoting nutrient lycopene. Lycopene, also found in tomatoes, pink grapefruit, papaya and guavas, is a powerful antioxidant. It has been extensively studied for its amazing ability to protect against cardiovascular disease and strokes. Give this refreshing recipe a try and enjoy watermelon while it’s at the peak of its season!

Ingredients:

4 cups watermelon, seeded & diced
1 large cucumber, peeled, seeded, & diced
1 jalapeño, seeded & minced (finely diced)
2 Tbs. rice vinegar
2 Tbs. lime juice
salt (to taste)
toasted pine nuts for garnish

Directions:

1. Combine all the ingredients in a large bowl.
2. Gently toss to coat.
3. Refrigerate until very cold.
4. Garnish with the toasted pine nuts, if desired, and serve.

For great ideas on vegan recipes, visit blog.vegcooking.com!

“Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen: Easy, Delectable Living Foods Recipes” is the ultimate gourmet “uncookbook” for everyone, featuring quick, artful, and delicious recipes.The book emphasizes the importance of including more whole, fresh, and organic foods into our daily diet. Perhaps more importantly, it demonstrates how it’s done. Requiring minimal ingredients and kitchen gadgets, the recipes help busy people who want to eat fresh foods that are as delicious and easy-to-prepare as they are nutritious. The book also offers useful green-living tips, like ideas on composting, buying organic, and sustainable living.

The author, Ani Phyo, is an accomplished personal trainer, fitness instructor, runner, and athletic club manager. She has dedicated years to searching for practical, effective ways to increase her energy and maintain both a healthy body and mind. Ani was raised on a raw food diet, but fell into the Standard American Diet (SAD) during her college years. After gaining weight and developing high cholesterol, she went back to raw foods, discovering that they increased her mental clarity, focus, and energy.

For more information about Ani and her book, visit www.AniPhyos.com!

New research reveals that watermelons are unusually high in an amino acid known as citrulline. Our bodies use citrulline to make yet another amino acid, arginine, which helps cells divide, wounds heal, and ammonia to be removed from the body. Watermelon's citrulline seems readily available for the body to use.

Volunteers in the study completed a three-week stint during which they drank three eight-ounce glasses of watermelon juice every day, and another three-week period during which they drank twice as much juice. Blood levels of arginine, synthesized in the body from the citrulline provided by the watermelon juice, were 11% higher in volunteers tested after three weeks on the three-glasses-a-day regimen (24 onces), and 18% higher following the six-daily-glasses regimen (48 ounces), when compared to levels in samples from volunteers who didn't drink the melon juice.

According to prior research, arginine might help treat high blood pressure, unhealthy blood sugar levels and vascular disorders associated with sickle-cell disease.

To read the full article, click here!

Avery Posner and Gilda Ganezer work together to create awareness and promote compassion. They founded a campaign called Veg on the Go, which is part of Everyday ASL Productions, a company founded by a Deaf family with varied experiences throughout both deaf and vegan communities. In addition to their public education programs, they create videos to educate others about vegan living as well as American Sign Language (ASL). The team is dedicated to teaching others how to treat themselves and animals with understanding, kindness, sensitivity, and compassion.

Avery is a vegan Deaf educator from an all-Deaf family who is the sign model, director, producer, and scriptwriter for Everyday ASL Productions. Gilda, also a vegan Deaf educator and an ASL expert, is a co-creator, lyricist, co-producer, and choreographer.

Veg on the Go will release an exciting DVD and cookbook later this year. With more than 3 hours of information, the video features 80 vegan products, a cooking show with more than 20 easy-to-make meals and snacks, interactions with rescued farm animals, interviews, and much more.

To read more about Gilda and Avery, visit www.VegontheGo.com!

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