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Vegetarian
What do comedienne and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, singer Alanis Morissette, and ultramarathoner Scott Jurek have in common? They’re all vegans, counting themselves among the estimated 1.4% of Americans who have committed themselves to a diet that excludes meat, poultry, fish and seafood, dairy products, and eggs.1 A survey conducted by the Vegetarian Resource Group, a Maryland-based nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public on vegetarianism, found that only about one half as many people call themselves vegans as do those who refer to themselves as vegetarians.
But by all indications, interest in vegetarianism, of which veganism is a part, is growing. It may increase even more with the release of the 2010 U.S. Dietary Guidelines, which for the first time may be placing a major emphasis on the importance of consuming a plant-based diet.
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