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Vegan ‘Survivor’ player decides to eat hermit crab after struggling to follow the diet on the island

Susan S. Johnson 2 months ago
survivor players eating seafood in a circle Chanelle Howell, Daniel Strunk, Lydia Meredith, Hai Giang, Mike Turner, and Jenny Kim.

Hai Giang and his Vati tribe mates on “Survivor” 42.Robert Voets/CBS via Getty Images

  • On season 42 of “Survivor,” player Hai Giang struggled to maintain his vegan diet on the island.

  • This season’s players weren’t given the typical ration of rice, which Giang had been hoping to eat.

  • Giang made the choice to eat seafood on the 2nd episode, saying he’d “eventually” forgive himself.

On Wednesday’s episode of “Survivor,” vegan player Hai Giang wrestled with whether or not to eat crustaceans before giving in.

During the episode, members of the Vati tribe found hermit crabs while foraging in the

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What did Einstein eat? Inside the diet of the famed physicist

Susan S. Johnson 2 months ago

Albert Einstein has many famous quotes. One of them states: “Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”

Perhaps because of this quote, people often assume Einstein was a vegetarian, leading some to speculate that abstaining from meat helped his cognitive function.

But for the vast majority of his life, Einstein was himself an omnivore, only becoming a vegetarian a year or so before his death in 1955. It did appear to agree with him; in 1954, Albert Einstein wrote a letter

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If you don’t ‘eat the rainbow,’ you could be missing out on key nutrients your body needs, according to a nutritionist

Susan S. Johnson 2 months ago
A healthy meal

Eating your five a day is all well and good, but it’s important not to eat the same five fruits and vegetables every day.Getty

  • Eating the same foods every day can lead to nutritional deficiencies.

  • We should aim to “eat the rainbow,” registered nutritionist Jenny Rosborough told Insider.

  • For vegetarians, eating various protein sources is key.

If you’re eating the same select foods over and over again in your diet, you might be missing out on key nutrients.

“No single food or food group can provide all the nutrients you need, they all contain different nutrients required to promote

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Vegetarians and people who eat less meat have a lower risk of cancer compared to heavy meat-eaters, study suggests

Susan S. Johnson 3 months ago

  • Eating more than five servings of meat weekly may be linked to higher cancer risk, research suggests.

  • Data showed men, specifically, had lower rates of certain cancers if they were vegetarian or pescetarian.

  • Factors like eating more plants and having a healthy weight may make a difference, one researcher says.

People who eat less meat or stick to vegetarian diets may have a lower risk of certain cancers, suggests a study published this week in BMC Medicine.

Researchers from the University of Oxford analyzed data from 472,377 adults in the UK, aged 40-70, who did not have cancer at

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