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The novel "Resurrection" by Leo Tolstoy, written in 1899, addresses the themes of resurrection and commitment to pacifism, vegetarianism, and the rejection of bourgeois institutions. Tolstoy, internationally recognized for his pacifism and his relationship with Mahatma Gandhi, experienced a crisis of meaning in his life and distanced himself from existing institutions and social customs, returning to a Christianity based on the teachings of Jesus. The novel follows Prince Nejliudov, who feels guilty for abandoning a prostitute accused of murder, and criticizes institutions and external forms, highlighting the importance of self-criticism and personal progress. Tolstoy seeks to awaken and reflect in the reader, and his goal is to provoke moments of "aha" and offer a spark of hope for resurrection in times of suffering caused by alienation. [Extracted from the article]

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Objective: To analyze the arguments and sources about veganism/vegetarianism in 2022 in the Mexican press, with the objective of how these movements are portrayed. Methodology: Applying content analysis, the arguments were classified by themes in an inductive way, identifying the sources. Results: Health, sustainability, and animal wellbeing are the issues most linked to these movements, portrayed in a positive light. Veganism had more prominence, and the own newsroom of the newspapers was the most cited source, followed by celebrities, scientific sources, and activists. Limitations: The analysis is limited to the Mexican press. Conclusions: A Latin American perspective is brought to studies on veganism/vegetarianism in the media. The coverage of veganism/vegetarianism by the Mexican press in 2022 was predominantly positive, so the pattern observed in previous press analysis in Anglo-Saxon countries is not repeated. Veganism seems to be more popular than vegetarianism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article tracks and analyzes the presence of vegetarianism in the Río de la Plata anarchist press throughout the first three decades of the 20th century. Through the review of periodical sources and other printed documents published in Buenos Aires and Montevideo between 1900 and 1930, the hypothesis maintained is that, in the anarchist newspapers, vegetarianism was understood from two heterogeneous perspectives, from which emerged two different diffusion strategies. On the one hand, it was promoted as an antimilitarist ethic, which understood that abstaining from meat consumption implied a habit of conduct on which rested the hope of a world without armed conflicts. Later, it was also promoted as part of a naturopathic diet, according to which the maintenance of a vegetarian diet was a physiological prescription essential for achieving a healthy life. Finally, based on the recovery of different debates raised within the anarchist press due to the presence in it of vegetarian propaganda, it investigates the discomfort that the latter generated and the difficulties it had to overcome to find a place in the anarchist militancy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: In recent decades, there has been an increasing interest in vegetarian diets. It is therefore interesting to analyse the benefits and risks of these diets. To this end, a review has been done on the benefits and risks of vegetarian diets. Vegetarian diets have been associated with different health benefits. On the contrary, nutritional deficiencies has been observed in those people who follow this type of diet, mainly in those risk groups such as pregnant and lactating women, children, adolescents, and elderly. Vegetarian diets may have some health benefits, however further studies are required. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction: Introduction: interest in vegetarian diets is rising, however, it remains a very controversial topic, and with many reservations regarding it. Questions like their conceivable nutritional deficiencies, or if they are adequate or healthy, might be widely unknown. Objectives: exploring vegetarian diets, examining the current level of knowledge about them, and analyzing and improving, from a nutritional standpoint, the vegetarian menus of a restaurant with vegetarian options. Methods: this study was designed as an exploratory, crossover, descriptive study. Surveys with 17 items and a food frequency questionnaire were given among the customers of the restaurant. A total of 155 people, aged between 18 and 62, took part in it. A total of 30 menus were analyzed, and some suggestions were made in order to improve them. Results: out of the total sample, 138 people were omnivores, 12 people were vegetarians and two were vegans. More than half of the vegetarians did not know vitamin B12 is the only required supplement by default, and almost 60% of them stated never taking B12 supplements. The vegetarian menus which were analyzed provided a mean of 1,195 kcal, and covered 89% of the requirements of fiber, 212% of vitamin C, ≈30% of both calcium and zinc, 86% of iron, and 38% of B12. Conclusion: a great lack of knowledge regarding several aspects of vegetarian diets was found, even among vegetarian themselves. Informing the general public is essential for both avoiding dangerous nutritional deficiencies (like B12), and attracting more people towards this kind of diets, with all the benefits this would provide. In the vegetarian menus of Foodtopía, adequate levels of nutrients were observed. The main suggestions to improve the menus were: reducing the total calories and the amount of sunflower oil, and increasing the amount of legumes, nuts and seeds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Approximately eleven thousand years ago humans beings went from feeding on animals they hunted or fished and fruits and plants they gathered, to crops they could grow through agriculture. This change dramatically altered the shape of the skull, particularly the face, which became more gracile, and also reduced the contribution of key nutrients. Along with industrialization, there was great deterioration of oral health. Leaving behind the hunter-gatherer diet has even been attributed to the origins of dental malocclusions, as masticatory stress was reduce, and reducing the size of the maxilla and mandible with respect to the teeth. Nowadays, there is greater awareness in the general population regarding personal care and their surroundings. Diets that exclude certain types of foods such as animal products are becoming more prevalent. The vegetarian diet has several characteristics that can affect metabolism, particularly the bones, as did the change from hunter-gatherer to agriculture in the past. The present review seeks to analyze the changes of the human diet, from the nutritional and mechanical point of view and how these have affected the shape of the face. This in order to understand the possible effects of the introduction of restrictive type feeds, such as the vegetarian diet in the body, particularly in facial anatomy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: fibromyalgia is a disease of unknown origin characterized by chronic muscular pain. The lack of knowledge about this disease is one of the main causes that makes complex to make a diagnosis and an appropriate treatment.Objective: the main objective of this study was to know the efficacy of a physiotherapy treatment combined with a lacto-vegetarian dietary-nutritional intervention, on low back pain and body composition in women with fibromyalgia.Methods: twenty-one women were randomly divided into three groups: A (core stabilization exercises + lacto-vegetarian diet), B (placebo + lacto-vegetarian diet) and C (control). The intervention lasted 4 weeks. Pain assessments (EVA scale) and body composition (bioimpedance) were performed at the beginning and at the end of the intervention.Results: group A showed significant changes in pain reduction and body composition at the end of the intervention, increasing muscle mass and decreasing fat mass. In addition, this group significantly improved outcomes compared to groups B and C. The correlations showed a relationship between muscle mass and pain reduction referred to at the end of the study in patients in group A.Conclusions: four-week intervention program combining core stabilization exercises plus lacto-vegetarian diet in patients with fibromyalgia who have low back pain contributes to pain reduction and improved body composition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article titled "DIETAS Y ALIMENTOS PARA MI SALUD" is a critique of books on nutrition. The book, written by Dr. Daniel A. de Luis Román and published by Ediciones de la Universidad de Valladolid, aims to disseminate nutritional knowledge among patients and their families. The book presents examples of diets for different groups of diseases, from a healthy diet to diets for vegetarians. Each chapter includes practical advice and proposals for weekly menus. The book is accessible to the general public and seeks to make nutritional recommendations understandable and practical. [Extracted from the article]

The profiles of human beings' ethical behavior towards non-human animals have gained increasing public relevance in the media over the past decades. Issues related to animal abuse, industrial exploitation of edible species or the terms of the private relationship with pets seem to be, more than ever before, at the centre of public debates. This new situation leads us to reflect around the newly established relationships with nonhuman animals; issues that have remained marginal and worthy of few references in contemporary political theory until very recently. This research note discusses the classic and latest theories on the debates over animal rights theories, highlighting some elements such as: what is meant by speciesism and antispeciesism; to what extent may rights be granted to non-human animals; and above all, which are the positions and debates within the animal movement, mainly between advocates of welfarist protectionism for nonhumans and supporters of an abolitionist approach to property. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction: vegetarian diets have been associated with lower risk of cardiovascular disease and a more favourable lipid profile in vegetarians who follow these diets for a long term period in observational studies, but the short-term effects of vegetarian diets are less known. Objective: our objective was to analyze the short-term effects of a low-fat vegetarian diet on lipid profile and fasting glucose in previously non-vegetarian subjects from a Mediterranean population. Methods: we carried out a nutritional intervention study in 159 volunteers (42 men and 117 women). A whole lacto-vegetarian diet low in fat (20%) was administered. A full daily menu was provided for 15 days under strict interned conditions. Fasting blood samples were obtained before and after dietary intervention and total cholesterol, HDL-C, LDL-C, triglycerides and fasting glucose were determined. Multivariate models for repeated measures were used. Results: after dietary intervention, we detected statistically significant reductions in total cholesterol (-17.54 ± 37.14 mg/dl), LDL-C (-9.33 ± 34.29 mg/dl), HDL-C (-5.32 ± 12.16 mg/dl), and triglycerides (-18.92 ± 50.50 mg/dl). These reductions remained statistically significant after adjustment for sex and age. Significant weight changes were also detected. The additional adjustment for changes in body mass index (BMI) attenued the significance of the decrease in triglycerides (P = 0.067). Conclusion: a lacto-vegetarian diet low in fat, produces favourable and significant decreases in total cholesterol, LDL-C (independent of weight loss) and triglycerides (mediated by weight loss). This intervention also produ- ced an expected decrease in HDL-C due to its reduced fat content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Feeding the subadult individuals of Aboriginal archaeological sites in Cuba has been a subject rarely addressed. The age of introduction of solid foods into the diet of children, however, has important biological implications. This is because it is a direct measure of the time spent in the care of infants, which has a close relationship with their survival. In order to evaluate the relationship between the process of weaning and high infant mortality observed at the site, concentrations of δ13 C and δ15N on 35 subadult individuals were quantified and compared with the number of deaths in different age ranges. As a result, it was found that the interruption of exclusive breastfeeding occurred to early age (close to year of life) which was closely related to the number of deaths. This result indicates that mortality in the site is mostly influenced by pathogens. The vegetable diet used during the process consisted of C3 type plants, indicating differences with the adult population consumed C4 plants such as corn. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this study is to identify the vegan activist profile in Spain, with vegans being the most committed group within the animal liberation movement. Through online questionnaires, we analyzed socio-demographic characteristics, ideological and emotional aspects of the participants, their process of conversion, as well as their preferences regarding activism strategies. The findings are very similar to previous studies about animal rights activists, especially those conducted in the United States. The paper concludes with recommendations aimed at animal organizations, companies and governments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this work, the anthropologic perspective has allowed us a deep understanding and interpretation of this case, without which the sociocultural factors that have affected the phenomenology of the case would NOT HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED OR would HAVE BEEN OVERLOOKED. A new eating disorder is emerging, the so-called "Orthorexia Nervosa(ON)". Orthorexia is related to the extreme worry in the search for health concentrated in eating as healthily and purely as possible. It consists of an excessive obsession and worry for healthy, natural or biological intake, which leads the individual to exclusively consume food coming from ecological agriculture, free from transgenic or artificial components, pesticides or herbicides. In the developed societies, where the problem is not the lack of food but the excess, eating disorders are becoming more common. ON seems not to affect the marginal sectors but rather on the contrary since this type of food is much more expensive than the usual one and also more difficult to obtain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes two basic matters in the recent development of the zooethics. First, whether traditional reasons for the coincidence between the limits of moral community and the limits of human species are valid. Second, the question of what kind of obligations we would have with animals in case of we would recognize moral entity to them. The author defends the importance of the animal intereses in our moral decisions, but he critics that we decide either putting animal intereses on the same level with human intereses or maintaining that animal intereses entail animals have individual rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introducción: La dieta vegetariana está siendo adoptada por un porcentaje creciente de población. Dentro de sus variedades, se encuentra la dieta vegetariana estricta, en la que consumen alimentos de origen vegetal. En los periodos de rápido crecimiento, como es en la infancia, conlleva repercusiones negativas en el desarrollo físico y psicomotor del niño, entre las cuales, se encuentra ligada con la carencia a medio plazo de vitamina B12. Para evitar dicha carencia, se debe informar a los padres sobre alternativas de alimentación que permitan el correcto crecimiento y desarrollo del niño. Objetivo: Describir estrategias de alimentación para evitar la carencia de vitamina B12 en la dieta vegetariana estricta. Metodología: Se realizó búsqueda bibliográfica en bases de datos como Pubmed y Cochrane. Se consultó estudios científicos de revistas tales como Pediatría Integral, Acta Pediátrica Española y Mexicana, así como en la Asociación Española de Pediatría. Resultados: La manera más segura de aporte de vitamina B12 es a través de los alimentos de origen animal. En el caso de no consumirse o la cantidad de ingestión sea mínima, se encuentran las siguientes alternativas: - Suplementación farmacológica. - Alimentos enriquecidos en vitamina B12: cereales, leche de fórmula, papillas, etc. - Alimentos de origen vegetal que poseen la vitamina de forma natural, aunque en cantidades reducidas: levadura de cerveza, hongos comestibles, algas, soja, germen de trigo. Conclusiones: Las necesidades en vitamina B12 van a variar según la edad del niño, por ello, se deben valorar periódicamente los indicadores antropométricos y bioquímicos de los niños vegetarianos y conseguir, mediante el trabajo en equipo de profesionales, padres y los propios niños, un crecimiento y desarrollo óptimo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]