• Cookbook of the Year
• Congratulations to Robert Kai Irwin, Happy Cow contest Semi-finalist winner
• World Vegan Day and National Breast Cancer Month
• Ask the Chef
• Free Recipe …Vegan Cheezcake with Pineapple Topping
• The Blossoming Lotus Restaurants
• The Party Never Stops
• Media Update
• In the News

We are very happy to announce that the readers and editors of VegNews have selected us for this incredible award. Since beginning publication in 2000, VegNews has become the most talked about vegetarian magazine. The premier magazine to focus on a vegetarian lifestyle, VegNews offers its over 100,000 readers up-to-date information on living a compassionate and healthy lifestyle with such features as:

Click here to purchase your copy of our award winning cookbook.

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Photo by Prema Irwin.

Robert Kai Irwin is a fourth generation Kama’aina in Hawai’i presently residing in Kailua, O’ahu with roots on the island of Hawai’i. He has been a teacher in the Hawaiian language immersion program for the past 10 years, and has been promoting healthy eating and improvements to the school lunch program in a culture-based charter school for the past 5 years.

He credits his father and fourth grade teacher, Miss Hewitt, for his early interest in all things uniquely Hawaiian and his desire to help the Hawaiian language again flourish in Hawai’i. His parents’ early reading of “Diet for a Small Planet” and experimentation with a more plant-based diet helped to shape his understanding of the value of this lifestyle. His wife Julie, a wonderful cook, pushed him over the edge to adopt a delicious vegan approach soon after they met 17 years ago. Their two sons Prema, 9, and Joshua, 7, are vibrant lifelong vegans.

Robert and his family will be flown to Kauai to enjoy a feast at the Blossoming Lotus Restaurant and tropical treats at the Lotus Root Juice Bar and Bakery. Click here to read Roberts amazing essay.

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November 1st is WORLD VEGAN DAY, the annual celebration of all things vegan. The theme this year is vegan diversity, demonstrating that anyone can embrace the diet and lifestyle that provides countless health benefits. The fact that World Vegan Day falls within National Breast Cancer Month is no coincidence. Much research has shown that embracing a plant based diet significantly reduces a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer.

For an inspiring story of one woman’s victorious battle with breast cancer, please check out Heather Joses’ Beating Breast Cancer: My Journey Back to Health Through Vegetarianism.

As one of our winners, Becky C. from Centennial, Colorado writes,“The most significant study is the effect red meat has on breast cancer in women. According to the National Cancer Institute, women that eat meat daily have four times the risk of developing breast cancer than women who don’t. Also, to reduce the risk of breast cancer, the Harvard Nurses’ Health Study found that eating five or more servings of fruits and vegetables significantly lowered a woman’s risk by more than 20%.”

Even those with cancer have found that switching to a plant based diet helps contain the condition. As another one of our winners Melissa S. from St. Joseph, Missouri writes, “While the scans show that there is still cancer present, it is far from threatening my life, and even the doctors who pushed for me to do Chemotherapy are resigned to the fact that 'whatever you are doing seems to be working'”.

Another entrant writes, “I just finished 1 and 1/2 years of chemo (now cancer free)and I credit my comeback and the great way I feel now to my diet. My vegetarian diet helped me through the cancer and the post treatment.”

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Mark Reinfeld will now be appearing in an “ask the chef” column being featured on pureprescriptions.com. Check in periodically to catch up on all the latest information. The current column features “I want to eat in a healthier way, but am not sure where to begin. Can you offer a few suggestions on how to make the switch?” Read the Column

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Why not start with dessert? This recipe from page 158 of Vegan World Fusion Cuisine demonstrates how simple and easy it is to create delicious “cheez cakes" without using dairy or eggs.

• SHAKAS VEGAN CHEEZCAKE WITH PINEAPPLE TOPPING
  

Send your recipe comments to: info@worldfusionweekly.com

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CATERING ON KAUAI…LOTUS STYLE Come celebrate the Holidays on Kauai and treat yourself to a sublime catering experience that will leave your guests raving. Click here to view our catering brochure. "Do yourself and your guests a favor, while helping Kauai's farmers. Use the Blossoming Lotus for your next event or celebration, wedding or private gathering. Exquisite and unique catering creations everyone will remember." --Roberta Haas, President North Shore Properties. Kauai resident 33 years For special order holiday desserts, please visit The Lotus Root Juice Bar and Bakery . For those of you on the mainland, please visit Blossoming Lotus Portland. Top

We'd like to thank everyone who attended our incredible Halloween Party on Saturday, October 29th. A great time was had by all. Congratulations to Bamboodha for most original costume and The Little Bo Peep and Her Lost Black Sheep for best group theme costume. Click here to view more pictures from our Halloween Celebration.

Most Original Costume - Bamboodha	Best Group Costume - Little Bo Peep and Her Lost Black Sheep

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Please join us on November 7, 11a.m. PST, for our first show on Healthy Life Radio with Brit Elders aptly named, “The Energy of Food”. Vegan World Fusion will be featured in a 13 part series discussing the ease and wonders of becoming a healthy, happy and well informed vegan.

Hear Bo Rinaldi on The Rocco DiSpirito Show, November 15th, 8:15 a.m., PST, WOR 710 AM New York.

Please check our media page for much more...

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Congratulations to HEATHER MILLS McCARTNEY, peace activist and wife of Paul McCartney, on her decision be a vegan .

Congratulations to Woody Harrelson for winning the vegetarian actorvist award of 2005 by VegNews. Woody is an outspoken vegan, raw foodist and environmentalist who serves as an example of an enlightened celebrity - a role model for others in making positive choices.

Four Firefighters Stick to Vegetarian Diet at Work

Vegan for Life - by Dr. Robert Bass, Department of Philosophy, University of North Florida

Dairy Advice for Lactose-Intolerant Minorities Questioned

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