Sentences with phrase «eat plant leaves»

Both vegetarians, these giant lizards eat plant leaves, sometimes devastating local gardens, and even grazing like sheep.

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Deer eat the leaves of the chile plants and mice, believe it or not, actually eat the pepper pods and especially the seeds.

learning this marvelous V&V meals help me to teach my yogis that they can eat plant and leave peacefully.

I've made some changes in the last couple years to swap a lot of my dairy eating out — i.e. I use plant - based protein powders now & I've been eating dairy free yogurt most of the time — and at this point, all that's really left is eating ice cream & cheese.

Within the cruciferous vegetable group, we commonly eat the flowers of the plant (for example, the broccoli florets), the leaves (for example, mustard greens, collard greens, turnip greens, and kale), the stems and stalks (for example, broccoli stems and stalks), the roots (for example, turnips or rutabagas or radishes), and the seeds (for example, mustard seeds).

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Eating more plants provides your body with an array of vitamins, minerals, and fiber, all of which leave you feeling more vibrant and energetic.

Mountain pepper is similar to regular pepper, but you can eat the entire plant — berries and leaves.

To enter, simply leave a comment on this post telling me why you'd like to eat a more plant - based diet.

They lay their eggs on milkweed, and their caterpillars eat only the leaves of the plant.

Some kwongan plants have evolved chemical defenses and manufacture poisons to keep their leaves from being eaten.

Left: Researchers at a camp near the Beardmore Glacier, where fossils from meat - eating theropods and plant - eating sauropods were found.

The plant is so flat and low to the ground, and its leaves so tiny (less than half an inch long), that caribou and Dall sheep have a hard time eating it.

They drag fallen leaves and other plant material down from the surface and eat them, enriching the soil, and they do this in spite of toxic chemicals produced by plants to deter herbivores.

Certain ants are soldiers, and others are farmers; leaf cutter ants famously haul large chunks of plant material to their colony, upon which they grow a fungus they like to eat.

Woody plants whose leaves can be eaten as leaf vegetables include Adansonia, Aralia, Moringa, Morus, and Toona species.

Herbivores (species that eat plants; e.g. caterpillars) consume more non-native (introduced from other places) oak leaf material in areas with diverse native plant communities than in less diverse communities.

Researchers are also experimenting with insects that eat cheatgrass and other invasive weeds but leave native plants alone.

Leaf vegetables, also called potherbs, greens, or leafy greens, are plant leaves eaten as a vegetable, sometimes accompanied by tender petioles and shoots.

Gibson sees a pattern: «We think it's an evolved response left over from times when toxins from eating the wrong plant or contaminated meat posed a very real threat.»

Voigt concluded that the pregnant fruit bats visited the clay licks to detox because they were eating twice as much to feed their babies, which meant twice the dose of plant toxins from unripe fruits, seeds and leaves.

On the contrary, slugs are known for eating leaves and flowers, and they may have been damaging the plants.

Plant - eating wasps have a simpler brain structure (left) than that of parasitic wasps (right and inset).

Among the plant - eating, there are those specialised in fruits, flowers or leaves.

Researchers have now discovered why: The leaves are a snare for tiny worms that the plant absorbs and eats.

In 2016, gypsy moth caterpillars ate the leaves off 350,000 acres of forest plants in Massachusetts alone.

After experimenting with a low - carb diet that left him feeling exhausted in college, Tobias met with a nutritionist and learned to eat a plant - based diet.

It is assumed that fruits were eaten because our primate ancestors ate lots of fruit, and it is assumed that leaves and other plant parts were eaten because modern - day hunter - gatherers eat them.

If you are actually eating a whole food plant based diet, you wouldn't be using oil since it isn't a whole food but the waste product left after all the nutrition and fiber is processed out of a whole food.

My friend, who I will leave unamed, just made the argument that wild game is healthier to eat than non-organic plants with all their pesticides, so it is healthier and more affordable for him to keep eating wild meat and some organic vegetables than it would be for him to switch to a vegan life style where he would have to consume more non-organics.

Take a look as it gives you one tweak to your diet that you might be able to do: http://nutritionfacts.org/video/enhancing-athletic-performance-with-peppermint/ I don't know where you live, but if mint tea is not available, maybe you could grow some mint plants and either make your own tea or just eat the mint leaves in various dishes..

-- One can either stick to eating carrots and other whole plant based foods leaving them satisfied & healthy, — OR one can go hungry counting calorie on standard diabetes diet while suffering the expense and side effects of taking diabetes medications while their health diminishes over time.

Maybe too much to do in too little time leaves you regularly eating SAD - consisting of processed or pre-packaged food, and not enough fresh, nutrient dense plant - based foods.

Within the cruciferous vegetable group, we commonly eat the flowers of the plant (for example, the broccoli florets), the leaves (for example, mustard greens, collard greens, turnip greens, and kale), the stems and stalks (for example, broccoli stems and stalks), the roots (for example, turnips or rutabagas or radishes), and the seeds (for example, mustard seeds).

If you eat widely from all plant sources, including olives, nuts, avocados, etc, with an abundance of fresh foods and only limited processed foods, and if you get plenty of sleep, plenty of exercise in the fresh air, enough water (you don't need as much if you have lots of fruit), and build good friendships and relationships where you support and help others, then your health will blossom, your weight will settle (although you can leave out the fattier foods for a time to lower it if you need to), and your life will feel quietly satisfying.

Good going on getting * something * done, but this kind of «data» is exactly how daft diet ideologies are born, like the vegan crowd praising McDougall's «plant based sciencehealth» BS which helped a few people out, but also modifies 20 - 30 other lifestyle factors beyond eating a few leaves.

When we eat plant foods, though, the carbohydrates trigger a release of insulin that causes our muscles to take up many of the non-tryptophan amino acids as fuel, potentially leaving our tryptophan first in line for brain access.

And, in the foreground is the spring plants that — if you are into foraging, are truly healthy to eat (dandelion leaves in salads, clover leaves, lilac blossoms — yes, I put them in salads).

Moringa is a plant well - known by the people who use its leaves in the preparation of sauces which are eaten with couscous or rice; the tree grows everywhere in Senegal.

But it does ignore one point: All those eating a healthy whole - foods plant - based will have to live years longer, continuing to spend their hard - earned money on food, while those eating the Standard American Diet will be able to leave more of their money behind for their loved ones.

You can eat the stems and leaves of the broccoli plant.

The practical result is that many people can not eat these seemingly nutritious plant foods without severe discomfort, and they're left with no explanation as to why.

Overall, the conference reinforced my position that a Predominantly Plant - Based eating pattern is ideal for health promotion and disease prevention and left me with some insights on how to optimize my diet.

They may worry that not only will it be too expensive for their budget, but wonder where they are going to source some of these inexplicable plant foods, leaving them scratching their head wondering what on earth they are actually going to eat for dinner.

In addition, all parts of the plant could be eaten, including not only the seeds that we buy in the store and that may also have been dried and ground into flour, but also the leaves and stems.

The snails are also eating many species of plants in the state and they leave behind a lot of yucky slimy trail!

I try not to keep flowers and plants in the house because the cats like to eat them, so I wasn't surprised to see a small portion of leaf eaten off of one of the lilies.

Some experts believe that a dog's taste for grass goes back to the days when a wild canid would eat the stomach contents of its prey (usually plants like grass and leaves).

The leaves of the aloe vera plant offer quick relief for burns, but eating these plants can cause vomiting, diarrhea, decreased appetite, changes in urine color and tremors in both dogs and cats.

Because their ancestors have been eating meat for the past several million years, our cats are left with a diminished ability to properly process plant foods, including herbs.