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7 Mobile Apps to Help You Eat Healthier by Reducing Meat in Your Diet - MUO - MakeUseOf

There are tons of reasons to cut down on your meat consumption, including a reduced risk of certain diseases, weight loss, and making a positive impact on the planet. So if you want to live a healthy and happy lifestyle, try to start eating less meat, even if you don't go completely vegan!

Consider eating pancakes that aren't topped with greasy bacon or waffles that don't come alongside deep-fried chicken. But lowering your meat intake can be challenging. Explore these mobile apps that'll help you begin cutting back on the meat in your diet.

1. Less Meat

Whether you want to eat more meatless meals for the environment or your own personal health, you need an awesome app to help you take the first few baby steps. Less Meat is a basic yet endearing app that motivates you to eat less meat. Your daily meals are tracked on the app, so you can see when you ate meat and when you didn't.

Besides improving your health, helping the environment is a major reason why should you eat less meat. The Less Meat app calculates your environmental impact based on how many days you went meatless. Moreover, the Score tab displays exactly how much water, CO2, and forests you've saved. Feel free to share your personal accomplishments to encourage others to join in.

Download: Less Meat for iOS | Android (Free, subscription available)

2. Meatless

One of the best ways to keep track of how much meat you eat is to use the Meatless app. Like the Less Meat app, Meatless calculates how much water and CO2 you've saved. The less meat you consume, the less harm you're doing to the environment, so you can even save enough water to fill up a sports pool.

Meatless features a beautiful user interface with the option to set yourself active goals, track your longest streak, and enjoy an interesting fact of the day. Furthermore, if you want to implement Meatless Monday in your home, workplace, or school, the app has a few delicious meat-free recipes for you to try.

Download: Meatless for iOS | Android (Free, subscription available)

3. EatMorePlants

When you eat meat with every single meal it can lead to serious health issues. It's time to do away with the excess meat and consume more tasty, delicious, and nutritious plant-based recipes.

The EatMorePlants app features more than 100 vegan recipes and easy-to-follow weekly meal plans. Additionally, you can add recipe ingredients to your shopping list to make grocery shopping so much easier and quicker. To find a nourishing recipe, simply use the filters to narrow down your search. A handful of the filters include stews, soups, and sauces and allergies like gluten and nuts.

Download: EatMorePlants for iOS | Android (Free, subscription available)

4. Quit Meat

Taking charge of your meat consumption feels a lot better when you can see how many animals you've saved and how you've directly affected the environment. Quit Meat is the perfect app for new or aspiring vegans or vegetarians.

The app has a cute, straightforward interface with plenty of interesting insights. Keep a helpful record of your meat and dairy consumption and even learn various fun facts about the beloved animals you're saving. If you need a helping hand, Quit Meat can assist you through a transition to a vegan or vegetarian diet using a four-week plan. The plans also include advice, recipes, and weekly dietary restrictions.

Download: Quit Meat for iOS | Android (Free)

5. Forks Meal Planner

It can be difficult to lower your meat consumption, particularly if you aren't familiar with a lot of plant-based recipes, or you simply stink at weekly meal planning. If you need a little motivation to begin a lifestyle with less meat then the Forks Meal Planner is the best way to get started.

Forks Meal Planner is a meal-planning app that customizes a plant-based meal plan based on your goals, servings, and dietary restrictions. In addition, the app provides you with an easy-to-understand grocery list that is broken down by aisle or by recipe. So not only does the app make plant-based meal planning painless, but it also takes the stress out of going grocery shopping.

Download: Forks Meal Planner for iOS | Android (Free, subscription available)

6. Plant Jammer

Not only does the Plant Jammer app help you cook more sustainably throughout the week, but it also helps you come up with yummy recipes that use less meat—or none at all! The app is fun and simple to use: just pick the ingredients that you have on hand in your fridge or pantry and then find inspiration from the list of possible recipes.

Once you've found a recipe, add extra ingredients like spices and condiments that match the recipe or swap out ingredients if you don't have them available. For instance, if you don't have black beans you can easily switch them to kidney beans or red beans. Plant Jammer is the ideal app you're looking for a low-waste cooking tool that is diverse, easy to use, and incredibly flexible.

Download: Plant Jammer for iOS | Android (Free, in-app purchases available)

7. VegMenu

Are you struggling to find vegetarian and vegan recipes that actually taste good? The struggle might deter you from consuming less meat. Before you go back to eating steak and ribs, try downloading the VegMenu, a healthy vegetarian and vegan recipes app. From sweet treats to Christmas recipes, VegMenu is the ultimate recipe app, and it's completely free.

To make finding a dish more straightforward, you can filter the recipes by course, difficulty, duration, season, occasion, and so much more. With hundreds of recipes to choose from, you won't ever struggle with your eating habits again. Also included in the VegMenu app are a personal cookbook, shopping list, and measurement converter.

Download: VegMenu for Android (Free)

Eat Less Meat for a Healthier and More Environmentally Friendly Lifestyle

The key is to move away from a meat-dominated diet, whether it's by incorporating one meat-free meal per week or going vegan for a month. In all likelihood, your meals have almost always included meat, so changing your diet to include fewer animal products can be intimidating.

Having the right help at your fingertips can make the transition to a less meat-filled lifestyle truly painless. Overall, these awesome apps can get you on the right track to improving your own health and the health of the world around you.

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Let's Eat To Live Restaurant Opens In West Woodlawn, Focused On Healthy, Locally Sourced Ingredients - Block Club Chicago

WOODLAWN — Let’s Eat to Live, which opens this weekend in West Woodlawn, will bring fine, sit-down dining to a community “that doesn’t have any,” its owner said.

The restaurant, 621 E. 67th St., will celebrate its grand opening Saturday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 3 p.m. before opening to the public 6-9 p.m.

Let’s Eat to Live’s menu features Escovitch red snapper ($26), vegetable linguine ($18), butter garlic lamb chops ($27), burgers ($13-$17) and more.

Starters such as salmon fataya and Haitian patties ($7) and sides such as sweet coconut rice ($4), soups and salads are also available.

The eatery uses non-genetically modified vegetables — including crops grown at a garden on the same block as the restaurant — halal meats and wild-caught fish, owner Carmella Coq’mard-Muhammad said Thursday. Head chef Yusuf Gordon’s dishes use no saturated fat, no lard, pork or pork byproducts, she said.

“We absolutely blended what the urban community would like to eat, but a healthier version,” said Coq’mard-Muhammad, who also runs The Foodie’s Spot, 7350 S. Stony Island Ave. in South Shore.

Let’s Eat to Live’s regular hours are 12-9 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday. There also is a Sunday brunch menu.

Let’s Eat to Live will host food education classes Mondays, when the restaurant is closed, Coq’mard-Muhammad said.

The restaurant will also prepare 150 free meals for neighbors in need on Sunday afternoons, in an effort similar to one led by The Foodie’s Spot for the past several years.

The free food will start being served in the next few weeks, after Let’s Eat to Live gets settled in, Coq’mard-Muhammad said.

The restaurant is one of several finished and future projects near 67th Street and St. Lawrence Avenue, alongside the Salaam Community Wellness Center, the garden and a planned produce store.

Master gardener Gregory Bratton helped start the garden, which grows a variety of crops, including bell peppers, mustard greens, eggplant, lettuce and beets. It’s open for neighbors to “come right on in and grab a vegetable if you need one — just be mindful that other people need some, too,” Coq’mard-Muhammad said.

Coq’mard-Muhammad plans to buy a nearby vacant lot at 67th Street and Champlain Avenue and expand the garden next year, she said.

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Restaurateur Carmella Coq’mard-Muhammad poses for a portrait inside her newest eatery, Let’s Eat to Live.

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Photos of Dizzy Gillespie (pictured), Billie Holliday, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and other jazz icons line the walls at Let’s Eat to Live.

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Beets grow at the garden on the corner of 67th Street and St. Lawrence Avenue in Woodlawn on Aug. 15, 2022. Crops from the garden are used in Let’s Eat to Live dishes.

Even with the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in Jackson Park drawing public and private investment to Woodlawn, the southwest portion of the neighborhood is experiencing “stalls in reinvestment,” researchers said earlier this year.

Let’s Eat to Live and its neighbors are working to buck that trend by bringing goods and services to their West Woodlawn blocks, Coq’mard-Muhammad said.

“This is bringing food in the community as it is growing and changing,” she said.

Coq’mard-Muhammad will open her third restaurant, Rock the Islands, in 2024 at a Washington Park development near 51st Street and Prairie Avenue, she said. The restaurant and entertainment space will serve Haitian, Cuban and Dominican cuisine and will have a dance floor, she said.

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The 5 Best High-Protein Foods to Eat After 50 — Eat This Not That - Eat This, Not That

No matter how old you are, ensuring that you get enough protein on a daily basis is critical to living a healthy lifestyle. Protein helps you feel full and satiated, build muscle, manage your blood pressure, recover your energy, and maintain a healthy metabolism. However, the need for daily protein becomes even more vital as you age because of the inevitable changes your body experiences as you get older.

"After 25, adults lose about 2–3% of their lean muscle mass as well as experience a 2–3% decline in resting metabolic rate," says Amy Goodson, MS, RD, CSSD, LD, author of The Sports Nutrition Playbook and member of our expert medical board. "The reality is these two things are likely related, as having larger quantities of lean muscle mass promotes a more active metabolism. So, consuming adequate protein is essential as you age so that you are able to maintain lean muscle mass."

It's easy enough to say, "You need more protein." But how can you set yourself up to incorporate more of it into your eating patterns on a daily basis? To find out, we consulted several dietitians to find out their choices for the best protein-heavy foods to eat after 50. Read on, and for more healthy eating tips, check out 6 Best Supplements to Keep Your Brain Young.

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Many dairy foods get a bad rap. However, if you don't have a dairy allergy or aren't lactose intolerant, these foods can provide you with helpful protein and vitamins as you get older.6254a4d1642c605c54bf1cab17d50f1e

"Dairy foods like milk, cheese, and yogurt not only promote strong, healthy bones because of their calcium content, they also provide high-quality protein to help you build and maintain lean muscle mass," says Goodson. "In fact, milk contains branched-chain amino acids leucine that research shows can turn on muscle resynthesis after a workout."

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Quinoa is an affordable, extremely healthy whole grain that is both easy to prepare and versatile. In addition to being able to incorporate it into many different types of meals, it's also high in protein—making it a great choice for meeting your daily protein goals.

"This whole grain is a plant-based source of complete protein, which means it provides all essential amino acids," says Trista Best, MPH, RD, LD, and consultant with Balance One Supplements. "Also, the fiber content helps to contribute to its aging benefits by lowering the risk of heart disease by removing cholesterol from the body, and it works to improve the immune system by feeding the good gut bacteria."

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Another food that has a bit of a negative reputation—especially once people hit their 50s—is beef. But Goodson says that finding lean, high-quality cuts is key in choosing healthy beef products.

"Packed full of 10 essential nutrients, like iron, vitamin B-12, the antioxidant selenium, and high-quality protein, beef is a fantastic way to add protein to your eating regimen," Goodson explains. "Pair it with veggies and whole grains at meals. Or if you need an on-the-go protein, try beef jerky. Shelf stable, [beef jerky] is a simple snack that you can throw in your purse, computer bag, or gym drawer."

RELATED: 37+ Best Healthy Ground Beef Recipes for Weight Loss

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Eggs are sometimes discussed in a negative light because of their potential effects on your cholesterol. However, some research has suggested that eggs could be healthier than we may have once thought.

"Eggs are the most bioavailable protein to the body," Goodson says. "With 6–7 grams of protein per egg, they also provided the added benefit of iron, vitamins B-12 and D, and the nutrient choline, which research suggests helps with brain and cognitive health."

Best adds that eggs can also be a great source of protein for those wanting to lose weight or manage their weight goals. "Eggs can help with weight loss efforts by providing a lean source of protein and healthy fats, which will both help the consumer feel full for longer and can lead to a reduction in overeating by increasing satiety."

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When it comes to finding healthy proteins, Best says that "complete proteins" are some of the healthiest to choose from.

"There are 20 amino acids, nine of which are essential—meaning they must be obtained through the diet. Animal protein sources naturally contain all 20 amino acids and are therefore naturally complete proteins, but many plant-based proteins are not," Best explains. "However, combining rice and beans provides the right combination of amino acids to achieve this."

Beans and legumes are not only chock-full of protein, but they provide helpful levels of fiber, too.

"The fiber content of beans will also keep you full and satisfied long after a meal and is beneficial for feeding the gut's good bacteria, binding and flushing out toxins and waste from your body, and even helps to reduce cholesterol and body weight," Best says.

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Jay-Z Bites Back at ‘Eat the Rich’ Rhetoric: ‘We’re Not Gonna Be Tricked Out of Our Position’ - Rolling Stone

After dropping a rare and nearly instantly beloved four-minute verse on the title track of DJ Khaled’s latest album, “God Did,” rap veteran Jay-Z joined Khaled, journalists Rob Markman and Ari Melber, and more for an even rarer public conversation inspired by the song via Twitter Spaces on Wednesday night. In it, Jay discussed his ascent from poverty to billionaire status — and seemed to respond to critics who have called the mogul and his ilk capitalists.

After Markman prompted him to discuss his history of bolstering financial opportunities for others, especially reported billionaires Rihanna, Kanye West, and LeBron James, Jay said, “Yeah, we’re not gonna stop. You know, hip hop is young, we still growing, and we’re not falling for that trick-nology whatever, you know, this public puts out there.”

“Before was the American dream, ‘Pull yourself by the bootstraps, and you can make yourself…you can make it in America,’ all these lies that America told us our whole life,” Jay continued. “And then when we start getting in, they tried to lock us out of it. They start inventing words like you know, ‘capitalist,’ you know, things like that. I mean, you know, we’ve been called ‘n–ger’ and ‘monkeys’ and shit. I don’t care; those words y’all come up with. Y’all gotta come up with stronger words.” 

Also on Wednesday, audio of Ari Melber’s MSNBC segment, in which he broke down the rapper’s “God Did” verse, was uploaded to Jay-Z’s Spotify page as a nearly 12-minute “audiobook” titled “Hov Did.” Through the segment, Melber — who often weaves rap into his reporting and commentary on his show, The Beat — explains Jay’s storytelling as a reflection of the rapper’s incredibly successful transition from the illegal drug trade to the entertainment business and other ventures as a systematically unlikely one given the US government’s often racist, hypocritical, and ever-shifting War on Drugs.

“Countless people have spent their lives in prison for the kinds of things he made billions rapping about, and that failed government policy’s disproportionate ongoing impact on Black people has been well documented,” Rolling Stone’s Simon Vozick-Levinson wrote of Jay-Z, “God Did,” and the War on Drugs recently. “Jay sounds more and more like the eloquent advocate for criminal justice reform he’s become in recent years as the verse heats up: ‘Back and forth on this turnpike, really took a toll on ‘em/Lot of fallen soldiers on these roads of sin/For those who make the laws, I’ma always have smoke for them.’”

In yesterday’s Twitter Space, Jay continued to spar with American inequity but also seemed to take issue with the idea of addressing it by targeting the wealthy. “We’re not gonna be tricked out of our position,” he said. “Y’all locked us out. Y’all created a system that, you know, doesn’t include us. We said fine. We went our alternate route. We created this music. We did our thing, you know, we hustle, we fucking killed ourselves to get to this space. And, you know, now it’s like, you know, you know, ‘Eat the rich,’ and, man, we’re not stopping, so that evolution is, you know, from us.”

In recent years, “Eat the rich” — a hyperbolic phrase born in reflection on the French Revolution, after which quality food for the poor ran scarce — has reemerged as a rallying cry against extreme social and economic stratification in America. 

Jay-Z has long touted entrepreneurship as a means of changing the material conditions of poor communities, Black ones in particular, and he’s not alone. “From Malcolm X’s speeches calling black communities to build companies larger than General Motors to Jay-Z’s ‘The Story of O.J.,’ in which the rapper tells dealers to ‘take your drug money and buy the neighborhood,’ tales of entrepreneurial liberation have been on heavy rotation in the culture for generations,” journalist Aaron Ross Coleman wrote for the Nation in an article called “Black Capitalism Won’t Save Us.” 

Coleman points to the mammoth task the rhetoric of Black capitalism — investment in creating and patronizing Black-owned businesses and entrepreneurial endeavors — fails to overcome: closing the racial wealth gap for the many. Instead, Coleman’s work posits that rather than relying on wealthy Black leaders to change economic conditions with policies and partnerships that empower them, the federal government must engage in reparations and targeted anti-poverty programs to catch and lift a wider net. 

“If we are to ever create economic justice, we must change the way our art conceptualizes that justice,” says Coleman. “We must change the stories we tell. We must tell the truth.”

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Harry Styles Tells Fans, "I Don't Eat Chicken, I Don't Eat Meat!" - The Beet

Harry Styles is in the midst of playing 15 shows between August 21 and September 21 at Madison Square Garden, drawing fans from all over the country to New York City for his concerts. This week, one fan threw a chicken nugget onto the stage for Styles, but when fans urged him to eat it, he exclaimed to the crowd of 20,000 fans: "I don't eat meat!"

The performer – who always keeps his cool on stage – picked up the chicken nugget and before tossing it away asked the crowd "Who threw the chicken nugget?" following this rhetorical question with "I don't eat chicken. Sorry, I don't eat meat!" and once more in Italian. Animal-rights activist Simone Reyes snagged a video of the moment and shared it on Instagram.

Once Harry Styles leaves his small one-month residency at Madison Square Garden, his Love on Tour will move to Austin, Chicago, and Inglewood before starting its international leg. Then, the star will travel to Mexico, Europe, and Australia.

Is Harry Styles Vegan?

Styles frequently hints at his meatless diet, but the beloved pop icon has yet to reveal how plant-based he eats. Once before, the talented performer told fans that he follows a meat-free diet at his Tiny Desk Concert. Before that, he told Vogue that he ate a pescetarian diet in 2020.

But fans know that Styles cares about several social and environmental causes. Last November, the star revealed his new vegan beauty line called Pleasing. The cosmetic line features a full vegan and cruelty-free selection of nail polishes, serums, and more. Styles hoped that his beauty brand will promote a beauty gender-neutral fashion in a highly divisive market.

Celebrities Advocating for Sustainable Lifestyles

Harry Styles' meatless diet joins a growing list of pop icons opting out of traditional diets. Billie Eilish's plant-based, human rights-focused activism has changed how performers use their time in the spotlight for good causes. The vegan pop icon promotes sustainable fashion lines, works closely with her mother Maggie Baird's Support + Feed organization, and is currently hosting a sustainable, plant-based event to coincide with her Happier Than Ever Tour. Eilish's vegan, sustainable activism was enough for her to earn PETA's Person of the Year Award last year.

This month, singer Phoebe Bridgers is partnering with Los Angeles-based eatery HomeState to debut a limited-time vegan taco to raise money for charity. The taco – named after Bridgers' dog Maxine – will be available through November 22 and $1.25 of all purchases will be donated to community-based nonprofit CASA/LA.

While Eilish, Bridgers, and Styles are among the younger generation of plant-based celebrities, plenty of actors, celebrities, musicians, and other pop culture icons have invested in a plant-based future. Many of them follow a plant-based diet including Natalie Portman, RZA, and Travis Barker.

Check out these 20 celebrities who have invested in plant-based food companies. 

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