No Meat? No Problem! Try these delicious dishes (Western Herald)

Instead of vowing to follow a strict diet or workout plan for my New Years resolution, I’ve decided cut down on eating meat. I will try not to eat red meat, pork or poultry but will still enjoy seafood because I’ve never met a crab cake I didn’t like. My resolution won’t be too difficult to follow [...]

Meat-eaters can 'flex' their veggie-lover side (Miami Herald)

I have a friend who says she is a vegetarian, but one day I saw her eating a hamburger. When I expressed my surprise, she said she eats ground beef on rare occasions. I called her a psychological vegetarian, but she said she was a semi-vegetarian.

Ask Anjum: healthy Indian food (Times Online)

Is there such a thing as a healthy Indian food? Can you recommend some Indian dishes to get my New Year diet off to a good start? Glenda Birkin, Sheffield

Fitness Special: The New Detox (New York Post)

 In the 1940s, Stanley Burroughs, a keen vegetarian (and committed nudist), came up with the Master Cleanse. It's a simple plan: You spend weeks consuming nothing but a cocktail of water, lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper, plus an optional daily cup of laxative tea and a glass of salt water. In recent years, it became a celebrity phenomenon. Beyoncé reportedly lost 20 pounds in 10 ...

Councilman learns ropes of city transit (Honolulu Advertiser)

Editor's note: The Island Life section is challenging O'ahu folks to live a more environmentally friendly life. Previous stories have focused on a diet emphasizing local foods, cutting back on trash and going vegetarian. Now, look at a week without being a single passenger in a car.