Living Well: Going Vegetarian

Changing my diet from an omnivore with heavy carnivore leanings was an ethical more than any other decision. To not contribute to cruelty.

 

I have had many physical health benefits – I no longer have sleep apnea and I have reversed diabeties type 2. My iron deficiency owing to malabsorption has also normalized.

 

But it is a difficult choice to limit one’s food, homo sapiens are omnivores.

 

And our brains are expense organs to operate, when we chose to use them.

 

Sambocade (medieval elderflower cheesecake)

The other night, some of my fellow PhD students and I got together for a ‘Dinnertation’ party (I sadly cannot take credit for the coining of this excellent term). This involved cooking and bringing a dish related – on however tenuous a level –…

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Peanut allergies can be reduced in high-risk children, study suggests

Peanut allergies were substantially less likely to develop among children at high risk if they ate snacks containing peanut butter early in life compared with those who…

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Raw Recovery Notebook – a chat in a vegan group that I left after someone complained when I posted the peanut butter article……

Poster

.As long as I became vegan I am fat , because I eat too much sweets cry emoticon what shall I do ? I am alway hungry tongue emoticon (((((((((((((!!!

responder 1: More veggies?

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responder 2: fruit is sweet and good for you!

Nina K Tryggvason if you eat some nutritional dense foods. cravings tend to go away

also drinking a lot of teas – herbal – will trick your mouth into thinking food stuffs;, fill your tummy and make sure you get your liquids

Poster I eat veggies too , I eat whatever a vegan eat

Nina K Tryggvason eating the darker chocolate also helps, not the candy milky parafin wax stuff

responder 3: Lentils, seeds and beans can help keep you full!

responder 4: I keep lots of nuts like cashews, almonds, and peanuts in my purse when I go to school to keep me from getting too hungry.

Nina – avocados – the problem is fats

avocados – the problem is fats – when I first went vegetarian I had a hard time feeling full and it was when I was doing an avacado a day that that went away

 

 

 

Tips for making the switch to a plant-based diet

There are many reasons to adopt a vegan diet, but it’s not easy to make the transition

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