My favorite source of plant protein. First had it at Borobudur in San Francisco 16 years ago, can’t get enough of it. This article explains the difference between tempeh and tofu. If you believe that less processed food is better, tempeh wins hands down. Nutritionally, tempeh is better than beef: Some tempeh recipes from Thug…
Tag: plant based
game changers
Need more inspiration to switch to a plant based diet? Watch Gamechangers this on Netflix:
beans for health
Eat beans for health every day. 1/2 cup cooked beans/lentils daily increase longevity. All the “blue zones” (see article below) include beans in their diet – 4 times as much as the typical American diet. The “blue zones” diet is a good starting point, but I recommend a complete plant based diet. Blue zones diet.
reducetarian
While it does not meet the ethical argument, it does check the boxes for the health and environmental argument. Reducetarian
beans the magical fruit
Of course, this blog post is about the magical health properties and not the poem, but here goes: Beans, beans, the magical fruit The more you eat, the more you tootThe more you toot, the better you feelSo we have beans at every meal! Both beans and lentils are part of the legume family. Difference between…
planetary health diet
Animal products industry is the most destructive industry on the planet. 1/2 of Earth’s surface (North America, South America, Europe and Australia combined) is being used to produce animals for your consumption or growing produce to feed them. Vaclav Smil from MIT does a great talk on how we are “harvesting the biosphere“. Humans and…
plant based diet can prevent 1/3rd of deaths
Dr. Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard Medical School, while talking at the Unite to Cure Fourth International Vatican Conference said: “We have just been doing some calculations looking at the question of how much could we reduce mortality shifting towards a healthy, more plant based diet, not necessarily totally vegan, and…
book review – meat is for pussies
This guy breaks all the molds – vegan, Cro-Mag punk rocker, Hare Krishna, author, fitness guru! I kind of like him because he does not follow stereotypes. He says “motherf****r” a lot, about once every sentence. He has vegan recipes on his “Hard Truth” YouTube channel. (note – I disagree with him and believe unprocessed…
hospital food
Hospitals made the decision to go smoke free when the data was overwhelming. The data on WFPBD (whole foods plant based diet) is now overwhelming and hospitals need to move on this! This will save countless lives. Here are the hospitals that have fast food restaurants on the hospital premises: I trained in one of…
low carb diet & AFIB – part 2
Here is another substudy of the ARIC study published last week. 13,385 patients were followed for 22.4 years. An increase of 9.4% in carbohydrate intake (corresponding to 1 standard deviation) was associated with an 18% lower rate of incident AF.