My wife Peggy is the reason we can all eat a plant based diet while getting a balanced nutrition. She says that “vegans avoid all animal origin foods. A well planned plant based diet can be healthy if sufficient and varied foods are eaten. The China Study showed that if a person consumes less than…
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…
While it does not meet the ethical argument, it does check the boxes for the health and environmental argument. Reducetarian
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…
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…
Ken Chau is the owner of the Sun Bo Kong vegetarian Chinese restaurant in Vancouver, BC. This is one of my favorite Chinese restaurants in the world! (yes my Indian friends, it is better than “Indian Chinese”). Ken has quotes from famous vegetarians on the wall of his restaurant. Quotes from the web: “One farmer…
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…
BBC has a compelling article today on veganism for the environment. It quotes an Oxford study. If everybody cut meat and dairy from their diet there could be… 49 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from food production. 76 per cent reduction in land used for food production. A 49 per cent reduction in…
This video provides some food for thought, watch it with an open mind:
A large (61,000 subject) observational study from Sweden published in British Medical Journal in 2018. (With the usual caveats about correlation not causation, non-randomization etc.). Nut consumption ≥3 times/week was associated with an 18% reduced risk of atrial fibrillation. Nuts are a great source of the following nutrients: unsaturated fatty acids protein fiber magnesium, potassium, zinc…