A person should eat what is best for their individual bodies. Let people become interested and educated about nutrition and learn how their own body function benefits from their own body’s preferential and what your micro biome does for keeping your body at health. Listen to your body. Be closer to nature, meaning eat after seasonal grows.
Reinvent real food without the chemicals, colouring and sugaring. Learn how to say no to bad food by reading the contents, more than five things added, put it back on the shelf. Reclaim good things from the food industry, they are always sensitive to less demand.
Go back to basic farming and do away with all the greed that comes with the large scale industries. Support your local farmers.
Do away with GMOs that causes negative things in your body. Say no to them. You must be your own inventor.
Take a cooking course or just do a cook out yourself with other people, it is fun.
If you hate cooking, find someone that loves it.
Make food shopping as important as when you go for the newest car and connect yourself in real life with doing away with the ‘smart’ phones and look your friends and family in the eyes instead of glue them down to your control device invented to take away your focus of what it is to be human and embrace that beautiful soul of yours.
Jo, brilliant piece. I have been taken in by...so many things. All the while thinking it is not so.
Truth is also mirage. It's very hard to locate "truth." There are very very real people who have documented that vegan diet "almost killed them," etc. I listen to everybody. But anyway, I'm going vegan. Today's the day. Thank you!
Let me preface this by saying that I'm not going to engage with your ethical concerns -- which I may or may not share.
I'm not a particularly social person, but even in my restricted circle of acquaintances, I know at least a half-dozen people who have warded off debilitating injuries like MS and cancer, simply by juicing. I, myself, am 100% certain that if I were to suffer from arthritis or or MS, I would read every article by Dr. Andrew Saul, and, well, start juicing.
That said, I don't suffer from any of those problems. And my parents, who are 86-ish, are going so strong(ly) that, even during the covid 'crisis', I never had one second of worry that they might pass away.
My entire family eats meat every day -- my mom even carries around a bag of meat, and if she met you, her first question would be: "Jo, do you want some meat?". Keep in mind, though, that for my parents, growing up in [the 3rd world in] the 40s/50s, meat was a massive luxury.
Now -- none of this is intended to say that you're wrong, nor to say that I disagree with you. In fact, from a logical point of view, I think I agree with you. You must be familiar with the 'paleo' diet, which involves a lot of nuts and meat, since that's what our ancestors, who hunted the mammoth, would have eaten. But... if you think a bit, you'll realize that a lot of work had to go into hunting the mammoth, so a more reasonable supposition would be that we ate vegetables/fruits for millennia before gathering the social cohesion to hunt mammoths. So, if you believe in evolution (I don't...sorry), we're probably set up for eating vegetables moreso than meat.
I realize I'm rambling a bit (at least for the internet attention span), so let me get to the point: how is it that we determine what a worthwhile lifespan is? My Grandparents lived to 68, 75, 89 and 93... all but one saw grandchildren (that 'one' is a great sorrow), and would have seen great-grandchildren, had our society not decided that 'education' is worthwhile.
The real issue with meat is that it provides social bonds that plants simply cannot. The death of a vegetable is meaningless. The slaughter of a pig is the kind of thing that sets off a chain of ceremony that leads to harvest ceremonies and, curiously, Ramadan. In our modern age, the slaughter is de-humanized. *We* don't slaughter them... some industrial nail-gun does, so the whole point of the ceremony dissipates.
Ah, Jo, I feel like there is something more that I want to say, but I can't quite put my finger on it. If you've read this far, I'm sorry to have wasted your time.
A person should eat what is best for their individual bodies. Let people become interested and educated about nutrition and learn how their own body function benefits from their own body’s preferential and what your micro biome does for keeping your body at health. Listen to your body. Be closer to nature, meaning eat after seasonal grows.
Reinvent real food without the chemicals, colouring and sugaring. Learn how to say no to bad food by reading the contents, more than five things added, put it back on the shelf. Reclaim good things from the food industry, they are always sensitive to less demand.
Go back to basic farming and do away with all the greed that comes with the large scale industries. Support your local farmers.
Do away with GMOs that causes negative things in your body. Say no to them. You must be your own inventor.
Take a cooking course or just do a cook out yourself with other people, it is fun.
If you hate cooking, find someone that loves it.
Make food shopping as important as when you go for the newest car and connect yourself in real life with doing away with the ‘smart’ phones and look your friends and family in the eyes instead of glue them down to your control device invented to take away your focus of what it is to be human and embrace that beautiful soul of yours.
Jo, brilliant piece. I have been taken in by...so many things. All the while thinking it is not so.
Truth is also mirage. It's very hard to locate "truth." There are very very real people who have documented that vegan diet "almost killed them," etc. I listen to everybody. But anyway, I'm going vegan. Today's the day. Thank you!
lovely......
Another type diet.
Dr Rima, an amazing human. Frequency healing and nurture without pharmaceuticals.
35 min
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Am 76, been vegan for 22 years and am in excellent health, no meds etc.
Dear Jo,
Let me preface this by saying that I'm not going to engage with your ethical concerns -- which I may or may not share.
I'm not a particularly social person, but even in my restricted circle of acquaintances, I know at least a half-dozen people who have warded off debilitating injuries like MS and cancer, simply by juicing. I, myself, am 100% certain that if I were to suffer from arthritis or or MS, I would read every article by Dr. Andrew Saul, and, well, start juicing.
That said, I don't suffer from any of those problems. And my parents, who are 86-ish, are going so strong(ly) that, even during the covid 'crisis', I never had one second of worry that they might pass away.
My entire family eats meat every day -- my mom even carries around a bag of meat, and if she met you, her first question would be: "Jo, do you want some meat?". Keep in mind, though, that for my parents, growing up in [the 3rd world in] the 40s/50s, meat was a massive luxury.
Now -- none of this is intended to say that you're wrong, nor to say that I disagree with you. In fact, from a logical point of view, I think I agree with you. You must be familiar with the 'paleo' diet, which involves a lot of nuts and meat, since that's what our ancestors, who hunted the mammoth, would have eaten. But... if you think a bit, you'll realize that a lot of work had to go into hunting the mammoth, so a more reasonable supposition would be that we ate vegetables/fruits for millennia before gathering the social cohesion to hunt mammoths. So, if you believe in evolution (I don't...sorry), we're probably set up for eating vegetables moreso than meat.
I realize I'm rambling a bit (at least for the internet attention span), so let me get to the point: how is it that we determine what a worthwhile lifespan is? My Grandparents lived to 68, 75, 89 and 93... all but one saw grandchildren (that 'one' is a great sorrow), and would have seen great-grandchildren, had our society not decided that 'education' is worthwhile.
The real issue with meat is that it provides social bonds that plants simply cannot. The death of a vegetable is meaningless. The slaughter of a pig is the kind of thing that sets off a chain of ceremony that leads to harvest ceremonies and, curiously, Ramadan. In our modern age, the slaughter is de-humanized. *We* don't slaughter them... some industrial nail-gun does, so the whole point of the ceremony dissipates.
Ah, Jo, I feel like there is something more that I want to say, but I can't quite put my finger on it. If you've read this far, I'm sorry to have wasted your time.
ShiYen
Bugs....
Well done, thank you for putting this together.
I think you may find this interesting https://gavinmounsey.medium.com/nutrimiromics-ff69f1f908b7 It was an excerpt from my soon to be published book (which you can learn more about here: https://recipesforreciprocity.com/ ) but I ran out of space and had to cut that chapter from the final draft.
Hopefully you can do something worth while with this information :)