Does mindful eating HAVE to involve being vegan in your mind? What do you think about these two:
(a) People who medically can't be on a vegan diet
and (b) The new movement of vegans who are considering some things like Crickets and Oysters to be OK due to lack of central nervous system &/or lower impact on the environment?
I'm a big proponent of drastic reduction in animal consumption for sure... curious to hear your thoughts on how those play into the vegan idea.
In terms of purely the personal health aspect, I wouldn't say it HAS to involve being vegan, but certainly even modern "western medicine" accepts that a diet containing over 10% animal products exponentially increases cancer cell growth rates, leads to diabetes, and so many other negative outcomes. If you look at the whole picture of how you are affecting the planet and all other beings though... it becomes a lot harder to justify eating animal products/by-products. The only way you can do it and not fail each of those "tests" is if you are raising the animals yourself, extremely small-scale, letting them live their lives, and for things like dairy/honey, not taking anything but the excess they create.
As to your more specific points: a) I have never heard an actual case of this myself. I have heard of people's health decreasing when switching to a vegan diet, but all of those were people with unhealthy diets to begin with, who simply switched out meat & cheese for lots of soy, wheat, and processed non-foods. Any "diet" (paleo, vegan, vegetarian, HCLF, LCHF, etc) is extremely unhealthy if you aren't getting the protein, fiber, nutrients, phyto-nutrients, and probiotics your body needs. b) I don't really have any take on this particular thing. Certainly every herbivore eats some insects, by the nature of insects attaching themselves to plants, flying into mouths of sleeping animals, etc. Personally, I don't eat oysters or any other shellfish, and I don't eat intentionally eat any insects. I do not have the need to supplement my diet with these things, nor the want to eat them. We all live in different places, have different resources & access to resources, and have to make all of these choices for ourselves.
Regarding "A", it's me, I'm the guy! I get extraordinary digestive pain and distress if I try to go on a vegan or even vegetarian diet, despite many attempts.
We need to eat healthy for a good mood and to have more energy. Unhealthy food affects us negatively all metabolic processes, that is why "we are what we eat"
thank you for this post @kennyskitchen! I don't really like when people... in russia we say 'rushing from one extreme point to the opposite extreme point' which means - to follow some radical idea without thinking and with no compromises, like it's the only right thing to do in the world...
Mindful eating it is very good! It is a part of Mindful living :)
Welcome to Steemit brother! I'm not in Denver too often myself, but there is an amazing conscious community out here, bigger than I've found anywhere else :-)
I would like to be on a vegan diet but its very hard. Unless you have the means to grow you own, which in the UK is very very hard due to the weather. Also in my case the space to grow. This means you have to buy, which is very expensive. I buy organic 90% of the time but unless you have a much better income than min this is difficult.
As much as I would love to do this diet its just not available to me due to my finances and geography!
I haven't been to the UK, but everywhere I have been, meat is one of the most expensive food products, along with dairy. It's definitely cheaper to grow your own, but lentils, beans, broccoli, etc. are all drastically cheaper options than animal products in my experience. I can cook meals of organic, vegan, gluten-free food for generally less than $1/pound, just by buying some things in bulk.
Yep I am getting stuff delivered lentils and the like don't eat meat. But its the organic that is expensive, not by a large amount. Leaning more menus. In general UK is expensive. It the taxes in total all their extortion I pay nearly £450 a month that were the money goes ;(
@kenyskitchen I messaged oyu on steemit.chat and discord about an upcoming meetup in Colorado Springs on Saturday, September 23 (two days before your interview). If you'd like, we can catch up there and hit a killer vegan restaurant The Burrowing Owl.
I just saw that last night (really don't use either one much), and replied on Discord. Driving back into Denver with @adamkokesh Saturday morning to take him to the airport, and then I'll be at Sister Winds Festival all day.
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Does mindful eating HAVE to involve being vegan in your mind? What do you think about these two:
(a) People who medically can't be on a vegan diet
and (b) The new movement of vegans who are considering some things like Crickets and Oysters to be OK due to lack of central nervous system &/or lower impact on the environment?
I'm a big proponent of drastic reduction in animal consumption for sure... curious to hear your thoughts on how those play into the vegan idea.
In terms of purely the personal health aspect, I wouldn't say it HAS to involve being vegan, but certainly even modern "western medicine" accepts that a diet containing over 10% animal products exponentially increases cancer cell growth rates, leads to diabetes, and so many other negative outcomes. If you look at the whole picture of how you are affecting the planet and all other beings though... it becomes a lot harder to justify eating animal products/by-products. The only way you can do it and not fail each of those "tests" is if you are raising the animals yourself, extremely small-scale, letting them live their lives, and for things like dairy/honey, not taking anything but the excess they create.
As to your more specific points:
a) I have never heard an actual case of this myself. I have heard of people's health decreasing when switching to a vegan diet, but all of those were people with unhealthy diets to begin with, who simply switched out meat & cheese for lots of soy, wheat, and processed non-foods. Any "diet" (paleo, vegan, vegetarian, HCLF, LCHF, etc) is extremely unhealthy if you aren't getting the protein, fiber, nutrients, phyto-nutrients, and probiotics your body needs.
b) I don't really have any take on this particular thing. Certainly every herbivore eats some insects, by the nature of insects attaching themselves to plants, flying into mouths of sleeping animals, etc. Personally, I don't eat oysters or any other shellfish, and I don't eat intentionally eat any insects. I do not have the need to supplement my diet with these things, nor the want to eat them. We all live in different places, have different resources & access to resources, and have to make all of these choices for ourselves.
Regarding "A", it's me, I'm the guy! I get extraordinary digestive pain and distress if I try to go on a vegan or even vegetarian diet, despite many attempts.
Thanks for your insights.
We need to eat healthy for a good mood and to have more energy. Unhealthy food affects us negatively all metabolic processes, that is why "we are what we eat"
All so very true! If everyone remembered this simple fact, the world would be a much more peaceful, happy place.
thank you for this post @kennyskitchen! I don't really like when people... in russia we say 'rushing from one extreme point to the opposite extreme point' which means - to follow some radical idea without thinking and with no compromises, like it's the only right thing to do in the world...
Mindful eating it is very good! It is a part of Mindful living :)
Hey man, I'm also in Denver (new to steemit and your page). Cool info. Will see if I can make it Mon.
Welcome to Steemit brother! I'm not in Denver too often myself, but there is an amazing conscious community out here, bigger than I've found anywhere else :-)
Check out StarTribe Alliance, WeAreChangeColorado, StarWater, Rhythm Sanctuary just to name a few :-)
Hope to see you on Monday!
I would like to be on a vegan diet but its very hard. Unless you have the means to grow you own, which in the UK is very very hard due to the weather. Also in my case the space to grow. This means you have to buy, which is very expensive. I buy organic 90% of the time but unless you have a much better income than min this is difficult.
As much as I would love to do this diet its just not available to me due to my finances and geography!
I haven't been to the UK, but everywhere I have been, meat is one of the most expensive food products, along with dairy. It's definitely cheaper to grow your own, but lentils, beans, broccoli, etc. are all drastically cheaper options than animal products in my experience. I can cook meals of organic, vegan, gluten-free food for generally less than $1/pound, just by buying some things in bulk.
Yep I am getting stuff delivered lentils and the like don't eat meat. But its the organic that is expensive, not by a large amount. Leaning more menus. In general UK is expensive. It the taxes in total all their extortion I pay nearly £450 a month that were the money goes ;(
@kennyskitchen see you on Monday, dude.
Looking forward to it brother!
@kenyskitchen I messaged oyu on steemit.chat and discord about an upcoming meetup in Colorado Springs on Saturday, September 23 (two days before your interview). If you'd like, we can catch up there and hit a killer vegan restaurant The Burrowing Owl.
That place has some incredible stuff.
I just saw that last night (really don't use either one much), and replied on Discord. Driving back into Denver with @adamkokesh Saturday morning to take him to the airport, and then I'll be at Sister Winds Festival all day.
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