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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Go cold turkey on animal products.

Check out The Exam Room podcast, the Diet for a New America and Food Revolution books and docuseries by John and Ocean Robbins (their father/grandfather founded Baskin Robbins), the books and other materials out there by the Esselstyn family and Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. Joel Fuhrman.

There is so much online for free to help make the change to a plant based lifestyle, and nearly everything you might have heard over your lifetime about eating vegan has now been proven wrong so don’t listen to the experts here telling you it isn’t healthy - it is the single healthiest way of eating available to humans and all the science supports that.

Ditch ultra processed foods - don’t be a fat unhealthy vegan, in other words. Learn to prepare and eat whole plant foods - whole grains, legumes, veggies especially dark leafy greens, fruits especially berries, nuts and seeds. Ditch sugar and also sugar substitutes including stevia - they are bad for gut health. Ditch vegetable and seed oils, stick with extra virgin olive (fruit) oil.

I’ve been making this transition myself and am feeling better than I have in a long time. On the occasions when I have backslid, I feel immediately the negative effect in my body if consuming animal products and sugary foods - as you age you can’t tolerate this stuff as much because it really drives inflammation and damages gut health.

It’s taken some work both mental and learning to cook again because I was raised on a low fiber, low vegetable diet like many Americans and while I could cook well I’ve had to learn a whole new repertoire of meals. But wow vegetables are really fantastic and once your palate readjusts after you ditch processed foods and refined sugars, there is so much flavor and sweetness to be found in fruits and vegetables alike.

We were meant to eat mostly plants, our dentition and gut are designed for it. Yes we can consume animal products, but when they dominate the diet it causes many health issues especially later in life. It’s also terrible for the planet and if you have kids or any younger people in your life that you love, you should at very least cut way back on consumption of animal products.[/quote]

Animals are bad for the planet. Haha![/quote]

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