☕️ Seems most of what I share lately is #coffee 🤔😝🤓
A pick-me-up after unexpected adulting (read : #adulting + #ChronicIllness = #pwME / #MECFS exhaustion) from a surprise plumber I've been trying to schedule 🙌🏽
Wiped out, post-clean-up, BIG #gratitude for amazing #vegan#café au lait (a treat bc usually drink black)! 🥳
Sending good vibes to my kindred invisible-#disability folks 💕
Vegan cheese has a horrible reputation, but engineer Magi Richani, founder of Nobell Foods in San Francisco, and microbiologist Morgan Mitchell, creator of Green Goddess Fromagerie in Guelph, Ontario, say they've nailed it. The Walrus's Nicole Schmidt looked into why it's so tricky to develop dairy-free cheese, and tried a few. It's still a topic of discussion whether you can call a non-dairy item "cheese." What do you reckon?
Increasing evidence finds that reducing or eliminating meat from your diet and increasing plant-based foods -- especially certain types of #fiber, reduces inflammation and reduces symptoms from rheumatic diseases. Such as #rheumatoid#arthritis. Meat, on the other hand, increases inflammation. Fiber helps with the survival and proliferation of 'good' bacteria in the gut. This good bacteria reduces the amount of inflammation in the body. The less inflammation the better.
This reserach group in Amsterdam explains it pretty well on their website, and also encourage individualized exercise programs.
22 hours left to vote for The Farm Animal Sanctuary to recieve a £5,000 grant that will keep them in food and bedding for another month.
They save a lot of animals that nobody else cares about. It took me 5 seconds approx to cast my vote for them. Please consider taking a few seconds to add your vote.
I find it quite interesting that the social norms change in the 1.5 decades I've been (almost) consistently #plantbased is that:
+The number of people who can accept that excessive meat, fish & dairy consumption is harming the planet & its ecosystems viability has really increased.
-The number of people who can accept that excessive meat, fish & dairy consumption is harming human health outcomes has not really increased.
-Mostly only people who are already #vegan are really comfortable being exposed to any sort of #animalRights discussion (as opposed to specific pets rights).
Parts 2 & 3 are still really quite taboo subjects people tend to shy away from.
So it feels like progress is very slow, even in progressive spaces like the #Fedi. Am I wrong about that? @vegan@plantbased
@JetlagJen@vegan@plantbased
I think it's an awesome thing every time someone replaces an animal product meal with a healthy #plantbased meal. Whatever their motivations it's to be applauded.
If they do it for the planet, or for the species we share the planet with, it's just fitting good karma if they get reduced risks for cancer diabetes atherosclerosis CVD stroke dementia osteoporosis etc.
If we ate mostly plant based diets, nature would get around 75% of the planet's fertile land back. Our oceans would recover too. Simplest solution for carbon capture, natural world, climate resilience, food chain preservation & biodiversity. A massive step to a sustainable and safer future for humans.
Studies show that shifting to a plant-based food system would release fertile land the size of combining the entire United States, China, the European Union, and Australia.
There are some really crazy things people don't know about healthy plantbased diets. Revolutionary stuff, and easily reproduced in multiple clinical trials, and yet almost nobody knows about it, which is so strange.
Take any omnivore.
Draw their blood and measure how well their blood fights various cancer cells.
Put them 2 weeks on a #plantbased diet (whole foods plant based type diet #wfpb ). Draw their blood and measure again their cancer cell killing ability.
Same people, but now their blood typically fights cancer massively more effectively, often averaging around 10 times more effectively.
Then let those people return to their everyday diet and their blood drops back to regular 10 times less effective at fighting cancer.
Eat #wfpb#plantBased even for just 2 weeks and your blood gets substantially better at zapping cancer cells. Then if you go back to everyday standard diet in a couple of weeks your blood has lost the cancer fighting super powers. @vegan@plantbased
Things huge food & media corporations will commonly say.
If you're worried about carcinogens from eating our expensive & highly profitable animal products, why not eat lots of our expensive and highly profitable berry products for anti-oxidants.
Things huge food & media corporations will NOT commonly say.
Eating affordable & not highly profitable beans & especially lentils gives you far more anti-oxidents than berries. Use them to replace eating animal products & it's a double win.
I want to answer you well so you can make up your own mind with pointers for information sources. That will require a couple of posts so bear with me.
My position is absolutely evidence based, my continued reading in this area over 15years has regularly provided more supporting data as I keep up to date. I am pragmatic not dogmatic, I am for example not exclusively #plantbased making some allowances for social reasons occasionally, (chasing perfection should not prevent living).
If the facts change my analysis would follow. For much of my life I used be the Mr.Barbecue type, I didn't actually like what the med studies (& climate change) data I was reading in the 00s said, I really didn't want them to be true for a while.
@crankylinuxuser
So, apologies if that's longer & more detailed than you wanted or find interesting! Perhaps it might be useful to someone else at some point.
If I had to do it all again and boil everything down to what I would, letter to past-me, advise for myself as a super simple plan:
Buy this recipe book. www.amazon.com/Engine-Seven-Day-Rescue-Diet-Plants/dp/1455591165/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Check recipes and make sure I'm prepped for ingredients etc.
Get my bloods & levels checked at Doc.
Then do the plan, no cheating, like I travelled to a foreign country & could only shop some foreign supermarket.
3 weeks ideally. It's just 3 weeks, anyone can do something for 3 weeks, even a strict version like that.
Don't skip exercise.
Monitor insulin needs etc carefully for changes.
Observe how I felt at end.
Get bloods & levels checked at end.
See if I surprise the crap out of my doctor!
@failedLyndonLaRouchite@vegan@plantbased
The basis of science is when we discover new data, we have to modify our position. Even when we don't like the data. Even if the data supports health benefits from healthy #vegan eating.
8 times more more effective blood at killing prostate cancer cells on a #wfpb protocol.
Reversal of prostate cancer growth in patients under a WFPB protocol.
Blood that barely impacted breast cancer cells became blood that wiped out breast cancer cell samples on a WFPB #plantbased protocol.
etc. etc.
I particularly liked how the oat groats and black turtle beans make this really filling, so quick to make but also really budget friendly. Dry beans are much cheaper than canned and actually easier to use than tinned this way. #vegan#veganRecipes#plantBased#bearFodder#wfpb
2cups freekeh grains, 2 cups lentils.
Mix in load of spices.
2 tins chopped tomatoes.
5 cups water.
Rough cut veg and greens -kale, spinach.
7mins, instant pot on high.
I threw 500g of mixed beans (10 types) in a container and added water to them sunday night. By morning, monday they had doubled in size pretty much, but the important part is the cooking time drops and is much closer together for the different bean varieties and closer to the black rice cooking time I wanted to pair with.
I stirred a lot of spices and chili into the rice, then added 750 ml of water. Stir in all of the beans and water. Add lots of fresh and frozen veg, give it another good stir.
The pot would be maybe too full if the beans hadn't already been soaked, but they've already increased in size and properly stirred the rice will fill the gaps in between things.
Then about 8-10 minutes in the instant pot on high should be enough with natural pressure release.
My favourite way to cook mushrooms, sliced in a pan with tamari or soy sauce, maybe some chili. Simple delicious. Great for adding to all sorts that way, including salads.
Mushrooms appear to have unique nutritional benefits not replaced by eating other food. I'm preserving here some self motivation for simple mushroom dishes.
Put wholewheat pasta or noodles on.
Sliced mushrooms into a large pan or wok.
big glug of tamari or soy sauce. (the savoury umami taste makes the mushrooms excellent)
can add sliced chilies, ginger garlic spices etc.
cover with lid, want it to stay liquid.
Add stirfy veg towards the end it will contribute more tasty liquids too as it cooks if covered.
Fresh mushrooms release a lot of liquid, but they also absorb some liquid back in over cooking duration too. Meaning spices, herbs, tamari, veggy flavours etc all combine to give them a rich layered taste when the mushrooms have plenty of liquids available.
Lift the mushroom + veggies with a slotted spoon / spatula etc so they dress the pasta and salad but don't make it totally swim with too much juices.
Here's the meal assembled. Pretty quick to make, very tasty, and really healthy.