You are always welcome to participate Caroline hehe ...and yes vegan. My two, almost 9 and 11-year-old, boys are vegetarian, and hubby has gone back to being omnivorous.
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You are always welcome to participate Caroline hehe ...and yes vegan. My two, almost 9 and 11-year-old, boys are vegetarian, and hubby has gone back to being omnivorous.
Well, good to know! I've been attempting to move towards more whole food plant based for about a month now and it's a process! I have so many foods I react to but I'm determined to heal my gut and heal my immune system so I can eat a wide range of (delicious plant) foods!
and thank you! 🙏😄🙌
Absolutely getting back to basics, stripping things back is a great idea. It all gives the body a chance to cope better. I hope you identify what is causing your issues🙏🙂
I am getting closer to a healthier, happier body every day. I keep finding useful puzzle pieces that seem so obvious and are so helpful! 😃
we cut out gluten and that has been a game-changer for both of my kids!
Oh, good!
Yeah, I cut out gluten out of sheer necessity 13 years ago. But I'm now learning that, unless we have celiac disease, it's not a healthy long term strategy as it reduces the diversity in our gut microbiome. So I'm slowly reintroducing sprouted versions of several gluten containing grains, knowing that, if I need to, I can switch back to gluten free anytime to give my body a break before continuing the process again.
OOh that's interesting. Do you have any articles that you have found particularly enlightening in this regard that you could share? I mean, for now, being gluten-free is doing wonders for our kids so it needs to be the strategy in place for us, but it is always useful to be armed with as much info as possible. I wonder if there is another way to replace the missing gut microbiome that gluten specifically provides?
I don't have any handy, but I've resolved to do better at capturing links each time one of my gut health mentors mention a research study because I find them so hard to find on my own.
Definitely hear you that it's a strategy for now. I was so grateful to be put on a gluten free diet at the time because I was in so much pain I couldn't function. So I hear you.
And to clarify, it's not the gluten itself that I think we need, it's that cutting out all those wonderful wholegrains that happen to contain gluten that is the issue.
It might be that if you were really diligent about consuming a wide range of non-glutenous grains (buckwheat, quinoa, brown and red rice and other rice types, etc) that you may get enough diversity on the grain front that it doesn't matter. Doing this would put you ahead of many other people health-wise because most people are not getting enough fibre or enough diversity of plants.
So I think that's they key here that I more want to convey: (Slowly) increasing plant diversity and (slowly) increasing fibre intake leads to the best health outcomes. (Again, there are several high quality research studies on both these but I need to collect them so I can reference them!)
But to summarise what I've heard shared several times:
The two people who I have found so far who teach this the best (read the latest nutrition research and then translate it for laypeople into simple and easy to understand takeaways) are Simon Hill (in Australia) and Dr Will Bulsiewicz (in USA).
I also didn't know you where a vegan @samsmith1971! And didn't realize your monthly contests yet 😱 (note to self - how could you miss them??!) but thank you @consciouscat to mention it and giving me the opportunity to check it out better 😁
As I grew up in the country side, it is typical there that our grandmothers and grandfathers had farms, plants, trees and also animals in order to provide food. So I've always eated meat and everything. Growing up with animals always gave me a sense to treat them well and all animals held by my family had proper conditions, food and fresh and clean water, as well as free space outdoors. I know this may not seem very friendly as they still were being killed, but I was also thought that their purpose was to provide food and to be grateful for it and their sacrifice.
In the past 3 or 4 years I've seen some friends or family members go vegetarian or vegan, and I've been trying to reduce meat and introduce more vegetarian or vegan meals into my diet. I'm conscious about the farming industry, CO2 polution to the environment, and some of it's problems regarding animal well-being so I believe we as a world need to reduce our meat comsuption, at the very least.
My intentions, at least for now, are to continue to reduce meat comsuption to 2x/week. For those who still want to consume meat, as I believe it's unrealistic to think everyone will change to a plant-based diet, I think it's very important to ensure farming industry is regulated in a way it provides safety, well-being and health to all animals, and dignity in their death.
Maybe one day I'll feel diferently about meat and also follow a plant-based diet but I still think it will be necessary serious regulation of the farming industry and ensuring animals well-being throught their life spam 🤗.
I hope to add a different point of view to this matter but just wanted to clarify that I respect the choice to change to plant-based diets either for health purposes or animals right's defence! 😊
Kisses to all 😘
It's a very personal choice that only you can make. I respect your informed choices and your obvious love and respect for animals too❣️
!LUV ❣️
@consciouscat(1/4) gave you LUV.
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