Food Choices Page #8
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- 2016
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of organizations, that
do philanthropic work
for sick children.
I'm an npst cancer survivor.
Npst is a rare sarcoma,
it's one of the most
aggressive and fast,
infiltrating cancers that
there is on the planet.
I've had over 325 tumors
removed from my body.
I've lived a very, very
rigorous and painful last
three and a half years,
battling for my life,
and I had a decision to make.
I'm either going to
let this take me,
or I'm going to fight.
Like giving up wasn't an option,
I don't know what's
going to happen,
but I'm not going
to die sitting down,
or laying down, I'm going
to keep my hands up,
my head tucked, and
I'm not going to stop
swinging until it's over.
And without a plant-based diet,
I would not be here today.
It kind of kept
my cancer at bay,
and it's allowed me
to thrive in ways
I didn't know was possible.
The insane mindset that
animal protein is the key
to being very healthy,
you know, almost killed me.
I'm not saying plant-based diets
cure, or they're
the end-all, be-all,
but what I am saying
is that if you're
going through some
type of health crisis,
your odds are very,
very much greater
when you embrace a
plant-based lifestyle.
Those are just the facts.
And my life is the living proof.
- In 2006, I attempted suicide,
while I was on 250
milligrams of Zoloft,
for what the doctors
diagnosed as major
depressive disorder.
And I was told I'd
be most likely on it
for the rest of my life.
A week after that i
went into a personal
development course,
and changed my beliefs.
From there, I started
to look at what I was
putting into my body.
And I started to
look at nutrition,
and nutritional healing,
and what I could do.
And it led me to going within,
and back to nature.
I stripped away all
of the processed food,
I went back to just
eating raw fruits
and vegetables, and juicing,
and green smoothies,
and I started to have
a sense of a natural,
natural happy high started
to come into my body,
and I was feeling better
than I'd felt in many years.
The symptoms of depression
started to drop away,
the heavy, sluggish,
tired feelings
that I couldn't cope,
the chronic fatigue,
the aches, you know,
everything started to shift.
And I started to
feel my cells were
transforming on some level.
I'd made the decision
that I didn't want to put
ever again, the fear
of death and suffering
of another life, and eating
animals into my body.
And that translated to
a shift for me, I cured
my own depression.
And I've never looked back.
- Eating tasty
food is one of the biggest
pleasures in life.
So many people might
argue that even though
eating an unhealthy diet
is not good for them,
they don't want to jeopardize
the fun aspect of it.
And therefore, they continue
eating unhealthy things.
But one thing that
i came to discover
is that when you
transition into a healthier
eating lifestyle, you do
not have to compromise
on taste.
Yes, you will go through
a transition period,
but once your taste buds,
and your body's chemistry
begins to change, you
will start to crave
It is important to
find food you like,
and once you realize
that almost every dish
can be made plant-based,
you will see that
it is not that hard at all.
- There's such a stigma
with the word vegan,
I guess that people
just get automatically
turned off and just assume
that it's going to suck.
But it's like it doesn't.
If anything, to me, and
i mean, that was another
big thing, why I do it,
because it's better.
To me, I think food's
just way better this way.
I would say just try it.
You know, you'll
surprise yourself.
- When you're
becoming vegetarian,
and you've given up
the meat and the dairy
and the eggs, the only
thing you know for food,
you think you're going
to starve to death.
You have to understand that
marinara sauce, and
pasta, and lasagna,
and bean burritos, and oatmeal,
and hash-brown potatoes,
and so on, things you
love, that's where you get
your calories and your
protein and your vitamins
and your minerals.
- There are so many
beautiful, wonderful
amazing, delicious
plant-based foods out there.
In fact, when I started
to do this a whole world
opened up to me, and
when you begin to eat
these nutrient dense
foods that are actually
fuelling you, that are
actually nourishing you,
with all of these
amazing vital nutrients
and micronutrients,
you start to feel good,
your cravings change, and
your taste buds change.
You know, that cheeseburger,
that you couldn't
get out of your mind, suddenly,
you're not thinking
about that anymore,
and you're actually
craving that Kale smoothie.
And that's something
that happened to me
that I would have never
thought would have happened.
- People think that vegan
food just tastes like crap.
And that's not true.
I think that people
think that being vegan
might potentially be strange,
that people are weird, that
you have to be a hippie,
or you have to embrace
wearing hemp clothes,
or something.
- You want to have a burger,
you can have a burger.
You want to have
spaghetti and meatballs,
you can have spaghetti
and wheatballs.
You want to have fries,
you want to have chocolate
mousse, you want to
have pumpkin pie,
you want to have stuffing,
you want to have,
you know, even hotdogs.
- And so when you're looking at
the idea of taking the leap,
into this way of
eating and living,
don't look at what
you're going to be
not eating, embrace
and be excited
about the adventure
of all these new foods
you're going to be
bringing into your life.
- Eating
healthy will not do you
much good if you
can't afford it.
Or if it leaves a big
hole in your pocket.
So my next question
was is it possible
to eat healthy on
a tight budget?
- A common misconception
is that a whole
foods plant-based diet
is very expensive.
I routinely post pictures
of my grocery receipt,
and I take my whole
bounty that I bought
at the produce market, and
put it out on the table
so people can see, how
much I end up with,
and they're shocked.
Whole grains that
we buy in bulk,
are very inexpensive.
You're going to cut your
grocery bills in half,
from a typical
standard American diet,
in the beginning, it might
seem like a lot of effort,
but in the long run, you're
saving all this money
for all the new clothes
you're going to have to buy
for the new slim
you that is produced
from eating this whole
foods plant-based diet.
- It's easy to go into
those markets and say,
"there's no way
that I can do this."
But the truth of
the matter is that
it doesn't have to be expensive,
it doesn't have to
be inconvenient,
it doesn't have to be
difficult, it doesn't have
to be time consuming.
And my experience is
that it has actually
simplified my life,
and it's been cheaper
than eating the
other way around.
- At this
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