Feb. 21, 2025

Five Reasons Why You Should Go Vegan This Year!

Five Reasons Why You Should Go Vegan This Year!

Like most people, your New Year’s resolution likely includes losing weight, eating better, and becoming healthier. More and more people have turned to a vegan diet to accomplish these very goals. Many people claim to be physically healthier on a...

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Season 1

Like most people, your New Year’s resolution likely includes losing weight, eating better, and becoming healthier. More and more people have turned to a vegan diet to accomplish these very goals. Many people claim to be physically healthier on a purely plant-based diet, but it is shown that a vegan diet may help you look better, feel better, and lose weight! Join us in the kitchen (Vicki is a certified plant-based instructor) as we all enjoy learning more about the vegan lifestyle!

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as well as a focus on health and wellness. Now,

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start with Asking Good Questions.

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Welcome, Welcome so much to the podcast. We are here

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today with a very special guest, and we are going

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to talk all about the five Big lesson. The most

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important thing is why you should even consider but you know,

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maybe think about going vegan this year or something, you know,

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starting that direction. So I have a special guest today

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and as well, step back a little bit. We're going

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to be showing my hydrophonic garden, which when I met Vicki,

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she was like, Hey, you have a hydroponic garden. So

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we're going to be talking a little bit about that.

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But let me introduce you to her. She has a

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Vicky woman has been vegan since about October of twenty eleven,

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and she is a PCRM certified Food for Life instructor.

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What is PCRM. It's Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. It's

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a non proper organization by Neil Barnard, doctor Neil Barnard, Okay,

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And she's a graduate of the Ruby Cooking School's Professional

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Plant Based Certification course. She's also educated herself along the

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way on all things vegan and plant based and cruelty free.

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So her goal is to help others learn vegan and

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plant based options and resources so they may find their

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own unique path to a cruelty free and satisfying diet.

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And what's interesting is I had found doctor Barnard on

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like YouTube podcasts, and so the reason that I found

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him was he was talking about this book and come

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out fairly with maybe last year, and in it it

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talked about these people that do cooking classes. I went

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to his website. But if there's anybody in Saint George, Utah,

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where I am Loda Bold, VICKI shows up and I

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just introduced myself and I said, hey, I would love

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to meet you. I've been learning about doctor Barnard and

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so it's because of this book and then going on

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his website and checking it out that I found Vicky.

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So welcome, welcome, Thank you. There anything more you want

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to say about your background and why, let's let's basically

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start with anything you want to add, and also why

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you might be okay. So back many years ago, I

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thought it wasn't right that animals have to die so

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that we could eat. I just it didn't make sense

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to me. But you know, I'm sixty two now, so

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there was no internet back then. There was very little

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resources that I could find. I looked on I didn't

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look online. I looked in the library, I at at

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the bookstore, and everything turned up. You know, it's the

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circle of life. You just have to eat animals and

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be a nature protein and all of that. So one day,

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thirteen years ago, a little over thirteen years ago. Now,

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I was in a bookstore and I picked up a book.

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It's something like, I don't know, Dummies, vegetarian Form to

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idiots going to Vegetarianism, and I picked it them and

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there's this little tiny paragraph that said, the vegan diet

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seems to be the most healthy diet you can be on.

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And I thought, that's it. I'm doing it. And then

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the next day, you know, I went through my refrigerator,

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got rid of all the animal products and it's it's

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literally the best thing I've ever done. Wow, other than

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having my kids, it's the best thing I've ever done

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in my entire life. I feel so much more vibrant,

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and I feel really right with my stuff. I think

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that's probably the biggest part is nobody has to die

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so that I could eat. It's also really healthy. So yeah, yeah,

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before I've got several questions, I'm going to ask her.

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We're going to really delve into this. But first I

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want to show you something that has become very important

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to me, and that is this hydrophonic garden. Now, I

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don't know if you've heard of there's a lot of

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different I actually made one out of a bin, but

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this one is a power garden. You can see down there,

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point my finger, there's a big container of like twenty

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gallons of water. There's a pump down there. You can

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see there's cages, there's lights, and I have it inside

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right now because I started it in November because we

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I'm a snowbird and so we're six months here and

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six months up north in Washington State. So I got

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this started in November and it's just been cold enough

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that it was just not going to work outside. I'm

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going to be putting it out in my backyard probably

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next week. But right now it's been great because I

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have a couple of kinds of kale. I've got the

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best Swiss chart. There's a great big tomato plant that

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is setting all kinds of tomatoes. There's actually cucumbers and watermelon.

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Kind of in the back. The peas you can see

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stop going up about that's all peas that are going

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crazy up over the top. Finach, green onions, chide. So

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I highly recommend looking into doing hydroponic gardening because when

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I want to make a salad, I just come over

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here to my hydroponic garden. And one of the things

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that when we were getting to know each other. I

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said something about my hydroponic garden, and Vicki goes, oh,

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I want to see her. I was so excited, She's

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not and so and so then that led to, well,

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I'd love to have you be on the show and

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talk about what you found out, because health and wellness

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besides all the financial things I do. I feel like

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if you don't have your health, you don't have any wealth,

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because that's the biggest thing is to be able to

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enjoy your life because you are healthy and so. All right,

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so what are some So let's start here. I know

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that I have been struggling off and on to become

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more and more I'm like, more and more and more

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plant based. I'm not one hundred percent yet, but I'm

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trying to be on that road. What are some reasons,

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Vicki that people say, oh, I can't go vegan, it's

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too hard or whatever. What are the reasons that you hear? So?

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Probably number one, if I need my protein, I could

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never be vegan. I could be vegan because I could

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eat that way, but I need too much protein. My

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doctor would one, Well, I can tell you that there

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is so much protein and a vegan diet. There are

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so many fits. I am not, you know, suffering from

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lack of protein. I have not met one person. You

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don't look like you're witheringly. You know, I'm not withering

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away to nothing. It's it's a very healthy diet. But

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there is a lot of protein in even things you

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wouldn't expect vegetables. Another thing is bacon. We all know.

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I know some of you are saying bacon and cheese. Oh,

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cheese is a big one. As far as bacon is concerned.

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I'm not a big fan of processed foods. Bacon's and

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processed food so we're just so many other things. But

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they do have some really good substitutes for these things.

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But after a while it's a little too salty and

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you're not going to want it anyways. But there are

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if you want to have a junk food diet it

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you know, and bacon isn't healthy, right, you can find

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non vegan, I mean non mete vgan, truly vegan. I've

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been researching that and finding because I was listening actually

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to a doctor Barnard podcast about going to the grocery

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store and I was like, I didn't go test that,

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and yeah, I'm finding stuff that I never even knew

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was there. Yeah, I do want to say something now,

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doctor Barnard and pcr and really quick, is that this

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conversation we're having is between the two of us. I'm

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not representing PCRM in this podcasts. In Yeah, I've certified

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to teach their plant based cooking courses and that's not

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what this is. So I just want to be clear

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on that. But yes, and there's also you can take

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a block of super firm tofu why is it really

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thin marinated and there's recipes online and bake it and

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it can be you can make something being salty and delicious.

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So she tried to me that it may not be

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exactly like bacon, but you're look, you're not killing an

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animal to eat, you know, and you're not eating She's

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so lay, she's very passionate about this, I tell you,

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And you're not eating all this saturated fat. I mean,

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it's healthier. And then she's so she's no matter which

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way you go, it's going to be high and fat.

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But there are really good vegan cheeses. Now, it's come

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a long way since eleven years ago. So there are

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different sections in the grocery aisle that you can find

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in the frozen food aile there's usually a plant based section.

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There's in the dairy isle you can find different things.

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I have. One of my advices is my creamer, and

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it's hard to find now that I like the filk

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original soy cramer for my coffee. It's you know, it's

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not the best. It's I mean, it tastes good, not

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the healthiest, but it's the one of the devices I do.

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But anyways, there's different sections in the in the grocery

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store where you'll see plant based. You do have to

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read the labels though, because certain things like coffee made

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and other things they have either way protein or caseine

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or those are all not vegan products ingredients, so be careful.

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Ls labels are important. Right, Let's talk a little bit

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more about protein, because that I think is maybe the

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biggest area that there are misconceptions and misinformation out there.

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And it's been basically it's like, if I don't have meat,

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I'm not going to get enough. And I think you

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would tend to disagree. I do because I'm getting enough

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and I'm not having me. But there are a variety

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of different doctors out there. I've got I've brought a

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couple of books Joel Furman. It is a really good one,

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and so is doctor Greyer kind of and comfitt in

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this way. Yeah, I'm just going to kind of bring

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a couple. Sorry, I had to grab my books. Eat

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to Live. This is doctor Joel Furman's book, and he

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talks a lot about that. So no, and let me interject.

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I always do uh, what we call a bonus download

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on the ASPID Questions podcast dot com website. There's a

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section there where you can go to bonus downloads everything

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for every episode that there's extra information or where to

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go find something is there. So there will be a

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flier or a PDF about all of these resources that

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Vicky is talking about. So you'll be able to look

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those things up later. Yeah, and you can find these

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folks online. But look at vegan vegan protein, you know,

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look it up online. This doctor, uh, Joel Furman, and

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I buy some of his products on his website. He

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does not pay me to do this. He doesn't even

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know who I am, probably, although I did meet once

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at a conference. But he's got great products. But this

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book is a really good one, to Eat to Live,

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that goes over the benefits of eating a plant based

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diet and also gives you a plan if you have

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health issues especially. It's a it's a it's a great book.

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But you know, people people have different reasons for wanting

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to go plant based. You know, some people it's for health, summits,

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for the animals. I happen to be both, and the environment. Okay,

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I'm all three. But you know, there's all different reasons.

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So your diet is going to be different based on

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what your reason is. So you have to decide yourself

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which way to go. But protein isn't a problem. There's

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so much out there. There's so much protein in a

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vegan diet. So how so people go, Okay, Vicky, you're

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making me want to look into this. How can they

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overcome these issues? What are some things like comparable vegan options,

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high quality plant based protein choices, things like that. I

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always say, try to stick to the whole food if

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you can. If you're transitioning and you really like the

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faith to meat, there's plenty of good vegan meats out

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there until you're ready to venture out on your own

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and make things yourself. So you know, one of the

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things I like to do is use lentils I make

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lentil soup, probably weakly. There's plenty of intant plot if

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a great porch. My instant pot is like gold to me.

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You just put stuff in. I take whatever vegetables I have,

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put some kind of vegetable broth better than Bill Young

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has a little jar with vegan chicken broth, so it

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tastes like chicken broth, but it's vegan. You just put

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it in there with hot water. You put some lentils in.

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I don't even measure. You cut up whatever vegetables you have, carrots, celery,

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and at the end I always will put in grades. Yeah,

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I'll put those at the bottom of my bull. And

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if you're in your kitchen all fail, you're so lucky.

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I don't know who that is, but you cannot move

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this out of the way that you can just put

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it all in there, turn the instant pot on, and

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in thirty minutes you have a homeade delicious suit with

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you know, all kinds of healthy nutrition in. They're awesome. Yeah,

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but there's also you're asking about options without your last

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question options because parable vegan. Ally you go to Trigger Joe's.

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They have vegan frozen Indian food. If you don't feel

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like cooking, or you can make it yourself. Look it

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up online. There's all kinds of great recipes tofu. Again,

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there's a lot of controversy about tofu. Some people think

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it's great, some people think it's uh, you know, it's

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got estrogen elements. And but the research I've done and

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the information I've looked at, I've looked at nutrition facts

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dot org, which is doctor Gregor, Michael Gregor. He's great,

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all these guys that I follow, these doctors that are

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are well known and listed. Tofu is a it's a

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it's a it's it's it's a protective From what I understand,

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it's protective against cancer. Uh. You know, maybe the research

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you do will show something different, so you just got

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to wait and measure what you see out there. But

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but it's it's doing good by me. Well, let's talk

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about the grocery store. Okay. So one of the first

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things that I learned, I don't know, several years ago,

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was just stay in the perimeter, you know, stay where

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the fruits and the vegetables are, not the not the mark,

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not the which is the meat counter, and most of

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your processed foods are probably going to be on the

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interior of the grocery store. So a little bit more

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about that. It's true. I mean the best aile to

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stay in the is the produce atile. There are some

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good process I like Tite Hill one of my favorite

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processed dairy items because the ingredients are pretty clean. I

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don't like added oil in most of my foods that

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I eat. You know it's going to be there in

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some of the process foods, But so as far as

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the dairy isle is concerned, you know, it's still processed

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on the vegan side. But yeah, the produce stile, you

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can even try things you've never tried before and go, oh,

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this taste pretty good. Purple potatoes have you heard about.

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I just had purple potatoes for the first time, and

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I was because I was in a recipe that I

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was trying, and I was like, purple potatatoes. I've never

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had one them before, and they taste great. And there

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they were. Did you find that they tasted significant, remply

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different than potatoes and they're supposed to be I'm not

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a nutritionist, but look it up. They're supposedly better on

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the they make index. So purple potatoes something you may

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not have tried. Yeah, but there's all kinds of fun

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stuff in the protostyle, and it's all the way you follow,

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the way you prepare them, and there's I bought a

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couple of cookbooks, but you know, look online you'll find

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all kinds of options. Well, let's talk about some of

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those ingredients that people might know about. Let's start with

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like nutritional beast. Oh yeah, it yes, a couple of things,

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so nutritional youth. So one of the things when you

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when you started eating diet, someone might say to you, like,

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I'm going to this adds a little cheapy flavor to

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your vegetables or to matter you're making. Some people like

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it on popcorn. Don't expect cheese. It's not cheese. I've

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already run into this, yeah, because my husband's who's like

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tolerating this, and he said, well, this was most past

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like cheese. It sets you, well, yeah, I think it

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sets you out to thinking that it's going to be

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like cheese. So you don't like it. Right, if you

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don't have expectations and you're trying something new, you're like, oh,

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this adds a nice little something to food. Anyways, this

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is loaded with the vitamins. It's protein bike Gram's approtein

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for two tables foods. My thirty two year old son

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sprinkles it on everything and he loves it. And he's

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not vegan. He just loves this stuff. So it's a

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really good, healthy ingredient that you should consider when you

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transition to a platy's diet. There's no fat entity there,

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so it's a good one, really good one. Here's enough

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are interesting one. It's called black salt. And I had

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never heard of this. Call on my mock. I hope

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I say it right. Really again, call on the mock,

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Call on the mock. K A l A n A

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n A m A k two separate words. It's pink.

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It's not black. But if you crumble up your tofu

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and instead of using regular salt, put this on there,

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it gives it an eggy flavor. I have a little turma, egg, garlic, salts, veggies,

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I have veggies to everything, and you know, onions, mushrooms, yama.

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it'll it'll taste similar. Even though I don't expect eggs,

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Like I said, don't expect sheet, I don't expect rights. Yeah,

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what else I can see some other things over here

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at the table. So I brought some days. I've brought

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some things for trouble. Okay, we're going to do travel

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in just a minute. What about the dates there? So

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the days? This is fun. Dried fruit again, some people

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don't want to have to fruit because of the concentration

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of sugar. There's no added sugar to these. You could

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take it. Do this, trust me, it works. Take a day,

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cut it open and remove the pit. If there's a pit,

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of course, put either almond butter or peanut butter inside,

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thicker almond in the middle. Put it in your freezer

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if you want to drizzle a little chocolate on top.

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And I'm not kidding you like a Snickers far. I mean,

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it's not a Snickers Far. Don't expect a Snipers far,

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but you'll be pleasantly surprised to see. And the good

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thing about whole foods too, is that they're not as

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addicting and really quick. But yeah, you're trapped. This is

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one of my favorite books by Douglas Loyle and Alan Goldheamer.

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It talks about sugar, salt and fat and processed foods.

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They create an addictive quality. I used to have a

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terrible overeating problem when I was younger, and it's terrible,

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and I thought it was me. I thought I had

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no will power. I thought, you know, it was me.

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And the truth is it's the food. It's definitely the

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food and the companies that make processed foods, chips, cookies, crackers, whatever,

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no matter what you if you look on the legal

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and you you will most likely see sugar, salt, of fat.

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And that's why I believe you can't stop eating it,

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and why you buy another box and another box or whatever.

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Some people don't at to react just one exactly what

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is that lace potato chips or one other potato chips?

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You know what I'm talking about. Yeah, that you can't

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eat just one. Yeah, it's it's really horrible. And that's

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why we have such a big problem in this country.

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Maybe mostly in the country, but maybe in the world. Yeah.

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The most recent data was that one third, at least

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one third of the population in the United States is obese,

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which is crazy. So I know that the government officials

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that have just been uh passed with helping us live

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healthier are going to be talking. You're going to be

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hearing more about making healthier food choices. Right, So let's see,

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let's let's yes, let's we hope. So so let's talk

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about travel. Probably that's one of my biggest buggy boes.

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That is so hard. I'm betting it's going to have

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to do with pre planning. It does, but it's not difficult, okay, right,

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My favorite, which I do buy from Doctor Furman. Did

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I already read this? Now? You know that ready we

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were having a talk here and I'm going to help

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you try this, Okay. I keep these in my first

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because I travel a lot for work. I always have,

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and it's really difficult when you're on the go or

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when you're driving or on a plane to have something

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healthy to eat. So these are called G bombs. I'll

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just kind of hold it up a little closer. Doctor Freman.

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This is a chocolate peanut. But everyone, this is my favorite.

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You will not believe these ingredients. My again, my adult

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son I brought them when I went to visit them,

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and he's like, those are still good and I don't

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feel like eating more. You know, He's like, I can't

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believe there's no added sugar. There's no added sugar in this.

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I made with dates, organic peanuts. Doctor Freman's g Bomb blend,

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which is organic dates, organic spinach, organic kale or talk

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about when what's the gens? So if it dands for something,

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it does and you'll you'll read it in the Need

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to Live book. If you get that greens, Let's hope

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I get this off in my head. Greens, beans ins,

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gbo uh, mushrooms, mushrooms and then berry aries and the

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seed bomb. I think it's just je bomb. No, there's

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an enough. I'm going to forget what it is. But

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you can read the book and you'll find it out

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if she thinks that. But I want you to try

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to seriously. There's chocolate chips in here. Let the wealthy

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fie really just take them. I could just take it, yeah,

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I mean they taste really good. It's very creamy. Do

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you taste finis? No? I know, which is really neat?

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So this is something I do buy online. Isn't it good?

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So I keep those in my betters, I keep them

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in my purse and once I eat it, sometimes it's

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my part of my it's my breakfast because I'm not

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a big breakfast theater. But it holds me over that

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and probably one of the better isn't it good. Then

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this is another Furman thing. And the reason I like

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Furman's products is because they don't have to added oil

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or sugar. I can't say I've liked everything I've ordered,

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but I do like these. These are kale chips. So

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those of you who like potato chips that are trying

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to get rid of all that oil and junk, this

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just has organic kale water, rock cash us unfortified nutritional yeast,

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which we just talked about onions, solid organic apple cider, vinegar,

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and garlic powder. That's what's in here. So these are

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nice chips. I mean, they're really what you want to

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try to for you to chocolate chocolate chocolate that these

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are really good. He hasn't in different flavors. It's worth

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a try buying kale chips at the grocery store. A

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lot of them have tons of oil, but you might

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be able to find something like this. I just haven't

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so And then they kind of things these areducted at Googles.

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These two are making rest in peace. He passed away,

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but these are I take these on planes. They're sorry,

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I M doing this right. This is a flip piece soup.

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It's got a little packet inside of seasoning, so if

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you don't want as much salt, you can control it,

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which is really nice. I don't know why this one

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has sugar in it, but it does. So beware look

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at labels. Labels are when you do a vegan diet.

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Labels are so important. Some items have things like caseine

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and wigh protein and those kinds of things. Those are

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not vegan, like protein drinks and stuff, So do your homework.

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But these are really good. This is two hundred and

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fifty calories one gram of fad fifteen grams of protein. Wow,

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so be going to get your protein. I take these

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on planes. I asked the flight attendant to add some

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hot water. Yeah, and there you go. I did find

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this at Walmart. It doesn't say vegan, it says plant based.

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That the ingredients look good. But there's all kinds of

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things now that you can buy that are tasty and

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beacon and don't kill animals. So those are some ideas

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that bring produce, to bring some grapes, bring some blueberries

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if you can. Some things aren't just you know. I

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brought some blueberries on the playing ones and they go

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all squish. Yeah, blueberries are hard grapes are better. Grapes

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or apples. Trail Joe's. We don't have one here in

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Saint George, but Trader Joke has life apples that have

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some kind of I don't know if it's lemon juice

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or whatever that you know, they have a bag you

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can just take the whole thing with you and eat.

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00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:44.839
So it's a lot of apples to eat though, when

451
00:28:45.039 --> 00:28:47.799
you know, you know, I need writing that. But nuts

452
00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:52.279
are such great, great options too, and cashews you can

453
00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:54.519
make good sauses if you have a vitamins or one

454
00:28:54.519 --> 00:28:58.680
of these. Yeah, what about let's see, I'm thinking about

455
00:28:58.759 --> 00:29:02.559
some other food ingredients, like we don't have one to show,

456
00:29:02.599 --> 00:29:05.319
but liquid amnas if you've ever heard of that? What

457
00:29:05.440 --> 00:29:08.079
is that? It's kind of like soy sauce. I believe

458
00:29:08.119 --> 00:29:10.400
it's gluten free for people who have gluten free, but

459
00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:12.400
do your own research. I know I keep saying that,

460
00:29:12.559 --> 00:29:15.880
don't trust me on that. Do it yourself. But it

461
00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:18.440
comes with in a spray and you could just spray

462
00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:20.680
it on your food too, which is kind of nice.

463
00:29:20.720 --> 00:29:24.480
It's similar to soys tastes like soy sauce and at

464
00:29:24.720 --> 00:29:27.640
places aggriplace, and you had a good idea for egg

465
00:29:27.640 --> 00:29:30.799
replaces I've never heard. Yeah, so if you're going to

466
00:29:30.920 --> 00:29:34.440
bake something and like, I'll give you an example. I

467
00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:36.559
love Trader Joe's, even though we don't have them here.

468
00:29:36.799 --> 00:29:39.279
Every time I go to La or Vegas or whatever,

469
00:29:39.599 --> 00:29:42.799
I go to Trader Joe's. They have a corn bread mix. Again,

470
00:29:42.839 --> 00:29:45.400
it's not the healthiest thing. There's all kinds of ingredients

471
00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:48.480
in there, but you can smash up at the namp

472
00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:52.519
and it gives you that coagulated texture of an egg.

473
00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:54.519
I think it's half a banana, but look it up.

474
00:29:54.839 --> 00:29:58.400
Half a banana to one egg. There's also a way

475
00:29:58.400 --> 00:30:02.279
to make egg. You could use applesauce. You could use

476
00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:06.920
flax seed with water. There is an egg replacer product.

477
00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:08.759
It's a powder that you can add to water and

478
00:30:08.799 --> 00:30:12.440
stirred up. It is a processed food, but there's all

479
00:30:12.519 --> 00:30:16.480
kinds of options. If you're going into Google, Google's my friend.

480
00:30:16.680 --> 00:30:18.880
I just love it. If you go into doctor Google.

481
00:30:19.839 --> 00:30:22.160
If you go into Google and just put in you know,

482
00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:27.440
vegan egg replacer, you'll get all kinds of stuff. Yeah.

483
00:30:28.200 --> 00:30:34.079
So let's so the The title of this podcast is

484
00:30:34.119 --> 00:30:38.000
the five Reasons why You Should go vegan this year.

485
00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:42.680
So let's start going through those reasons. What would be

486
00:30:42.759 --> 00:30:48.319
the top reason that you should consider this? So everybody

487
00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:52.960
is different, and for me it's the animals. Okay. So

488
00:30:54.240 --> 00:30:58.559
and there's some there's some documentaries out there, Yeah that

489
00:30:58.759 --> 00:31:04.400
might convince you. I mean about you know, cattle about about,

490
00:31:04.680 --> 00:31:09.480
bid about about the I have loved to go out

491
00:31:09.519 --> 00:31:15.359
on deep sea like fishing boats off of the off

492
00:31:15.480 --> 00:31:20.799
the coast of the Pacific Northwest. That's an education because

493
00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:24.480
you've got fish that are released that I have been

494
00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:28.480
in patcheries, that are then released into the ocean and

495
00:31:28.519 --> 00:31:32.920
then they come back. And but yeah, I have noticed

496
00:31:32.920 --> 00:31:37.480
that fish like the fish that I see in the

497
00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:44.359
meat counter in the are colored insteads color added. And

498
00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:49.039
I'm like, oh man, that's awful. Anyway, go for it.

499
00:31:49.480 --> 00:31:52.400
This is one of my favorite books of all time.

500
00:31:53.000 --> 00:31:55.759
It's called The World Peace Diet by Will Tuttle. It's

501
00:31:55.839 --> 00:31:59.599
not a diet per se. It's not going to tell you, you know,

502
00:31:59.640 --> 00:32:04.039
how to something. I actually met him after I read

503
00:32:04.079 --> 00:32:07.880
the book and he's signed my book. But Will Tuttle,

504
00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:12.000
but he goes over so eloquently and beautifully why a

505
00:32:12.079 --> 00:32:15.720
vegan diet is so important. There are some disturbing things

506
00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:17.759
in here. I'm not going to lie. I mean, obviously

507
00:32:17.799 --> 00:32:21.079
when you're killing animals, when it has to do with

508
00:32:21.160 --> 00:32:26.400
how animals are treated, animal cruelty. But the way he

509
00:32:26.440 --> 00:32:29.799
writes is so beautiful and so eloquent. I highly recommend

510
00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:33.680
this book. So that's my number one is it's cruel

511
00:32:33.799 --> 00:32:37.240
it's the cruelty and the murder of the animals. My

512
00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:40.119
number two, of course, is going to be health. I

513
00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:45.799
am a cancer survivor seventeen years and to top it

514
00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:49.680
off with ovarian cancer, which usually ask me what kind?

515
00:32:49.920 --> 00:32:54.039
Usually people catch it late and I was super fortunate.

516
00:32:54.279 --> 00:33:00.640
No evidence I'm clean. But that's another reason why a

517
00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:05.279
vegan diet for me, why I think it's it's so important.

518
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:13.559
I believe that eating meat and dairy and animal products.

519
00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:17.000
I'm even wearing animal products, I don't think it's good

520
00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:20.720
for our help, you know, just intuitively I feel that way.

521
00:33:20.759 --> 00:33:24.200
But I also know that there are facts and information

522
00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:29.640
out there that suggests that a vecan diet is a

523
00:33:29.720 --> 00:33:32.599
very healthy way. Like I'm thinking of what can people

524
00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:36.880
go look at, I'm thinking of the show called Forks

525
00:33:36.920 --> 00:33:41.839
over Knives. That's why I brought the cookbook. Okay, well

526
00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:45.240
I didn't know. I seriously did not. This is one

527
00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:47.559
of my favorite cookbooks, Works of the Knights. But there

528
00:33:47.640 --> 00:33:51.680
is a movie and they talk about that a lot.

529
00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:55.920
There's all kinds of movies out there now that that

530
00:33:56.559 --> 00:34:00.400
I just can't help with them. But but there's lots

531
00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:03.160
of documentaries. I patient, I think that there's a lot

532
00:34:03.359 --> 00:34:05.799
more awareness. Don't you think that there's a lot more

533
00:34:05.839 --> 00:34:10.480
awareness that just enough to be popping up And everything

534
00:34:10.519 --> 00:34:13.280
that's happening recently just seems like we're going in that

535
00:34:13.400 --> 00:34:19.440
direction to be healthier. So when I lived thirteen years ago,

536
00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:23.960
people thought it was crazy are you literally and you're

537
00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:27.239
a restaurants and think like what's that? Yeah? Again, and

538
00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:30.440
it was really Now now it's easier, not here so

539
00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:36.639
much although good, So okay, so that was so the

540
00:34:36.679 --> 00:34:39.440
whole thing with animal cruelty is number one. Number two

541
00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:42.960
is health health Number three well, and also I guess

542
00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:46.880
number three could be longevity. There's that guy, oh, I

543
00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:49.800
wish I could remember his saying. You may know he's

544
00:34:49.880 --> 00:34:55.719
online or he has a documentary about centinnarians, people who

545
00:34:55.760 --> 00:34:59.079
lived past one hundred. And there's the website that you

546
00:34:59.079 --> 00:35:02.480
can actually go to that if you go past one hundred,

547
00:35:02.480 --> 00:35:05.119
you can be on that you're Yeah, and there's more

548
00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:09.719
and more people that are older than one hundred, and

549
00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:13.079
then there are like hot spots around the world where

550
00:35:13.119 --> 00:35:17.719
people that are living long lives are being studied. Seventh

551
00:35:17.800 --> 00:35:21.320
Day Adventists. Yes, I think it's yes and not going

552
00:35:21.480 --> 00:35:25.679
out No, California. Yeah, there's a California town. Trying to

553
00:35:25.679 --> 00:35:30.920
remember what it is anyway, but yes, anyway, longevity, Yeah, longevity.

554
00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:36.119
People think that a vegan diet is expensive. If you're

555
00:35:36.119 --> 00:35:38.679
going to buy the processed foods, it's probably just as

556
00:35:38.719 --> 00:35:42.599
expensive as maybe a little more. But if you find lentil,

557
00:35:42.840 --> 00:35:46.920
I think these were less than two bucks. Yeah, you know,

558
00:35:47.119 --> 00:35:50.400
it depends on what you buy. You buy produce. It's

559
00:35:51.199 --> 00:35:54.920
you're not minding meats and cheese compared to meat and cheese. Yeah,

560
00:35:55.039 --> 00:35:58.840
I mean, so I think it's it's budget friendly. That's

561
00:35:58.880 --> 00:36:02.239
another reason people give me of being vegan is expensive.

562
00:36:02.760 --> 00:36:06.639
Microcindo is not high trust me, right, and yours probably

563
00:36:06.760 --> 00:36:09.400
isn't either. Well, No, I mean if I'm just walking

564
00:36:09.440 --> 00:36:12.960
over to the corner to get some greens, yeah, and

565
00:36:13.119 --> 00:36:17.079
it's about as fresh as it can be. Yeah, yeah. Okay,

566
00:36:17.159 --> 00:36:26.360
so so that was an animal trilogy, health, longevity, budget, budget,

567
00:36:27.960 --> 00:36:31.239
There's so many reasons, but I feel like it brings

568
00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:35.440
me peace. I feel like I feel right with myself.

569
00:36:35.519 --> 00:36:39.719
The environment, yeah that really should be on the list,

570
00:36:40.079 --> 00:36:42.079
But I feel like it brings me peace. I feel

571
00:36:42.079 --> 00:36:44.079
like when I first went to begin it was for

572
00:36:44.119 --> 00:36:46.760
the animals, but then I learned so much more of

573
00:36:46.920 --> 00:36:49.599
the World Peace diet. That book will we'll help this

574
00:36:50.239 --> 00:36:53.280
speaking about I mean, don't you think that, like having

575
00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:58.440
this thing in the corner is environmentally good for the

576
00:36:58.480 --> 00:37:04.639
interior of this home? I would think so oxygen, Yeah maybe, yeah,

577
00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:09.440
I thought about that before. Yeah, yeah, so the environment.

578
00:37:09.519 --> 00:37:12.480
But also being I give you six reasons feeling right

579
00:37:12.519 --> 00:37:15.519
with your son, I really think that there's something that

580
00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:19.719
I feel like. I feel like I glow inside more

581
00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:21.599
than I ever did before, because I feel like I

582
00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:24.360
may just feeling I could. I feel like I made

583
00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:27.199
a good decision and I can feel it all the

584
00:37:27.199 --> 00:37:31.559
way to my core. Right. Okay, So let's talk a

585
00:37:31.599 --> 00:37:34.800
little bit more about restaurants. If you're going out to eat,

586
00:37:35.079 --> 00:37:37.920
what's the biggest thing you think that people should do well.

587
00:37:38.039 --> 00:37:40.599
I always like to research the restaurant ahead of time. Yeah,

588
00:37:41.639 --> 00:37:47.199
my core friends, you know, they always ask me where

589
00:37:47.199 --> 00:37:51.199
should we eat? Or hey, Bicky, let's go ki they

590
00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:55.360
have a vegan option and I'm not a big I know,

591
00:37:55.440 --> 00:37:58.559
I'm a worker eater, or like, can't you make any

592
00:37:58.719 --> 00:38:03.039
You could guess if they have lettuce, if they have beans,

593
00:38:03.239 --> 00:38:07.440
you know. But oftentimes there's something on the menu, like

594
00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:09.280
some kind of bowl. I always like it when they

595
00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:14.480
have a bowl like with vegetables and rice, brown rice preferably.

596
00:38:14.559 --> 00:38:18.800
But but call ahead sometimes they you know, and I

597
00:38:18.880 --> 00:38:21.559
have to say, restaurants lose my business and the friends

598
00:38:21.639 --> 00:38:26.760
my friend's business when when I call and they they're like, oh,

599
00:38:26.760 --> 00:38:28.559
we have nothing, and I look on their menu and

600
00:38:28.599 --> 00:38:31.159
I see they have stuff. Sure, they just they just

601
00:38:31.239 --> 00:38:32.639
need to know how to put it together. I think

602
00:38:32.679 --> 00:38:34.679
it's getting better at right, but I think it's still tough.

603
00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:38.079
So colahead ahead of time. Look at the menu online.

604
00:38:38.159 --> 00:38:42.000
Sometimes there's already a vegan you know, it's labeled vegan,

605
00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:45.239
and so you don't have to call, but look and

606
00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:47.760
see what their sides are. Is there something you can have?

607
00:38:48.800 --> 00:38:51.599
And oh, but I do want to say one of

608
00:38:51.639 --> 00:38:53.880
the best meals I ever had was at a restaurant

609
00:38:53.880 --> 00:38:56.599
where there was no vegan options, but the chef. It

610
00:38:56.679 --> 00:39:00.280
was a nice restaurant. The chef cook something up I

611
00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:03.400
think it was polenta, and he did something with it

612
00:39:03.440 --> 00:39:06.679
that was out of this world. Out here, there's a

613
00:39:06.679 --> 00:39:09.400
restaurant I hope they still have it called Painted Pony.

614
00:39:09.800 --> 00:39:13.719
They don't even put they have a beat Regoli. They

615
00:39:13.719 --> 00:39:15.760
don't even put it on their menu. I l ask

616
00:39:16.119 --> 00:39:19.320
because they don't want to sell out, so when the

617
00:39:19.400 --> 00:39:24.440
vegans come in they can't have anything. But they really

618
00:39:24.679 --> 00:39:26.760
and every time I went there. I have a book club.

619
00:39:26.840 --> 00:39:29.599
We would meet there, and every time I would ask them,

620
00:39:29.639 --> 00:39:31.760
if you guys come up with another option for me,

621
00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:33.239
because all I would be able to get is a

622
00:39:33.280 --> 00:39:36.000
salad and modify it, you know, don't put the cheese

623
00:39:36.039 --> 00:39:39.760
on or whatever. And they were either listening to me

624
00:39:40.039 --> 00:39:42.639
or somebody else, but they came up with a really

625
00:39:42.639 --> 00:39:46.079
good option. So well, we're going to have to wrap

626
00:39:46.159 --> 00:39:52.039
up now. But if someone was saying, you've overwhelmed me today.

627
00:39:52.039 --> 00:39:55.119
It's so much information, But what would be the one thing?

628
00:39:55.159 --> 00:39:57.760
What would be where would somebody start would it like

629
00:39:57.960 --> 00:40:00.119
one of these books? Would there be one of the

630
00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:02.199
books that would be the best thing to start with.

631
00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:06.320
So sounded like I think it was that this one.

632
00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:08.800
So doctor Neil Barnard came out with this book, The

633
00:40:08.880 --> 00:40:12.639
Vegan Storter Kid. I think you can go online and

634
00:40:12.679 --> 00:40:16.159
find information too, but it's a hard thing to do

635
00:40:16.239 --> 00:40:18.920
in the beginning because you don't know what you're doing,

636
00:40:19.320 --> 00:40:22.199
and if the whole family's not doing it, it's really hard.

637
00:40:23.280 --> 00:40:26.480
That's something I'm dealing with. I've got a Meat and

638
00:40:26.679 --> 00:40:32.159
Potato's husband. Yeah, but he's coming around by ipslow. The

639
00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:33.960
other thing you could do, she's going to have my

640
00:40:34.239 --> 00:40:37.239
You're going to put my contact information on And I

641
00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:40.599
don't mind answering questions. I don't do this for a living.

642
00:40:41.800 --> 00:40:44.320
It's a it's a passion of mine. Maybe one day

643
00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:47.280
I'll decide to, but right now I'd rather just make

644
00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:50.280
it a passion. So I'd be happy to answer any

645
00:40:50.360 --> 00:40:54.719
questions or you know, possibly provide some kind of support

646
00:40:54.840 --> 00:41:00.760
with ideas, restaurants, recipe, books, recipes, what you feel free

647
00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:03.119
to reach to? Reach out to me, Mike, can I

648
00:41:03.239 --> 00:41:06.400
sing what my email? Yeah? It's vegan vic V E

649
00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:08.960
G A N V I c K which is the

650
00:41:09.559 --> 00:41:12.719
Aton dot com. Feel free to reach out to me

651
00:41:12.760 --> 00:41:15.280
and I'd be happy to respond. And the other thing

652
00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:17.880
I'll all mentioned is because I'm sitting here looking at

653
00:41:17.920 --> 00:41:22.280
my power garden in the background. There I found somebody

654
00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:24.679
who does a lot of training of all the little

655
00:41:25.800 --> 00:41:29.119
little things that help you have a successful hydroponic garden.

656
00:41:29.400 --> 00:41:31.400
I'm going to have him on as a guest the

657
00:41:31.519 --> 00:41:35.639
not too distant future, so be looking for that episode

658
00:41:36.199 --> 00:41:39.679
that will be fun to do. So our time is

659
00:41:39.679 --> 00:41:42.760
the maybe, beloved, I was worried we wouldn't have enough time,

660
00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:48.039
oh enough to win so fast. So thank you so

661
00:41:48.159 --> 00:41:51.400
much for joining us today, and I hope that we

662
00:41:51.599 --> 00:41:55.440
helped you ask big questions about how to live a

663
00:41:55.519 --> 00:42:01.400
healthier life and have that vegan lifestyle well don't regarded

664
00:42:01.519 --> 00:42:04.440
in your life. Thanks so much for joining us.

665
00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:11.440
Today's episode is over, but we did ask good questions again,

666
00:42:11.599 --> 00:42:15.199
didn't We don't miss out as we broadcast live every

667
00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:19.199
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668
00:42:19.400 --> 00:42:23.239
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669
00:42:23.360 --> 00:42:28.079
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670
00:42:28.199 --> 00:42:32.719
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671
00:42:33.159 --> 00:42:36.000
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