Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Love Fast Five and Plants

Friday, November 6, 2009

[fast5] Re: Love Fast Five and Plants

Hello Ceci & welcome to the group.

In addition to what Heather said - I would very highly recommend you (and anyone and everyone, in fact!) read the recently published book "The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice and Sustainability" by Lierre Keith.

I can't recommend this book enough - it's a real eye-opener for most people who aren't personally involved in cultivating & sustaining their food sources. In other words, most of us in First World nations.

Have a good Friday!

DanaCat

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "cecipettijohn" <cecipettijohn@...> wrote:
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> Hello all. I am nursing a 13 month old, and have no weight to lose, but after a friend told me she does this, I read the ebook and find this way of eating to be a great way to have more time to concentrate on my son (not thinking about food 3 times a day and what I'm going to make).
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> My comment was after having read all the previous posts-I am suprised how many people eat a high animal protein/fat diet.
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> I used to think my body could only handle animal protein/fat due everything you read in fitness magazines and also loving sugar and eating too much of it (a mouthful of cavities to prove it).
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> After reading just about every book out there (china study and all of John Mcdougall's work convinced me of the long term health benefits), it seems that our systems are ideally designed to eat plants.
> Animals are meant to be eaten when we have to other alternative for fuel.
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> I don't want to upset anyone-I just want to encourage people to read the data about animal protein-I would eat it if I had to, but in America-none of us are going hungry and plants=health.
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> In the book "green for life" the author poses a great question about why would we eat reconstituted protein instead of getting it straight from the source (plants) we were designed to get it from.
> Paleo man did not have a choice, but in america, we do.
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> I used to think I gained weight from wheat, corn, potaotes, etc, but it was the fat that I was eating that I was wearing on my body (could never get below 140/5'6").
> Now I am a size 2 (3 sizes smaller, but no longer weigh myself) and I eat about 3 big potatoes a day in addition to other plants.
> I used to think the food pyramid was insane, until I really read the research (mcdougall was the most convincing).
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> Anyway-I think eating this way (fasting 19 hours) is great and puts food back in the proper perspective of fuel.
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> I am for spreading information about plants to all and feel I have an obligation to atleast recommend books like the China Study, Green for Life, and all of John Mcdougalls work.writings (he has a web site that is worth reviewing-I never would have believed this stuff 15 years ago).
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> Blessings,
> Ceci
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