My Tiffin arrived today. It is pretty spiffy. It looks smaller than you’d expect but when you compact everything together it has all the space Kevin will need for his lunch. My big challenge now though is that Kev wants me to make him a lunch kit that has a compartment for his stainless steel water bottle, his Tiffin and a special space for fruit and cutlery. Any ideas?

This is Kevin’s lunch for tomorrow. He is having left over Chinese stir fry from the Vegetarian Low GI book. He is also having homemade vegan pudding as well as olives, veggie crackers and some cheese.

We were trying to cut cheese out of our diet but then I found out that Kevin was losing weight from all his Martial Arts training as well as his regular work outs. I became worried that he wasn’t getting enough calories and started putting cheese back in his diet for the extra fat.

On Monday I was at Superstore and in their book rack (which I hardly ever look at) they had a copy of Thrive Fitness. It’s the newest book by Brendan Brazier. I own two of his other books and couldn’t resist snatching this one up too. I really like his philosophy on food, exercise and reducing dietary stress. His new book covers how to eat for optimum weight loss, muscle gain and overall wellness. He even talks about the ability to reduce the likelihood of disease or cancer even through diet.

A fantastic book for that is The China Study by Colin T. Campbell. It’s an absolutely fabulous book for anyone who wants to know how to combat diseases and cancers.

I have talked about this book many a times on this blog but I really can’t say enough wonderful things about it!

I borrowed a cookbook called Vegan Express from the library a couple of days ago. I wanted to share some of the foreword written by Neal Bernard, MD. He is the President of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

He states that by simply reducing the amount of meat and eggs we consume we ill only slightly reduce our cholesterol, blood pressure and body weight.

He states that collectively, Americans are more out of shape than any other American generation.

“Numerous scientific studies have shown that the healthiest diet of all is one that is low in fat and is completely comprised of plant foods. Vegetarians have healthier hearts, healthier skin, lower blood pressure, less risk of diabetes, fewer kidney stones and gallstones, and forty percent less cancer risk.”

He also says that vegan diets are even better and that vegetarians are about ten percent slimmer than non-vegetarians.

I know for myself that I lost thirty pounds just from giving up meat. I am having a hard time losing the rest of the baby weight but I think that exercise and giving up cheese will probably fix that. LOL.

Despite all of the evidence showing how dramatically a change in diet can affect your health and lenghten your life span it is unfortunate that doctors and dieticians don’t encourage these low to no cholesterol diets to their overweight and diseased patients.

I suppose there is no profit for large corporations in eating healthy…

 

Side note:  I saw some type Pharmaceutical companies wrong. They spelled it like this: Pharmapsodical. I wonder if they were trying to say pharma.pseudo.cal. That would be funny. Ha ha ha.