Yesterday the Good Living supplement in the SMH ran a cover story about animal fat. Talk about conflicting messages all in one day! Raw vegan on the one hand, and full-on animal products on the other... Aside from ethical concerns that I know people have to do with the eating of animal products, I do think that a balanced diet that includes animal products as well as vegetables, nuts, seeds, whole grains, fruit and oils is better than one that limits food intake in terms of type. Having said that, I also think that the way that I eat is still too high in processed food and, probably, too high in animal products. And this is how I've been eating for too long.
And so this is why, for 30 days, I will be a Raw Vegan. I am treating this as a detox more than anything else, however I hope that the benefits are wide-ranging. I also plan to see how well I can stick to something like this long-term. My mum plans—at this stage—to stick to a diet of around 75% Raw once we have completed the detox. I'm not so sure. To put it another way, I don't know enough (and haven't experienced the process and its effects) yet, and so I don't feel that I'm informed enough to plan that far ahead. However, I do want to dramatically reduce the amount of processed foods in my diet ("low fat" etc or otherwise), and this is certainly one way to achieve that!
Current feeling: chuffed that I've lost almost 10kg this year
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I read a similar article yesterday on the BBC website. It was called 'Healthy food: Should we be eating more fat? ' and said that what we usually see as 'health food' is actually bad for us and we should be consuming more animal products. Environmental and animal rights/welfare issues aside, I don't think it was very persuasive, but it did accurately point out that we tend to eat too much of some things (bread, for example) and this could be a problem for us in the long run, and that foods we are told to avoid (like fats) aren't as bad as we make them out to be.
ReplyDeleteBut I just don't think I can take someone seriously who says that "there is no biological or chemical reason to eat" vegetables.