Free spirit, restless soul

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It's about healthy choices. 1 year ago

I love being vegan. I know I’ve said it before, but I do love it. I love that I am finally living in sync with my values. I love eating and feeling healthy.

Sometimes I don’t understand why veganism gets such a bad rap. I mean, I know there must be angry and uneducated vegans out there, but there are also plenty of angry and uneducated non-vegans out there too. When people say that I can’t possibly be healthy with a vegan diet, I explain that it’s highly possible to be unhealthy with a vegan diet, and it’s almost highly possible to be unhealthy with a non-vegan diet. How many people do you know that eat fast food for most of their meals? Seriously. To me, it’s about being educated and knowing what you need to consume in order to stay healthy.

Right now I am embarking on a mission to get 100% of each and every vitamin and mineral each day. I got all of the vitamins easily, the proteins pretty easily, and the major minerals. It’s the silly trace minerals that get me.

I’ll bet I spend more time worrying about my intake of vitamin k and molybdenum than any non-vegan I know.

The next time someone interrogates me on my “unhealthy” diet… I’ll just whip out my handy dandy daily dietary assessment.

May 27, 2007, 06:40PM PDT | 1 cheer


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marathoner452 is trying not to melt in the New Orleans heat.

Kale is great stuff for all kinds of vitamins. As long as you cook it with a little sugar, it tastes good too.

Being the well-educated vegan that you are, though, you probably already knew that. :-)

May 28, 2007, 05:04PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

Free spirit, restless soul

Actually

I’ve never had kale! Surprisingly!

Thanks for the tip – I’ll have to try it out!

May 28, 2007, 05:18PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

Free spirit, restless soul

Another thing!

I noticed that you volunteered in New Orleans as part of AmeriCorps…. I was down there a few times as a volunteer. Where exactly were you stationed? I was at Camp Hope in Chalmette and working in Violet.

May 28, 2007, 05:23PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

marathoner452 is trying not to melt in the New Orleans heat.

three times, moving there in August

March 2006 for 3 weeks with the Red Cross-3 days in the lower 9th, remaining time in Violet (served hot meals on a feeding truck)
July 2006 for 1 week with Hands On-based in Central City (gutted houses all over the city)
February 2007 for 2 1/2 weeks with Emergency Communities-lower 9th ward (served 3 hot meals a day)

Emergency Communities operated a kitchen in Violet last summer.

I’m moving to New Orleans in August to become certified as a middle school social studies teacher. That should take about 2 years.

May 28, 2007, 05:35PM PDT | Respond to this 1 cheer

marathoner452 is trying not to melt in the New Orleans heat.

There’s even a website-eatmorekale.com or something like that. One of the cooks at Emergency Communities was a kale fanatic.

I also have very fond memories of stripping kale for dinner, that is, pulling off all the leaves so we could cook them separately. You can imagine how much fun we had being “kale strippers”.

May 28, 2007, 05:30PM PDT | Respond to this


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