Defining the missing age -- are we missing some good books?

[Patricia]

That link just talked me out of a vegan diet.

I had never heard about memory and energy issues popping up. Clinton was talking about how good he feels, but maybe he just forgot what feeling good feels like.

[Keryl]

Patricia wrote: "That link just talked me out of a vegan diet.

I had never heard about memory and energy issues popping up. Clinton was talking about how good he feels, but maybe he just forgot what feeling good f..."

Maybe, or maybe he was so far over on the deep fried butter on a stick side of the issue that he never knew what healthy omnivore felt like.

And I have heard rumors that healthy, happy vegans exist, I just personally don't know any that stayed that way for more than six months.

Meanwhile, this lady used to be a vegan, but couldn't keep to it for health reasons. However, if you want more vegan in your diet without going whole hog, she's got some lovely recipes (now vegan and animal based.) Plus reading her stuff about how people reacted when she went back to animal products is interesting, too.

http://voraciouseats.com/2011/08/25/c...

[Patricia]

I love that line: "...want more vegan in your diet without going whole hog..."

Thanks for the link.

[Keryl]

;)

[Sharon]

I have a friend who won't eat anything that as she says, 'has a face'. She seems to do well with eating that way ~ She looks amazing and I certainly could probably not keep up with her should I want to try.

I've known many other folks who have tried the vegan route because they thought maybe they 'should' for one reason or another. Most ended up questioning the wisdom of such a diet and went back to some form of omnivorous diet as nature seems to have intended for the human race. This list includes some fairly famous gurus.

Personally, I could not do such a diet. I can't see how I could get enough protein. Many years ago I discovered, quite by accident really, that my body worked well with 'grazing' and the best pick-me-up was protein, which does not necessarily have to be of the animal variety, but I do like a variety of food. That way of eating, of course, would not work for many people. I'm a firm believer that if you feel the need to eat any certain way, then you should try it. Your body may be telling you something...

[Andre Jute]

Hey you, listen up, this is your inner slob speaking. Indulge yourself. Exercise is for the birds!

[K.A.]

(Snicker)

My inner slob is asleep on the couch. LOL

[Sharon]

Ha Ha Andre. My inner body loves to tell me NOT to indulge, but I don't listen very well. Just yesterday I was at a nearby village with a pier where fisherpeople sell their fresh wares. I brought none home. Instead I ate hot mini-donuts, a whole boatload of fish & chips that gave me indigestion and a Buddha belly... and Tiger-Tiger ice cream for the square inch of my esophagus that had room...

** urp ** Pardon me! Ranitidine to the rescue.

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[Andre Jute]

We'll call it Danish Week when burping is polite after your meal...

We ate a nostalgic meal last night. When we lived in Adelaide, Australia, Roz and I used to eat at a restaurant called Don Giovanni's, literally a minute from the economics faculty and the conservatorium on North Terrace. They served Calzone Rustico like you wouldn't believe -- or probably finish either. You could go up to the counter and tell them what to put inside, and it was a full meal, just the calzone on the plate, hanging over the edges, with a ladle of tomato sauce.

The premade calzone I found at the supermarket were probably a sixth the size, and the filling a twentieth the protein of the Don's calzone rustico... Still, it was genuine thing, made in Italy, shipped in a big refrigerated truck... We were heroic eaters then. A dinner party for friends might go on until dawn drinking 75-old port (one of the friends was a finansier with a compulsion to buy any vineyard where I found a few barrels of the gennie vintage stuff hanging around the cellars).

Now the people we know lecture guests who ask for salt... How the mighty are fallen.

[K.A.]

"Now the people we know lecture guests who ask for salt... How the mighty are fallen."

ROTFLMAO

[Sharon]

Andre wrote: "We were heroic eaters then."

I never have been an heroic eater. Ranitidine is my friend.

*note the edit on my previous post. I didn't want to be responsible for this thread becoming a burping contest, :0 ...

[Claudine]

In some cultures it is considered very rude if you do not burp after a good meal.