My husband and I tried the vegan thing for a few months years ago when it was supposed to be so great -we were both raised on ranches in remote areas, and our moms were naturalists/organic food types-but there was grass-fed, free range pork, beef and chicken on the menu along with the home-grown organic veggies and fruit, and we’d grown up eating that way. As adults following the same paleo-type diet, our systems did not like the shortage of protein and animal fat in the vegan diet. We lost energy, so we took most of the grains-especially wheat-out of the diet, put back the meat and went back to the paleo eating. I’ve eaten that way since.
There are quite a few people who are naturalists here. Some eat like I do, some are vegan, and some even eat baked stuff with refined processed sugar and processed/white flour which makes no sense to me-once it is processed, it is not “organic”. the small-chain grocery store 20 miles away has grass-fed, free range meat, cage-free eggs, local organic-grown veggies and many of the same brands of organic stuff as stores in the city like Whole Foods carry-Bob’s Red Mill, Hain, etc. There are also a couple of farm to table restaurants here-located on the real farm/guest ranches where the food is grown/produced. The food there is fresh, well-prepared and they have both Texas and California wines as well as from France, Argentina, etc...
yes
people can debate the details of diets all day and all night
but
most of us can pretty much recognize what’s basically healthy and what isn’t
most of the time
it is like, fresh versus old food, natural foods versus chemical-laced factory-processed foods, balanced diet versus ice cream all day
in general, the longer the ingredients list the worse it may be for health
even peanut butter. as long as a person isn’t allergic, some real PB has to be okay in a diet methinks. But there are 200 different bottles on the shelf.. about 6 or 8 say “peanuts, period”... and the rest have all sorts of artificial oils and chemicals and preservatives and junk added.
you can guess which one I buy
smiles