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Vegan Before 6:00 is a perfect example - how did you stumble upon your personal rule? We crave rules - a way of thinking that makes it easier to shift to a healthier diet. It has to be that some scientist invents something." That's not how things are going to get better. And that's so simple that people think, "Well, it can't be like that.

What works is eating a wide variety of foods, as I've now said three times - most of them plants. So, if I say to you, "Eat lots of tomatoes," and then a study comes out and says, "Well, tomatoes are good because there's lycopene (PH) in it," then the industry wants to promote lycopene because it can take lycopene and put it in Trix, and now tell you that Trix are good for you because there's lycopene in them.īut the fact is that's not how it works. Everybody says, "Oh, it's so confusing." Well, the reason it's confusing is because the industry wants you to be confused. So, when the science says, and the science does say a good diet is actually a very, very simple thing, people find that boring. In fact, it usually doesn't work that way. We think that at some point, there's going to be a pill that makes our ills go away - there's going be a tech solution that makes climate change go away.Īnd it doesn't always work that way. MB: Yeah, why do we ignore the science? Many books have been written about this. Why aren't we happy with what the science tell us about healthy eating? So, the idea is really a balance of real foods, but a much stronger and much heavier emphasis on plants than really we've done in the United States for 100 years. The overproduction of industrially raised animals - as in factory farms - we've all seen pictures of those, is not only bad for us, but terrible for the environment, for the people who live around those factory farms, for the animals, of course. So, the overconsumption of animal products is bad for us. Meat and dairy can be a part of that diet, but it should not be a part of that diet in the way that it is for most of us now, which is to say we eat a pound and a half or so of animal products every day on average, which is conservatively ten times as much as we need and ten times as much as is good for us. Again, not hyper-processed foods, but real foods. But you don't have to fully embrace a vegan lifestyle to reap some of these benefits - just eating fewer animal products and boosting the number of plant-based foods you eat every day can lead to many of these positive health improvements.Ī balanced diet means wide variety of foods, but real foods. So much as changed since my vegetarian days back in the 1990s and eating a plant-based diet is easier than ever. And adopting a plant-based diet can lead to improvements in blood pressure, reductions in heart disease, and a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

Studies show that eating a vegan diet, chock-full of antioxidant- and fiber-rich foods, like fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes, may reduce your risk of cancer. The benefits of being a part-time veganīittman was following the science, of course. After three months, I was eating more fruits and vegetables than ever before and had lost 20 pounds in the process. So, if I wanted a piece of salmon, a little piece of baguette and a glass of wine, that was okay.

All day, I'd follow a vegan diet (focusing on real food, mostly fruits and vegetables) and then relax things a bit later on at night. In fact, the way we eat is unsustainable.īittman's "Vegan Before 6:00" philosophy was just the answer I was looking for. Which was precisely Bittman's simple, but important point in "Food Matters": the way we eat isn't good for us, the animals we're rely on or the environment we live in. Although maintaining my weight was easier, I still had that nagging feeling (let's call it guilt) that all of the meat, cheese and eggs I was eating couldn't be good for me - least of all for the animals who made the earthly sacrifice to fuel my low-carb lifestyle. So I went back to my meat-eating ways - joining the low-carb, high protein revolution as a way to shed the pounds and it worked.