WHAT I EAT IN A DAY: Vegan Fitness Models

Vegans have begun cooking with quinoa because it is a complete protein from a plant source and has many nutritional benefits including iron and magnesium. Quinoa (pronounced: keen-wa) originated in South America as far back as 5,000 years. You can use this grain wherever you used to use rice. Such dishes as: stuffed cabbage, stuffed peppers, in any kind of soup – creamy or broth based. You can make red beans and quinoa rather than red beans and rice. I like to throw it in my vegetarian chili or mix it with zucchini and garlic. The combination possibilities are endless.

I discovered cooking with quinoa while working for Weight Watchers when it had the Core Plan. What appealed was its quirky nutritional values. It is a complete protein even though it looks, cooks, and tastes like a rice or a grain. Some very tasty recipes were created and have become family favorites.

There are many reasons for which people choose to remove meat and/or animal products from their diets. For some, it will be environmental reasons, for others, health, emotional, or even spiritual reasons. The environmental reasons are easy to understand. Producing one pound of meat will take in average 7 times more energy and resources than one pound of cereals, and sometimes a lot more than that.

Vegan stores are not out in abundance around the world. A vegan store online comes plenty.

I have been reading tens of books on nutrition in the past years, but most importantly, I have experienced positive changes in my health by wisely choosing my food. What I found is this: humans have forgotten how to eat to be healthy. Wild animals don’t have diabetes, cancer or asthma. The only two kinds of animals who do have those kinds of diseases are humans and their pets, or the animals whose diet is controlled and altered by humans. Our bodies didn’t change that much in the past 30,000 years, while our diet has drastically changed in the past hundreds of years, too quickly for our bodies to adapt.