Jim and Katie's Vegan Adventure: Day 83

BREAKFAST

Had a big bowl of oatmeal with raisans banana and blueberries...and a hot cup of freshly ground coffee.

An interesting article about blueberries

Onto a better food, presented at this year’s Experimental Biology Conference, blueberries were found to help combat abdominal fat. In the study, rats eating a lot of blueberries lost belly fat. Excess abdominal fat has been closely associated to heart disease and diabetes. The rats also experienced lower cholesterol and better glucose control, even if their diet wasn’t heart-healthy.

I watched a couple of tv episodes of "You are what you eat". This female doctor takes people who are very and/or morbidly obese and puts them on a new eating regime for 2 months. Basically all the things she tells them to eat are the same as what we are doing with the exception of them being able to have fish. Katie and I are basically staying away from fish as well, due to the fact that a lot of it contains mercury and a heck of a lot of it is imported from China.

This is an article that goes all the way back to 2007.....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/05/AR2007070502240.html

but we also watched a documentary on CBC a while back, which showed that much of the fish in packages that is stamped "Product of Canada" with the red maple leaf...is actually from China, and only packaged here. They went to the Captain Highliner plant on the east coast of Canada and found out they have no fishing boats going out, they only package fish that comes in tankers. So you decide!

back to the tv show....the difference in these folks in two months is pretty amazing....so it just goes to reinforce that so much of our overall health today is based on what we put in our mouths.

LUNCH

Katie made her version of French Onion Soup for Lunch....mushrooms, onions, brown rice, basil, cilantro, vegetable broth, pepper, topped with homemade whole wheat garlic croutons....WOW! was it ever tasty!!!