what would you like to know about being a vegetarian?
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Personally, I eat eggs, dairy, and occasionally fish. However this weekend, I watched this:
http://www.forksoverknives.com/
on netflix and it was really interesting!
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Have you tried using dried beans instead of canned beans, and soaking them in water with some baking soda in it for a while? If you do that for about four hours, then rinse the beans and soak another four hours in plain water, it usually gets rid of some of the gasiness.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
For me it was very much an ethical thing, though. I think a vegetarian diet can be healthier than a diet including meat, and I think meat is often unhealthy (all the hormones and antibiotics and stuff in it these days), but I think you can eat a healthy diet that includes meat. And you can be a vegetarian and be pretty unhealthy, as I was when I weighed 270 pounds. I quit eating meat when I was 14 and I didn't know a thing about healthy eating, I just knew it felt wrong to me to kill animals and eat them.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
on 2/20/12 3:52 am
I love lentils and barley and found a dietician who will let me have them after surgery. The old one was dead set against a vegetarian diet no matter how far out from surgery you are.
Now where do you find porcini mushrooms? It's in a recipe from Dr. Esselstyn's book on curing heart disease with a plant based diet.
We're not geting a Whole Foods on this side of town until 2014 and it's not at Trader Joe's.
I'm a veggie lover who's always struggled with getting enough protein even prior to surgery, so I'm intrigued by your book.
As an aside, my body has also not heard the concept "net carbs" because high fiber to counteract higher carbs just doesn't work the way it seems to for most postops.
