Adventures in Whole-Food, Plant-Based Eating
It’s October 2010, and I have been eating whole food, plant-based for almost one year. I’m spending a weekend at the Healthy Lifestyle Expo, which is held at the Warner Center Marriott. It is my first time there and I am glad to meet some people who eat healthy like...
It is easy to form the belief that foods that appeal to us must be healthy, or at least okay to eat. Listen to what your body asks for and you will know what to give it. This may have been close to correct in the environment in which we...
I eat a lot of food, roughly four pounds each day. What do I consider to be food? Fruits, leafy and root vegetables, whole grains, beans and other legumes. I eat lots of spices but little salt. Maybe one or two ounces of nuts and half an ounce of the...
It is 2009, and I work at a small company headed by a man named John Tanner. John is three months younger than me. We are 52. In October, he is out jogging on a Sunday when he suddenly falls over with a heart attack. His heart had stopped. I’m...
Many people are convinced that they don’t know how to cook. When they try, they don’t like the result, which just reinforces their conclusion that they can’t do it. I love to cook, and I love to eat my own cooking. But I don’t like to spend much time cooking,...
We arrived at Catalina Island Tuesday morning, despite having returned to Long Beach just a few hours after leaving. A passenger had a medical emergency that led to the early return. Since Catalina is just twenty-six miles from Long Beach, it did not put us off schedule. Kathryn and I...
Let me end the suspense right now. Kathryn and I took a cruise and we did not starve. It was my first cruise and was just four nights. I was concerned about starving in the midst of plenty. Cruises are known for creating tempting arrays of food which most people...
