Egle’s healthy tidbits

For those of you wanting to really jump start your health I challenge you to take on the VEGAN CHALLENGE that starts on March 1st.

Click here to learn more and to accept the challenge.

If you think giving up meat is virtually impossible for you to do, I know how you feel. I was in those shoes over four years ago. I grew up in Lithuania, and a big part of the diet there is lots of potatoes and lots of meat. And I even took it to the next level, I loved meat! I loved the smell of it, the taste of it, it was a biggest treat for me. I would start having my meat with breakfast on a sandwich, then for lunch and dinner. And often as a snack I would have same smoked salami slices as well. Yum, yum, yummy! I loved it! As I started to learn more about health and nutrition I started reading about the negative effects of consuming meat and dairy, I couldn’t’ escape it. However, since meat was such a big part of my diet I thought it would be impossible for me to give it up. And I probably wouldn’t have, for my own health that is, but someone had a different plan for me.

In college we did a group project and chose to research why a vegetarian diet is a better choice. I read two books by Jim Robbins Diet for a New America and The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World that really opened my eyes about the vast implications of a meat eating diet. Before starting the research I was only aware about the effects of meat on health, but wasn’t aware about how damaging a meat eating diet was on the environment and the extreme cruelty done to animals. It was actually that last piece, the cruelty to animals, that made me to finally give it up forever, and I am happy to say that I have not touched meat in over four years now.

So if I can do it, you can definitely do it too!

All the best,
Egle