Morning Apple Salad

2cups spinach - 20 cal
1 apple - 89 cal
1/8c walnuts - 90 cal
2TB vinaigrette - 40 cal
5 Townhouse crackers - 90 cal

Frogs, Snails, and Puppy Dog Tails - What Are You Eating?

Liver. I was forced to eat liver (usually paired w/rice and lima beans) as a child. LIVER!!!! Another beast's LIVER! For what? Iron they say? Did no one know that iron is in vegetables? I could puke knowing that I ate the liver - THE LIVER of an animal. Dramatic much? eh, maybe, but I'm just having a moment here. Was it cow's liver? Pig's liver?

Giblets - Have you ever stopped to research what a giblet is and where it comes from? What part of the chicken/turkey is it? I'm betting you have never done this research - your granny gave it to your mama and she gave it to you and now you eat it and feed the garbage to your progeny. Such a shame.

Then there are neck bones. Why are you eating neckbones and turkey necks?The bones of an animal's neck. How barbaric does this sound or does it sound weird to you?

And to the cultures that eat feet, intestines, tongue, brain, eyeballs. What are you doing? How low can you go to eat another beast's FEET - their FEET!!!! You can't find anything other than a TONGUE to put in your stew? Are you telling me that your money is so tight that you gotta eat the intestines of a beast - its digestive system - and have the unmitigated audacity to serve it up with rice, gravy, and a buttered yeast roll on a dinner plate and threaten the little ones to eat it all before leaving the table?

Moment of silence for all the children who've been subjected to this unrelenting cycle of dehumanization.

We are better than this.

Not to mention eggs. You are eating the unfertilized egg of a bird...A BIRD!!! - in humans we call the release of this unfertilized egg our menstrual cycle. Yet, you scramble it right up and serve it for breakfast. I'm positive that at this point people are giving no thought to their diet. None.

And why are you ruining your pot of collards with the STOMACH of a pig - oh, pardon me, I believe you call them HOG MAWS! Is that okay with you? No other seasonings or herbs will satisfy you other than the lining of a beast's stomach? I bet you had no clue what hog maws were - you are just playing your role in passing down ignorance to the next generation.

And there's nothing like eating the spine of a pig is there? You don't eat spine? I beg to differ. I bet you'll salivate over what's better known as pork chops any day.

WAKE. UP.

*Drops mic*

EAT MORE ANIMALS TO LOSE WEIGHT!

EAT MORE ANIMALS TO LOSE WEIGHT! 

Yep, that's the low-carb dieter's creed in a nutshell. (Paleo, Atkins, South Beach, Zone Diet just to name a few.)

Think about it. If a diet plan is telling you to avoid rice, corn, potatoes, & fruit, for example, what's left to eat? Meat, fish, dairy, and eggs. Am I the only one thinking here?

Each of the above named diet plans promotes high fat while demonizing carbs.

Look, there is nothing unhealthy about whole-foods-plant-based carbs, so I suggest you stop blindly following the "leader," exercise common sense which will lead you to eat a cruelty-free, nutrient dense, high-fiber, high carbohydrate diet. Plus you'll witness your health excel. Don't believe a word I say: Try it for yourself. High-fat? C'mon, you're intelligent enough to know that a high-fat life can't propel you into good health.

As for losing weight? Ha! You can lose weight eating only a Snicker's bar every day. But is it healthy? lol! Wake up and stop the madness.

Oh, and in reality, no animal has to die for you to shred your waistline and increase your health.
#TheMoreYouKnow

Is Dairy a Food Group?

How do you get a nation of people, who were raised and brainwashed to believe that DAIRY is a food group, to open their eyes to nutritional truth?

Naysayers: "Nevermind what you purport, Lisa, Dairy IS a food group. . . that's what we were TAUGHT - so it has to be true, and we don't intend to eliminate a whole food group from our diet - so go some where else with your 'health is in plant foods speech.' We're good. We'll survive."

And according to these deceptively erroneous food groups, if fruits and veggies are carbs and grains are carbs, what are low/no carb dieters eating?

Is Meat a Food Group?

Meat is NOT a food group.
But I ain't one to gossip ~ you ain't heard nothin' from me.

Fighting The "I-Tis"

To all those who are vegan-curious: Who says you can only eat three meals a day? Eat as many plants as you want - if you're hungry a couple of hours after a meal, EAT!

You know that "I-tis" that happens in many homes on Sunday afternoons after the BIG Sunday dinner? Well, that sleepiness no longer happens when you're a whole-foods-plant-based vegan. Nope, no heavy eye-lids - no looming feeling of a nap - doesn't happen.

Why? When you feel deathly sleepy after a meal (this is so sad), your body literally has to put you to sleep to digest the foreign substances (animal products) you just consumed in HUGE quantities. Yes, digesting meat is LABOR-INTENSIVE for your poor system. . . so it takes everything it has - to tackle this "meal" - so, in order for some form of digestion to occur, your body has to put you to sleep. It cannot function with you awake with that FULL meat belly. 

In the Black culture, the "I-tis" is welcomed and embraced. . . most think it's a signature of a good meal to get sleepy. Oh, but for the lack of knowledge. Scientifically, this self-torture doesn't happen with plant-based vegans. The body can readily recognize plants and can easily digest them so our energy goes through the roof rather than fighting the nap of our life - yes, even after a meal. No nap required. 

‪#‎TheMoreYouKnow‬

Give Me Disease!

Carbohydrates are only present in plant foods." ~ Dr. McDougall.

There are no carbohydrates in meat (no fiber either). So tell me again what you're eating if you're on a low-carb/no carb diet? Listen to me: It's foolishness. Fool. Ish. Ness. Hopefully you have common sense not to eat processed carbs - that's bad for all of us - but you can't eat a potato? Peas? A piece of fruit? Psh! You "done" fell and bumped yo' head if you're falling for that. So many of you reading this are either watching your carbs or avoiding them altogether. Foolishness.

But you can eat all the animal flesh, dairy, and eggs your acidic soul desires. Tell me how that makes sense (not to mention - I bet my bottom dollar that YOU ARE CONSTIPATED - yep, you and your high-animal product diet. . . what are you thinking? Bowel movements are only supposed to occur once every other day??? (I'm judging you right now.) Foolishness.

Let me tell you why it's both bogus and foolish, Friends. Our bodies must maintain an alkaline environment. Well, how do we promote an alkaline body? I'm glad you asked: Eat alkaline foods. Oh, and most diseases thrive in an acidic environment - you find me a sickly person and I'll show you an acidic body. It ain't magic to reverse disease - just change the diet from acidic to alkaline and you're on your way to optimal wellness. See the chart above for acidic/alkaline foods (did you know that CHEESE is one of the most acidic foods known to man? - I'm betting you didn't know it.)

So, when you eat your acidic foods, you're screaming to the Universe: Give me disease! Yep, that's what you're saying - so don't boo-hoo cry when you're diagnosed with this or that - your acidic diet invited it. I don't know any other way to present the truth to you - abrasive? eh, a little, but you don't seem to be paying much attention - and you're still feeding your kids garbage - I can somewhat understand your difficulty breaking free from an acidic diet but right now this very moment you need to switch your children over to an alkaline diet. Now! (sugar is acidic as well).

Look low/no carbers - You are clogging your arteries and engendering a body that welcomes disease. Surely, the reason you're so ANTI-CARBS is that you've just jumped on a bandwagon without doing your own research. Now, that you're informed, I expect that you would FLOOD your diet with nutrient-dense, antioxidant, alkaline foods: Plants. Just eat plants and thrive. We don't have to degenerate as we age - we don't.

And save your parents too! Average life-expectancy is 75-80. . . and if your parents are older than that, what is the quality of their life? Are they alive or are they ALIVE? Can they walk? Are they off meds? Do they have swollen knees and high-blood pressure? That's not quality living to me.

Take this information and help reverse disease for your friends and loved ones.

Eat plants. More raw than cooked.

Love y'all,

Lisa