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Vegan Week: The Power of Veganism

Can a meat-and-potatoes man go totally vegan for 28 days? What will it do for his health? Watch this clip of the Dr. Oz show to find out. Very much a testimony to the power of food and its impact on health.

(I found this video over at Sound Eats.)

Being a vegan myself, I can attest to the amazing benefits of switching over to a vegan diet. One of the main things I have noticed after being a vegan, switching back to eating meat, then returning to this diet is that I weigh significantly less when I don’t eat animal products. Why? Because if you think about it, you are still eating the same amount of food, but Vegan foods tend to be much healthier and have lower calorie and fat counts than foods that contain animal products. I also consume less alcohol when I follow a Vegan diet.

Another thing that caught my attention in this video is when they say that Rocco almost didn’t do the show because he just did not want to come to terms with how horrible his health really was. In reality, we all know that when we eat crappy foods every day, our bodies are going to be in disgusting shape! The last thing we need is someone telling us exactly how disgusting, right? This is how I felt about my blood pressure. I kept avoiding going to the doctor because I was scared fo hearing how high the numbers actually were, and even more afraid that they weren’t going down. But problems are never going to go away unless we do something to fix them… or just die as a result of negligence.

The sad thing is, I bet some people would rather eat at McDonalds three times a day and die at age forty-four than take care of themselves and live a long, fulfilling life.