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@sebastianrichardson7391 not really. Certainly not in amounts greater than a couple ounces at a meal. But even if it were, the violence involved in the slaughter is not healthy on so many levels. The fear and stress hormones transfer to the consumer. The animals suffer tremendously. Slaughter house workers suffer tremendously. The abuse trickles into society. Turning our hearts against this theft of the rights of sentient beings to live their lives causes us to suffer even if we don’t notice physical symptoms immediately. But once we shut down our natural empathy to one creature, it becomes easier to do to others, including fellow humans. What we do to another we do to ourselves. We are all connected.

@gspike7478 I know so cute. My sister is talented!

TY very much! Gaining Strength, Don Matesz YT channel. :)

Thanks I was unsubbed

@@fairywar Why thank you! Appreciate that compliment!!

@@gspike7478 Thank you!!!🙏

Thank you! Much appreciated!

@lindsayt4096 Amazing. Finding me from a comment I left on Varg's channel! That's great, thanks for coming back around! Does Varg have a channel somewhere still? We enjoyed watching his videos. Don and I wrote extensively / did videos about our experiences in various places. I will be republishing one of my books, The Macrobiotic Action Plan, which is currently available as an ebook on my website. The paperback will be more up to date, with some new material, but I do have a preface explaining what happened between our ending being plant-based, until returning once again. I also have blog posts. Here's one: vegangreatlife.blogspot.com/2023/03/returning-home-to-my-heart.html This is more recent, with a link to download just the preface part of that book for FREE. vegangreatlife.blogspot.com/2024/06/from-vegan-to-ex-vegan-to-ex-ex-vegan.html. Here's a video by Don, Why I Quit Carnivory. th-cam.com/video/ZoDCm0HhQiE/w-d-xo.html. Look forward to seeing more comments from you! ~Tracy

@tsareno1 Hi and welcome! People are very confused about nutrition. Blood sugar does rise after eating. It's normal. It's doing its job getting blood sugar (glucose) into the muscle tissue and cells. The brain esp. relies on a certain amount of glucose each day. Unfortunately, so many people now have such messed up gut microbiomes, and metabolism that it can take some time to restore balance. Stored body fat can interrupt insulin from getting blood sugar where it needs to go, just as fat in the diet causes insulin resistance. If you click on this article, scroll down to the article topic titled, "Fat Paralyzes Insulin, Making Diabetes Worse." www.drmcdougall.com/newsletter-archives/?newsletter_url=/misc/2012nl/dec/fav5.htm. I also suggest this article, and scroll to "White Rice and Diabetes." www.drmcdougall.com/newsletter-archives/?newsletter_url=/misc/2012nl/mar/fav5.htm. I also recommend Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes. amzn.to/3MTY0XS. Our culture has actually become thin-phobic, not fat-phobic. Ignore the voices of others, tho I know it's hard. This is something Don and I have a lot of experience with! We fell of our vegan, plant-based diet in 2017 because we had so many conflicts. Of course, at the time, we blamed it on health issues. You can read about our 'journey' here, incl. downloading the updated preface that will be in the revised ed. of The Macrobiotic Action Plan. vegangreatlife.blogspot.com/2024/06/from-vegan-to-ex-vegan-to-ex-ex-vegan.html I also have free ebooks on my website. Links in description. My husband and I do by phone consultations. I do health coaching and other services. Feel free to reach out if interested. Email me at tminton31@gmail.com. Hang in there. Happy to talk more about this, and help you have the confidence and support you need moving forward. ~Tracy

@tsareno1 I should also have said that there are many ways to tweak a whole-foods, plant-based diet to find the right way for you. LMK if you would like help with that. Here's info if interested. www.tracymatesz.com/vegan-great-life-health-coaching.html

@rickandbonnie4689 Thanks Rick!!!

@Jill4Today Thanks for the complement! With respect to the 'noise' out there, I've learned to let all that info in one ear, and out the other. Try to remain as unattached as possible. I have not had a television for decades, so I do not hear what others hear. Keeps me sane. As far as that particular topic, I have not taken the time to look into myself. What has come across my field of awareness are a few things, take it for what it's worth as I have not necessarily investigated any further. 1) Gov. DeWyne (spelling may be incorrect) sent a letter to then Sect. Pompeo saying he welcomed all ('vetted') outsiders to Ohio. That would have been under Trump. 2) I heard they brought in 20k from Haiti to a town of about 40k, which is a lot to assimilate if customs and ways of being are quite different. Also, especially bc as I understand it, that area was pretty low-income to begin with. I have not checked on these stats to be certain, just what I came across. 3)I've actually seen videos by people from Haiti, now in the U.S.(incl. in Ohio) who acknowledged that is a reg. practice. It's not our custom, but it is theirs, esp. bc of how impoverished they are - and esp. as I don't think they received much financial support for rebuilding post that big quake many years back. Also, these people from Haiti said they had relatives that partake in that practice, for the practice of voodoo. I've heard this from other sources in the past. And again, that's all I know, and have not even wanted to look further. Just trying to stay focused on what is in front of me, and how I can help. And make some lemonade of this crazy life full of lemons (i.e. overcome a shit-ton of mistakes!) All I do know with 100% certainty, is that there is always always always more than one side to every story - the larger the front side, the larger the back side. (Macrobiotic principles.)

@rezamoradi4073 Thanks! I have not watched his video about what he feeds his cats. But we have transitioned the 4 abandoned cats we took in to the Evolution Diet. Vegan kibble I add nutritional yeast to plus water. The diet boasts about being one of the healthiest foods for cats as per studies conducted. It's not what types of foods, but ensuring they get their nutritional needs met that matters as far as what we've learned.

Thanks!

@jill4Today Thank you! Creature cook? That's a new one! I'm such a wing-it cook. I have tons of recipe books, and use them for leisure reading, yet my every day meals are just based on what we have. Loving the fruit, and def. love the fall winter squash season!!!

@@vegangreatlife errr....that should have been creative cook. Good old auto spellcheck

@@Jill4Today Right, good 'ole auto correct. Gets me all the time too!

@@blairbirthisel4720 Thank you very much. Love hearing from long time followers of macrobiotics!! My previously published Macrobiotic Action Plan and Menus & Recipe books are being edited and available in paperback this year. Stay tuned! Perhaps you would be interested in reading a proof copy of The Macrobiotic Action Plan in exchange for a review or feedback? Lmk. 😊

@@vegangreatlife absolutely...would be delighted to do so....let me know what you want me to do...and how to do it. Gonna watch the video again...great meals.

@@blairbirthisel4720 GREAT! Thanks! Don and I have been discussing some food related topics, so I am thinking of adding something that will change things a bit. But I'm thinking to create this as a PDF / chart of foods (which vary a bit from standard macrobiotic recommendations as they were handed down via the Japanese iteration.) Anyway, email me at tracym31@icloud.com with your mailing address. I have several copies which I'd just be sitting on either way. I can email the details of the changes that I'll be adding.

@LauraGeralynKline Your Welcome!!!!

@lilycascio1884 Hi!! Welcome!! So happy to see a fellow macrobiotic-er! You may be interested in my articles about tweaking the diet to minimize gas and bloating. Here's one from my blog. vegangreatlife.blogspot.com/2023/06/how-to-minimize-gas-and-bloating-recent.html. And one from my website. www.tracymatesz.com/tips-for-improving-digestion.html. I realized we didn't have to revert to eating animals, but likewise, we needed to adjust for our needs, and not according to some perceived set of rules put forward by anyone's diet advice, if you know what I mean. Many macrobiotic recommendations became a bit restrictive unnecessarily as counselors advised people w/ the 'healing diet' severely limiting total calories, or avoiding fruit, too few seeds or nuts, or too low protein, or whatever. Similar among the whole-foods, plant-based who are gluten-free, rice-free, oil-free, salt-free, sugar-free....etc. All potentially good for a particular individual, not necessarily good for all. I have a new video that will be out later today. So glad you are here! ~Tracy

@vidya1611 You got that right!! Much appreciate your kind words!! TY!

@happynessadict Here's a video series. th-cam.com/video/c-jpXztgGlI/w-d-xo.html Here's a blog post, Returning Home to My Heart: vegangreatlife.blogspot.com/2023/03/returning-home-to-my-heart.html. This post shows my macrobiotic diet weight loss transformation. vegangreatlife.blogspot.com/2023/07/my-amazing-macrobiotic-diet-weight-loss.html.

@happynessadict Thank you!!!

@happynessadict How long ago were you diagnosed, and did you have to undergo any surgery or treatments? Glad it's behind you!

@LauraGeralynKline Thank you my old friend!!!!!

Love it!

@vintagedressromance Oh my goodness, thank you!!!

Hey Terri! I was just thinking about you! Thanks you! Hope all is well in AZ!

@allencrider Thank You!!!🙏❤️

@elmeric7086 Thanks!!! 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you Laura! You’ve been on my mind lately. Hope all is well.

@truth_beauty_love Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

I’m so glad to hear that! I enjoy doing it! 🙏❤️

I often vary my routine. Since doing this distillery water, I've cut back on a lot of extras to see what I notice. We were buying Banyan powdered triphala, and I did have videos in the past showing my morning beverage with turmeric, ginger, pepper, etc. Otherwise, we have Vata enzymes. But no, not doing urine or anything else.

@noelvasquez5672 Thank you!!!!! 🙏❤️I did love that name. I was glad to get that URL again too. www.vegangreatlife.com will get you to my website which also can be found at www.tracymatesz.com. Plus blog at www.vegangreatlife.blogspot.com

@RachelGray33 Thanks a bunch! Appreciate it! I’ll likely use my name. Matches the website.

Thank you! I’m currently without a computer. My old 2012 MacBook Pro finally crashed. Hopefully it will stay on long enough to transfer my data! Hadn’t backed up in 2 months. It’s been weird not having it, but getting other things done! Pet sitting included! Always happy to see your comments here. I’ve been editing the book you helped proof read 10 years ago now to put back on the market ~ as an ebook and possibly also a paperback. The foreword mentioned me gratitude for your help, so especially ‘coincidental’ to see your name pop up on my phone! Hope you both are doing well!🙏

Much appreciated! Glad my videos or words help! Will be ramping up videos again soon!