I miss bloomberg and bbc but now i can watch them online!

I am sure you can find zinc in other food group than meat.

I think one of the reasons why John was very keen to go into vegetarian then was we met a couple in our friend home who was 7days adventist. They were vegetarian because of their religion. This couple look so young though they were in their late 30’s. Their skin was so radiant , they are so fit and when they told us they have never had a cold nor pay any medical bill in their life, we were like ‘wow’ and we did it for 2 years and we were as fit as cow.

When I had my open heart surgery, one of our friends who is a dietician in VA told me to include meat in my diet cos she said protein help me to heal after surgery. I think that is one of the worst advice I had receive. I listened to her and started taking meat. And after that I forget about my vegetarian diet and I am 1/2 as healthy before I had my open heart surgery (then I had a congenital heart defect, now I am tire all the times eventhough they fix my heart).

No, meat is bad for you especially in America where they inject steroid in animals so they grow faster for the farmer to slaughter faster.

I am sure you see the girls here are getting bigger and bigger chest earlier than previous generation. It is all steroid.

No, I definitely will go vegetarian when I get out of school. There are alternative food groups than meat out there. The European (Italians, Greeks eat more whole grain , veg, fruits than us and they sure have less chronic heart disease than us, the big pharm companies want to sustain their business by providing us with blood pressure pills, cholesterol pills than having healthy diet that cost a lot cheaper than pills).

If you ask around people who are more than 60 years old, it will be a miracle if they take less than 5 meds a day.

The health condition here is pathetic, we are putting less afford in preventing but we put a lot more attention in fixing the symptom because this country is getting more and more like 3rd world where they are controlled by the big tycoon but not the middle class, sigh.

Jamy

I am very interested in learning how to make soya drink and tofu. How much time does it take?

Mark did nursing as you know, but he still wanted meat in our diet. He says we need the zinc. You will probably have to ask him for his reasons. We have been losing weight very slowly by eating home cooked meals. We very rarely have any thing processed. Now a burger at a fast food joint and their french fries taste nasty. I even had a chocolate candy bar that didn’t taste as good as it used to.

The reasons why I wanted to turn vegetarian (at least semi) are for 2 reasons :
a. healthier (esp. after going to health care studies, I realized heart disease is the worst chronic disease here than cancer).
Red meat is really bad for our arteries !

However, package substitute meat (like soy burger, soy meat are extremely expensive here, that is not the way I am going into).

I hope to include more veg, fish, beans, tofu, mushroom, into our diet cos these are much more healthier than red meat.

The 1st 2 years after we got married, we were vegetarian. John was 170lbs kind of guy (yes, he was pretty chubby in our wedding photos) but he lost about 40lbs after 2 years on vegetable diet and has maintain since but have gone up the last few years after I gone back to school and turn into meat eater again.

It is the animal oil and fat that is bad for us. Veg, fish and tofu has lots of roughage and they are good for our artery and heart.

I might even make my own tofu eventually cos making soya bean drink and tofu were very common among Asian families (esp. Japanese and they have the lowest heart attack rate in the world).

I intend to get a soya bean drink maker in Orlando the next time when I visit my friend.

2. The second reason is the cost. That’s one of the reason I spent only $20 / week on grocery bill the first 2 years I lived here.

We were much healthier and spent less.

So, I hope to return to this eating habit after I gotten myself settle after my exam.

You can do a lot of things with tofu. There are soft and firm tofu. Firm tofu’s texture taste like meat and if you put the right seasoning, it is delicious.

I will show you a few recipes that I have created after my exam.

Love
Jamy

Why do you want to go vegetarian? Is it for the grocery bill? My sister has and is feeling pretty good. However she thinks it is because she has also cut out processed foods. That alone will make a huge improvement on any ones well being.

Why is taufu so cheap? I thought it was expensive. Enlighten me.

I hope you don’t feel too bad about spending extra while you have been in school. I used to feel bad about spending extra while I was pregnant. I needed/wanted quick meals at the beginning and end of the pregnancy. I think if I didn’t spend a little more at the grocery store to make cooking easier for me, we would have spent a whole lot more in going out to eat.

I am also amazed at how God provides vegetables and meats. It is a blessing that you are able to get venison from your friend. We love venison, but have no way to get it. Currently it is too expensive to hunt if you don’t have your own land.