A few of you – my good friends – may remember a couple of years ago I tried going totally vegetarian for a period of 30 days to see how it impacted my health, and the end result was that I now eat far less meat and mainly eat grains, fish, fruit and vegetables, with meat used as a garnish more than a main. (I should mention that I still enjoy the occasional large steak – who can blame me?)
Health research of late has been interesting. Evidence is mounting that grains and dairy are hard for our body to digest, causing all sorts of insulin and inflammatory responses that I personally consider undesirable.
The big agriculture and dairy companies would not want you to believe this for obvious reasons – they want their money, and who can blame them – and therefore we see all of the “We’re meant to drink milk” style advertisements on TV – paid for by the agriculture and dairy companies themselves.
Who do you believe?
That’s hard to answer, and I believe there is only one way I will know for sure.
For the next 30 days, I am going to go wheat/grain free, and log down how I am feeling. More tired? Less tired? Will my fitness improve or decline? These are the questions I want to be able to answer for myself, and even better, would like to answer with accuracy for my friends when they consider me for their health and nutrition advice.
If the next 30 days goes to plan, then I also plan to ditch dairy as well as the grain for the 30 days after that – but that’s a whole other blog post for a whole other day.
There is another issue that goes hand in hand with good health, and that is good sleep. And taking into consideration that it is almost one o’clock in the morning, I think it is time to hit the sack.
I’ll see you guys in the morning – but trusty oatmeal, I won’t be seeing you for a while.
- Brad
