Diet

[Sriram]

Hi everyone,

Time to cut almost all meat from your diet, according to this CNN article.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/16/health/new-diet-to-save-lives-and-planet-health-study-intl/index.html

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An international team of scientists has developed a diet it says can improve health while ensuring sustainable food production to reduce further damage to the planet.

The "planetary health diet" is based on cutting red meat and sugar consumption in half and upping intake of fruits, vegetables and nuts.

And it can prevent up to 11.6 million premature deaths without harming the planet, says the report published Wednesday in the medical journal The Lancet.

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Cheers.

Sriram

[SusanDoris]

Does this new diet eliminate the need for supplements?

[Roses]

My husband and I eat very little red meat, certainly no more than one a week, if that. We don't take sugar in our hot drinks, and try not to consume too much of it in other ways.  We eat fruit and vegetables, and I eat nuts for my breakfast, my husband doesn't like them.

[Steve H]

I keep meaning to cut down, but I do love sossiges!
I'm going to try Cauliflower steak for lunch today, after reading about a posh restaurant's outrageous price for it, and having found a recipe online.

[Aruntraveller]

Like LR our household has over the last 5 or so years almost cut out red meat. I say almost, because I do sometimes have to indulge is a sausage cob/bap/roll (delete or append as necessary) on the occasions I go out for my daily walk (which isn't daily at present). But in the house no red meat. In fact, chicken once a week, fish 3 times and veggie 3 times a week. If out for a meal more often than not it is fish. Which is all very strange as I am not a huge fan of fish.

[Roses]

My special treat, once in a blue moon, is a takeaway Macdonalds BIG MAC burger. I suspect there might be a blue moon in the coming week, as this ancient relic will be one year older, and my eldest girl might order one for her senile old mother.

[wigginhall]

We eat very little meat, but it happened spontaneously.  I can't think of anything worse than a big steak.  I still have ham though.   I wouldn't touch chicken with a barge pole, having lived near an industrial chicken unit.

[Steve H]

Today's din-dins, probably with rice.
http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/45272/roasted-cauliflower-steaks.aspx

[Roses]

Today's din-dins, probably with rice.
http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/45272/roasted-cauliflower-steaks.aspx

I have never liked cauliflower.

[jeremyp]

Hi everyone,

Time to cut almost all meat from your diet, according to this CNN article.

Nope. that's not what it says. It says "decrease by more than 50%. This is not new, I think it has been recognised for a long time that we in the West consume too much red meat.

[Steve H]

While I don't intend to go vegan permanently (though I may cut down on meat), I've had a completely vegan day today: I had cauliflower steaks for dinner and tea, with rice at dinner time and with pasta and baked beans at tea time, and have made for future consumption four loaves of muesli bread and two lentil and mixed veg. loaves, one frozen uncooked to be cooked later, because experience has taught me that they don't freeze well after cooking - they go mushy - but the uncooked mixture can be frozen successfully. Both bread and lentil loaves are vegan. I feel very virtuous.

[Udayana]

Does this new diet eliminate the need for supplements?

Presumably there is no need for supplements unless you are already taking them for other reasons, as the diet is claimed to be healthier than meat heavy ones as well as more sustainable. 

[Udayana]

While I don't intend to go vegan permanently (though I may cut down on meat), I've had a completely vegan day today: I had cauliflower steaks for dinner and tea, with rice at dinner time and with pasta and baked beans at tea time, and have made for future consumption four loaves of muesli bread and two lentil and mixed veg. loaves, one frozen uncooked to be cooked later, because experience has taught me that they don't freeze well after cooking - they go mushy - but the uncooked mixture can be frozen successfully. Both bread and lentil loaves are vegan. I feel very virtuous.

Sounds good.

[Steve H]

Glad you approve. Actually, not quite vegan: I forgot about the milk in my teas.

[Robbie]

I couldn't open the link to cauliflower steak steve h, however I can google it. The name 'cauliflower steak' doesn't sound very appetising tbh but I like cauli, 'specially with cheese sauce.

I gave up meat and fish while back and haven't missed it except the odd occasion when I think about things like fish finger sandwiches.

The picture in sririam's link is making me drool, I lurve fruit and if ever away in a hotel I devour fruit salad on the buffet at breakfast.

I googled and came up with 'roasted cauliflower steak'. Doesn't appeal to me.

[ad_orientem]

I have a bit of meat everyday but in moderate amounts. I try to buy local when I can. I ain't cutting down anymore. I enjoy eating meat.