When You're Sick: What to do, What to eat, What not to eat, and Why

Well, the strangest thing overcame me in the last 48 hours. Two nights ago, I felt completely awful and my stomach constantly rumbled. That was a big sign that I probably shouldn't have eaten dinner, but ate I did. Minestrone and whole wheat peach cobbler with vanilla "ice cream" for dessert. No, the peaches were not canned!

Tip: A great vegan way to make ice cream is to use coconut milk instead of milk. Sample different coconut milks to find the one you like best. The peach cobbler was made with whole wheat pastry flour, and I actually don't prefer this, but I know it's "good" for me, so what the hay. The kids actually liked it, so that's a plus. We kind of alternate with our baked goods. Sometimes they are made healthy, with less white flour and sugar, and then sometimes the opposite, loads of white flour and white sugar. My wife asks me if want healthy muffins or unhealthy muffins. I am always going to say unhealthy. That's how I roll! As long as you're eating them in moderation, homemade baked goods do not fall in the category of bad-for-you.

Tip: If you want to sweeten something, a great substitute is to use agave syrup. I sweeten my oatmeal that way. Yes, it's refined, but not as naughty as sugar.

Okay, back to the story. I was feeling horrible, and I felt worse after eating a full dinner. I had a horrible night that night, couldn't get to sleep, was mildly feverish, and I had to make many trips to the bathroom. The entire day after, I was either sleeping or in the bathroom. I didn't eat a thing. But the worst part of it all was the belching. I was belching something awful, my breath smelled like rotten eggs. It was disgusting. Was it something I ate?

Rudolf Steiner says consuming too much protein in the body makes all that undigested protein go rancid, and it smells like rotten eggs. Our bodies can only handle a certain amount of protein. If you go past the threshold, like so many of us do daily, the food goes rancid inside the body. Obviously, this leads to all sorts of disease. Eating more dietary fiber flushes all this out, acting like a natural Dran-o. Animal protein, meat, eggs, milk, cheese--these foods have no fiber. Whole fruits, vegetables, grains--these have lots of fiber. Eat plenty of it for a clean, unclogged system.

I wracked my brain to remind myself of what I ate over the past few days. My youngest daughter actually threw up the night before, we were staying at a friend's house the entire day, so it could have been something we ate at their house, though I don't know what it could have been. It must have been some strange bug that went around that just she and I got and no one else. She had cheese quesadillas and pasta, and I ate pasta. She threw up that night, a number of times, but her sister did not. I think I got the bug from her. The only thing she ate different than her sister were cheese quesadillas. Strange...

Tip: When you're feeling sick, the best thing to do is fast. You can still drink as much water as you want, just don't eat or drink anything besides water. And yes, this advice goes against what most people would say, but it makes a lot of sense if you just think about it a little. When you are sick it is because your body is trying to fight the toxicity in your system. While it is fighting this toxicity and trying to push it out (and does so in the form of vomiting, the runs, runny nose, fever) your body only has so much energy to fight all of the germs.


Remember, when you get sick and have symptoms, the germs are not causing the symptoms. The symptoms we get when we are sick are a result of our body fighting the germs. When you are sick and go to the doctor and complain about the symptoms you are having, they give you antibiotics for those symptoms only. They want to give you drugs so that your symptoms will go bye-bye. They are not addressing what is making you sick, they are addressing the symptoms you get as a result of being sick. It's a big difference. This is called allopathic medicine, by the way. Traditional western medical practices are allopathic in nature, in which they give you something to make something else go away. Eastern medical practices do not treat sickness in this manner, they are much more concerned with the energy pathways, energy flow, etc. There are two amazing alternative health centers here in St. John's: Dynamis Health Centre and The MoMaVi Centre. The MoMaVie Centre is located right above the boat shack by Quidi Vidi Lake. I went there and was amazed in the difference. (I suffer from some kind of tendonitis, hence my reason for trying to be healthier.) I also go to Dynamis, which practices Heilkunst homeopathy among other methods. Go to either (or both) of these if you need to see a doctor.

When your immune system is "doing battle", it has very little energy to digest food, and when the body's defenses are trying to fight the enemy, putting food in your body is like forcing your army, your immune system, to divide in half to go deal with the food--the germs will be there much longer because of a now severely weakened army. Your immune system's hands are full, it can't afford to spread out and fight the food and the germs. So when you are sick, the food you put in your body is considered toxic as well. This is why you might vomit as soon as you try to eat something or get the runs. Your body is saying, No, I don't want any food, I'm trying to heal the body over here! So, the worst thing to do is eat when you feel sick.

I should have not eaten dinner when I realized I started to feel ill, and that was a big mistake. However, I didn't think I had a fever, and so I ate. I should have checked my temperature first. Had I done so, I wouldn't have eaten dinner and dessert at all, I probably would have gotten a higher fever that night, and been mostly fine the next morning. The opposite happened, and I suffered for the entire day afterwards, lying in bed doing nothing. I fasted for the whole day, and I'm almost 100% today. Live and learn.

Fevers are good for us. A high fever means our body is doing what it is meant to do: fight disease, fight toxicity, fight the bugs. There is a saying, "Feed a cold, starve a fever." This is greatly misunderstood. When they say this they're trying to tell you that if you eat when you have a cold, then you won't get a fever, and that's a good thing. Once again, as it seems to be with most things, the opposite of the conventional wisdom is true. If you eat when you have a cold, then you won't get a fever, and so your body won't be able to fight the bugs as well as it could if you actually had a fever. Remember, having a high fever is good, it's lots of energy being directed towards fighting the enemy. If you decided to eat while sick, you're forcing your defenses to weaken themselves, giving them more tasks than they can deal with. It's a lose-lose. So if you hear someone say, "Feed a cold, starve a fever," then gently remind yourself of the whole message: "Don't feed a cold, or you'll starve the fever."

Does your child have a fever? Obviously, if you understand that a high fever is a good sign that her body is doing what it's supposed to do, then for God Sake, don't give them any fever-reducing medicine. You want them to have a fever, that's what makes the body flush out the bad guys. Also, don't give them anything to eat, just let them drink lots of water. If your child is starving and really wants to eat, why do you think Chicken Noodle Soup is the number one cure-all? Because it's mostly water. Easily digested, your body doesn't have to do a lot of work. So if you're vegetarian or your children are, then simply make a broth using vegetable bouillon cubes. Miso soup is a good choice if they like it, I don't. Melon is also a great choice because it, too, is mostly comprised of water. Juiced fruits are okay as well because they are simple carbohydrates and therefore easily digested, even more so if you juice them. Any food that digests easily is a good choice because you want your body to use as little energy as possible to digest food. So simple carbohydrates that are juiced are the best option if you have to eat when you're sick. But the absolutely best thing you can do is to not eat anything at all.

Now, since I have fasted all day yesterday, I didn't want to shock my system with heavy food, so I just ate watermelon and I feel this was a good choice. Lots of water, very little "food" and my body was sated. I'll keep eating fruits today to better ease my body back into digesting the food. It also stands to reason that the more raw, simple carbohydrates we eat, the more energy we will have to do other things, so you might want to consider this if you feel low on energy.

Eat B(right),
Veggie Daddy

Milk and GMO Soy Milk Does Not Do a Body Good

Jamie Oliver has just convinced the LAUSD to stop serving flavored cow's milk to children at school. The board made this radical move because Oliver pointed out that flavored milk has as much sugar as soda. Considering how much power the dairy industry has on the American conscience, this is a shocker, indeed. However, since ruling milk out altogether doesn't seem to be an option, they want to serve soy milk instead. But the soy industry is one awful game right now, and a horizontal switch from milk to soy milk may not necessarily be better; there's a good chance these kids will now be drinking GMO, non-organic soy milk.This would not be a good move, so I must ask, if children aren't going to be drinking flavored milk, then why do we need them to drink flavored soy milk? Why drink milk, soy or otherwise, at all? Is it because of the fear of our children not getting enough calcium? That must be it. It's the ol' Calcium Fear Factor, if you don't get enough, your bones will break. Of course, this has been dis-proven, time and again. Just like consuming too much protein is a real danger, so is consuming too much calcium.

So what are the options?

• Cow's milk, non-organic and organic--pasteurized, (horrible for you, many are allergic to lactose, casein is addictive, runny noses, calcium-overdose, osteoporosis, etc.)
• Cow's milk--raw (can't get this in Newfoundland, health properties are debatable, apparently raw milk has properties to deal with the casein, but so what? Why do I need to drink raw milk, because it fights the casein that is present in all cow's milk to begin with? It doesn't make sense.)
• Soy milk--GMO, non-organic (simply a nightmare, don't fall into this trap of thinking you're healthier because now you drink soy milk--the jury is still out, but from what I know, too much soy is not good for you, either! If you are using soy, make sure it's non-GMO!!!)
• Soy milk--non-GMO, organic (only way to go, but just use it for baking and cooking, don't drink it by the glass; if you're kids insist, let them have a small glass a day. Limit it to one only.)
• Almond milk, Rice Milk, etc. (great option, but if you're drinking it, check the added sugar--I use this in my granola)

Vitamin D? You get it from the sun. In Newfoundland, there's not much of that, but whatev. I'm not too worried. Soy milk, almond milk--they are often fortified with Vit D and calcium, though again, we don't need that much calcium. If you want strong bones then exercise. Being active is how you stay strong, not by drinking milk.

I cannot overemphasize enough that it is not a good idea to replace soy milk with milk, letting your kids drink three or four glasses of soy milk a day--BAD IDEA. Use it in baking, cooking, fine. A glass of day, no problem. But we shouldn't simply substitute soy milk for milk, drinking it all day long and putting it in everything we eat. This isn't how we ate as early humans. Our bodies are just not made for it. 

If you are going to drink soy milk or use it in cooking like we do, make sure it is non-GMO. I cannot stress that enough either. The U.S. Soy industry is wicked and out of control like a bad case of Queen Anne's Lace overrunning your lawn (like ours.) GMO corn and soy is in everything, an environmental nightmare, and soy lecithin, the toxic sludge that's produced from processed soy is also in everything, from granola bars to ice cream. Yes, it's toxic, soy lecithin is a carcinogen, stay away from it. And good luck finding a processed food on the grocery store shelves that doesn't have it. It's practically impossible. So if this is true, then it stands to reason that commercially processed soy is a no-no. Stay away from it as much as you can. 

We were simply not meant to drink milk. When we were gathering in the jungles of the Amazon, as some tribes still do, we didn't lie down under a wild cow's udder and help ourselves to a glass of milk (or soy milk.) Nor did we have ice cream for dessert. We didn't have cheese with our "burgers." Our bodies are simply not made to consume cow's milk or cheese, obviously made from cow's milk. We are the ones who are getting osteoporosis as a result, the countries who do not drink milk have far less cases of osteoporosis, so let's do the math. Yes, we should champion the LAUSD's move away from cow's milk, but let's take it a step further and just stop serving milk to our kids. Cut it out altogether, milk should not be in the discussion at all. We have no need for it. We must replace this old outdated notion that we should be drinking milk or that milk is good for you. There is simply no need to drink it. The only reason we do drink it is because we think we are getting a good source of calcium. This is bunk.We are actually giving ourselves osteoporosis.

To recap: if you're going to drink milk, drink almond or rice milk, and use non-GMO soy milk in cooking and baking. Don't drink milk at all. If you eat cheese and yogurt, fine, but go easy. Raw cheese is the best (they have it at Costco) but once you cut cheese out of your food, you'll see that you don't crave it anymore because you've cut out the addictive property of casein from your diet. Any recipe that requires milk can be substituted with an alternative milk, and this is your best option.

Finally, the dairy industry is a god-awful nightmare. Check out the book Whitewash by Joseph Keon to get a taste, a foul one at that. This book actually has a forward written by John Robbins, who was going to be the heir to Baskin Robbins. He refused to take over, refused all those riches. Why? Because he couldn't support it. Central Dairies? Scotsburn? It's Canadian, after all, so that's fine, right? No. If you're going to buy milk here, go organic, but don't forget, even the organic milk is pasteurized, and that's the main problem there. You just don't need it and are better off without it.

And let's remember, if you're anything like me, you probably drank milk as a kid. You were told, "Milk it does a body good." And if you're anything like me, you also believed it. After all, they knew what they were talking about, didn't they? Of course they did. of course they did. of course. That's why we drink milk. It's good for us. And now they're going to tell us a different story. Soy milk is good for us. Here we go again...

Eat B(right),
Veggie Daddy

Food Diary, June 20

Cantaloupe. This is the best time of the year to be eating it, it's so sweet and juicy. Rich in Vitamin A and C. 

So I ate 1/4 of one for breakfast, waited about 10 min until I got hungry again, and then filled up with an orange, a mandarin (satsuma) orange, and a handful of grapes. Let's see how long it takes for me to be hungry again.

Food Diary: June 19, 2011

Food Diary. After eating an asparagus and sun-dried tomato tofu scramble, I was still hungry. So I just cut up a mango, washed some cherries and ate. Perfect way to take the edge off of the hunger mites.

Cherries and mango are a great combination because they both belong to the Sub-Acid Fruit family. My girls saw how good the food looked, so they just started helping themselves to it. I didn't ask them if they wanted any.

When my youngest saw me eating a juicy plum the other day, she said she wanted one. "Don't cut it!" she yelled at me. I knew she'd be messy, but what the hay, how could I deny her the experience of biting into a juicy plum, therefore eliciting the primordial/primitive (choose one) nature of our hunter/gatherer forebears. Speaking of primitive peoples, I just heard about Survivorman's new show on the OLN called Beyond Survival where he lives with today's "hunter-gatherers." Can't wait to check it out. I want to see what these peeps eat.

Lemon Cashew Crepes with Berries

Crepes are usually loaded with eggs, milk, and butter. But you can veganize them! These are filled with a lemon cashew filling and strawberries on top, which can be found in the cookbook Vegan Brunch. Cashews, like soybeans, are incredibly versatile. We've had cashew-cheese quesadillas, too.

Crepes aren't the easiest things to make in the world, but not impossible. You should certainly try to give it a go.

Happy Father's Day,

Veggie Daddy

Buy Local! Buy Fresh! Your Guide to Eating Locally on the Avalon

The Northeast Avalon Regional Economic Development Board has just created a wonderful map and guide to eating locally on the Avalon Peninsula. Here's a list of all the places you can get the map. You'll notice there is a paucity of fruit here, save for berries and bakeapples, and that means we'll just have to keep getting most of our fruit from off the rock.

Though I am horrified by today's industrial farming methods and how most livestock are cruelly treated and injected with all kinds of drugs to keep the bottom line pumping, if you are going to eat meat, please make an effort to support our local farms. When my mom was in town, we went to the St. John's Farmers Market and got some eggs and hamburger from Oliver's Farm. This is a much better option than buying Maple Leaf or Country Ribbon. "It's fresh because it's made right here?" Just because it's "made" here doesn't mean it's fresh. A guy I know said that if anyone were to ever take a tour in there, they'd never eat chicken again. I'm pretty sure he's right.

Speaking of horror, scientists are saying that pigs have the intelligence and awareness of 3 year-old children. That shouldn't be too surprising since their DNA is so similar to our own. When the other pigs see their friends getting impaled on sharp hooks over the conveyor belts, the pigs in line squeal in terror because they know they are next. In 1999, when Hurricane Floyd hit North Carolina, an estimated 100,000-400,000 hogs were drowned because they were trapped in their CAFOs. Since they didn't know what to do with all the freshly-killed pink carcasses, they ground up the dead pigs and fed them to the live ones. Very efficient, I must say.

Please support your local farms. Big Agriculture is big trouble, and the small farmers get inevitably squeezed out because they simply can't compete with the big boys.

Here's an example of what happened to small Vermont dairies who tried to market rBGH-free milk. In order to increase milk production, cows got treated with rBGH, Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone. Monsanto called theirs Posilac. This is so the cows will lactate 15% longer than usual, thus increasing milk production by about 30%. Vermont wanted all milk that was made from Posilac-injected cows to be labelled. When Monsanto heard this, they fiercely lobbied the FDA to prevent the label. Bad for business, you see. And when dairies tried to advertise that their milk was rBGH-free, Monsanto threatened to sue them.

rBGH-treated milk was banned in the European Union in 1993, and Canada banned the practice because they were concerned about the health of the cows. Dairy cows can live up to 15 years, but when treated with rBGH, they only survive 1-2 years. Go Canada! My choice? Don't drink milk at all. There is no reason to and every reason not to.

Funk for Father's Day

Got funk? Everyone who knows me knows I'm a huge music fan. So here's some great grooves for Father's Day.

--Veggie Daddy

Best foods to eat in June

It's June! That means these fruits are the ones to be eating now: cherries, apricots, nectarines, plums, peaches, cantaloupe, watermelon, and all the berries. Corn and all sorts of various greens are good too. If you're into green smoothies, this is the time to be going hog-wild on them. I have yet to explore this territory. 

Eat melon on their own, eat cherries and oranges on a bed of Spring Mix for a great salad. Stay away from the peaches at Dominion right now. They're absolutely horrible, but the nectarines are to die for! Try to eat as many of these fruits as possible, for breakfast, throughout the day, for snacks, and then just have your usual lunch and dinner. It's always good to eat a bit of raw food to start the day. I try to go raw at least until lunch. If I have a big raw veggie salad for lunch, then I have gone raw until dinner, which is even better. If you're still hungry, top it off with nuts and seeds. They'll take the edge off perfectly.

Remember, we want to be locavores. Whenever you can, eat seasonally, eat locally. Check out Wise Bread for a list of seasonal foods. Clean Food is an amazing cookbook, probably our favorite. It's written by Terry Walters who's also a nutritionist. The menus are ordered by season, which I absolutely love. And it's all vegan!

Eat B(right),

Veggie Daddy

Too Big to Fail: The Meat and Dairy Industry

I just saw an ad in EW about an HBO special called Too Big To Fail. The tagline is "Main street took the fall. Wall Street got the check." I think a more accurate tagline would be "Main street paid the bill. Wall Street got the check." But it's splitting hairs. The point is "we" got screwed. But let's not always take the victim status, shall we? Let's also remind ourselves that "we" screwed ourselves. And we continue to do so, daily. Especially when it comes to what we shovel in our mouths. So how about this. Let's all remind ourselves, or call attention to what's really too big to fail: the meat and dairy industry that is profiting from our sickness.

Last night, as I was performing the uber-important duty of background performer on a film shoot, I noticed this book lying on the table in the North Atlantic War Room: Daniel Goleman's Ecological Intelligence. Since the owner of said book seemed to be nowhere about I covertly picked up the book and started to read. I was especially intrigued by the title of one chapter, "The Amygdala Goes Shopping." I had no idea what an amygdala was (an almond-shaped mass of nuclei somewhere deep in the temporal lobe of the brain--either that or the name of a character in George R. R. Martin's next book, A Dance with Dragons.) But it sounded intriguing. It wasn't what I expected. It was all about the crap that's in our shampoo. I knew that. There's lots of crap in our food, too. Don't forget, it's the Luciferian Bling-Bling!

Without going into too much detail, and I can't really since I wasn't able to read the entire book anyway, I'll just say that the main message of the book is that we vote with our dollars and sense. Nothing too earth-shattering, I know, we've heard this before. But I don't know how many of us really understand it or are conscious of it. We also just don't want to know. We want to float through our lives living happily ever after. We don't want to know all the harm we're doing, to ourselves and others, to cows, chickens, and pigs. I wonder where we got such an idea...

I used to love the website Alternet.org, but I have a big problem with it now: the hypocrisy of indicting big industry and big business while simultaneously loading their page full of ads, telling us to buy all of this shit. I am reading an article on Alternet about how much big industry is screwing us but I should click on the ad of French's Mustard. But maybe Alternet is not being hypocritical at all. Maybe they are just trying to use the system of profit to send a message that a profit-powered system is screwing us. We make a documentary about how profits lead to war, but we profit from the ticket sales of said movie because it's still butts in seats. So Ecological Intelligence seems to address this conflict. But Goleman wants us to understand it's up to us as to what we buy. And food is personal. And therefore, untouchable.

"All you read and wear or see on tv is a product begging for your fat-ass dirty dollar, so shut up and buy my new record. F-you, buddy."

Sound familiar? Tool, Aenima. "Hooker with a Penis." Great song, great message. But who really gets it? Of course, we vote with our dollars. We buy the I-Tunes, we empower Apple. We buy the Nike shirts, we empower Nike. It's as simple as that. And many of us are getting it. Many of us are changing what we buy. But one thing still seems to be quite untouchable: our food. Hands off the food, don't tell me how to eat. When it comes to food, we are not just empowering the big food industry. We are not just making the Big Pharm bigger, the doctors who hook us on the Big Pharm richer.

We actually de-power ourselves by shoveling shit into our bodies. Subway actually has shit in their bread, they use fertilizer as a bread leavening. What is fertilizer? Shit, manure. Casein in milk and cheese in actually addictive, we get a high from eating it, literally. We are killing ourselves by the way we eat. The meat and dairy industry is too big to fail because we are all invested in their prosperity. But can you really blame us? After all, it is the American, North American, and soon to be Global, way. And an idea can't fail so...we need to change the idea. We are not the victims. At least we don't have to be. We can be responsible for what we learn. We can be responsible for what we eat.

The meat and dairy industry is not too big to fail. The Big Pharms, the Pig Pharms, they do not have to keep growing like Jack's Beanstalk. We can chop it down if we want to and grow our own magical beans. Our happily-ever-after depends on it.

21-Day Weight Loss Kickstart: Veggie Daddy Approved

21-Day Weight Loss Kickstart by Dr. Neal Barnard. I have been perusing this book in the bookstore a few times, and every time I look at it, I am more intrigued by it. Anyone that sees me reading it must think I'm pretty odd because I weigh 140 pounds, 6 feet tall--I am thin as a rail, so why in God's name am I reading a book about how to lose weight? But I am sure no one actually gave a rat's ass about what book I was reading in the store, after all, they have better things to do, don't they?

But check this book out. Especially if you're a vegetarian, like I (and my wife) have mostly been for the past ten years or so. There are some very unique ideas here that I am just glomming onto. What? Let me explain.

My whole life, I have always had a very high metabolism. I could eat anything and not get fat. And I was always hungry. I mostly ate crap, of course. Cookies and ice cream were/are my favorite. But ever since I stopped eating meat, I kept feeling like I was missing something, like the meals weren't substantial. And I would be starving before I went to bed, too. I was actually tired of having such a high metabolism because I had to keep eating to have energy and I wanted to do other things besides eat. I was never a big eater either. I drank so much milk as a kid I probably had white blood.

So I was startled by the abrupt and immediate changes I underwent once I became a vegan. As I started to eat more real food, more fruits, vegetables, and grains, I noticed I became way more sated than usual. I actually felt full and went to bed with a full stomach. Why was this? I thought eating ice cream and cookies, cheese and butter would certainly fill me up. It must have been because I wasn't eating any meat? That's what I used to think. Not the case anymore, and this book explains why.

When you eat plant-based whole foods, your stomach actually tells your brain it is full. When you eat refined carbs or animal fats, you're body says, "Hey, I'm still hungry!" and so you have to eat more until you feel sated. Your stomach still hasn't got all that it needs to register the satiety point. I already knew this from my own experience, but I didn't understand the science behind it.

Another fascinating thing this book points out is that when you eat a whole foods, plant-based "diet," you can eat as much of these whole foods as you want so you don't have to count your calories--everything you eat, your body loves. You can stop worrying about how much you've eaten because you learn (as you eat them) that these foods actually make you feel full, so you can't overeat. It's impossible. You'll also feel more light on your feet, rather than that heavy feeling I use to get after a "heavy" meal. 

So this book outlines what exactly you should be eating to trick your stomach into feeling full. This is what was missing from my "vegetarian" diet of so many years. It explains why I do not feel so hungry anymore. And what a great feeling it is! You have to experience it to believe it, of course.

So now I am beginning to understand why I always felt so hungry. It wasn't because I stopped eating meat. I was eating cheese, eggs, milk, butter, all filling right? Just calorie-wise, but your stomach says, "I am still not getting what I need!" and so we eat more and more until our stomach goes "Ding!" and then our brain hears it and goes ""Ding!" I was so hungry all the time because I wasn't getting what I needed: real food.

So what's wrong with animal fats? When you eat too many calories, your body stores it as fat. This is true for animals, too, all the animals we like to eat: pigs, chickens, cows. So when we decide to eat animals, we're simply eating their fat-storage. They eat the food, store it as fat. Then we decide to eat their fat. It's just empty calories, nothing of substance there. We get the protein, but we get protein from plant-based whole foods without the fat so cut the animal foods out and eat the vegetable foods--especially if you're trying to lose weight. It's a no-brainer. And there are far more calories per gram of fat than of carbohydrate, so you can get fat but not feel full. This book really helps explain how to feel full. And when you feel full, you stop eating. "Ding!" 

Eat real food. Eat as much of it as you want. You can't go wrong. You don't have to worry over how much you eat. What a load off. Literally.

Eat B(right),

Veggie Daddy