Plant Powered

This is a work in progress!

For a while I've been highlighting the work of Harvard nurses and other epidemiological studies, as well as the work contained in The China Study to family. These projects indicate a high protein, predominantly animal, diet, in conjunction with dairy, is killing us.

My family greets this with a mixture of skepticism, outright hostility, or with a “there, there, have a cup of tea and a lie down.”

That all changed when the WHO released it's findings on processed meat.

But still, there is a large amount of hostility to the idea we should reduce our meat intake and reduce our farming of animals. If nothing else it's better for the planet and in the end means we won't stuff the planet even more.

I realise this kind of theme is tiresome, and people need a feel-good story in these dark times.

The good news is, there's only upside.

Dive in to discover a world of plant powered goodness by starting with The China Study and Rich Roll.

I promise it won't hurt.

And moreover, as an endurance athlete there is only lean, lean, upside.

• The Plantrician Project: a terribly interesting look into the environmental impact of a western diet.
• The China Study: Amazon link
• Rich Roll's chat with Garth Davis MD
• Protein-aholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It: Amazon link
• Soy: not the baddie it's made out to be? (For context I rarely have soy. Maybe 70mL every second day on muesli.)
• Vegan cyclist: an experiment