Lentil Loaf Recipe, Type 2 Diabetes Increases Your Cancer Risk, & Why My Klaxon Howls So LOUD
6.10.2020
If folks only hurt themselves with their harmful food choices, my heart would be heavy but my mouth would be silent.
Why is my klaxon so passionately loud? Because participating in animal agriculture isn’t just harming yourself (and that animal), it’s ruining the environment for every soul and species on this earth. There is no nutritional need or benefit: it’s sadly purely for taste and cultural comfort.
The selfish destruction of that cycle woke me the heck up (<— I was a total meat/dairy Hobbit), and it’s now my life’s duty to continue shaking awake as many others as possible. My son’s future is on the line (and that of millions of other species we share this planet with), so this energy is boundless.
What’s a great forward-moving path? Get that cow-carcass out of your house right now. Not only are beef cattle the one of biggest contributors to our environmental damage, consuming cow carcass ruins your microbiome and sets you up for a feast of preventable diseases (like cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes).
Meatloaf was never one of my favorite dishes (it grossed me the heck out), but Ian LOVED it. Guess what he loves even more? This lentil loaf. It has all of the dark umami flavor of your standard soul loaf, but it is a compassionate choice, environmentally-kind, budget-friendly, and nutritionally dense.
Continue for: our super easy Lentil Loaf recipe (plus added info on the nutritional bounds lentils have over cow carcass, budget comparisons, & environmental imperatives), how an animal-product-dense diet leads to Diabetes and how Diabetes increases cancer risk, and a full day of Plant-Based Whole-Food family feasting and thriving via Lifestyle Medicine pillars.
Live Kindly, Feast Kindly, Grow Forward.
Here’s a fun link showing that lentils are roughly $1.59 per pound, vs beef’s $4.98 (“based on Walmart.com price for 93% lean/7% fat lean ground beef tray”)
“Ok, I get it, lentils are cheaper, but they don’t compare to cow carcass on nutrition.”
Actually, 1 cup of lentils has 18g (72%) of your daily (ESSENTIAL) fiber. Guess how much that slaughtered soul is giving you? ZERO.
“But what about the protein! I need that animal’s muscle to get the protein I need to thrive!”
Again, FALSE.
And 1 cup of lentils has 16g of protein vs the 20g of protein in the cow. That’s plenty, and Americans are not at risk of protein deficiency. We’re at risk for FIBER deficiency. (Only 5% of us get enough fiber!)
That cow carcass is ruining our cardiovascular health, ruining the environment, harming another soul for naught, and we’re only eating it because we like the taste of it (despite all the harms).
Guess what lentils also have going for them?
they have vitamins you won’t find in meat (Vitamin C and Vitamin K)
they are bursting with essential fiber (there is no fiber is animal carcass, breastmilk, or embryo)
the have been clinically proven to be “protective against colorectal cancer”
they actually promote cardiovascular health (instead of ruining it)
they have free-radical fighting antioxidants
If you’re still hiding behind the excuse that you “need” animal products, you are sadly 100% wrong. Our leading doctors say the exact opposite (they say you need to cut animal products out of your family’s diet right now to stop the cardiovascular disease that begins in infancy); and you have Olympians, professional athletes, record-breaking ultra marathoners, professional bodybuilders, and the only American Olympic Level Weight Lifter out there inspiring you with their powerful Plant-Based example.
There is health/strength/energy/mental-keenness around the corner of forward movement.
The below is some more mind-opening info from Dr. Will Bulsiewicz’s book “Fiber Fueled”
So, again: what you do with your body is your own choice, but Type 2 Diabetes is preventable.
You could be eating in a way that gives you robust health, strength, and vibrant energy…or you could keep eating animal products that fill your cardiovascular system so full of fats that the following happens:
“Fat in the bloodstream can build up inside the muscle cells, creating toxic fatty breakdown products and free radicals that block the insulin signaling process. No matter how much insulin we have in our blood, it’s not able to sufficiently open the glucose gates, and blood sugar levels build up in the blood. And this can happen within three hours. One hit of fat can start causing insulin resistance, inhibiting blood sugar uptake after just 160 minutes.”
Want some more information on this? Here’s
a link from the American Diabetes Association also saying to cut out saturated fats and trans fats
A great podcast interview with nutritionist James Marin explaining how fats lead to diabetes, how to reverse the damage done by a fat-dense (<—animal products) diet, and a well-explained layout of our digestive system and how it correlates to gut-health-equals-whole-health.
“What the Health” Documentary, which is full of doctors pointing to decades of research, studies, clinical trials, evidenced-based fact that animal products are causing diseases like diabetes.
“A plant-based diet is a powerful tool for preventing, managing, and even reversing type 2 diabetes”