Full Day, Full Plant-Based Living: Statins Increase Chance of Diabetes (so do animal-products)
My intent was to plow through this post swiftly so that I’d have time to post my plant-based whole-food brownie recipe, but I got a curve ball in my nightly reading that needed to be amplified first. (Brownie recipe is coming in a few hours, because I’ve finished this way earlier than hoped.)
Did you know statins increase your risk of diabetes?
Continue for: a section illuminating the connection of statins to diabetes (and how animal products cause both diabetes and cardiovascular disease), and a full day of this family living by example and consuming the only diet (Plant-Based Whole-Foods) clinically proven to prevent and reverse Diabetes and Heart Disease.
Live Kindly, Feast Kindly, Grow Forward.
Q’s Morning Chalkboard: inspired by his love for the design of Doc Oc’s mechanical arms.
This Mama Bear and Cub are in a constant volley of “That design may be nice, but what is that soul working toward? Is it good or harm?” and Doc Oc riles me thoroughly with his villainous ways, but I totally understand why Q is obsessed with his design.
Here seen: my Mama Bear take on using those arms for spreading love and light.
Q Made this plant-based whole-food kiddo breakfast himself: cacao oatmeal, cashew cream, and a drizzle of peanut butter.
Another pre-k class Zoom Meeting with obligatory “Want to see my toys?” (That’s Q’s beloved mer-octopus)
“Here’s Doc Oc in the sewer system, and I bet you can guess what that brown stuff is!”
I got this lovely garden drawing <3 complete with a sundew and a turret spider (two of his favorite things)
Plant-Based Whole-Food Leftovers Lunch
j- potato soup, mushrooms, brussels, peas, quick-pickled cabbage.
Q- quinoa, hummus, mushrooms, peas, quick-pickled cabbage.
We spent the afternoon in the yard and despite the 80-degree-temps Q insisted in dressing as Doc Oc for the first several hours. (<—** Mama eye roll and heart squeeze**)
Before
After
Forgot to take a pic yesterday, so this is through this morning’s rain. Planted romanesco in the newly opened space.
Afternoon snack health colors: turmeric and spirulina.
Energizing green smoothie: orange, banana, mango, ginger, turmeric, spirulina, and oatmilk.
The afternoon joy when Ian is done working-from-home.
Finally got some layers off that kid, but he wore that heavy arm rig all day.
Plant Based Family Feasting: Beyond Burgers, sauteed mushrooms, caramelized shallots, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, and quick-pickled cabbage,
Friday night popcorn: zero-waste, plant-based, whole-food snacking.
Family Movie Night: Harry and the Hendersons
More mind-opening nightly reading via Undo It by Dr. Dean Ornish and Anne Ornish
We’ve gone over before how animal products lead to diabetes. Why? Because your body can’t process those animal fats: they build-up and create toxic fatty breakdown products and free radicals that block the insulin-signaling process, close the 'glucose gate,' and cause your blood sugar levels rise.
If you’re diabetic and eating animal products every day: you are doing your body great harm.
Want some additional resources on this again?
We also know that those animal (trans & saturated) fats lead to cardiovascular disease, but sadly people don’t pay attention to that information. Instead, they often keep stuffing themselves with another soul’s fats until the cardiovascular disease becomes bad enough that they need to be on a statin.
I already knew that statins have a feast of side effects (including memory loss, which is also gone over in great detail in this great book) and that industry-funded studies saturate the market telling you they are safe. But, I never knew about the link of statins to diabetes and last night’s reading was a mind opener.
Here’s some more resources if Dr Dean Ornish’s brilliant research-focused health-promoting wisdom isn’t enough for you:
Here’s some more resources on how to move forward through a diet that will give you energy, reverse the damage you’ve already done, and simultaneously reduce your participation in environmental collapse:
Undo It by Dr. Dean Ornish and Anne Ornish
How Not To Die by Dr. Michael Greger
“Plant-Based Primer: The Beginner’s Guide to a Plant-Based Diet”
There is no time to waste on the environmental end: your diet is harming the whole earth.
And there is no time to waste if you’re focused on just our bodies (or our children’s bodies): diabetes, cardiovascular decay, cancer, and autoimmune disorders are all tied to animal product consumption, and the animal agriculture that allows us to gobble up animals all-day-every-day is ruining the planetary sustainability of our kin and every species on this earth.
