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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Anyone here eating a raw or vegan (or both) diet?
in Green Living
Can you share some resources about why it's a good idea to go raw and/or vegan? I'm interested in learning more about this after a friend made the switch recently. I'm already vegetarian but think I'd have a hard time without eggs and dairy, and without hot cooking. I suppose I said the same thing about meat a few years ago, but am doing ok - though this would be taking it to another level and adding more restrictions. Thoughts?
Re: Anyone here eating a raw or vegan (or both) diet?
I eat mostly (95% ?) vegan. DH is an omnivore, and not all family/friends are considerate of my diet, so on rare occasion I have eggs or fish. Never dairy, because I can't digest milk at all anyway.
For me, I feel like I have much more energy when eating strict vegan foods - plus, I don't need to worry about them containing milk. Losing the dairy wasn't that hard, it can just sometimes be a pain avoiding it when eating out. (I only found out a few years ago that it was what was making me sick.) Opting out of milk and eggs also avoids any of the antibiotics and hormones that the animals may have been given.
I love raw foods. Again, its another step that seems to increase my energy level. However, I probably won't ever go strict raw foods b/c it would be too hard for DH. We've been to a few raw foods restaurants, which I loved, but he hated. Also, there are some foods (like tomatoes) that actually have more nutritional value when cooked.