[at-l] food/nutrition advice

[jtwilkins@comcast.net (jtwilkins@comcast.net)]

I was a meat eater for 20 years a veg for almost 3 now. Its really not that
hard, and eating vegetarian doesn't mean eating healthy. You can live off of
cheese, Pb&J and potato chips if you want to. On the other hand I have seen
vegans with gray gums because all they ate was rice every day. Organic is a
whole different argued point.
JTW
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Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [at-l] food/nutrition advice


> All i can say, i have the greatest respect for any one who can do a
> multi-month hike as a vegetarian, or even as someone who has the
> discipline to eat healthy foods. I started from Springer thinking that a
> vegetarian diet would help cleanse my body as the miles cleansed my
> mind. Being very young, both in years and in time spent not eating meat,
> I went out and bought 150 #'s of organic sunflower seeds and 100 #'s of
> organic raisins. And more lentils than I want to admit to. I still have
> a Nalgene full of thirty year old lentils. After about three weeks my
> organic resolve dissolved. Yes, it is a wonderful place to be, not
> subjugating, killing and consuming animals, but the Hunger can bend both
> will and wishes. I cringe to think of the amount of meat, cheese, butter
> and bacon it took to get me to ME, and I was emaciated when I finished.
> On my next long hike, I think I shall try to acclimate myself to
> moderate amounts of olive-oil, and maybe small amounts of cheese and
> butter as the miles increase, so that the first errant whiff of
> bar-b-que won't overwhelm me with carnivorous fat-hunger. And every-time
> I don't buy a pizza, I'll remind myself that now i can afford another
> 7.5 dozen organic eggs. Yum :) BTW, there is at least one hiker on the
> CDT-List who has Triple-Crowned as a vegetarian.
>
> ATR
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