[wes]

Hey Cliff,

Life Extension foundation has some interesting articles about vegetarianism and supplements that help with that route. I have been strict vegetarian for a few years and now I eat a "plant based diet featuring raw food" which does mean some meat. I try to eat only meat that I would eat raw, even if its cooked, and try to eat raw meat as much as I can when I am eating meat.

As for the strict vegetarian diet, for sure do not replace dairy products for meat, there is lots of scientific evidence showing dairy is way worse than meat. The exception to this is whey protein which lacks the hard to digest part of dairy protein. Whey is excellent protein and used by tons of athletes for sports recovery drinks.

I drink silk unsweetened soymilk and tofo and thats about it for soy products. I eat tons of nuts and berries (really!!). If you buy berries in season from locals they will give you great deals in bulk and you can freeze them for year round eating. Also buy nuts in bulk raw and then freeze them and roast them as you eat them. I bought a few years back 200 lbs of raw hulled filberts for $2/lbs and froze them and they are great out of the freezer and roasted on a cookie sheet in our convection oven. We freeze about 500 lbs of berries a year and we pay average $2/lb so cost $1,000 total. If you would buy these frozen berries in the store in the winter would cost you $6 to $10/lbs and they taste much worse!! We eat oatmeal every morning with currants, berries apples oats soymilk and raw pecans (most pecans are raw) and make oatmeal snacks for later in the day too.

Anyway enough for now. Read the China Study book if you still are eating milk and cheese, that researcher is very pro vegetarian.

cheers Wes Lapp