Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:
>
> Bill Clinton Explains Why He Became a Vegan
>
> The 42nd president of the United States explains how we
> can — and for our health must — learn to love eating
> vegetables, too
>
> By Joe Conason
> AARP The Magazine
> August-September 2013
>
> Bill Clinton shows off an all-veggie lunch spread
> representing the foods he now eats, and enjoys. — Ben
> Baker
>
> When Bill Clinton invited me to lunch in May, I knew
> better than to expect fried catfish or barbecued ribs.
> The former president is now a devoted vegan, meaning no
> meat, fish or dairy products, and he has pursued a
> healthier way of life for more than three years. While I
> figured our lunch menu might be bland, that would be a
> small price to pay for private time with a world leader
> who is anything but.
>
> As it happens, the fit, trim and sharply attired Clinton,
> whom I've come to know well during more than two decades
> covering his career, is his usual gregarious, charismatic
> self. But a bland menu? Not even close.
>
> Get Ready, Get Set — Go Vegan!
> Hummus with raw vegetable batons.*— Kat Teutsch
>
> Dine like Bill Clinton does. Check out great recipes for
> hummus, quinoa, beets, cauliflower, snow peas, beans and
> more.
>
> As we enter a private room overlooking Manhattan's busy
> Rockefeller Center, I'm struck with a dazzling
> kaleidoscope of a dozen delicious dishes: including
> roasted cauliflower and cherry tomatoes, spiced and
> herbed quinoa with green onions, shredded red beets in
> vinaigrette, garlicky hummus with raw vegetable batons,
> Asian-inspired snow pea salad, an assortment of fresh
> roasted nuts, plates of sliced melon and strawberries,
> and rich, toothsome gigante beans tossed with onions in
> extra-virgin olive oil.
>
> The luncheon banquet gives a whole new meaning to the
> dreaded cliché "Eat your vegetables." And this is exactly
> what Clinton, who is taking on America's obesity epidemic
> with the same passionate commitment he brought to the
> presidency, wants.
>
> As I gawk, he smiles. "This looks pretty good, doesn't
> it?" Clinton asks. It looks better than good. We sit down
> and with great relish start passing plates back and
> forth. He favored the quinoa; I loved the roasted
> cauliflower and snow peas; and we both liked the beans.
>
> The road to a healthier diet
>
> At age 66, Bill Clinton still travels and works at a pace
> that completely exhausts staffers who are two or three
> decades younger. Yet, while coping with heart disease and
> the usual complaints of aging, he has managed to change
> his diet drastically, lose more than 30 pounds and keep
> the weight off. If he can do all that, then maybe there's
> hope for the rest of us baby boomers — and Americans of
> all ages — whose eating and exercise habits (and medical
> expenses) worry him a lot
>
> Continues at:
>
http://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-l...ton-vegan.html

Forwarded post:

Eating healthy is easy if you can afford the vegetables
and organic foods. I have to watch the ads and catch
stuff on sale. It is also easy when you have a cook, at
times I just don't have the energy to cook. It all goes
back to how much you can afford. If I had the money to
buy the right foods at any time and someone to cook for
me that would be great!

Posted by rea5040

End of forwarded post.

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti

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