When I was growing up there was a genre of people who shopped in health food stores, juiced wheat grass, and ate tofu instead of meat. At the time they were on the fringe of nutrition, yet this vegetarian lifestyle was considered  to be one of the healthiest ways to be. Somehow I found myself at the door of the health food store learning how to prepare tofu. I kept on this path for about 10 years. Like many others I assumed this was the healthiest diet available. Plus I was saving the animals destined to be meat from certain cruelty. Then a funny thing happened, I went to nutrition school. I learned that perhaps being vegetarian was not for everyone and that fake meats are actually highly processed. Perhaps my diet wasn’t serving me as well as it could be. What did I learn that swayed me? Continue Reading »