AS MOST fathers know, dads do unexpected and unfamiliar things for their children.
I am a father of two girls, ages nine and 11. I am also a longtime consumer of meat. So when my daughters came to me late last year and told my wife and I that they had decided they wanted to stop eating meat, though would still eat fish, I was initially skeptical.
It’s not that we didn’t
ever eat fish we actually ate a fair amount but when you’re eating more fish, well, you have to explore uncharted waters.
This would mean that my wife and I would have to change up our meal planning, adjust our shopping lists, and also get more familiar with cooking fish.
Men s Health
THE CURRENT DEFINITIONS for the term plant-based are hazy. So food-manufacturing companies can slap a “plant-based” label on anything and collect a health halo.
That’s why in creating our new book,
“A plant-based diet should be an inclusionary diet of plants rather than an exclusionary diet of animal products,” says Eric Helms, Ph.D., C.S.C.S., a steroid-free bodybuilder and a nutrition and exercise researcher who has been eating a high-protein plant-based diet for almost ten years.
David Katz, M.D., M.P.H., the founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, uses the term plant-predominant.