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Concise Guide To Eating Mostly Plants

A Plant Based Diet is not a Vegan Or Vegetarian Diet. On a Plant Based Diet you get most of your nutrients from plants but allow for a small amount of animal products. ❗️Don't get your nutrition advice from randos like me. Instead, for advice on eating Plants, check out this FREE website:  https://veganhealth.org/ DO NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING I WRITE.  I started writing this guide at the beginning of my journey. It's a mess, and I now know better. Especially when it comes to supplements. I now take a multivitamin that contains B12, D, Selenium, Iodine... and I take an Omega 3 algea supplement which Plant Eaters anecdotally need. I make sure there is always soup in the fridge that includes Beans or Lentils and Dark Leafy Greens. I still agree with a lot of this advice, but changed my mind on some of it. I advise you to read websites and books by qualified people like: Books: Vegan For Life, Nourish Subscribe to the newsletters of the websites: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health...

I Don’t Believe In Mind Reading

There is a lot of mind reading going on. People claiming to know the true motives of a person. I don't even know clearly what my own motives are, let alone other people. Speculating about motives is a big part of the news and of social media. "They are just stupid" "They are lying" "They don't know that they are lying" "What they really want is actually..." "They are a narcissist" "They have a cognitive bias" "They are evil" "They intend well" ... The field of psychology attempts to read minds. Their conclusions often seem true. But it's not an empirical measurement like measuring a volume or length. If I don't know my own motivation, how can a researcher? You can say: "people are pretty much the same" and base your mindreading on your own mind. But perhaps people have different ways of thinking. Maybe not everyone is skeptical. Perhaps people can be in denial or not able comprehen...