Thanks What the Health

Amobi Okugo
Jul 25, 2017 · 2 min read

This past weekend, one of my best friends came to visit. He is in his third year of medical school and he is vegan, so when I say he is healthy that is an understatement. Before he came, I cleaned out my whole fridge and bought a bunch vegan snacks and food to accommodate him. It’s expensive to eat healthy. Flaxseed cereal, Almond milk, and Kombucha tea alone cost me a meal at Ruth’s Chris.

Now if you know me, you know I eat a lot. In fact, my nickname is the “Garbage disposer” because I always eat the leftovers of everyone who doesn’t finish their food. Add that in with the fact that I’m Nigerian, not eating meat is sacrilegious. Can you imagine Rice and Stew without some goat meat or chicken. Don’t even get me start on Egusi soup without beef.

My friend convinced us to watch the Netflix documentary “What the Health”. That was my first mistake. Twenty minutes in and my girlfriend decides that we have to do a Vegan cleanse. I was forcefully corrupted into doing a vegan cleanse as she threw away all the meat and non vegan products we had in the kitchen. Somehow I negotiated that I will only be vegan during the week and I can eat meat for lunch after practice, so technically I’m not really on a vegan cleanse but you get my drift. She is going on a month vegan cleanse. (Good luck)

I’ve always thought I was a healthy eater. My whole mindset behind eating is if you can’t catch it, kill it, or grow it then you shouldn’t eat it. I’ve always thought that was the right approach considering I work out and eat in moderation but apparently I’ve been wrong depending on where you are getting your information.

As I’ve been exposed to more information, I’ve grown more cautious of the food I eat. Simple concepts like brown rice vs white rice, farm raised fish vs wild caught, grass fed beef were all concepts I didn’t think about when I was younger. Now I find myself engaged in food conversations with vegans and vegetarians more often than I care for. The only question I have when it comes to meat is how is there enough meat to supply millions of people everyday, consistently year round. There isn’t that many chickens to go around which makes you wonder. I’m a big conspiracy theorist so I’ll leave that for another post.

Anyways ….yea I don’t really know where I’m going with this post besides the fact that I’m kinda sorta not really Vegan. Please send over any vegan food recipes though.

Amobi Okugo

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