edward Sansom
Aug 27, 2017 · 1 min read

Absolutely agree. When I retired at 48 I changed my diet from meat eating to vegetarian. As a retiree I accompanied my wife on a course on medicinal plants in the south of France. Both my wife and her hostess were not happy with my coming. My wife regarded me as a nuisance. Her hostess considered an executive from ITT as something close to a devil.

I had a great time visiting vineyards as my interest in medicinal plants was limited. I found the vegetarian diet of my hostess very acceptable and after a 3 week stay proposed to my wife that we adopt a vegetarian diet.

I felt good and started to read about nutrition and especially the gut. I got involved in Asian exercise Qigong where the gut was considered a second brain. I was skeptical about this but fascinated by the inhabitants of the gut.

That was 35 years ago and I have never had any intestinal problems although I had many as a meat eater. One swallow doesn’t make a summer but I would never turn to meat eating for multiple reasons not least that of pollution.

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    85 year old retired exec. Multilingual married to French wife. Retired at 48 to achieve the two freedoms - freedom from and freedom to. Photo many years ago.