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My pro-choice Democrat anti-Trump pro-CCP parents are furious with me that my college girlfriend and I twice procured emergency contraception in 2007 and my brother will not talk to me as it turns out I’m not a virgin retard, but had sexual intercourse within a committed thought-we’d-get-married love-relationship in my senior year of college and lived with her in the year following that and twice in my life I committed seminal ejaculation within the context of a female anatomy belonging to someone who badly wanted to get pregnant and be “settled” with me at the age of 21, after our parents had very carefully trained us not to have sex before marriage, warned us about attending Rutgers University, and also demanded us to “take responsibility” in the case of conception.

I am not happy about being an abortionist, babykiller, or anything like that but the idea that I wasn’t put up to it in the least or that you can vote for Bill Clinton and love porneia and still hold your son 100% accountable for his morals at the age of 21 when he was traumatized by the Iraq War and sleep-deprived for 3 years due to stress and emotional abuse by his racist Pakistani anti-white roommate in college and naturally he would then not want to come inside girl to cope or work out and be a nice person in hope of getting love in general rather than gun for Law School. TW-1 and I thought we would get married; we were both virgins in the autumn of 2006 and I at least have not so much as copped a feel of a breast-outline or buttock since TW-1 and I broke up in summer ‘07 let alone ‘played the lottery’ (pregnancy is winning).

I don’t like talking about this but it’s one thing people want to know about and I feel the right to say a few words in my defense on Planet Roe America and as a person who I’m pretty sure was conceived both outside of wedlock and in cis-rape or rape by deception, and if my little “Jaehee’s helper-bird” friend is correct, son of a guy who got so mad I didn’t myself rape the American Korean Presbyterian Pastor’s daughter (a.k.a. my sister) in the summer of 2002 that he fond some girl to drug and rape as symbolic coping.

I still remember well the autumn afternoon I met Taiwan-1, whose name is Rebecca or in Mandarin means “pure literature” or as I like to say “pellucid and literary” or “limpid and well-lettered.” As with the pastor’s daughter I in retrospect devoutly if not ardently regret not being closer to her father, who cared about me far more than my biological begetter; a Confucian gentleman and natural scholar / lover of moral philosophy who happened to become a banker just b/c he had to help his family (and all of Taiwan as a national-level financier), rather than a scholar of history and poetry as I apparently myself have become.

The evening Taiwan-1 and I met was the first day in my life I drank a full glass of wine. It was at a Rutgers English Department function related to the Honors Thesis I wrote, also on Taiwan and the director Hou Hsiao Hsien. I had originally wanted to write my thesis on a videogame called Final Fantasy VIII which in retrospect was an augury of how E. Asian media would summon people to Love not just through Squaresoft but later SM Entertainment, about which I also hoped to write an academic thesis before breaking hard toward political scholarship and military or what I call the sort of “hard science ofo Korean Studies’ like statistics, economics, history, primary source documents, constitutional and legal analysis, reading the daily papers, esp. 38North which is an amazing labor of love from generals who just think all day every day about saving their boys.

The emotion that I felt as I drank that my first wine - I had just come from dropping off my desktop / tower PC to be repaired at the Livingston Campus Rutgers PC shop, and was looking forward to working on my writing on my father’s Windows 98 laptop (I didn’t like laptops at the time but felt comfortable / nostalgic using Win98 in 2006, the apparent end of the universe) - was like, “Wahh [soft but real cry], does David Johnston really deserve nothing and no one?” I’m not trying to say I am selfish or unselfish but I had no friends, the only person I really liked was Big Bad Boris a.k.a. Aleksey “Alex” Kasavin who worked Google later on then Microsoft via Yale MBA program, but he doesn’t like / has never opened up to me or wanted to be close or committed or “eternal roommates” as I used to feel about him. I recently wrote Aleksey a last letter just expressing frankly “sorry to you + sorry to me too” that I always wanted to be close with him and this was not reciprocated; it might’ve been a little cross but after 18 years of this person grinning at me without hugging me (platonically but I have always wanted a close male friendship like a I briefly had with Danny Shin in KR), what am I supposed to do but say something?

When Rebecca looked up at me at the RU English Honors Program welcoming gala at Zimmerli Museum I heard what was either glass breaking - like a Jewish wedding where the couple stomp a glass before kissing, a ritual I love / adore somehow - or at least someone toasting. I had talked to this Korean grad-student. Because of Rebecca I came out of my shell a bit and decided instead of pulling ice cream or delivering pizzas I would try to be slightly more social and get a job as a writing-tutor instead, since I was working on my creative writing daily since 2005, and had started my “bioweapons Taiwanese- and Korean-America families + abortion + China and America assassinating indigenous peoples” novel in 2003 (the “soft sci fi of Sci-Rom / Futurist Romantic Realism) novel that my parents hate me not publishing since it predicted Covid in a way), and had a good “ear” as a reader (I loved imitating esp. Haruki Murakami and a little Gao Xingjian).

TW-1 and I courted between September and November. One of the formative drives in our relationship was her parents’ moving back to Taiwan for her dad’s job and mine moving to WI leaving us all alone together in New Jersey. Another, we were both studying Taiwan. My uncle’s wife is also Taiwanese. I don’t want to give the details of our sexual relationship since this person is an important working professional, a scholar, but we lost our virginities in a hotel suite in Washington, which is why I posted this pic of drapes. I’ll never forget how the day afterward I felt an insane, idiopathic “atheist-thought-bullet-packet” in my head then spent the day working on my creative writing at the “business lounge corner” of the Embassy Suite while TW-1 watched anime in her t-shirt. For some reason that day when I went on my PC to check e-mail I got a communication from my online DAI Forum friend who hadn’t reached out to me in more than a year, as if psychically he just knew that there had been a disturbance in the force or, as I like to say, the great “gayakeum” that binds some people had been detuned or returned.

This is “American Korean Millennial Lit; the story of some semen / sperm” but it seems meaningful somehow that on the night I actually punctured her virginal membrance neither of us completed orgasm / ejaculation. She started crying and then I stopped and we both went to sleep and left each other alone. Then all day we just nursed ourselves in our way, she with Japanese stuff and I with my creative writing or “journals.” We went out to dinner and it was a very “Maison Ikkoku” moment in the November weather in her metallic dress and my military jacket and polo shirt and taped glasses. That night I also discovered my incredible intuitive capacity for what you might call “air-braking” or being able to stay inside really really really close to the moment of potential impregnation. I don’t like talking about porneia and had wished I left it all behind but like in JAV when they have to j--- themselves before doing something obscene that men of my gen. were influenced by the millions to do to insult their GF’s and wives t’s pathetic to me that they can’t “air-burst the A-Bomb at 100 feet.” It was 15 years ago and today I think like why did God create sexual organs to look that way and be that way, stuff like frankly what’s the relationship between male circumcision and conscience (removing the ”foreskin of the heart”).

I am not without tremendous fault in my relationship with TW-1 esp. due to the fact that all the while we were together I was haunted by the presence or memory or eventual wish to be together again with S’hai-1. I could never fully convince myself that TW was better and yet by the same token if I’m being honest my attitude in 2006 was, “If Kate doesn’t want me / is never coming back I am still gonna live life and try to be married with children and a profession because I am not trash just because she gets mad and fires me whenever she feels like it.” Our relationship was also marked by meddling from both her family and friends and mine.

I don’t know why I’m saying this now as it is the ancient past and I am writing almost something that I fear the Holy Ghost does not want me to as everyone has to work out their salvation for themselves with fear and trembling and their seed and eggs are their own or the Lord’s.

TW-1 and I had a good relationship in all honesty except for money. The MD at Aurora Psychiatric and my brother and parents are mad. The MD was like “get a car maybe blahblah then do some Bulgarian deadlifts, Axe body spray” ahhaha alright just the car and I LOVE and thank Hananim for this man but he is Indian-American anwyay I was like “Dude we traveled around half the world, we shared so many meals in so many places.” MD didn’t realize relationships are like that; you don’t just arrive but share the whole journey of two lives as one, and it’s infinitely sad when you share that way with one person then another rather than one all the way through. It was really liek a marriage in the sense that pace Ecclesiastes I was “seeing the world with my wife.”

My very favorite day together with TW-1 was in Princeton, NJ at Panera or Au bon Pain drinking espresso. I later wrote a scene in Hot Pursuit in Princeton and also K-pop fanfic in which I was married to I-know-not-whom but we were dropping off our daughter Krystal for classes. It was common for Millennials at Rutgers at least in the honors program to visit Princeton as a vacation or “different oxygen” since P is only about 1 hour down the road from this mad disheartening to some soul-breaking suicide-inducing state school, nestled in woods. Educational Testing Service / the makers of the SAT and TOEIC and TOEFL also have their headquarters around there adn I nearly got a job there in 2007, my first dream job as I believed that the SAT protected gifted young people from arbitrary often intellectually envious subjective teachers; a view on standardized testing shared by all rational governments but especially Korea and Asia in general, and also by the serious and caring moral, now basically religious scholar / sociologist Charles Murray, who believed he was saved from racists, as were many Jews in the days the Ivy League was hyper-anti-Semitic (word to the wise: they’re now anti-Korean mutatis mutandis).

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WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND August 30, 2019 - Labor Day Blahs

I was trying to decide whether to do one of these this week, because it’s Labor Day weekend, and this is likely to be a particularly short column because I HAVEN’T SEEN ANYTHING! In fact, I’m not even doing my regular Box Office Preview column over at The Beat, because there just doesn’t seem to be much point to it. There used to be a time when studios would release movies over the four-day holiday weekend but not so much anymore, and this is a particularly weak Labor Day with no new movies opening in 1,000 theaters or more. No, it’s more about reexpanding movies already in theaters like Spider-Man: Far from Home in order to try to make more money before the summer is over. But if this is boring, you can also read my 2019 Summer Box Office wrap-up over at The Beat.

The only new “wide” release is BH Tilt’s latest release DON’T LET GO, a thriller directed by Jacob Estes (Rings) and starring David Oyelowo and Storm Reid from A Wrinkle in Time, and it’s not even opening in 1,000 theaters. It might not even get into the top 10. Apparently, BH Tilt is now going as “OTL Releasing” but I don’t think this movie has as much buzz as Leigh Whannell’s Upgrade, released by Blumhouse’s distribution branch in June 2018 to make $4.7 million opening weekend and $14.4 million total domestic. I don’t see Don’t Let Goopening that big as its plot is far vaguer, and I think if this make more than $4 million over the four-day holiday, it would be considered a coup since it’s only playing in less than 1,000 theaters. Who knows? I might even go see it on a lark.

Interestingly, there are two foreign language films from other countries (because as hard as it might be to believe, they speak other languages in other countries!) getting moderate releases this weekend: Sujeeth’s Bollywood action-thriller SAAHO (Yash Raj Films) and from Mexico, Ariel Winograd’s Spanish language TOD@S CAEN released by Lionsgate’s LatinX division Pantelion Films. I will be the first to admit that I’m not the best person to gauge interest in either movie because they’re not my communities, so I rarely see much marketing for these films.

Opening on Thursday, Saaho actually looks pretty cool, and if I can find three hours of time over Labor Day, I might actually check it out. It’s being released in three languages versions: Hindi, Telugu and Tamil, all with English subtitles, and that seems very groundbreaking, and it will also be in IMAX theaters. This could be another hit for Yash Raj ala the “Dhoom” series—Dhoom 3 opened with $3.4 million in 239 theaters in 2013 -- and possibly the studio’s widest release since 2018’s Thugs of Hindostan.

Check out the Hindi trailer below:

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(Oddly, Saaho was supposed to be released on India’s Independence Day August 15, but then was pushed back to American Labor Day. Bollywood films tend to get day and date releases nationwide to avoid piracy.)

Tod@s Caen (pronounced “todos caen” – don’t yell at me! It wasn’t my idea!) stars Omar Chapparo, the hot Mexican star from Pantelion’s hits No manches Frida and its sequel plus How to Be a Latin Lover. No manches Frida grossed about $11.5 million after its $4.6 million opening over Labor Day in 2016 while the sequel opened slightly bigger this past March but grossed less. Latin Lover was a huge crossover success for Chapparo and Pantelion, grossing $32.1 million. This is likely to be more in the former category and opening in 365 theaters, it probably can make around $3 million or more.

STREAMING AND CABLE

There aren’t many movies I can recommend, but at least I can recommend the new Netflix series THE DARK CRYSTAL: THE AGE OF RESISTANCE, which is a prequel to the 1982 Jim Henson movie that was made quite lovingly using the same puppeteering techniques as well as some of the same designers from the original movie. Plus the series has an absolutely brilliant voice cast that includes Taron Egerton, Helena Bonham-Carter, Anya Taylor-Joy, Alicia Vikander, Sigourney Weaver, Natalie Dormer, Lena Headey, Jason Isaacs, Theo James, Mark Strong, Toby Jones, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Simon Pegg and many, many more. As someone who wasn’t really a fan of the original movie, I found myself quite wrapped up in this series, having watched the first five episodes so far, and I think fans and non-fans alike will dig it.

You can read my interview with the writers over at The Beat.

(Netflix is also releasing a movie called Falling In Love, starring Christina Millan and Adam Demos... but that title... I just can’t!

Amazon Prime will begin streaming its own fantasy series, the very different Carnival Row, starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne, on Friday. It’s a steampunk noir crime series in which Bloom is an inspector trying to solve some Jack the Ripper style murders of the city’s fae and puck population, fantastical creatures who act as the city’s slave labor. I didn’t enjoy this nearly as much as it just doesn’t feel like my kind of thing even though I do love Victorian era stuff usually. I think it just hasn’t found its footing in the couple episodes I’ve seen. I also interviewed a few of the actors which will be on The Beat later today.

LIMITED RELEASES

Okay, I definitely lied as I’ve also seen Kim Farrant’s ANGEL OF MINE (Lionsgate), an amazing psychological drama starring Noomi Rapace as a woman whose daughter died but whom thinks that her neighbor’s daughter is actually her own. Also starring Yvonne Strahovski, Luke Evans and Richard Roxburgh, this mostly Australian film is actually a little like the recent After the Weddingin terms of the strangeness of its premise but it’s handled more like a thriller and Rapace gives another stirring performance. It will be in select cities starting Friday, and I recommend checking it out, especially if, like me, you’re a long-time fan of Ms. Rapace.

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Never got around to seeing Gavin Hood’s new movie OFFICIAL SECRETS (IFC Films), because I’m such a fan of Keira Knightley, and in this one she plays Katharine Gun, a British intelligence specialist handling classified information in the lead-up to the Iraq War in 2003. She receives a shocking memo from the NSA seeking help in collecting information on UN Security Council members to blackmail them into supporting an invasion of Iraq.

Hannah Pearl Utt’s BEFORE YOU KNOW IT (1091) stars the co-writer/director as stage manager Rachel Gurner who lives in her childhood apartment with her sister Jackie (Jen Tullock), father Mel (Mandy Patinkin) and preteen niece Dodge (Oon Yaffe) above the theater they own and operate. After a tragedy, the two sisters find out their mother, long thought dead (Judith Light) is still alive working on soap operas and they need to come to terms with that. The movie also stars Mike Colter and Alec Baldwin and it opens in select cities.

Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst also has a new movie as director, a thriller called THE FANATIC (Quiver Distribution), starring Devon Sawa from Final Destination and John Travolta. Travolta plays movie fan Moose who is obsessed with his favorite action hero Hunter Dunbar, played by Sawa. With the help of his paparazzi photographer friend Leah (Ana Golja), Moose tries to find Moose as his interactions with the celebrity become more dangerous as Moose becomes more obsessed.

Liam Hemsworth from “The Hunger Games” stars in Malik Bader’s Killerman (Blue Fox Studios) as a New York money launderer who wants to find answers after waking up with no memory and with millions in cash and drugs, as he’s chased by a team of dirty cops. The movie also stars Emory Cohen, Diane Guerrero (“Orange is the New Black”) and Suraj Sharma from Life of Pi, and it’s getting a small theatrical release in select cities.

Now playing at New York’s Film Forum is Marjoline Boonstra’s doc The Miracle of the Little Prince (Film Movement) which looks at the sustained global popularity of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince in the eight decades since it was first published.

Opening in IMAX theaters Thursday and then nationwide Sept 6 is the Chinese animated film Ne Zha (WELL Go) about a young boy with superpowers who must decide between good and evil.

There’s a couple other things but I’m so behind for the weekend that I’m done.

REPERTORY

A few rep things to mention before we get to the regular theaters. The Wachowski’s original The Matrix will be celebrating its 20thanniversary with a rerelease across the nation in Dolby theaters, so I’ll be seeing that Thursday night. The Alamo in Brooklyn is also screening a special 70mm print of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, and that’s where I’ll be on Saturday.

METROGRAPH (NYC):

On Friday, the Metrograph will begin screening a 35mm print of Eric Roehmer’s 1986 film Le Rayon Vert, but there lots of series continiung through the weekend including the “Shaw Sisters” series which is fairly interesting so far. Angie Chen’s Maybe It’s Love (1984) plays again on Thursday evening –that’s a weird one—and Ann Hui’s Starry Is the Night (1988) will play tomorrow and Sunday and a few others. If you want to see a weird and really bad but very funny horror film, you have to check out Angela Mak’s The Siamese Twins on Saturday night, plus there’s a few more I haven’t seen. The Metrograph has also expanded its “Godard/Karina Late Nights” series so that you can see Alphaville (1965) and Pierrot Le Fou (1965), both beloved classics, through the weekend, as well as this weekend’s offering to the series, 1962’s Vivre Sa Vie. This week’s Late Nites at Metrograph is Leo Carax’sHoly Motors (2012) and Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue but you can also see the late Japanese filmmaker’s excellent Paprika (2006) through the weekend, as well. This weekend’s Playtime: Family Matinees is another Ray Harryhausen classic, 1963’s Jason and the Argonauts.

THE NEW BEVERLY (L.A.):

The New Bev ends its month of mostly showing Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood before returning to repertory fare next week, but its Weds. matinee is the 1953 Western comedy Calamity Jane, this weekend’s KIDDEE MATINE is Disney’s The Ugly Dachsund (1966) starring Dean Jones, and then on Monday, you have two chances to see Michael Mann’s 1995 crime-thriller Heat, although you’ll have to see it at 9:30AM cause the usual 2pm matinee is sold out.

AERO (LA):

Thursday begins a “Sellers and Southern Double Feature” series (?) of Dr. Strangelove (1964) with The Magic Christian (1969), Friday is a double feature of 1999’s Office Space with Kevin Smith’s Clerks(1994) and then on Saturday is a Mad Max TRIPLE Feature of the first three movies: Mad Max (1979), The Road Warrior (1982) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985). Sunday is a special screening of Thom Anderson’s 2003 film Los Angeles Plays Itself, and Monday begins Aero’s “Heptember Matinees” series as in Katherine Hepburn, and it kicks off with 1940’s The Philadelphia Story.

FILM FORUM (NYC):

Marty and Jay’s Double Features runs through next Thursday and there are one or two of these double features every day with a mix of classics and esoteric and rare stuff. You can click on the link to see all that’s playing.

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER (NYC):

“Make My Day: American Movies in the Age of Reagan” continues up at Lincoln Center through Tuesday with highlights like Robocop, David Cronenberg’s Videodrome, Scorsese’s The King of Comedy and The Last Temptation of Christ, Conan the Barbarian, First Blood and more.

IFC CENTER (NYC)

This week’s Weekend Classics: Staff Picks Summer 2019 is the original, classic King Kong, while Waverly Midnights: Staff Picks Summer 2019 is Office Space (1999) and Russ Meyers’ Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970). Late Night Favorites: Summer 2019 is Aliens, Suspiria and Eraserhead, just in case you missed any of those the dozen other times they’ve been shown.

BAM CINEMATEK (NYC):

Saturday’s “Beyond the Canon” offering is a double feature of Haifaa Al-Mansour’s Wadja from 2012 and Wim Wender’s 1974 film Alice in the Cities. BAM is also showing the second part of its “Programmers Notebook: On Memory” with offerings like Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, Christopher Nolan’s Memento, Kurosawa’s Rashomon, Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (of course) and more!

MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE (NYC):

“See It Big! 70mm” will screen Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One on Friday and Saturday evenigs but ALSO, they’re showing one of my favorite comedies It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) in 70mm on Saturday afternoon.

ROXY CINEMA (NYC)

Tonight and Sunday, the Roxy is showing the 1965 film Juliet of the Spirits. On Saturday, the theater is showing Agnes Varda’s 1965 film Le Bonheur.

LANDMARK THEATRES NUART (LA):

This week’s Friday night midnight film is Miyazaki’s Spirited Away.

This weekend, the Egyptianin L.A. is taken over by the Cinecon Classic Film Festivaland you can find out what that consists at the official site.

Next week, New Line releases It: Chapter Two, which I probably will have seen by the time you read this but probably will still be under embargo.

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Frequently Asked Questions on https://carolinesplantbaseddiet.com/wholefood-plant-based-frequently-asked-questions/

Frequently Asked Questions

FAQs – Here are some of the questions I’m asked most frequently about adopting a whole food, plant-based diet.

I get asked a lot of questions every day about eating a whole foods, plant based diet so I’ve tried to capture here as many of them as I can with my answer. If your question isn’t covered then get in touch with me and I’ll respond as soon as I can.

Why is a whole foods, plant based diet good for me?

It’ll make you look and feel amazing! Plus, it will effectively help prevent and reverse chronic disease, give you loads of energy and as a bonus if you’ve been carrying around some extra weight you’ll find that it begins to melt away.

Since the 1970s, extensive research studies have been carried out that have shown that eating a whole foods, plant based diet is the key to optimum health. If you’d like to read more about the science behind the claim, take a look in the recommended reading section.

What is a whole foods, plant based diet?

A whole foods, plant based diet is a simple diet that avoids eating anything that has ever had a face or a mum. This means meat, fish, chicken, turkey dairy and eggs are avoided.

That means that grains, fruit, vegetables and legumes are all in.

Whole grains, fruits, vegetables and legumes – and as much as you want, can be eaten on a whole food, plant-based diet.

To help you get started, read my article How to get started on your plant based journey.

Why should I avoid processed foods?

Eating a whole foods, plant based diet means avoiding refined foods such as olive oil, white rice and bread. Anything that has been through a process and is created artificially or has chemical additives. Whole foods are exactly that, foods that come from whole, unrefined plants.

Any food that has been through a process has been stripped of most of their nutritional properties. This means that the good parts such as healthy fiber, vitamins and minerals have all been extracted.

Why would you want to eat something that nutritionally doesn’t do anything for you?

Not eating meat and eating a plant based diet is just another fad like the Atkin’s Diet isn’t it?

What if I told you that eating meat was a relatively recent thing to do? Eating meat only became popular as Western society, think of Europe and North America became richer and they could afford to eat meat.

The majority of people throughout world history have eaten a largely vegetarian diet and it is still that way in any parts of the world today.

If I only eat plant based food it’s going to be too restrictive and too hard to follow. I’ll never be able to manage it.

There are many different types of foods to eat. It could be said that you’re restricting your diet if you only ever eat meat, poultry, fish and dairy.

It’s very easy to eat meat free and by reading this you’re going to be able to do that very quickly.

If I only eat wholefood, plant based foods, I’m going to need to take supplements like vitamins and minerals.

Everybody is different in what they do each day, what they eat and their genetic make-up. Generally, if you need to take a supplement it’s probably because you have either a health issue or a poor diet.

Even vegetarians and vegans can have bad diets. For instance those that rely on supermarket ready meals and takeaways. Taking a vitamin or mineral supplement will not let you escape your health issue or your bad diet.

If you eat a healthy wholefood, plant based diet then you will more than likely be taking on board all the vitamins and minerals you need. The only exceptions will be vitamin B12 and perhaps vitamin D the sunshine vitamin if you live in the northern hemisphere, particularly during the winter time.

Read more about vitamin B12 and why everyone needs to take it here.

I’m not going to be able to eat enough protein on a plant based, vegan or vegetarian diet

How much protein do you think you need? 10%, 20% , 40%, 50% of your total calorie intake? Well the recommended daily allowance (RDA) for protein is 8-10% of total calories consumed and even this is high for some people who can get by on 4-5% of total calories consumed.

Unfortunately, there’s a myth that’s been perpetuated for decades that you need animal protein. It was thought that it was a better protein, in fact it’s harmful to us, so harmful in fact that it can promote undesirable growth in our bodies such as cancer cells and atherogenic tissue (essentially when the artery wall thickens as a result of the accumulation of fatty materials such as cholesterol and triglyceride).

Eating plant proteins are better for us as they aren’t that good at promoting this growth in our bodies as we use them less efficiently which is actually beneficial to us. So don’t worry about not getting enough protein, as long as you eat a varied vegetarian diet you’ll be healthy.

Plant foods that contain protein include: grain foods e.g. bread, cereal, pasta and rice, nuts, beans and tofu.

If you’re really fixated on how much protein you’re getting in a day, go to: https://www.supertracker.usda.gov/CreateProfile.aspx to track the nutrient profile of your daily diet.

Plant based eaters, vegans or vegetarians don’t get enough calcium in their diet.

Oh dear, another common misconception. Vegetarian diets are packed full of calcium. You can get it from green, leafy vegetables such as spinach, kale, broccoli, pak choy and collard greens. It’s also in dried figs, sesame seeds, tahini, beans, soybeans, soy nuts and tofu.

Did you know that your bones are constantly changing? They’re always breaking down and rebuilding, so much so that approximately 15% of bone mass can be turned over in just one year.

Read my article: How To Get Enough Protein, Calcium and Iron On A Plant Based Diet for more info.

It’s not safe for children or pregnant women to follow a plant based, vegetarian or vegan diet.

As long as you have a healthy diet with all the necessary amounts of calories, protein, vitamins and minerals for a growing body then you’ll be absolutely fine.

I’m going to get fat eating loads of pasta, rice and potatoes. Carbs are bad for you!

If there’s one myth above all that I’d like to debunk it’s this one. People think that the sugars in starches are very easily converted into fat. They think they’re carrying extra fat on their tummy, hips, thighs and bottom because they eat too many starches.

WRONG!

If you want to read the research:

Hellerstein MK. De novo lipogenesis in humans: metabolic and regulatory aspects. Eur J Clin Nutr. 1999 Apr; 53 Suppl 1: S53-65

Acheson KJ, Schutz Y, Bessard T, et al. Glycogen storage capacity and de novo lipogenesis during massive carbohydraye overfeeding in man. Am J Clin Nutr. 1988 Aug; 48 (2) 240-4

Minehira K, Bettschart V, Vidal H, et al. Effect of carbohydrate overfeeding on whole body and adipose tissue metabolism in humans. Obes Res. 2003 Sep; 11 (9): 1096-1103

Tappy L. Metabolic consequences of overfeeding in humans. Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care. 2004 Nov; 7 (6) 623-8

Levine JA. Non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT). Best Pract res Clin Edocrinol Metab. 2002 Dec; 16 (4): 679-702

Mickelsen O, Makdani DD, Cotton RH, Titcomb ST, Colmey JC, Gatty R, Effects of a high fiber diet on weight loss in college age males, Am J Clin Nutr. 1979 Aug; 32 (8): 1703-9.

The research makes it pretty clear that it’s all just a myth. When we eat complex carbohydrates our body breaks them down into simple sugars. Once broken down these simple sugars are transported around our bodies in our blood steam to millions and trillions of cells to provide them with energy.

If you eat more carbs than your body needs, guess what it does, yes it does store about two pounds invisibly in the muscles and liver in the form of glycogen, but once it’s done that you’ll just burn the rest off as body heat and through physical activity such as walking, typing at the computer, doing household chores and fidgeting!

You can read more about how to get enough protein, calcium and iron on a plant based diet here.

You can find lots of other information on following a whole food, plant-based diet here.

Would you like to read more? Check out these books…

If you’d like to read more extensively about eating a whole food, plant based diet then I’d suggest reading these books first:

#Getting started

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Hail and well met! I’m Sophie, and I’ve been invited to contribute to this esteemed community. I know– big deal. So, let me tell you my qualifications. Well, to start with, I’ve been playing hobby and tabletop roleplaying games since 1977. I started Dungeons & Dragons with the basic “blue box” edition back in 1978. That means I have dice older than some of you. Probably most. However, it’s not just that I’m older than the Nerdarchy guys, I also spent 13 years working in the gaming community.

To introduce myself

In 1991 I was hired by Chessex Game Distributors, which, at the time was the largest distributor of hobby games in the United States (as well as the best dice for gaming. They still make amazing dice.).

That was a dream job for a time, and is a story for another column. In late April 1992, after a long weekend away I proposed to my girlfriend, who accepted. We returned to my apartment, where I found a letter from TSR Hobbies, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. I’d been hired as a freelance editor.

Back to the beginning: I started playing D&D in 1978. I played through until my junior year of high school when everyone in the group became too busy working and going to school to play. I didn’t play again until my third year of college (my first year of Penn State) when I played until graduation then after with several groups. First edition became second edition. One day, while looking through Dragon Magazine, I saw an ad: TSR was hiring freelance editors!

What was TSR? Tactical Studies Rules, a company started by Gary Gygax and Don Kaye to publish a game Gygax and Dave Arneson created: Dungeons & Dragons. Books have been written about the history of this company, and I won’t summarize it here. By 1992, it was THE power in gaming. This was before the release of Magic: The Gathering by Wizards of the Coast, and gaming was a far different animal back then.

Anyway, I answered the ad (sending something called a “letter” and a resume which I put in an envelope and physically mailed). A couple of weeks later I received a return letter with an editing test and instructions. For someone with editing experience, the format and grammatical errors were easy to spot. As someone who’d been playing AD&D for over a decade, the subtle rules errors were easily spotted as well. Some of the errors would’ve been correct in first edition, but this was now 2E AD&D. I checked it. Rechecked it. Checked it again. Then… sent it back to Lake Geneva. In late April, I was hired.

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My boss was Bruce Heard. As my first assignment I was given half of a basic D&D book: the first Poor Wizard’s Almanac by Aaron Allston. I was splitting it with Newton Ewell. Essentially, it was a fact book about the basic D&D known world, Mystara. TSR sent me source material like the new Rules Cyclopedia and the Hollow World setting to check rules and facts. It was really dry material, essentially, well, an almanac. It took me two weeks of work after work to finish my bit.

The way they did it was they sent me discs for my old Mac classic as well as a printed copy of the rough manuscript. I did the actual editing on paper then did the corrections on the discs. After I made all the corrections I mailed the papers and the discs (plural) to TSR. They sent me a very nice check, a lot of which went to student loans.

I did three other pieces. Next was GA1: Murky Deep written by Norman Ritchie. It was for 2E AD&D and was generic setting. I think he was a southerner by the way he phrased things. The module took a lot of work to make it neutral in tone but it was well written with a wonderful hook.

After that was GA2: Swamplight by Jean Rabe. This was another generic setting novel and I really enjoyed it. Obviously it was a swamp based adventure, but its encounters were incredible, and in a sandbox. The cover was credited to a legend in the gaming community, Jennell Jaquays, creator of the module Dark Tower as well as Central Casting and a ton of other things. We became friends many years later.

My last piece was Black Spine, which was a multi-book campaign module for the Dark Sun setting. My part was book two. The difference here was this module was written on an IBM compatible, and I had a Mac. The translation from format to format destroyed all the, well, formatting. Both ways. I wasn’t happy, and neither was my boss.

In any case, not long after I left Chessex and was hired by Games Workshop US in Maryland. GW had a no competition clause in its rules, so I had to leave TSR.

While working for Chessex I went to conferences in Chicago and… um… I forget where the other one was. Maybe Milwaukee? I met many TSR people at these conferences, and also at the GAMA shows in Vegas and Reno, as well as Gen Con in Milwaukee.

A few years after I left TSR it was bought by Wizards of the Coast. Later, WotC was bought by Hasbro. Some of the old TSR people are now at WotC, but most aren’t. Some, like me, are out of the gaming industry completely. (GW and I parted ways in 2003.)

I didn’t play D&D for over 15 years. My gaming stuff moldered in storage. I sold a lot of the board games I’d collected in my gaming career, and 90% of my GW minis. My life changed radically in 2008, then again in 2013 and 2014.

But that’s a story for a different column.

I’ve played a little in the past year. I got involved with Nerdarchy early this year in one of Nerdarchist Ted’s campaigns — my first time playing 5E D&D. In August I moved to State College, Pa. to begin work on my PhD in Education. I’ve been gaming remotely with them since then. I’m trying to start a 2E AD&D group up here, but no one is interested — they all want to play 5E D&D.

In any case, here I am. If you have things you want me to write about, please let me know in the comments. Otherwise, I’ll write whatever I want!

“Pleased to meet you! Hope you guessed my name!”

A new writer joins us to share her experiences in the #ttrpg industry that helped pave the way for the community we enjoy today. Hail and well met! I’m Sophie, and I’ve been invited to contribute to this esteemed community. I know-- big deal.

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