You can probably guess that meat won't get a ringing endorsement on this site since I am a newly minted vegan eater.

Meat-wise I ate fish and fowl and for the most part did not eat red meat. The study findings that I learned about in The China Study, by T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, by Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., convinced me (and my wife) to recently convert to a totally plant-based diet (organic and whole grain when possible). All of a sudden I was a vegan!

As of this writing it has been eight weeks and so far, so good. It's doable. If I understood Campbell's and Esselstyn's study findings correctly, a plant-based diet can prevent and even reverse heart disease, cancer and diabetes. So I suppose you could see my diet change as an avoidance technique ... avoidance of the diseases just mentioned.

Are you interested in or have something to say about nutritious diets and/or meat? E-mail me at eatwell@our-best.com. My name is Mike.