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“Make sure you visit your local fruit and vegetable market. These places offer wholesome, organic foods for a fraction of the price.”
― Timothy Pyke, Vegan Diet: 101 Recipes For Weight Loss

“Nutrition Facts Per Serving Calories 505 Protein 15.9 g Cholesterol 0 mg Fat 16.6 g Carbohydrates 75.3 g Fiber 4.8 g Sodium”
― Timothy Pyke, Vegan Diet: 101 Recipes For Weight Loss

“And yes, in decades past being vegan was hard. It took a great deal of self-discipline as you were depriving yourself of a lot of textures and flavors. These days, as the recipes in this book demonstrate, it is a lot easier.”
― Timothy Pyke, Vegan Diet: 101 Recipes For Weight Loss

“Facts Per Serving Calories 229 Protein 3.9 g Cholesterol 0 mg Fat 18.5 g Carbohydrates”
― Timothy Pyke, Vegan Diet: 101 Recipes For Weight Loss

“Two words that do have legal meaning are ‘organic’ in the US and ‘bio’ in Europe. So you can use these words to guide your purchasing habits.”
― Timothy Pyke, Vegan Diet: 101 Recipes For Weight Loss

“don’t be fooled by those bogus words like ‘natural’ and ‘diet’. These words have no legal definition and can thus be put on anything.”
― Timothy Pyke, Vegan Diet: 101 Recipes For Weight Loss

“There are five pounds of undigested red meat in the average American’s gut. The digestive system was not built for this and can’t cope with this much meat. The meat actually begins to break down and decay. This causes the release of high amounts of nitrogen and other nasty chemical enzymes. What’s more, if this was all natural meat that would be one thing. But it isn’t. Almost all meat we consume nowadays has been injected full of growth hormones, antibiotics and steroids. What’s more, the fodder the slaughter animals eat is full of pesticides, which collect in their meat tissue. And when we eat meat, all these things collect in us, where they compromise our immune system and degrade our health.”
― Timothy Pyke, Vegan Diet: 101 Recipes For Weight Loss

“banana 1 cup papaya 2 tablespoons tahini 1 tablespoon”
― Timothy Pyke, Vegan Diet: 101 Recipes For Weight Loss

“you don’t have to go vegan all at once. Veganism isn’t an on off switch. It’s more of a journey. It is fine to come to it gradually, one meal at a time. If you want, start with trying to stick to it once or twice a week and scale up from there. Every so often you'll back slide. That’s alright. As long as the road continues onward and upward, you have nothing to be ashamed of. After all, by embarking on this adventure you’re already doing more than most.”
― Timothy Pyke, Vegan Diet: 101 Recipes For Weight Loss

“dairy, because of the fat content, promotes weight gain and colds. That is far from the whole story, though. There is a high correlation between dairy consumption and health concerns. For example, as milk is high in fats consuming them means we spend a high amount of our metabolic energy processing them. This leads to weight gain and means that that energy is not available for muscle building. Also, as mentioned, modern farm animals consume large amounts of medicine, steroids and hormones. These also end up concentrated in the milk and dairy produced by those animals. Then when we consume that dairy they end up in us. There they have the same negative health impact as they do in the animal’s meat. And finally, milk proteins from other animals are not the same as those produced by a human mother. This leads to digestive track inflammation. You might have felt this. It's that bloated feeling you get after having had too much chocolate or milk-based desserts. Our human cells can actually rupture as a result of trying to digest these large cells. And so, milk products have many negative health repercussions. They are therefore best avoided. Instead we should aim for protein sources more aligned with what our bodies need, such as nuts and seeds!”
― Timothy Pyke, Vegan Diet: 101 Recipes For Weight Loss