Tuesday at the Doctors -- You Are What You Eat

Today was a productive day. In the morning I went to two doctor appointments. They were yearly checkups for several of the bullets I’ve dodged over the years. The news is good: I’m ready for another 70 years .

To make the day even better, I dropped by the food truck that does business next to the hospital and picked up four Thai Peanut Curry meals, with organic tofu. In the years when I was seeing a doctor almost every month, I would reward myself with a Starbucks espresso, bear claw, a half-pound of Sees chocolate candy, and then a Thai peanut curry bento. Thinking I was being reasonable, I would ration out the Sees candy over a week or so.

Those days are in the past. After my close calls with the Grim Reaper, I shaped up and started to take an interest in what was going into my body. The more research I did, the more I realized that a whole food, plant-based diet was the best way to go. No more Starbucks, no more Sees candy, no more Taco Bell, no more Chipotle. Just plants. And, it’s good for the animals of the earth.