Myth #1: Vegans never get sick

You here lots of folks bragging all the time, "I eat [insert mystery ingredient here] and I never get sick." Or even better, "I take 10,000 mg of [insert magic pill/potion here] and I never get sick."

Well, you would think with all the healthy eating around here, bacteria would shrivel and die if they got within 3 feet of me.

Nope, I got smacked around by The Crud for over a week. A mean version of bronchitis/laryngitis/fever/blech. Had to take some antibiotics to get over it.

Denise has been sick with it for about a month. And here's a little insider tip for you: Sick pregnant women make lousy vegetarians. That's all I'm saying about that.

So that was pretty disappointing. I can count the number of times I've had meat in the past month on one hand, but I still got sick. Most of the times when I "cheat" on the weekends, I'm eating something with cheese like a spinach pizza or having some eggs.

Now If I were putting a political spin on it, I would say thank goodness I am eating a whole foods plant based diet so that I was only sick for a week and a half. Other people have been sick for months with the same crud, where as I was only sick for half that time.

Or, if I were in a self condemning mode, I would say that the reason I got sick was because I have been cheating with some eggs and cheese on the side. If I were really 100% committed, I wouldn't have gotten sick.

I guess that's what they are saying about Davy Jones, dead at 66.

"He was a vegetarian, and there was not an ounce of fat on the guy," Jacobson said. "He lived on the beach in Florida and ran miles every morning. This is the last person I expected this to happen to. He couldn't have been in better shape."

Whoops! The best quote about it came from my friend John Peterson and I totally agree with him, " As relates to exercise and diet, let me just say that the man never suffered and was able to enjoy himself to the very end of his short 66 years of life. In my opinion that is far better than slowly dieing for 30 years."

Nuff said,

Cliff