Talking About Diets

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I’m interested in having a natural diet, and so for the last two years, I’ve only eaten raw food. I believe that when you cook fresh food, you lose the goodness and vitamins in it. I eat raw vegetables, which takes care of the vitamins, but of course I also need protein. It’s easy to eat raw vegetables and fruit, but not so easy to eat raw meat and fish. I think raw meat isn’t good for you, and personally I don’t like the taste of raw fish, so instead I eat raw eggs. For dessert I eat fruit. I feel healthy and have lots of energy, but I never have a hot meal. One of the main problems with my diet is that it’s difficult to eat with the rest of my family.

I love desserts. Cakes, puddings, chocolate, anything sweet. But one day I read an article about sugar and how bad it is for you. I realised I was addicted to fattening food and I needed to do something about it urgently. I thought about giving up desserts but I couldn’t do it. It’s impossible. So I decided to divide the week into dessert days and non-dessert days. Now there are five days in the week when I don’t eat desserts but at the weekend I can eat as many as I like. On non-dessert days I eat more fresh fruit which is much healthier. I still wake up thinking about cakes and go to sleep thinking about chocolate ice cream.

I only eat food that is grown or produced near my home. That means there’s less choice because I don’t live in a Mediterranean country. But the fruit and vegetables I eat are really fresh and they taste so good. I do eat a lot of vegetables but I don’t have a completely vegetarian diet. I tried once when I was about 14 but I missed meat, especially roast chicken. Now my parents have hens in the garden and so we have fresh eggs every day. The best thing about eating locally produced food is that it’s good for the environment. No planes or lorries are involved in transporting food for long distances. I think that’s a good thing.

I am a vegan. I respect animals and I don’t want them to suffer. That means that I don’t eat or use any animal products for any purpose. I don’t eat meat, fish, dairy, or anything that comes from animals. I don’t wear clothes made from animals either, and I do my best to find shoes that aren’t made from leather. When I was a child, I ate meat and drank milk like most people. But then when I was 13, I started thinking about where my food came from. I learnt about how animals suffer, and I was shocked. I decided to become a vegan, and I’ve become very good at cooking lovely vegan meals. When you’re a vegan, you don’t often eat a heavy meal, and I sometimes feel hungry between meals. But then I eat a healthy snack, an apple, or a carrot and some nuts.