Do you watch what you eat? Options

[sixfive]

Not to be a health f****t or anything but my family kinda started heading in the direction of actually reading nutrition labels and shit so I decided it couldn't hurt to jump on with them and I've been watching what I eat for the most part. When I go out I don't really pay attention, but when at home I figure I might as well eat what's healthy. When you're in control of what goes into your food and drinks it's pretty easy to avoid loads of sugar / bad fats and focus on more important nutrients to consume. If you do it right you can make it taste just fine, too. Fruits and vegetables if prepared properly can be added into almost everything and add flavor to everything.

Got me thinking. Do you watch what you eat? Do you avoid specific things (carbs, fats, sugars, sodiu, etc)?

[Matsumoto]

Kathleen, you're a vegan right? Is it hard finding foods?

[tokyo-rose]

Kathleen, you're a vegan right? Is it hard finding foods?

I was a pescetarian (the only meat I ate was fish) for about a month before my mother made it too hard for me to continue, but it wasn't that difficult to avoid the meat I couldn't eat. I think I still consumed dairy products, but I limited myself on that since I was more lactose intolerant back then (year-round runny nose).

From what I've seen at college, it's much harder to be allergic to gluten because that's in so many foods. The Campus Center dining hall only opened a gluten-free section during the 2009~2010 after gluten-intolerant students pushed for it.