Hello!
I’m Elsa, a vegan and plant-based at-home chef. But it wasn’t always that way. Just a few years ago, I was morbidly obese and dealing with a variety of metabolic and hormonal health issues, including high-blood pressure, gestational diabetes, and PCOS, to name a few. Since having two babies, losing nearly 150 pounds, changing everything about the way I view and eat food and learning about the ins and outs of our food system, I’ve found my life’s purpose: to encourage people to eat more plants and help them in making that transition. I've gone from needing wild amounts of insulin and other medications to reversing my PCOS and being medication-free. Food is medicine, when we give it the chance to be.
Why go plant-based?
If there’s one single behavior that you can change for the betterment of yourself and this planet, it’s eliminating as many animal products from your diet as possible. We hear things all the time, like, “we need to save the rainforest,” or “we are polluting our planet,” but none of it really stuck with me until I had the revelation that our Earth’s problems are tied directly back to what’s on my plate. Every single meal you or I eat without animal products really does make a difference. If everyone made the change to minimize or eliminate animal products from their diets, the dire health of our society and planet would reverse dramatically, and quickly. Because, just like us, our planet’s ability to heal itself is profound.
Our society is currently in a metabolic health crisis that is growing at a rapid rate. In just a handful of years, the majority of children will be obese. Today, just one in ten adults are considered metabolically healthy. If we don’t change the way we eat, we - along with our planet - will suffer the consequences, like deforestation, drought, pollution, catastrophic climate change, and extinction. What does that mean for us? It means the loss of our land, our homes, our resources, the animals, and our lives. It sounds drastic, but it’s the stark reality. The amount of land and water it takes to raise and feed cows alone is wiping out our already-limited resources. And the waste that these facilities produce, along with the animal products themselves, are directly linked to the majority of the chronic diseases our friends and loved ones face: heart disease, diabetes, obesity, dementia, cancers, the list goes on. I don't want my children growing up in a world in decline. That's why it's so important to do what we can on an individual level right now: to give future generations a chance at a life filled with the beauty and respect of our natural world.
Healthy.
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