Oprah Winfrey has announced that she's going on a vegan cleanse, eliminating all animal products, alcohol, sugar, caffeine, and gluten from her diet for 21 days in an effort to become a more conscious eater.
She writes in her blog:
Wow, wow, wow! I never imagined meatless meals could be so satisfying. I had been focused on what I had to give up—sugar, gluten, alcohol, meat, chicken, fish, eggs, cheese. "What's left?" I thought. Apparently a lot. I can honestly say every meal was a surprise and a delight, beginning with breakfast—strawberry rhubarb wheat-free crepes.
She was inspired by a rereading of the book "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle and is being coached through the whole thing by one of her spiritual gurus of the moment, Kathy Freston.
Oprah asks, "How can you say you're trying to spiritually evolve, without even a thought about what happens to the animals whose lives are sacrificed in the name of gluttony?"
Oprah has a lot of influence and I hope she will inspire people across the country to become "conscious eaters." So many people are "unconscious eaters," often putting no thought into what they eat. This is the kind of behavior that leads to obesity and other health problems.
Our packaged, plastic-wrapped food culture makes it easy for us to remain unconscious. It makes it easy not to care when all you're seeing is the end result of the long process that occurs in order for a cow to end up as a steak on your plate.
When we become conscious not only of the health effects of what we eat but also of where our food comes from and the impact our food choices have on other creatures and the planet, we are respecting not only our bodies but the entire balance of nature. When we take things for granted and don't look beyond the plate in front of us, we become ignorant slaves to convenience and appetite rather than full participants in the cycle of life.
Given the undeniable "Oprah effect" and the fact that millions of people take everything she says very seriously, one can only hope that her short 21-day experiment will inspire a lot of people to make real, lasting changes to the way they eat and think about food.
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Hopefully this will be a good thing for Oprah, but one thing that concerns me is that the diet relies quite a bit on soy for protein. Menu plans up at the Oprah site include tofu, tempeh, Gardenburger soy sausage, soy milk, soy yogurt, and soy products are on the menu nearly every day, sometimes more than once.
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