Guest Post: You Are What You (Don't?) Eat.

"Ninety per cent of the diseases known to man are caused by cheap foodstuffs. You are what you eat." -- Victor Lindlhar, Author, You Are What You Eat: How to Win and Keep Health With Diet,1942

You are what you eat.

There's no denying it's a popular phrase, uttered by moms and nutritionists alike over the last 70 years. It's a pretty well agreed upon notion.

So why are we vegans and vegetarians defined by what we don't eat?

Cheater, Cheater Cheese Eater

My name is Jen and I'm a vegan.  Kinda.

If you had asked me a couple of weeks ago if I was a vegan I would have most cheerily, most virtuously responded: "Definitely!!! Totally a vegan. Yup, that's me."  "Oh, about ten years. "  "No! It's not hard at all. You should really try it. It's amazing. It will change your life."

But I am about to share a dirty little secret with you.  Blow the whistle on this whole veg eatin' operation.  I am about to go all Norma Rae on your be-hind…..