My Mental Health Has Worsened - Multiple Personality Disorder

Unfortunately my mental health has recently taken a turn for the worse. I have a more concrete diagnosis from my psychiatrist which has knocked my back a little in my positive attitiude to tackling my problems.

Watch my latest Youtube video where I explain more and thank you so much for your wonderful support:

England Boss Roy Hodgson Singles Out Everton Star Ross Barkley For Special Wembley Performance

As England beat hapless Estonia last night at London`s Wembley Stadium taking their European qualifying record to nine wins from nine games boss Roy Hodgson singled out rising star Ross Barkley for his outstanding performance.

21 year old Ross Barkley, a graduate of Everton`s excellent youth development system shone in last nights game setting up Theo Walcott`s opening goal on the stroke of half time and lighting up an otherwise uneventful game with his dazzling display confirming the growing stature of his precocious talent.

Hodgson had this to say about the brilliant young Everton and England man.

"It`s not often that I contest people`s choice for man of the match. There were one or two other candidates, but I`m pleased Ross got it. We saw what he can do out there."

Barkley has been in excellent form for Everton this season and seems to have found a role within the team that he thrives in after manage Roberto Martinez dropped him into a slightly deeper midfield role where he can dictate the game with his passing and attacking instincts. The young Merseyside native had this to say about his own performance.

"I`m over the moon with my performance. I was unlucky not to get on the scoresheet. Because I`m an attacking midfielder it is important to get goals, but it was even more important we got the three points."

Barkley had started the game for England last night but maybe only because Micheal Carrick was out injured. On last nights mercurial display Barkley has proved that he should certainly be picked ahead of the over-rated and ineffectual Manchester United midfielder whose place in the England team probably has more to do with Hodgsons bias for picking players from the "big" clubs ahead of better players who do not play for the "Sky five."

A Book That Will Change Your Life : Colon Health, They Key To A Vibrant Life By Dr. Norman W. Walker

A must read
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There are so many practices that we can adopt to improve our health and reduce our chances of contracting serious illness or disease. One of the most overlooked of those is to try and ensure that you have a clean, healthy functioning colon.

The colon, often referred to as the large bowel or large intestine is an important part of the digestive tract. The digestive tract is the part of the body`s organs which passes digested food and liquid through the body to its place of elimination. It is therefore imperative that the colon functions properly so that the waste products that your body produces are eliminated correctly.

Some weeks ago I read a book called, "Colon Health, The Key To A Vibrant Life", written by Dr. Norman W. Walker. 

It is an incredible book and is a must read for anybody who wishes to live a healthy life.

Dr. Walker asserts with great confidence that the colon is simply one of the most important organs in the body because it is connected with every other part of the body via the bloodstream. Toxins absorbed by the colon pass into the bloodstream and therefore are moved around the body.

Dr. Walker argues that a huge number of illnesses and diseases can be avoided and cured by concentrating on having a clean colon. And having a clean colon is not difficult all it requires is that you consume a diet of high fibre, high water foods. Meat and dairy products and processed foods contain no fibre and therefore they do not pass through the colon but form a sticky paste which grasps onto the sides of your colon and coats it with a slime that is essentially rotting putrefying mucus that will cause illness and disease. Indeed, more and more studies into colon cancer are showing that a dirty, sticky colon is the main reason for contracting colon cancer. 

I would recommend that you purchase this book and read it cover to cover maybe more than once as the revelations found within are startling. I have begun focusing on my colon health and have certainly found a marked improvement in my overall physical health. Give the book a read, you never know, it might just save your life.

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The Importance Of Having A Rest Day

You may be eager to exercise every day but be careful not to overdo it and make sure that you have a rest day.

It is Sunday right now as I write this, a quarter past five in the early evening here in Berkshire, England and I am happy to say that I have spent the entire day doing nothing for today I decided to have a rest day.

During the last seven days I have run twice and cycled intensively. Yesterday I plotted a new course in my local area that includes excellent undulating hills for my bike and I to enjoy. I pushed myself hard once again and arrived home swimming in sweat and aching from the exertion. But, ultimately feeling incredibly happy as those endorphins raced through my brain. I fell into bed last night feeling elated and exhausted and was asleep before I even felt the warmth of my bed sheets covering my body.

Exercise is wonderful and often leaves me feeling tired, happy and almost in a state not far removed from feeling stoned as Youtuber Mango.Margaux recently explained.

Consistent exercise and wonderfully healthy eating is the best way to achieve fitness and good health of course but you must be careful. It is all too easy to become carried away by the joy that exercise gives you and to overdo it.

Consistency is the key to success but you must give yourself some rest days. Days where your activity level is as reduced as possible. After my lung bursting, fat burning efforts during the last seven days today has been my rest day. 

I have spent the day either on my sofa or, like now, laying on my bed working on my laptop. I have read, written, e-mailed and generally completed a great deal of work whilst barely moving my body. 

Today I ache but it is not a painful ache or the ache of a body that is telling me that it has had enough activity. It is the ache which I enjoy, it tells me that I have worked hard and that my form is working well.

But I must rest and so must you. Rest days are of paramount importance because without them you open yourself up to damage from over exercising and falling foul of injury. Given that consistency is the key to exercise an injury meaning you have to break from your regimen will break that consistency and leave you having to re-build your fitness. Two years ago I developed the early signs of shin splints. I ignored those early warning bells and ended up having to do no exercise for three months. Had I listened to my poorly shins at the outset of their cries I would only have needed to rest for two weeks at the most. Two weeks rest is far better than three months immobility. 

So make sure that you rest and rest well. This evening I will be taking to my bed at exactly 8pm to ensure that my body receives the maximum amount of rest that it requires. And even if I am not tired enough to sleep I will be laid down and quiet giving my muscles a chance to continue their natural work of repair and growth.

Rest days are imperative and should not be considered as a day lost in your quest for fitness. They ought to be considered as an important part of your exercise regimen for without them you may find that an enforced rest, pain and recovery becomes your new routine.

Why Is Hatred For The Healthy On The Rise?

It is an odd phenomenon but fit shaming is on the increase, why would that be?

I have had many positive experiences since I became a Vegan, began eating healthily and adopted a regular exercise regime back in June of 2014. The inevitable weight loss that goes with such a lifestyle is obvious but more subtle positive experiences have also taken place.

My overall health has improved immeasurably. My body is stronger than it has ever been, my stamina is now immense. My digestive system has reached levels of productivity that I could not have known was possible. Were I too swallow a house brick I`m positive that I would digest it with no great effort. My food bill has greatly diminished as plant foods are the cheapest and more economical foods available. Rice, Pasta, Potatoes, Pearl Barley, Lentils, Vegetables and all grains and cereals are now my staple foods and all of them can be purchased in large quantities for very little money. My skin and hair have improved and generally speaking, apart from my ongoing mental health problems my attitude and positivity has risen dramatically.

I was expecting some resistance to my becoming a Vegan, yes the usual arguments are heard over and over again. You won`t be able to get enough Protein. You`ll become B12 deficient. Vegans are weak and pasty, hug trees and chew on Mung beans all day and man has always and was meant to eat meat. I won`t elucidate any further because if you are a Vegan you will have heard this all before.

Just Before turning my life on its head and deciding that weighing 203 pounds, guzzling pizza, eating cheese every day and being generally indolent I had armoured myself against these arguments and was readily prepared for their assaults.

However, there was one attack, one negative that I had not foreseen and had certainly never even considered. That is, the hatred and suspicion that vast numbers of people have toward anybody who seeks to improve their health and live a life more conducive to the betterment of themselves but also to the advantage of others, be they animal or environment.

When I lived my previous life of gluttony and laziness and ate nothing but junk food the people around me seemed to have very little concern for my ever increasing corpulence and constant illness. My recurring Prostatitis and Irritable Bowell Syndrome were constant problems during this darker period of my life.  Taking anti-biotics every day for six months had little effect on my Prostatitis until I sought the help of a natural method of curing it and within a week or so my recurring bacterial Prostatitis was gone and the agony that goes with it. Those around me were blind or maybe just were used to my terrible food intake and lack of movement.

As soon as I began eating healthily and losing weight the concern amongst my peers grew. Are you eating properly was the most common question as people watched me tucking into a large bowl of Pearl Barley with vegetables and spices with a litre of water. When I would regularly devour a large Dominoes Pepperoni Passion pizza with cheesy garlic bread as a side nobody showed any concern. No concern for a meal containing heart clogging fat, cholesterol, harmful chemicals and all manner of the gods know what. Yet, sit in front of people eating something incredibly healthy and filling and suddenly you are not eating correctly.

When the fat began to dissipate from my body leaving me with a visible jaw line for the first time since I was at primary school suddenly everybody thought that I was being unhealthy. My meals had never been so healthy I was running, cycling and walking four times a week and yet somehow I wasn`t "taking care of myself" as well as I had been when eating chocolate bars and four packets of crisps every day and watching TV during every spare moment.

How has our society become so warped and so twisted that it seems that being overweight, obese even has become normal? That eating a steady diet of junk food and doing nothing to move ourselves has become so every day that when people seek to change and become fit and healthy it`s the fit, healthy people who are seen as abnormal? Why is is acceptable for obese people to attack images of people, mostly women, who are fit and healthy and who live an abundant and positive life yet if you criticise somebody for being overweight and unhealthy then you are a demon and laws should be made to protect the unhealthy from being upset?

A study by professor Klim McPherson from Oxford University has shown that by the year 2020 80% of British men will be clinically obese leading to a rise in all of the chronic illnesses and diseases associated with the condition. This means that it will actually be normal within British society to be obese and to be fit and healthy will be abnormal. Fit and healthy people will actually be in the minority. In the not too distant future those who seek to be fit and healthy will be classed as individuals, subversives, aloof from the rest of society.

When  we accept that obesity and ill health are normal then all hope is lost because how do you reverse the corpulence of a nation if those within it see it as normal? And this is why it appears to be fine for unhealthy people to attack those of us who actually care about our health and would actually like to avoid the terrible fatal illnesses that go along with mindlessly eating processed food and animal products.

It is becoming normal to be overweight, unhealthy and ill. I thank the gods therefore that I am not normal. I want better for my life and those that dislike me for it and attack me for it are of no concern to me. 

In the not too distant future those who seek to be fit and healthy will be classed as individuals, subversives, aloof from the rest of society. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche had this too say in his seminal work, "Human, All Too Human which sums up why those who choose a life of ill health and obesity seek to attack those that do not.

"The infuriating thing about an individual way of living. People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life ; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants for himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings".

I think that Nietzsche was right in this instance. As a Vegan and somebody who practices vigilance upon the way that I eat and upon the level of movement that I give to my body I am setting a very high standard for my life. A Vegan is somebody who is prepared to live every day in a way that consigns no living thing to suffer and to die. That is a standard that requires a deal of discipline and work. It is a worthy standard but more importantly it is the standard of an individual. Eating healthily and exercising regularly is yet another standard, a statement to the world as to how an individual should behave and live. Those that travel through life following like sheep, the rest of society stuffing themselves with animal products with no thought for the animal that suffered and died are offended and intimidated by Vegans because as Nietzsche says they are made to feel ordinary. They have not chosen to live by a high standard, maybe by no standards at all so being confronted by those of us who have raises a mirror to their own behaviour and the reflection of themselves that they see is not a pleasant one. It is the reflection of a slaughter house floor and their choice to cover it in the blood of their victims.

Healthy and fit people are attacked for the very same reason. It`s why somebody at home with a large belly tucking into junk food will watch a programme on people trying to lose weight and get fit and laugh at them, calling them idiots for having the audacity for wanting to be healthy and avoid heart disease, Diabetes and Cancer, how dare they!

It is accepted now in our society that it is not a pleasant thing to criticise, point at, or even make comment about somebodies obesity, I have even heard people saying that we shouldn`t use the word "fat" to describe a person. But, the same rules do not apply to those of us who are working hard to improve our physical and mental health, those of us who actually give a damn about our own bodies, after all you`ll only ever have one. It does not apply to those people who think that abusing and killing animals for our pleasure and raping and pillaging the earth is actually a good idea. Aren`t we terrible people?

As obesity becomes a normal condition for the majority of our citizens the hatred for the fit and healthy will only continue to mount. And a society with that kind of future is surely on a road to nowhere.

How To Make A Wheatgrass Shot And Where To Buy It

As requested by a Youtube viewer here is a video explaining how to make a Wheatgrass shot and also where to buy the best Wheatgrass from.

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Type 2 Diabetes Out Of Control - Warning ; Explicit Language

What the hell is going on when somebody chooses the amputation of a limb over eating healthily.

A new report has lifted the lid on an outrageous situation concerning Type two diabetes. As I read the reports and did my own research I became outraged at what is happening in terms of type two diabetes and the fact that 90% of sufferers bring the disease on themselves because the illness is caused by lifestyle choices.

I made a new Youtube video concerning the matter and quote the research. I must warn you that I was incredibly angry and frustrated whilst making the video and so it contains opinions that some may find offensive and a deal of explicit language.

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Veganism Is Not Healthy

Veganism is not a health regime. It is a way of living your life to cause no harm to living things.

In my video I discuss my concerns that Veganism is becoming seen as simply a health ideology and new Vegans are making the mistake that becoming a Vegan automatically means that you will be healthy.

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My Running Infromation - Garmin Connect

Only my second run in three months. This will be my constant course from now on. My goal is to burn fat and become more lean and not increase my stamina so I will always run this same course but every time I run it I will try to complete it in a faster time. That`s how you burn fat more efficiently.

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Mental Health Update : Autism, Aspergers, Dissociative Disorder

After waiting ten months for help I am now on the road to better mental health.

I attended an appointment at my local hospitals psychiatric department this afternoon and the appointment was very positive. I received more information about my problem which appears to be a dissociative disorder. I have made a Youtube video detailing the appointment and the possible treatment that I will be receiving.

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Weight Loss : The One Word You Need For Success

I have lost 56 pounds in weight since adopting a healthy plant based lifestyle but discovered the one word that you need to guarantee you success in your weight loss goals.

In my latest Youtube video I let you know of the most important word that you need to guarantee you will have success in your desire to lose weight and achieve all of your fitness goals. The video is very short as I explain how this one simple word and your knowledge of it will work for you.

CLICK HERE To see the video and start losing that weight.

Grocery Haul Video #10: Where To Find Amazing Oreo Copies That Taste No Different To The Real Thing

Another grocery haul video with lots of good food. Aldi and Sainsbury`s

 I show you where you can find copies of Oreo cookies that taste identical to the brand name but are a fraction of the cost.

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Why Do Vegans Think That They Are So Superior?

One of the most common accusations levelled at Vegans is completely unjustified.

Since becoming Vegan one of the most common accusations that has been levelled at me and others by meat eaters is that we Vegans consider ourselves to be superior to others. This is actually a totally unjustified accusation and can be reversed onto the meat eater themselves. 

I discuss this topic in my latest Youtube video so please give it a watch and let me know what you think.

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Raw Till 4 And The Real Reason Why You Have To Sleep So Much

Raw Till Four and those who espouse it do not tell you the truth about why you need to sleep so much.

Following on from the post that I made on the subject of the pernicious binge eating fad diet Raw Till Four and the real reason why you need to sleep so much I decided to make a Youtube video. I hope that you enjoy it.

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Cecil The Lion Killed By Walter Palmer. Moron Meat Eater Upset About Cecil The Lion Is Destroyed On Live Radio

LBC radio host Nick Abbot destroys an ignorant meat eater on live radio. The meat eater is disgusted by the killing of Cecil the lion but has no problem eating meat and fishing for fun.

My newest Youtube video contains a brief synopsis and link to this astonishing radio debate.

When this meat eating moron decided to call in to the LBC radio station to tell of his horror and disgust at the killing of Cecil the lion he wasn`t prepared for his stupidity and ignorance being exposed in such a wonderful way by the host Nick Abbot.

Mr Abbot points out to the caller that eating meat, the caller had eaten Beef for his dinner, is as cruel as the horrible fate that met Cecil.

When the caller then says that he also fishes to try and defend his ignorant opinion the host is dumbfounded but try as he might he cannot make the caller understand that meat eaters complaining about Cecil is just pure ignorance and hypocrisy.

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How To And Why We Should All Be Consuming Wheatgrass - A True Superfood

In my latest Youtube video I show you how I make a shot of Wheatgrass juice for my morning routine and discuss just why Wheatgrass is an amazing super food and why I believe that we all ought to be consuming it.

There are many foods, drinks and supplements that are being marketed as super foods. Of course many of them are not as described by their eager manufacturers and often are nothing more than expensive frauds. Often you are only left with expensive urine to show for your expenditure and no benefits to your health.

After spending a great deal of time studying the minerals, vitamins, enzymes and many other constituents of Wheatgrass I am completely convinced that it truly deserves the title of super food.

I have a shot of Wheatgrass juice every morning as part of my morning routine and I am already enjoying the health benefits from doing so. Wheatgrass is better for you than any green vegetable that you can consume. In my video I show you how simple it is to make a wheatgrass shot and show you the list of goodness that Wheatgrass contains.

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The Real Reason Why You Need More Sleep On Raw `Till Four

People pushing the Raw `Till 4 lifestyle claim you need early nights to make you healthier but that just hides the physical reality on why you need so much sleep.

The Raw `Till four lifestyle is a large talking point on social media and has even spread into some of the mainstream media. The basis of this diet/lifestyle is that you can eat as much food as you want do very little exercise and lose weight so that you will be thin, lean and super healthy.

You eat nothing but fruit or smoothies all day long until you sit down in the early evening and stuff yourself with a huge, high carbohydrate cooked meal. That meal leaves you with a "food baby" which is a very nice and pleasant way of saying that you eat so much food that your stomach ends up being swollen, heavy and bloated and leaves you feeling slow and lethargic. At this point the inventors and rabid supporters of Raw `Till four tell you to go to bed because you need to sleep for many many hours to help you attain your super fitness.

Now, if we just think about the basic physiology of the human body we can immediately see that the real reason you need to sleep for so long after binging is being hidden by the pushers of this pernicious way of life.

When you place food into your mouth and begin to chew your body immediately stirs itself into action. Chewing food requires a large number of muscles to to work in tandem to grind and crush your food into pieces that are easier to swallow. Also, your body increases the amount of saliva and acids in the stomach which will assist in breaking up the food and therefore allowing it to absorb the nutrients that come from your meals.

Muscles in your mouth, throat and stomach require energy as does the production of saliva and stomach acid. The energy that you need to complete the task of turning your food from chewed in your mouth to your stomach and through your intestines, colon and bowell when you have finished with the waste matter is a great deal.

And that is the real reason why you need to sleep for so long when you follow the Raw `Till Four way. That huge binge eating meal that you eat in the evening is far too much food to eat in one meal, hence the swollen bloated belly. When you eat such a large amount of food, far too much, your body has to draw as much energy as possible into the food chewing and digestion process. Eating such a vast amount of food means that your body needs to draw on every ounce of energy that it has at its command. It redirects energy from your other muscles and every part of your body and throws it into digesting your food. This results in you becoming incredibly tired, heavy and lethargic and leads to a desperate need for sleep. Your need to sleep is based on the fact that your body no longer has the energy to keep you awake because it needs to focus all of its energy into breaking down the massive binge of food that you have just gorged upon.

This is a physiological fact, this is how your body works, and that is a fact. These are facts that the pushers of Raw `Till Four not only choose to ignore but deliberately cover up and therefore mislead people. You do not need to sleep the moment you have finished eating your evening binge meal because that will bring you better health. You feel heavy, bloated and lethargic and need to sleep because your body cannot cope with digesting the massive amount of food that you have just consumed. 

Your body is telling you that eating that amount of food in one binge eating meal is too much. But will you choose to listen to it I wonder?

What A Vegan Eats In A Day

It`s easy to be a Vegan. You need not worry about what you will eat if you give up animal products. 

Take a look at my newest Youtube video to see some of the food that I eat and enjoy as a Vegan. So many people are scared of becoming a Vegan because they worry as to what they will eat. I am eating more variety of meals and foods than I have ever done before since becoming a Vegan.

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UK Cancer Charity Raising Money With Cancerous Meat Consumption!

Cancer research UK is attempting to raise money by encouraging people to eat meat. Meat!! A major cause of cancers.

To my astonishment and consternation the UK based cancer research charity are trying to raise funds to assist them in their quest to heal and cure cancers by encouraging everybody in Britain to host Barbecues and to consume more meat.

Yes, that`s right, meat. Meat and the animal protein that comes from it is a major reason for increasing numbers of people contracting cancer.

My latest Youtube video discusses the irresponsible nature of this money raising campaign and gives statistics to display the idiocy of this idea. 

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My Mental Health And My disappointment With The NHS

Another letter from the NHS mental health department but it was not what I was expecting or what I need.

In my latest Youtube video I give you an update on my mental health situation and tell you why my excitement at receiving a letter from the NHS mental health department was quickly dampened by the disappointing nature of the letter.

Please watch my video, share it, subscribe if you wish to be notified of when I upload more videos and please leave any comments that you have.

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Why Am I An Outspoken Bitch? ( Video by Sorsha Morava)

This is a wonderful video and echoes the kind of thoughts that I have been having more and more lately. Since becoming a Vegan I have always considered the feelings of meat eaters and have often moderated my speech and writings in a way as to not cause them offence. But as Sorsha says in her video the agony and slaughter of animals is happening every second of every day and that is far more important than worrying about the feelings of meat eaters who support it. This lady and this video is inspiring me too speak out more and to not worry about upsetting meat eaters. Why should I worry about them when their selfishness is causing the greatest holocaust that the world has ever seen?

You Either Love Animals Or You Eat Them - You Can`t Have Both

Eating Meat Whilst Claiming That You Love Animals Is The Ultimate Form Of Hypocrisy

We have all heard it haven`t we. People who claim that they love animals whilst taking pleasure in eating the dead flesh of what was once a living, breathing, feeling being.

At best this is a massive dose of hypocrisy, at worst this is simply a life lived within the comfortable confines of denial. It is not possible to claim that you love animals if you eat them how can it be? 

You see it is not just eating the animal but it is what eating the animal represents. Every piece of nicely prepared and packaged meat represents the imprisonment, suffering, agony and murder of a sentient being. That lovely plastic packet so nicely made by your supermarket to make you feel comfortable about the practice of mass slaughter contains chunks of agony and death, there is no such thing as a bloodless death. Every time you consume animal flesh you are supporting the most disgusting, abusive machine of murder on this earth. Do not fool yourself, your money, every penny and pound is helping those companies to grow fat and rich on the back of mass exploitation and murder.

When people announce that they love animals whilst continuing to eat them they do not mean what there words would suggest. They mean that they love their pets. There dogs, cats, fish, rodents, reptiles or whatever other animal that they lovingly keep, feed and cuddle. This is not loving animals, it is loving a pet.

A dog or cat is cuddly of course therefore it is loved and deserves to live a life of comfort without suffering. We spend a fortune of our hard earned monies every year on taking our pets to the vets whenever they have any kind of possible illness. A cat with a sore pore, a dog with a weepy eye must have immediate medical attention lest it feel a modicum of pain. And after the pet owner returns from the vet they tuck there beloved pooch or pussy into their bed or onto their comfortable cushion and then settle down to a plate of chicken or a nice cheeseburger completely oblivious to the gaping hole in their morality.

Pigs, cows and chickens get their skin and fur dirty, they root in their own filth and often smell unpleasant and that is why people who claim to love animals continue to eat them. Imagine the horror of suggesting that their cat or dog be skinned, hung upside down and have it throat ripped open so that its meat could be prepared for dinner. The pet owner would hate you for even suggesting it but with those "other" animals that kind of thing is perfectly acceptable.

And that is how people manage to fool themselves and keep themselves immersed in their world of self delusion. Cute, cuddly animals deserve to live. Smelly farmyard animals deserve nothing more than to be abused, beaten, raped and eventually murdered.

You cannot claim to love animals if you eat them and if you think that I am wrong then you are truly a human being in denial.

The Letters of George Gordon 6th. Lord Byron. Published in 1933

I love reading collections of letters, particularly letters written in the 17-18 hundreds. I love the language that those people wrote with, such erudition.
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Why Veganism Is Not Healthy

Don`t fool yourselves into thinking that eating Vegan is healthy

Most Vegans consider Veganism to be the best way to attain your ultimate level of health. This is, of course, not true. Veganism is not in itself a health regime because, as is the case with all food consumption lifestyles, it all depends on what Vegan foods that you eat.

Just because you decide to adopt a Vegan lifestyle that does not automatically mean that you are beginning a journey to a fitter, healthier you. As the number of Vegans across the world continues to grow food producing companies recognise the growing power of the Vegan dollar and are making more and more foods aimed at the Vegan market. Of course, this generally means an increase in processed Vegan foods.

Being Vegan is simply about not consuming animal products of course. So, a processed Vegan ice cream or a processed pre packed meal may be Vegan but is not healthy. You can buy Vegan processed food that is still heaving with saturated fat, salt and all manner of harmful products which will do nothing to help you to achieve your health and weight loss targets.

Are a bag of Dorito`s good for you because they can be consumed by Vegans? Are the Vegan cheeses that are available good for you just because they contain no animal products. No is the obvious answer but it`s amazing to see how many Vegans who are new to the scene assume that anything labelled as Vegan is a healthy food.

A Vegan diet, I believe is a chance for all of us to lose weight and become healthier but only if you understand that a label of "Vegan" is not a label of good health. French fries that contain no animal products may be promoted as Vegan but given the fact that they are still cooked by being soaked in large amounts of oils containing high levels of saturated fats and MSG mean that they are not healthy. Fries made at home using potatoes not cooked in oil and not covered in salt are Vegan but are also very good for you.

Companies producing processed Vegan foods are very clever and also very rich which means that they have the financial resources to spend on finding ways to fool us into thinking that their processed foods are healthy because they are Vegan. Be careful, read the labels on your food and just remember that Vegan doesn`t guarantee good health. Only you and the choices that you make can guarantee good health.

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Why All Men Need To Go Vegan

What is manly about exploiting harmless defenceless animals?

Veganism is often associated with women. There appears to be the general feeling that Veganism is not for men and that somehow eating meat is manly. This of course is a completely ignorant attitude and only shows how ignorant some men can be.

What is manly about exploiting and killing defenceless animals? All that you are doing is preying upon something that is weaker than you. Something that is vulnerable and physically weaker than you what is manly about that. Of course the vast majority of men who eat meat pay somebody else to kill their meat for them so again, manly, I don`t think so. Do you think that it`s a manly thing to hit, rape or abuse a woman? No, of course it isn`t. Those things are simply unacceptable in our society and any man who hits or abuses a woman is a low life who deserves nothing but contempt and maybe a damn good kicking.

So hitting a woman is not a manly thing to do but abusing and killing animals is? Is abusing a child a manly thing to do? Once again, no. But abusing a chicken, a calf, a piglet is.

Where does this attitude of manliness come from in conjunction with eating meat? It comes from corporate engineering of course. Companies who reap fortunes from the abuse and murder of animals have managed to brainwash idiots into thinking that somehow paying someone to murder, chop up and package dead animal flesh somehow makes you a testosterone filled love machine.

Somehow Vegan men are often portrayed as weak, pale, and pasty men who can`t get girls. Most women however like to have a man who is kind and compassionate and has the ability of critical thinking. Stuffing yourself with the flesh of a dead animal whilst acting as if  that makes you a real man is not a turn on for women and just displays ignorance and stupidity which is the opposite to critical thinking.

Also, men who eat meat often have a far lower sex drive and  suffer with erectile dysfunction. The fats and cholesterol in animal flesh leads to a lower blood flow to the male genitals which means a higher likelihood of drooping at the critical moment. Vegan men who take no animal or dairy fats into their bodies are fitter, healthier and more able to satisfy their partners than the meat chomping man

Veganism Isn`t About Losing Weight

Veganism Is Not About Weight Loss Despite What The Increasing Number of Youtube Vegans Think!

As I continue to watch and make videos via the wonderful resource that is Youtube concerning Veganism I cannot help but notice that more and more people appear to think that being a Vegan is purely about weight loss and looking great.

As both Youtube and Instagram continues to fill with eager young Vegans ever ready to show us their beach ready bodies and talk about how being a Vegan makes you look and feel amazing I cannot help but wonder if the real message of Veganism is being lost.

There are many various and valid reasons to become a Vegan but surely the most prominent one is the welfare of animals. The right for animals to live, breed and die without humans claiming that they have the right to visit imprisonment, agony and a horrible death upon them. Surely that is the most important point to make. 

So why is it that so many Vegans fail to address this point or to even mention it amongst their videos of their "amazing" blender for mixing their smoothies and the "my hair has improved since I gave up animal products"

My worry is that Veganism has become a fashion accessory in the same way that a tiny dog that fits into your handbag is and that when the initial excitement of belonging to the new cool club wears off then many of the new Vegans will simply drift away like yesterdays fallen leaves.

There are many, many wonderful Vegans on social media of course focusing on the real issues of Veganism but it appears that the younger Vegans are using the moral choice of non-suffering as a way of drawing attention to their waist size and the amount of fruit that they can eat in a day. Improving health and weight loss is of course a brilliant thing as the majority of Western culture hurtles toward mass obesity and premature death however the new trend for the mass media and celebrities to suddenly claim that Veganism is the cure for everything smacks of manipulation and an attempt to empty peoples pockets of their hard earned cash.

Of course, there is another side of this point of view. It could be argued that the reason one becomes a Vegan doesn`t actually matter. At the end of the day if you are a Vegan for the animals, or for the environment or because you think it`s cool then you are still not consuming animal products and therefore not taking part in the mass misery and murder of animals that deserve better. 

Let`s see if the new "recruits" to the Vegan community are still Vegans twelve months or two years from now. I have the strong suspicion that many of them won`t be but I will be incredibly happy to be proven wrong, I really do hope that I am.

The Only Justification For Eating Meat Is No Justification At All

The arguments for eating meat based around nutrition are flawed and are based within no reality. So what justification for eating meat is left?

We, as Vegans are used to hearing the endless list of excuses used by meat eaters as to why they continue to consume the flesh of dead animals and why they choose to support the most disgustingly immoral business on the planet. A business that earns billions of pounds and which is based on the pain,suffering, rape, degredation and ultimately death of living creatures.

Most of those reasons, for want of a better word, have historically been based around the need for nutrition. You must eat meat because you can`t get the necessary amount of protein that you require from a plant based diet they scream from every mass media outlet desperately trying to protect their investments into the huge global farming companies that cause such horror in the quest for more profit. The protein argument has of course been thoroughly debunked by no less an important institution as the World Health Organisation. The amount of protein that we require has been deliberately exxagerrated to scare people away from plant based diets for many decades. The real amount of protein we require is a far lower number and that number is easily attainable when consuming a plant based diet. Yes, I know, shocking isn`t it plants contain protein.

The only argument that remains for the consumption of meat is that ; " I eat meat because I enjoy it". How many of us have heard friends or family members use that pathetic reason? Of course eating meat because you enjoy it is no justification at all. It is no reason to defend the mass murder of hundreds of millions of animals every year, the agony and the suffering that each and every one of those animals has to endure during those lives before having a metal bolt slammed through it brain or having it`s throat ripped open with a knife cannot possibly be deemed to be correct just because somebody likes the taste of that animals flesh.

We do not justify the abuse and misery that humans inflict upon other humans by offering such spurious defences so we should never accept it as a defence to inflict that agony and death upon animals. After all animals breath, sleep, eat, and feel pain just the same as we do.

Imagine the scene in a British court room if that kind of excuse were to be used for human to human abuse.

"I`m sorry your honour I raped and killed that three year old child because I wanted to, because I enjoyed it"

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What Exactly Is Minimalism

We spend a great deal of our time buying things that we don`t want or need with money that we don`t have to impress people that we don`t actually know. Such is the absurdity of the the modern man.

My Youtube video to accompany this Blog post.

A concrete definition of Minimalism is different for so many people so I thought that I would take a stab at trying to define it or at least define what Minimalism is to me.

Minimalism is not about getting rid of things, of possessions of not buying or having or of denying your wants. It is simply the art of making room for the things that you really want, the things that will make a solid and lasting difference to your life and will help you move toward attaining your life goals. One of my goals, if I ever overcome my mental health difficulties, is to travel. I`d like to travel through Europe, mostly France, Italy and Croatia. I want to live a life with few possessions other than the things that I absolutely need so that if I do travel I can leave my things behind and not have to worry about them, not have to think about what I`m going to do with my things whilst I spend a couple of years moving about Europe.

Minimalism is about not being held down by your things and this does not just mean your possessions. It also encompasses your emotional and mental baggage and your relationships with others.

It`s tempting in this digital age to feel good about the fact that you have hundreds of Facebook friends or thousands of followers on Instagram, Youtube, Google + et. all but how many of those people do you actually have real emotional and physical relationships with? Would you rather have hundreds of Facebook "friends" who you never meet or have any physical connection too or have five, six, ten, or twenty real friends that you meet regularly and communicate with on a face to face basis over a drink or a meal rather than over a laptop screen or a phone app?

All that Minimalism requires of you is that you consider what you buy and consume. What are the things that you hold onto both in terms of possessions and your emotions. What is really serving you? and what is serving somebody else. For instance did you go shopping and buy that item of clothing because you really really needed it and therefore it is serving you a purpose or did you buy it because the advertisers told you that you needed it and therefore your money in their pockets is only serving a purpose for them. Always consider before making a purchase or an emotional transaction if your planned acquisition is something that is moving you toward your goals and if it isn`t then its probably not worth having.

Minimalism is about removing things from your life thus allowing more room for more freedom to enter and this is the greatest gift that Minimalism can bestow upon us; Freedom. You can loose a fortune and gain it back the next day but I have yet to meet anybody who has found a way to earn back time that they have lost. Time and freedom are merciless and they slip away easily without you noticing. It is not about having less stuff it is about making space for more things that are truly important to you.

Life is not about how much we earn or how much we own it`s about how much we live.

Mark

My Youtube video to accompany this post

What Form of Exercise Should I Do When I weigh 200 Pounds?

I recently received a question from a Youtube viewer of mine named Mehru Nissa stating that this person finds it hard to exercise because they weigh 200 pounds. So I thought I would answer my viewers question in the form of a Youtube video and as a post here on my Blog. This is an important question that many people starting out on a healthier lifestyle has and therefore the answer can be applied to a great number of you.

Firstly I would say that you ought not to start running if you are starting at a fairly heavy weight which I would consider 200 pounds to be. I began running when I was at my heaviest and I now realise that his was not the best thing to do. I believe that the problem I`m now having with my knees emanates from running at my heaviest weight. Running is a very high impact exercise and creates a great deal of strain upon you lower limbs and joints. Every time your foot hits the floor when you run three times your body weight crashes through your knees, shins ankles and feet. Three times your body weight over and over again with each plant of a foot is a huge amount of weight for those limbs to absorb.

If you are of a certain weight which makes exercise very difficult for you I would suggest to start out by simply walking, put on your shoes and walk. Walking is a wonderful form of exercise and I walk regularly. Not only does walking work your body but it has also been proven to aid the workings of that mysterious blob otherwise known as the human brain. Walking clears the mind and allows you to think straight, I often compose my poems and short stories whilst walking.

If you are starting from scratch in terms of exercise and find that you can only walk for ten or fifteen minutes in the beginning then that is fine, just walk for however long you can manage. Walking for ten or fifteen minutes is better than doing nothing at all.

There are two key elements to being successful when you first begin to walk. Firstly, do whatever you can but do is consistently. Consistency is the key. Do whatever you can but do it regularly and you will find success more quickly than you could have anticipated. If you can only manage ten or fifteen minutes of walking because of your weight then do it but do it daily or every other day. If you do this you will be amazed at how quickly your ability to exercise will improve and after a couple of weeks you will be able to double the amount of walking that you do.

the second key element is to never compare yourself to other people. It`s all too easy to watch Youtube videos of people running, cycling and hiking for hours on end and become downhearted by the  fact that you can only manage a ten minute walk every day. It doesn`t matter what other people can do. The only thing that matters is what you can do, right now, today, for yourself. You might think that walking for ten minutes a day is not helping much but if that`s all that your body can do right now then what you are doing is the very best thing for you and your health. Do what you can and ignore other peoples abilities.

So, if you are overweight and finding exercise to be difficult then begin by just walking, walk for however far you can until you are too tired to walk further and then set that time and distance as your daily target. But do it consistently and within ten days or maybe a fortnight you will be able to walk further, you will have lost some weight and fat and your brain will be working much more efficiently. Best of all your body will thank you for giving it the opportunity to do what it does best and move by flooding you with those wonderful endorphins that will make you feel happier and healthier.

Below is the Youtube video I made in response to my viewer and you may find that I expand on some of the ideas that I have made on this Blog. post.

Minimalism: Why I Cut My Own Hair

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Why Have I Decided To Stop Running?

My Minimalist Apartment Tour - Fully Redecorated

My Q&A video Part 2. Thank you for your patience.

My first Q&A video : Part 1. Part 2 will follow shortly

Minimalism : Creating a minimalist "uniform".

An update on my allotment, some bad and good news.

Decorating my apartment update and sad news about my allotment.

Thank you for your kindness and I begin Decorating my apartment.

The pain of loneliness - Mental health talk.

Kennet and Avon canal path hike and a ghostly house. Yikes!

My amazing bread recipe and how to. No oil, no salt, no fat.

Grocery haul number 8 and a thank you to my viewers.

My new minimalist apartment - The grand tour.

Grocery Haul Vegan food plus an answer for High carb Hannah.

Raw `Till4 Weight Gain: It`s just Vegan binge eating.

Jessica Ainscough Has Passed Away ! ~ Beware of on-line health "Gurus"

Please help your favourite Youtube Contributers

A video that I made where I ask you kind viewers to help your favourite Youtube viewers. It doesn`t cost you anything and all that you have to do is to click your mouse button. Please watch the video and discover what you can do to help and learn my reasons for asking for your kind assistance.

Sainsbury`s grocery haul #3 and some questions for my viewers.

My third Sainsbury`s grocery haul video and some important questions for my viewers.

My second Sainsbury`s grocery haul video. So much great food at such a low cost.

My Sainsbury`s supermarket grocery haul. Spend like a Pauper to eat like a King.

Learn how to make the tastiest, easiest and healthiest flat bread you could ever make. It only take a few minutes to make and you can use it to eat hot straight out of the pan or let it cool and use it as sandwich bread or use it as a pizza base. Cook it once and it will immediately become a staple food of your lifestyle.

Cook my amazing super healthy baked fries by following my simple video. This is just healthy food made very very easy.

Here is the recipe and how to video for my amazing home made curry sauce. It`s Vegan, no oil, low in salt and tastes just like chip shop curry sauce.

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