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Chews Life Now!: A Vegan’s Open Letter to Restaurants by Carolyn R. Choate

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Dear New Hampshire Restaurateurs,

Thanks to the Internet, your menus are an open book. I read those of the state’s top 46 restaurants featured on Open Table, the popular online reservation service.  Some of us diners don’t feel welcome at your table and I’m one of them. I speak for vegans and those who follow a whole food plant-based (WFPB) lifestyle. Less than 32% of New Hampshire’s fine restaurants offer customers like me vegan/WFPB options.  Far fewer offer the recommended dietary requirement for protein per meal – 15 to 30 grams – from a WFPB source.

Chews Life Now! Supplemental insurance vs. nature’s nutritional bounty

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Before continuing with this series on how animal protein promotes systemic inflammation and chronic disease, I want to thank Manchester Ink Link readers who reached out to share their stories of health struggle and ultimate hope through a whole food, plant-based diet. If not ready to commit 100%, at least ready to make substantial changes. Feels like a win to me.

Chews Life Now: Breaking the protein myth

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Humans are creatures of habit. Often bad ones, without knowing it. Take breakfast. What’s your go-to?  Yogurt with fruit and granola? A bagel with cream cheese? A fried egg on an English muffin with some deli ham? Maybe a donut or pumpkin muffin with one of dozens of sweet and/or creamy coffee concoctions available at the drive-through ‘cause, duh, TGIF! (And you deserve it.) Or perhaps it’s Sunday and you show love for the fam with your famous homemade buttermilk pancakes with creamy butter and New Hampshire’s best maple syrup and sides of sausage patties or nitrate-free bacon and home fries. Don’t forget the requisite OJ and prosecco combo.

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