I have witnessed someone very near and dear to me, go through a complete health and lifestyle change. Cas who is now my vegan consultant, speaks and writes from years of experience. Most of her life she has been unable to process quantities of protein. As a young child when her mother insisted upon her eating red meat, it used to make her violently ill. For most of her adult life, she has been a vegetarian, but even as a vegetarian, she was not overly healthy, suffering from terrible bouts of asthma. I remember one time we were driving at night along a country highway, when one of her more serious attacks came on. Cas was driving, the interior light bulb had just blown and I couldn't find the puffer in the glove box of the car, it was extremely frightening for both of us. We managed to pull the car to the side of the road safely and find the puffer and calm her gasping down until she could again breath a little easier, needless to say, I drove from there to our destination that evening.
Since becoming a total vegan, there has only ever been hints of asthma and thankfully they are few and far between and no where near as severe as they used to be. Now Cas is a Vegan with a difference, as she has an allergy to garlic, she is not keen on rice or pasta, doesn't like oils and fats either, it really is sounding impossible to cook for this person isn't it. Well because of all of these likes and dislikes, can haves and can not haves, and because of the huge number of requests she has for her recipes, she has been writing a recipe book, it has been in the making for a very long time now, but it is getting much closer to completion, in the mean time Cas has revealed some of her recipes in a smaller version which is available electronically. Go and take a look now, oh and she is even giving away a mini book, with sample recipes from most of the sections of the book. Even if you are not a vegan, Cas has experimented with many herbs and spices to get flavor that so many others rely on garlic to give, so her dishes are very creative and tasty.
Many other allergies are addressed in Cas' cooking, the recipe book is also Wheat Free and Gluten Free, so if you know of anyone with these issues you might want to recommend her web site to them. If you know anyone who has serious asthma concerns, maybe suggest to them that they try a totally vegan diet, I have witnessed first hand the amazing health turn around of someone who has done just that, now I am not a doctor or a medical person or a dietitian, I am just speaking from experience. There are many dairy substitutes out there, and some you can barely tell the difference, some are terrible, but you will soon learn to avoid them, just open up your mind and try something new. Good Luck.
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