Re: insights - take or leave

I totally agree that meaty food is heavy. There is a reason that I replaced huge huge portion of my diet with vegan. When I was researching vegan I've found the rice+beans combo but that was the only one. It's actually a very good one that I like, can be a base for a lot of different kinds of vegan or non-vegan burritos. :-) I'm not concerned about protein, rather about things like b12, Colin, (possibly some other things we don't even know about) etc that I get effortlessly by eating eggs and some animal derived foods without counting whether I ate enough this or that.

Later I may revise my standpoint but at the moment I think there are a lot of other things to tune. For example escaping full time office work and being able to live a physically more active life would have a much greater effect on my life than fine-tuning my diet to remove the remaining animal products and junk. I was raised on the countyside where people lived on diets with 50+% animal (pork, chicken) products (with a lot of bacon and pancetta in everything!!!) Still, it was not uncommon to see 50-70 years old healthy men with the strength of a bull. I think the reason is physical activity. It may be bullshit, but I suspect that my body is much less tolerant to heavy nutrition without physical activity. When I was doing heavy agricultural work I could eat clean white deep fried meat-less pancetta (yes, imagine a huge 20x20x5cm meatless very fatty pancetta) with onion and bread and it was nothing, disappeared in me and I had a very lean body with about 10% fat.

Partly this, and partly some other reasons make me think that the next big step for me should be unchaining myself from modern "life"-style if at all we can call it "life".

I usually follow the Pareto principle (80/20). In case of my diet I've done my job. Investing a lot of effort to fine-tune the rest wouldn't be as beneficial as investing the same amount of energy to improve other things with greater returns.