success story: karly's eye-opening research paper
Kind Lifer Karly recently shared how researching factory farming has helped her to continue her kind journey. Check it out:
"I am writing you to share with you a small story of inspiration that I credit quite a bit to you. This past semester, I decided to go back to school. I had traveled a lot over the last few years, and done various things in order to find myself. Now at twenty-three years old, I feel like I am on a path. School was a challenge for me at first, and I recently was diagnosed with ADD. This was quite disheartening, but I realized I could either hide from it or take it full throttle and battle it with strength. With the mental change, I decided I wanted to make a physical change as well. I then picked up your book The Kind Diet, and it really helped me to grow and see that food is a healing tool. I still am on my ADD meds, but adopting a kind diet (slowly...I'm still a bit of a 'flirt') has been an incredibly beneficial and educational tool in helping to conquer my ADD.
Because of this growth and movement in my life over the past few months, I had the opportunity to decide between two options for a final research paper for my English class: write about an issue with education or volunteer and write on a social matter of my choice. Your book and writings inspired me heavily, therefore I chose to write about the environmental, economical and personally physical impact of factory farming and genetically modified foods. Because of this paper, I know that if I really work hard at something, I can achieve incredible things, all while educating myself and others at the same time. I've discovered writing as a passion, and I feel like I am now on a path toward fulfilling that."
Yay, Karly! Keep us updated on your kind journey, and be sure to reach out to other flirts, vegans, and superheroes in the kind forum for advice and support. All you kind lifers can also read Karly's paper here.
If any of you have a success story to share, private message me or upload your story to your profile and 'like' it. I may feature you on the homepage of The Kind Life!
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Arg, I meant releived but also disheartned as well. It's all very overwhelming and you have to muster strength to deal with it.
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I will definitely keep an eye out for any of Karly's updates. I posted on TKL forum a couple months ago about my frustration of a lack of info on ADD and veganism. There's pretty much no info on this coupling at all. I was diagnosed with ADD early last year and I too was releived but also very frustrated and angry over pretty much a lifetime's frustration of knowing something was wrong but never being able to prove it. I thought for sure I'd be able to find info on ADD and veganism but there silence. So thankfully for TKL I can start learning from other ADDers here,what is working for them, and hopefully TKL can get more ADDers on board soon so we can help eachother.
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Good for you Karly.
ADD is often cause by food sensitivities, especially milk and gluten. Unfortunately most doctors still turn to medication before considering diet.
Basically some people can't break down the proteins in milk and gluten properly which can lead to allergic response and peptides with opiate like properties getting to the brain.
Milk and grains are relatively recent additions to the human diet and that 75% of the worlds poplation are lactose intolerant. Of those that can tolerate lactose around 3% to 5% have diagnosed sensitivities other milk proteins and more probably have undiagnosed sensitivities. So it's not surprising that these foods can have an impact.
See Whitewash: The Disturbing Truth About Cow's Milk and Your Health for more details.
Mark Osborne - www.veganhealthandfitness.com
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this is so interesting - lots of my friends have ADD. i'm definitely going to share this with them - very encouraging!
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