Vegetarian Star

Let’s play a game of how many different kinds of flexitarians we can name.

There’s the vegan until six. The weekday vegetarian. And now, the latest new trend to reduce your meat intake…the vegetarian except Steak ’n Shake.

Roger Ebert has supported the idea of eating less meat and was especially turned on after seeing the film Forks Over Knives.

“Here is a film that could save your life,” Ebert said. “The bottom line: I am convinced this message is true. A plant-based whole foods diet is healthy.”

Ebert wrote an article in the Chicago Sun-Times where he explored what it would take to live beyond the average expected lifespan.

Apparently long life depends on keeping active, staying interested, and eating a diet high in volume but low in calories, which means mostly grains and vegetables. So many of us, me included, know that in theory but don’t always follow it in practice. For a time I followed the Steak ’n Shake diet, which meant: Be a vegetarian except when at Steak ’n Shake.

A flexitarian diet consisting of “mostly grains and vegetables” may be the key to living a century or longer, and if the Steak ‘n Shake plan isn’t for you, there are plenty of other ways to do it, such as cutting out red meat, eating only humanely raised meat and eating vegetarian at home while saving meat entrees for dinners out at the steakhouse.

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