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Mayim Bialik, PhD,
T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies
April 2017
Have you ever heard the quote, “Be kind to your knees. You’ll miss them when they’re gone?” Well if your kids knew how important it is to eat well now and to age gracefully into their teens, and to be stronger and healthier when they’re twenty or thirty or forty or fifty, there wouldn’t be any arguments. They don’t know. We know. Your kids are going to be happy that we did this for them now while they’re young and can’t understand. Your efforts are worth it.
Did you know that Mayim earned a PhD in neuroscience from
UCLA, for real? She plays a neuroscientist on the television show Big Bang
Theory which premiered in 2007. As of today it has been nominated for 46
Primetime Emmy Awards. Mayim Bialik plays Amy Farrah Fowler, Sheldon
Cooper’s girlfriend. Many remember her as the lead role in the show Blossom.
She was also the young Bette Midler in the movie Beaches.
When it comes to feeding the family, she wants inexpensive, fuss-free,
healthy meals, that everyone can enjoy!
This is too time consuming and overwhelming! I’m too busy for this!
This is an understandable concern, and it’s one we have been through too.
Two things helped as we struggled with this. First, we needed to admit once
and for all that we didn’t want to eat as many processed foods, animal
products, sugar, salt, and preservatives anymore. It’s not good for the
body, especially a growing body.
The second thing that helped us commit to being open to change was to hear
the following: once you commit to making a change, no matter how small, you
will see that it is not any harder, more time consuming, or more labor
intensive to eat and cook and live this way. Partly, this will be because
you understand deeply the principles of health and nutrition to the extent
that we will present them, And partly, it’s because you will find a rhythm.
You and your kids will learn over time to love an apple and a handful of
almonds as a snack. We can and will be satisfied with wholesome plant-based
foods.
Once you make small changes, it’s actually going to be not that different
from where you are now. But it will be healthier and tastier. How’s that for
a trade-off?
Have you ever heard the quote, “Be kind to your knees. You’ll miss them when
they’re gone?” Well if your kids knew how important it is to eat well now
and to age gracefully into their teens, and to be stronger and healthier
when they’re twenty or thirty or forty or fifty, there wouldn’t be any
arguments. They don’t know. We know. Your kids are going to be happy that we
did this for them now while they’re young and can’t understand. Your efforts
are worth it.
Mayim Bialik, PhD, is an Emmy-nominated actress, trained neuroscientist, author, and the mother of two sons who have been raised entirely vegan. She is currently starring on CBS's The Big Bang Theory. Mayim released her first book on attachment parenting titled Beyond the Sling. She most recently released her 2nd book Mayim’s Vegan Table, a vegan family cookbook.text
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