Veggie Blog

Stress is the most common symptom which can harm people’s health and it’s the no.1 symptom in the world which causes people to be sick. But before we get rid of the stress, we have to know first why we get stress, for me I get stress from work and I think other people are same as me. Nothing can cause stress to people more than working. Work always comes with problem and when you go to see the doctor, they say the same that you have to stop working if you don’t want to worsen your health but no one can do that. We can’t stop working if we want to provide our living.

Since we can’t stop working, we have to find other way to get rid of stress. First we have to know that the stress occurs between the person and the environment surrounding you. Stress can affect both physical strength and general health. The most basic thing which you can do to get rid of stress is that taking a deep breath and taking a break at least 5 minutes in every hour.

The nationality which have most stress due to work is Japanese people, they work very hard if compare with other nationalities but they are still the group of people who live longer than the people from other nationalities. Why can they do that? We will find out in next post.

Pregnant lady who is a vegetarian can still be a vegetarian while they are pregnant. Just to make sure that the pregnancy gets enough nutrition fact which the pregnancy is supposed to have. And all nutrition food can find in vegan food as well.
Since you are pregnant, make sure that you have:

An addition 300 calories per day,

10 – 14 grams of protein,

Vitamin 12 used to tissue synthesis,

Iron which is used to form baby’s blood and increase maternal blood volume,

Calcium/Vitamin D which the pregnancy should get at least 4 or more servings a day which the pregnancy can find in green leafy vegetable, tofu, soymilk and orange juice.

Zinc, which is used for growth and development. It can be found in peas, beans, brown rice.

Folate, normally even non pregnant lady still need it at least 400 microgram a day but 600 microgram for pregnancy. It can be found in Dark green leafy vegetable, whole grain and orange juice.

Pregnancy should make sure that they will get all these nutrition everyday for the benefits both for mom and the kid. It’s the wrong idea that pregnancy should quit of being a vegan as long as the pregnancy has enough nutrition facts which all of them can be found in vegan foods.

The first thing you have to realize before become a vegan is that you have to know deep down in your heart that you want to be a vegan, not because other people do and you just follow them. It’s not wrong to follow the good example of others but you will not be a vegan for long and don’t feel happy while you’re eating.

Since you realize that you really need to be a vegan. There are many reasons why people turn to be vegans like loving animals, healthy, clean the stomach and more. But since you can focus on what you want to do. You can start by eat less meat as much as possible, reduce the number of meat day by day. At the same time, eat them with vegetable. Until you can stop eating meat, start eating veggies completely. If you’re the one who doesn’t like vegetable, first eating the one you like. There must be some kind of vegetables you like to eat, start from them first.
Start to eat less outside the house but cooking food by yourself and all food should not have meat in it. if you don’t know how to cook, ask someone to do it for you. Your first vegetarian meal should be delicious, so it can convince you to feel good eating them.

Also if you are the person who trust in animal right, it’s a lot easier to stop eating meat. Meat in the opinion of the vegans is just like the dead meat and they don’t eat dead meat to harm their bodies.

Many people have very wrong idea about dieting and here is the list of the dieting ways which are not only going to work but also harm your body:

1. Low Calories Diet: It doesn’t work your metabolism will adapt the body to get used to the low calories food you eat and then it will adjust itself by burning lesser calories each day. So even you eat less, your metabolism will burn less also. The worst is that when you stop eat low calories food, the weight can come back very easy because the metabolism doesn’t adjust the level to burn the calories for itself yet.

2. Low Fat Diet: Beware of Low fat signs which are shown on the food containers, it really doesn’t help you to lose weight if the number of food you eat is still the same.

3. Low Carb Diet: it’s the most popular among three of them since it gives very fast result within a day. I tried this way before but it makes me feels totally miserable and no power to do anything. Carb gives you energy, the body which is lack of Card will not be able to do things as the normal be able to do. What’s more, it’s not easy to find food to eat at the restaurants which have very less card than the Atkin rule requires.

All those three ways to stop diet are not really working and if it’s really working, it’s gonna torture your body a lot and totally affect to your health.

May Kaidee is a well-known vegetarian restaurant and cooking school in Bangkok, famous for Thai food from every region. Here is what its website says today about the restaurant and its classes, and what has changed since I first wrote about it.

Who is May Kaidee?

According to the restaurant’s own website, May started with a street cart in 1988, in an alley near the famous Khao San Road. Over the years there have been seven different locations in Bangkok, and today the restaurant and cooking school are on Soi Samsen 5, open 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day. The menu is 100 percent plant-based Thai food. My old post also mentioned some Western and Chinese vegetarian dishes; the current website describes a Thai vegan menu, so check before you go.

Where is it?

The website says the Bangkok restaurant is just blocks from the original location, in the Old Bangkok area. That is still close to Khao San Road, the tourist area my old post named as a landmark. May Kaidee also has restaurants in Chiang Mai and New York City.

Can you take a cooking class?

Yes. May Kaidee’s cooking school offers classes in Bangkok, Chiang Mai and New York, from a two-hour express class to longer courses. Class availability changes, and the school says that if there is no registration link for a class, it is not being taught at the moment. The old post described May as a cooking teacher who traveled the world, including Japan, to teach Thai vegetarian cooking; I could not confirm her current travel schedule.

Does she have cookbooks?

Yes. The restaurant’s site lists a Thai vegetarian and vegan cookbook, which is a good option if you cannot make it to Bangkok. For another Thai cookbook, see our post on Real Vegetarian Thai by Nancie McDermott. The video below shows one of May’s classes.