{"id":12386,"date":"2015-03-12T10:39:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T17:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/?p=12386"},"modified":"2015-10-21T00:35:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T07:35:17","slug":"common-sense-reducing-historical-amnesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/common-sense-reducing-historical-amnesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Sense & Reducing \u201cHistorical Amnesia\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reading the news yesterday about actor\u00a0Aamir Khan going vegan<\/a><\/span>, triggered some debate \/ discussion in our Ernest Bell Library<\/em><\/a><\/span>.<\/h4>\n

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Kiran Rao & Aamir Khan – photo source<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n

A Google search for aamir khan vegan<\/span><\/a> this morning gives an impressive number of results, in many languages.<\/h4>\n

~ His wife Kiran Rao who’s been a vegan herself for the past few years, brought the video to his notice a couple of months ago. It is a one-hour presentation by a doctor on 15 of the most common diseases that cause death and how diet can prevent them. “At the end of it I was convinced that vegans are way ahead of non-vegetarians and even vegetarians,” says Aamir who took the call on February 2 and in the last one month has steered clear of not just non-vegetarian favourites but also eggs, milk, ghee, paneer and most Indian sweets made of milk. He even takes his tea with soya milk. ~ –\u00a0<\/span><\/span>one of the many articles<\/a>.<\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>ghee = butter oil \/ clarified butter<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>paneer =\u00a0curd cheese made by curdling heated milk with lemon juice, vinegar, or any other food acids.<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>Aamir’<\/span><\/span>s ‘change’ is being discussed by several hundred million people.\u00a0It may be the ‘trigger’ for several million more people from India stopping consuming dairy & eggs.<\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>Which video did he watch?<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

<\/span>The consensus of opinion here is that it must have been this one –<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>The Role of Diet in Preventing Leading Causes of Death – 2013<\/span><\/h1>\n