{"id":19730,"date":"2022-08-09T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=19730"},"modified":"2022-07-28T12:19:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T16:19:58","slug":"tim-kaufman-a-whole-foods-plant-based-diet-saved-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2022\/08\/09\/tim-kaufman-a-whole-foods-plant-based-diet-saved-his-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Kaufman: A whole-foods, plant-based diet saved his life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Carole Hamlin<\/p>\n

I attended the wonderful annual conference of the National Health Association in Cleveland in June of this year. One of the speakers was a man named Tim Kaufman, whose talk was inspiring \u2013 and eye-opening for people who might not yet be convinced that a whole-foods, plant-based diet can be the way to health and a longer life. Tim\u2019s website, www.fatmanrants.com<\/a>, has a wealth of information about how his current lifestyle has changed everything about his life for the better.<\/p>\n

In the past, Tim was a very unhappy man who had been chronically sick for years and addicted to alcohol, and also opioids and Fentanyl that doctors had prescribed.\u00a0He weighed as much as 400 pounds.\u00a0His wife was also overweight.\u00a0But in January 2013 they started on a whole-foods, plant-based diet, and over time he was able to get his life back.\u00a0Instead of spending time in a wheel chair and sitting most of the time, he is now able to be very active physically. He and his wife both are athletes in good enough shape to meet many physical challenges that would daunt most people.\u00a0Tim competed at Ironman Lake Placid, a 140.6-mile triathlon, at the end of July.<\/p>\n

Tim has said his discovery of a whole-foods, plant-based diet, which enabled him to lose the weight and be active physically, has totally turned his life around. Tim had to have some spine and ankle surgery a couple years ago, which temporarily affected his physical abilities, and he had to learn how to walk again last October.\u00a0The doctors told him it could take a year, but he learned in just a few months.\u00a0His choice to eat healthfully made his body able to heal much more quickly.<\/p>\n

Tim is an amazingly accomplished person \u2013 teaching, doing community work, owning a restaurant, writing, publishing, etc. His is a moving, uplifting story.<\/p>\n

I recommend taking a look at Tim\u2019s website and seeing him speak at an event if you get the chance.\u00a0The formerly unhappy man has become an enlightened person who can inspire others to take his advice about how to live better and longer.\u00a0For a quick overview, you could watch his 12-1\/2-minute video on his website called \u201cMy Plant-Based Journey.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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