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In 2012, I was teaching English in Japan when one day I found myself having to make a lot of urgent bathroom…

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I first went whole-food, plant-based in mid-2018, because a few friends had adopted the diet and seemed to have way more energy…

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I’ve been big for most of my life. I wasn’t an obese child, but I was tall and overweight, and I knew…