Talking to Tom Callos

Today, Clay and I finally got to talk to Tom Callos.  He is currently in Greece so setting up a time has been a challenge.  After a few attempts, we successfully figured out video chatting.  One interesting thing that Clay brought up was the fact that the HanMuDo student creed kind of goes hand in hand with the Ultimate Black Belt Test philosophy.  This creed has been guiding our lives for many years and we are excited to start this journey.  Part of what we plan to accomplish this year, is share our eating habits with you.  Last spring, we read the book, The China Study.  We have drastically changed our eating habits since reading this book in April 2011.   We are what we like to call 90% Vegans.  Maybe 80%... We have tried for years to increase our vegetable consumption but it was hard.  Part of our plan that we follow now, is vegan with lots of vegetables and whole grains.  In the past we found it hard to eat lots of vegetables when we had yummy meat on our plates.  So, cutting out animal based products made it possible to made the vegetables the focus of our meals.  My weakness is shrimp and cheese.  When we first started eating this way, our son was totally against it... said he would never drink soy milk.  So, I bought a small milk for him and unsweetened soy milk for us.  Next thing we knew, he was using soy milk on his cereal instead.   We continue to research and discover information about healthy diets.  Our goal is to live a healthy life for as long as possible.