Inside out plant base

23/11/2025

🌱 Vegan Chocolate Sticky Toffee Pudding (With Benefits & Laughs)

Comfort food that loves you back — unlike your ex or your old gym trainer.

⸻

✨ Why This Recipe Works

This pudding hits that “cozy winter dessert” vibe without the dairy, cholesterol, or inflammatory surprises hiding in traditional sticky toffee puddings.
Instead of cream + butter + eggs (hello arteries 👋), this version uses whole-food plant-based sweetness, healthy fats, fibre, and antioxidants — all wrapped inside gooey chocolate heaven.

⸻

🥣 INGREDIENTS (Serves 6–8)

PUDDING
• 200 g Medjool dates
• 250 ml boiling water
• 1 tsp bicarb soda
• 120 g coconut sugar
• 80 ml melted coconut oil
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 150 g plain flour
• 40 g cocoa powder
• 1½ tsp baking powder
• Pinch sea salt
• 120 ml soy or oat milk
• Optional: 50 g vegan dark chocolate chips

TOFFEE SAUCE
• 150 g coconut cream
• 120 g coconut sugar
• 2 tbsp maple syrup
• 1 tsp vanilla
• Pinch salt
• Optional: 30 g dark chocolate

⸻

🔥 METHOD (With a Bit of Cheek)

1. Wake Up the Dates

Pour boiling water over your chopped dates with the bicarb.
They’ll foam like a teenager discovering energy drinks — don’t panic, that’s normal.
Mash after 10 minutes.

2. Mix the Wet Stuff

Stir your coconut sugar, melted oil, and vanilla.
It should smell like a tropical holiday your bank balance won’t approve.

3. Combine Everything

Add in the date mixture.
Mix the dry ingredients separately (flour, cocoa, baking powder, salt), then bring everyone together into one happy, sticky family.

4. Bake

Bake at 180°C for 30–35 minutes, until the middle is mostly cooked.
Sticky is good. Sticky is life.

5. Make the Toffee Sauce

Coconut cream + coconut sugar + maple + melt = silky lava of joy.
Add a bit of dark chocolate for drama.

6. Serve

Pour sauce over the warm pudding like you’re baptising it into a higher purpose.
Eat. Smile. Try not to fight anyone for the last scoop.

⸻

💚 HEALTH BENEFITS (Yes, Even Dessert Can Be Good for You)

🌱 1. Medjool Dates
• High in fibre → supports digestion
• Natural energy without blood sugar chaos
• Antioxidants that help your cells stay young (you’re welcome)

🍫 2. Cocoa Powder
• Rich in polyphenols → heart health
• Increases serotonin → dessert = happiness
• Anti-inflammatory → your arteries prefer it to dairy chocolate

🥥 3. Coconut Cream & Oil (Used Moderately)
• Plant-based fats → no cholesterol
• Lauric acid has antimicrobial benefits
• Creaminess without the casein (the inflammatory dairy protein linked with mucus, IGF-1 stimulation, and cancer risk)

🌾 4. No Eggs, No Dairy
• No cholesterol
• No saturated animal fats
• No growth hormones
• No casein (linked to digestive issues and increased inflammation)
• No lactose (which 65–90% of adults can’t digest anyway)

💧5. Plant Milk Over Dairy Milk
• No antibiotics
• No pus cells (yes… gross but true… and no thanks)
• Lower environmental load
• Better for digestion

⸻

☣️ TOXINS + INGREDIENTS TO AVOID IN NORMAL STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING

🚫 1. Dairy Butter

Contains advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) and saturated fat that raises LDL.
Also comes with:
• cow hormones
• inflammatory casein
• cholesterol
• environmental baggage

🚫 2. Heavy Cream

A concentrated source of saturated animal fats.
Your heart whispers: “Mate… don’t.”

🚫 3. Eggs

High in cholesterol and inflammatory compounds when cooked at high temps.
Also often carry salmonella risks.

🚫 4. White Refined Sugar

We used coconut sugar + maple for lower GI and minerals.
Regular sugar?
Makes your body go: “Who authorised this?”

🚫 5. Cheap Margarines

Full of highly processed oils, additives, and sometimes palm oil (rainforest heartbreak).

🚫 6. Non-Vegan Chocolate

Often contains:
• dairy solids
• emulsifiers
• cheap additives
• ethical issues around cocoa farming

⸻

🌱 FINAL NOTE (With a Wink)

This dessert isn’t “health food,” but it is a healthier sticky toffee pudding that won’t leave you feeling like you swallowed a brick made of regret.

Eat it slow.
Share it fast.
Or don’t share it at all — I’m not judging.

23/11/2025

Part three is out as well 👌💚 who taught you how to eat 😉

PART 2: THE CHOLESTEROL CATASTROPHE Post this Day 2 THE SCIENCE: WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE THOSE "SHREDDED" BODIES Following yesterday's wake-up call about fit 35-year-olds having heart attacks, today we dive into the shocking numbers... The Cholesterol Catastrophe Researchers have found that the carnivore diet increases LDL cholesterol levels, which can contribute to heart disease. But it gets worse. Medical journals have documented cases of healthy males aged 28 and 33 presenting to lipid clinics with LDL cholesterol levels of 15 and 17 mmol/L respectively—levels mimicking familial hypercholesterolemia—after just one year on a carnivorous diet. For context, normal LDL should be under 3.4 mmol/L. A 2021 survey of 2,029 carnivore diet followers found that while participants reported high satisfaction and health improvements, LDL cholesterol was markedly elevated at 172 mg/dL. The Mechanisms of Damage Animal-food-centered diets may increase cardiovascular toll-like receptor signaling due to increased serum endotoxins and oxidized LDL cholesterol, increase cardiovascular lipotoxicity, and increase components that affect blood vessel health. Cholesterol oxides found in beef, turkey, butter and eggs can be consumed in the diet and incorporated into LDL particles, with concentrations increasing during storage and cooking. The carnivore diet is highly restrictive and leans heavily on foods high in saturated fat and cholesterol—two components known to raise LDL or "bad" cholesterol and increase the risk of developing heart disease. Tomorrow: The great doctor divide - who's actually qualified to
give dietary advice? The answer might surprise you.
🤓🧐

18/11/2025

THE GREAT DOCTOR DIVIDE: WHO’S RIGHT?

(DAY 3 — PART OF THE 12-DAY TRUTH SERIES)

After the catastrophic cholesterol numbers we covered yesterday, today we look at a simple question:

Who is actually promoting these extreme diets — and who is warning against them?

When you see both sides side-by-side, you’ll understand why the “debate” isn’t really a debate at all.

TEAM CARNIVORE: THE CONTRARIANS

The loudest carnivore diet advocates online include:

Dr Philip Ovadia, a cardiac surgeon who lost 85 lb and now promotes carnivore

Orthopedic surgeons

Family doctors

Chiropractors

A psychologist

Influencers with no nutrition training at all

But here’s the striking pattern:
Not one of the major carnivore “experts” is a cardiologist or lipidologist — the specialists who actually study heart disease, cholesterol, and endothelial damage.

And when independent medical reviewers analysed their diet books, they found only 22–37% of the claims were scientifically accurate.

Let that sink in — a diet that can push LDL into the stratosphere is being promoted by people who don’t specialise in cholesterol or cardiovascular disease.

THE REAL-WORLD NUMBERS DON’T LIE

Documented medical cases now show:

Healthy males, aged 28 and 33, showing up with LDL levels of 15 and 17 mmol/L
(that’s 580–657 mg/dL)

These numbers mimic familial hypercholesterolaemia, a serious genetic disorder

Values returned to near-normal once plant food and carbs were reintroduced

The largest carnivore survey (n=2,029) found a median LDL of 172 mg/dL
— far above recommended levels

Clinics are now seeing a new phenomenon:
Young, fit carnivore dieters with “lean mass hyper-responder” LDL levels doctors normally treat with aggressive intervention.

TEAM EVIDENCE: THE WARNING

Now look at the other side — the actual cardiovascular experts:

Dr Jonathan Fialkow, deputy director of clinical cardiology, calls the carnivore diet
“pseudo-science… unknown long-term risks… more research urgently needed.”

The American College of Cardiology (ACC) does NOT recommend carnivore or extreme high-fat diets — not for heart health, longevity, or disease prevention.

Every major cardiology body continues to emphasise:
Lower saturated fat, lower LDL, higher plant intake, balanced dietary patterns.

This isn’t opinion — this is the consensus from the people who treat heart disease every day.

AND IF YOU WANT BIG PICTURE EVIDENCE… ENTER THE CHINA STUDY

If you want actual comprehensive nutrition science, not social-media diets, start with:

The China Study

Called the “Grand Prix of epidemiology”, this was a 20-year China–Cornell–Oxford project involving 6,500 participants, 65 counties, and millions of data points.

The findings were crystal clear:

Rural regions eating plant-dominant diets had average cholesterol of 127 mg/dL

The U.S. averaged around 203 mg/dL

Heart disease death rates were 5–17 times higher in the U.S.

Higher animal protein = higher heart disease, cancers, and chronic illness

Higher plant intake = lower disease rates across the board

T. Colin Campbell compiled this into the book
The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted
— it remains one of the strongest arguments for plant-based, whole-food eating in human history.

Compare that with “eat steak and salt every day because an influencer said so.”

WHY THIS IS PART 3 OF A FULL 12-DAY SERIES

Reading just one post won’t give the full picture.

Each part builds into the next.
Day 1 = the wake-up call
Day 2 = the numbers
Day 3 = who’s pushing what
Day 4 = the young, fit people dropping dead
Day 5–12 = the biology, the anatomy, the fibre, the cholesterol, and the truth

Put all 12 parts together and the conclusion becomes impossible to ignore.

BOTTOM LINE: WHO SHOULD YOU LISTEN TO?

A handful of online doctors outside their specialty
OR
the accumulated, peer-reviewed data of:

cardiologists

lipidologists

epidemiologists

global health institutions

decades of controlled studies

and the most comprehensive population nutrition study in human history?

Tomorrow we continue:
YOUNG, FIT, AND DROPPING DEAD — the shocking under-40 heart attack data they’re not talking about.

FROM “WHO TAUGHT YOU HOW TO EAT?” — A SERIES BUILT ON SCIENCE, NOT FLUFF

This series is evidence-based, truth-driven, and backed by real science — not industry bias, not bro-science, not influencer marketing.
All facts, no filler.

InsideOut Plant-Based™
Real science. Real truth. Real food.

14/11/2025

INSIDEOUT PLANT-BASED & “WHO TAUGHT YOU HOW TO EAT?”

If you’ve ever looked at your plate and thought… “Hang on, who actually taught me to eat like this?” — you’re exactly who these groups are for.

I’ve created InsideOut Plant-Based and the “Who Taught You How to Eat?” project to make it easier to find real, honest information about food, health, and the stories we were never told growing up.

In these groups and on the page we’ll be sharing:

Simple, practical plant-based recipes

Truth-based education on food, labels, and marketing

Updates from my upcoming book “Who Taught You How to Eat?”

Q&A, live chats, and local Sunshine Coast / Noosa meetups

Support for anyone wanting to eat better, feel better, and live more consciously

👉 Please do three things to help us grow:

LIKE & FOLLOW the InsideOut Plant-Based page

JOIN the two groups using the links below

SHARE this post and invite a friend who’d love to learn more about food, health and plant-based living

Every like, share and comment helps this message reach more people who need it.
Thanks for being part of the change. 💚

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61566186414192 https://www.facebook.com/groups/494636986816289/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/189929845742381

14/11/2025

👁 BREAKING: Vegan Tick Discovers Most Effective Activism Strategy in History 🌱🦟
While the rest of us have been making documentaries, sharing recipes, and having awkward Thanksgiving conversations, the Lone Star tick said "hold my petri dish" and became the most successful vegan activist on the planet.
The Strategy? One bite. That's it. No judgment, no lectures, no showing people slaughterhouse footage at dinner parties. Just a tiny 2mm diplomat with eight legs who whispers "try the plants" directly into your immune system.
450,000 Americans are now involuntarily plant-based (or at least red-meat-free) thanks to these microscopic missionaries. That's more converts than every vegan Instagram influencer combined.
The Irony? Ticks are bloodsuckers—literally the least vegan creatures imaginable. Yet here they are, accidentally creating more vegans than PETA's entire marketing budget.
Some call it Alpha-gal Syndrome. I call it the universe's most aggressive suggestion to try chickpeas.
Plot Twist: Scientists say the allergy can fade over time... if you avoid more tick bites. Translation: The ticks are playing the long game. Get bitten again? Your body doubles down on team plants.
Nature's out here doing guerrilla marketing for Beyond Burgers and nobody saw it coming.
Disclaimer: AGS is a serious medical condition. But if you're going to develop a food allergy, at least this one comes with a lower carbon footprint. 🌍✌️

THE SCIENCE: Alpha-gal Syndrome (AGS) is a legitimate IgE-mediated allergic condition first identified in 2006 by researchers Platts-Mills and Commins. The Lone Star tick (Amblyomma americanum) transfers galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose—a sugar molecule found in mammalian meat—through its saliva. This triggers antibody production in some individuals, causing delayed allergic reactions (2-6 hours) to beef, pork, lamb, and other mammalian products. CDC estimates up to 450,000 Americans may be affected, with over 110,000 confirmed cases between 2010-2022. Unlike most food allergies, AGS can resolve over time if further tick exposure is avoided.
Disclaimer: AGS is a serious medical condition requiring proper diagnosis and management. This post is educational satire—always consult healthcare professionals for medical advice.

13/11/2025

PART 2: THE CHOLESTEROL CATASTROPHE Post this Day 2 THE SCIENCE: WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE THOSE "SHREDDED" BODIES Following yesterday's wake-up call about fit 35-year-olds having heart attacks, today we dive into the shocking numbers... The Cholesterol Catastrophe Researchers have found that the carnivore diet increases LDL cholesterol levels, which can contribute to heart disease. But it gets worse. Medical journals have documented cases of healthy males aged 28 and 33 presenting to lipid clinics with LDL cholesterol levels of 15 and 17 mmol/L respectively—levels mimicking familial hypercholesterolemia—after just one year on a carnivorous diet. For context, normal LDL should be under 3.4 mmol/L. A 2021 survey of 2,029 carnivore diet followers found that while participants reported high satisfaction and health improvements, LDL cholesterol was markedly elevated at 172 mg/dL. The Mechanisms of Damage Animal-food-centered diets may increase cardiovascular toll-like receptor signaling due to increased serum endotoxins and oxidized LDL cholesterol, increase cardiovascular lipotoxicity, and increase components that affect blood vessel health. Cholesterol oxides found in beef, turkey, butter and eggs can be consumed in the diet and incorporated into LDL particles, with concentrations increasing during storage and cooking. The carnivore diet is highly restrictive and leans heavily on foods high in saturated fat and cholesterol—two components known to raise LDL or "bad" cholesterol and increase the risk of developing heart disease. Tomorrow: The great doctor divide - who's actually qualified to
give dietary advice? The answer might surprise you.
🤓🧐

12/11/2025

“12 Days of Truth – What the Carnivore Doctors Don’t Want You to Know”
🫀

PART 1: THE WAKE-UP CALL Post this Day 1 THE HIDDEN DANGER: Why Your "Fit" Body Might Be Hiding a Ticking Time Bomb When Muscles Hide Heart Disease: The Carnivore Diet Controversy That's Dividing Doctors THE SHOCKING WAKE-UP CALL Dr. Dmitry Yaranov, a US-based cardiologist specializing in advanced heart failure and transplantation, has issued a stark warning after treating apparently fit and healthy 35-year-olds for heart attacks caused by extreme high-protein diets. His Instagram post went viral for a reason: "He looks like a statue. Shredded. Vascular. Peak performance. But I've seen what's inside those vessels - and it's not pretty." Years of extreme carnivore diets can lead to sky-high LDL cholesterol, endothelial dysfunction, chronic inflammation, and premature atherosclerosis. Translation? Bad cholesterol rockets to dangerous levels, blood vessel linings get damaged, the body stays inflamed, and fatty plaques clog arteries early—sometimes decades before they should. "I've cared for 'fit' 35-year-olds with heart attacks. No symptoms. No warning. Just a ticking time bomb," Dr. Yaranov wrote. THE CARNIVORE CRAZE: 222,000 MONTHLY SEARCHES AND COUNTING With 222,000 searches each month, carnivore diets have been revealed as the most popular online in the UK. According to Google Trend data, searches for the carnivore diet have slowly climbed worldwide since 2019. Social media influencers like Joe Rogan and controversial figures like Jordan Peterson have amplified the movement, claiming miraculous health transformations. Dr. Shawn Baker, an orthopedic surgeon and author, is one of the modern carnivore diet's foremost proponents, arguing that a diet consisting entirely of meat can lead to improved health outcomes. But here's where it gets controversial: In February 2024, Baker admitted in a debate with plant-based doctor Garth Davis that he does not know the long-term health effects of a carnivore diet, stating "I don't know if it's going to either prevent or increase the likelihood of some disease." Tomorrow: The shocking science of what's happening inside those "shredded" bodies. The cholesterol numbers will blow your mind.

10/11/2025

We cuddle chickens with one hand… and buy chicken with the other.
How did we get so good at not seeing?
Who taught us to eat this way—and who profits when we don’t ask?
My new book Who Taught You How To Eat? is coming soon.
Get first access + free launch chapter: insideoutplantbase.com

Hashtags:

10/11/2025

“100 YEARS vs 10 MINUTES”

“Lobsters can live over 100 years in the wild.”
Plausible but not proven for most individuals. Aging them is hard, but growth-band methods (eyestalk/gastric mill) now allow estimates, and several authorities say some may reach ~100 years.
University of Iceland

“They form social bonds and hold claws when walking.”
Lobsters aren’t known to “hold claws.” American/European lobsters are largely solitary and territorial; they form dominance hierarchies and aggregate mainly around mating/molting shelters, not in pair-bond “hand-holding.” I couldn’t find a credible source for the “hold claws” claim.
Animal Diversity Web

“Research shows they feel pain and remember it.”
Strong evidence decapod crustaceans (incl. lobsters) are sentient and capable of pain-like states and learned avoidance; this underpinned the UK’s legal recognition and policy moves. (Much of the direct learning/pain work is in crabs/hermit crabs, but applies across decapods.)

“They cannot go into shock, meaning they feel everything.”
I couldn’t find a primary scientific source stating lobsters “cannot go into shock.” What is clear: welfare bodies assume capacity for suffering and recommend stunning before killing, because traditional methods do not reliably render them insensible quickly. (So the ethical conclusion stands, but the specific “no shock” line isn’t evidenced.)
RSPCA Knowledgebase

“Most are boiled alive… proven to be extremely painful.”
Boiling alive is still common in culinary practice. Multiple governments/retailers now restrict or ban it because evidence indicates decapods feel pain; Switzerland requires stunning (electric or mechanical) before cooking. Humane alternatives like electrical stunning (e.g., Crustastun) render animals insensible rapidly.
Humane World for Animals

05/11/2025

STOP THE CARNIVAL 🎩🐎➡️🚫
Every first Tuesday in November we dress up, place a “once-a-year flutter,” and look away. The Melbourne Cup isn’t harmless fun—it’s a machine that pushes horses past breaking point while turning people into customers for life. Cruelty on track. Harm at home.

🐴 The horses don’t consent
A racehorse in Australia dies about every two days from catastrophic injuries or race-related events. That’s not a slogan—that’s documented in the latest Deathwatch report. And in 2025, a Tasmanian court recognised what common sense tells us: even padded racing whips cause pain—legally “unreasonable and unjustifiable.” EIPH (lung bleeding) and sudden deaths are known welfare risks in Thoroughbred racing.
Horse Racing Kills
+2
equitationscience.com
+2

🎰 The money is in the gambling, not the glory
Australia lost $31.5 billion to gambling in 2022–23—the highest in two decades, and we top the world for per-capita losses. Cup Day is a giant acquisition funnel for betting apps. Since launch, BetStop (the national self-exclusion register) has seen tens of thousands sign up—proof of how many Aussies are struggling.
AIHW
+2
acma.gov.au
+2

Two problems, one engine
Horses pay with their bodies. Households pay with rent money, relationships and mental health. We celebrate a spectacle that needs both to keep spinning.

What we can do (today)
• Opt out of sweeps and Cup parties—host a lunch instead and donate to rescue/rehab groups.
• If betting is creeping in, self-exclude via BetStop and add bank/venue blocks.
• Back reforms that actually bite: transparent injury/death reporting, phase-out of the whip, ad bans and real pre-commitment limits.

We can build a culture that values compassion over costume and profits. Let’s stop calling cruelty a tradition. 💚



Sources (easy copy/paste)

• Greens media release (Cup “carnival of cruelty”, call for reform).
The Australian Greens

• Deathwatch 2025: One horse dies every 2.0 days (full report, Oct 2025).
Horse Racing Kills

• Court ruling (Tasmania, May 2025): Padded racing whips cause unjustifiable pain.
equitationscience.com
+2
Horse Racing Kills
+2

• RSPCA: EIPH (lung bleeding), sudden deaths and other welfare issues in racing.
kb.rspca.org.au

• AIHW: Gambling losses $31.5b in 2022–23, highest in 20 years; world-leading per-capita losses.
AIHW

• ACMA (BetStop): National self-exclusion register stats (2025).
acma.gov.au
+2
acma.gov.au
+2

16/10/2025

Appreciate what you do for the animals 🫶💚