From vegetatian to vegan after only a month? Is this wise?!
From vegetatian to vegan after only a month? Is this wise?
I've been a vegetarian for a month now. Is it too soon to think about becoming vegan? If not, how do I do this?
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Yeah,I'm sure that's fine.Here is a list of stuff you should include in your diet.
Eat a variety of "whole foods," with plenty of beans, nuts, whole grains, fruits, and vegetables. Avoid unhealthy foods like trans fats, which are usually listed as partially hydrogenated oils. Deep-fried foods often contain trans fats. Choose margarines that use nonhydrogenated oil, like Earth Balance or Smart Balance. Although a diet consisting of Coke and French fries is technically vegan, you can't be healthy if you eat nothing but junk food. Vitamin B12: Vitamin B12 is produced by bacteria, and some experts believe that vegetarians used to get plenty of this vitamin from bacteria in drinking water. Since drinking water is now treated with chemicals that kill the bacteria, it's important to make sure that you get enough vitamin B12 from fortified foods (like most brands of soy or rice milks, some breakfast cereals, and many brands of nutritional yeast) on a daily basis or by taking a sublingual B12 tablet of 10 mcg per day.
Iron-beans, dark green leafy vegetables (like spinach),whole grain breads, Also eat something with vitamin c when you eat something with iron, it increases absorption
Calcium-dark green leafy vegetables (spinach, broccoli, soymilk)
Protein-Isn't really hard to get, just eat a variety of foods, good sources are beans, brown rice, nuts, whole grain breads, soy foods
Omega-3 fatty acids-flax seeds/oil,walnuts,canola oil
Zinc-pumpkin seeds (best source), beans and lentils, yeast, nuts, seeds and whole grain cereals
Selenium-Brazil nuts are a particularly good source of selenium, so try to eat a couple every day. Eating a small bag of mixed unsalted nuts can be a convenient way to get your daily selenium intake, but make sure it contains Brazils. Bread and eggs also provide some selenium.
Vitamin D- Vitamin D, often called the sunshine vitamin, is another common deficiency in those not drinking vitamin D fortified milk. Synthetic vitamin D is added to both cow’s milk and most brands of soy milk today.
Vitamins A (beta carotene),C, K, E and Folate-variety of fruits and veggies
Iodine-Iodine is a trace mineral that's important for healthy thyroid function. Table salt is the most common and reliable source of iodine in Americans' diets. (However, sodium in processed foods usually does not contain iodine.) If you don't consume table salt, you can get iodine from a multivitamin or from kelp tablets.
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Conscientious vegan
Check out the new four food groups
http://www.pcrm.org/health/veginfo/vsk/f...
I don't think there's any set time table. Just start eliminating stuff little by little. Read up on the Internet. There's lots of hidden ingredients to look out for. Its a personal choice, so its up to you to decide.
no, it's not too soon. I think you should go for it.
It's not harmful if that's what you mean.
Go to Wholefoods and check out your options for vegan foods.
I am not a nutritionist, but I urge you to carefully evaluate your dietary practices and plans. It would be best if you consulted a qualified physician or nutritionist.
I know several people who describe themselves as vegetarians. They range from being almost non-vegetarians (they eat fish, but no other animal flesh, and eggs, milk and cheese). to being almost vegans (I say "almost" because they have slip-ups and "holidays" from time to time).
I recently read an article (I wish I had kept a copy of it) that said people generally cannot maintain their health on a vegan diet. If you look at human teeth and our digestive system, it is clear that we are built to be omnivores, eating a variety of foods of different types.
A true vegan will not eat animal flesh or anything derived from an animal. The latter category excludes virtually everything that does not grow, directly or indirectly, in the ground. So, a vegan can't even take fish oil pills (that said, a true vegan probably does need fish oil).
Veganism is closely associated with the animal rights movement. PETA, for example, promotes a vegan diet and wants to prevent people from having ANY living animal as a pet (no dogs or cats, for example).
You are looking at a lifestyle that may have a profound effect on your life, so please make sure you get the best possible advice to help you make a prudent decision.
Good luck
It is wise only if you feel knowledgeable enough to handle it.
Some people are awesome enough that they can go from meat eater to vegan the second they realize they have moral objections to their own lifestyle. Others take longer, but the major factor is how much you know and how happy you feel.
I mean, some people become vegan while literally thinking they can eat nothing other than fruits and veggies; this is not healthy. If you know what you are doing when it comes to replacing the foods you are used to, then by all means, go to vegan.
http://www.vegsoc.org/newveg/fft/index.h...
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Mind you, I am not saying it is less healthy than any other diet; I am saying that "Meat" is very ingrained in most cultures, and unless people understand how unnecessary meat and dairy products are, and unless they comprehend the many alternatives they have, they will suffer.
This is not a flaw in veganism, but a great flaw in the SAD (Standard (lame) American Diet). Evil corporations pay to make you feel you need animal products, and then you (the average American etc.) doesn't comprehend how a person could be healthy without those products.
go veg
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how about you get a life and eat some meat, you will feel better, have more energy, and besides what are we going to do with all the animals that starve to death because your eating all their food
No you should at least wait a year! You should have some vegan days in beetween like 3 times a month.
Being Vegan is not difficult. Do it now! It is a life changing, life affirming choice. The main difference between vegetarians and vegans is eliminating dairy products from your life. Remember that the dairy industry is funded by the government and that they are spreading propaganda. I know that cheese is really hard to give up. But try two weeks without it, after that.......it just tastes dead.
Not at all. On the how, just do it. I asuume you did some studying before becomeing veggie do the same now.
I am a meat eater ( insert boo's and jeers here) but I also know food. I studied nutrition in depth at George Brown 's Culinary program.
The reasons people think this change can be harmful are valid. You absolutely have to know what you are doing. You have to be able to substitute all of the proteins properly without overdoing some and completely neglecting others.
Whether you are an evolutionist or creationist it is clear that wer have eaten meat from almost, if not the very beginning. We spent a lot of time as gatherers as well, but the step toward big animal meat changed us.
You only have to look at the dental structure of an herbivorous
animal to see the difference. We have canines and there is only one reason. To eat meat. The advantage to our evolution was to make us less dependent on eating all the time so that we could have more time in between meals to accomplish more.
But we know that too much of anything is bad and that 4 ounces of meat daily is plenty for all of our needs. I personally go meat free 2 days a week just for the change.
We are at the top of our food chain though, and it is silly to feel guilty about that. Just remember that all those fields of grain and other lovely veggies are fertilized the same way and without all those adorable cows you'd have only chemical fertilizers. They also cloth us as well. Native cultures say a prayer of thanks to animals for giving their lives up for us.
There is nothing wrong morally or nutritionally with any food you want to eat as long as you keep a healthy balance.