Do you consider youself a healthy Vegan/Vegetarian?!

Pretty healthy.

I eat mainly organic vegan food. I've cut out most highly processed foods. I have a low intake of salt and sugar. I exercise a lot. I make sure I get lots of the essential fatty acids and etc. I cook nearly everything from scratch, even if it makes me late for work, a good healthy home-made lunch for myself and my kids is more important.

I think what I would change to be more healthy would be to: get more sleep, eat more fruit, eat more dark leafy greens, eat more raw food, eat less food but better quality food, start growing more of my own food (again), live in a warmer sunnier climate, work less live more, less stress, do more stretching, get more massages, ... I LOVE things such as dates, figs, avocados, tropical fruits.... all these things that come from the warmer regions of the world so I wish I could afford to eat more of these - I think humans are not supposed to live in colder climates....

What's unhealthy that I eat: I eat too many noodles, too much pasta, eat too much cooked dead foods.. especially in the winter... it's cold so I really want to eat hot food to warm me up...

Yes, I am a very healthy vegan.
I used to be a vegan that ate a lot of junk food as I was obsessed with eating at all the really neat vegan restaurants in NY and they had a lot of vegan desserts from vegan bakeries on their menus that I salivated over, and I had an obsession with fried foods that were vegan, but now I am really healthy.
I think the healthiest vegan is the Raw Vegan, who takes the right supplements and then gets the rest of their nutrients from their food. I aspire to go raw vegan, if it weren't for my penchant for warm, sweet, and processed foods.

Vegan for 1.5 years, Vegetarian for 11 years total.

I am a healthy, many years vegetarian. I believe it's because I have to read labels on almost everything I buy because they use animals as flavoring in so many products. Also, I can't just go to a fast food drive through & order a burger or hotwings. So I usually cook at home & rarely fry foods and don't eat a lot of processed foods. I believe all the fast & processed foods are what is ruining the health of many people.

Generally, yes, I consider myself to be a healthy vegan. I'm not perfect when it comes to health and I suppose I could do with more variety in my diet, but overall I eat almost no junk food, very rarely drink colas or sweetened drinks, and eat very little processed food as well. I know quite a bit about healthy eating and naturally make better choices with what I buy and eat. I read the labels on everything I buy and know what is good and what is not! :)

No, I'm a vegetarian but I eat way too much junk food.

I eat potato chips, cakes, and french fries 3-4 times a week.

However, a vegetarian diet is usually healthier than an omnivore diet, because fruits, vegetables, and legumes are lower in fat, cholesterol, and calories than meat.

A vegetarian diet is definitely worth it.

Even with all the junk food I eat, it's still a lot easier for me to maintain my weight than when I was eating meat.

When I used to eat meat, I would put on weight like crazy, because of all the fat and cholesterol in hamburgers, chicken, pork, etc.

A healthy vegetarian diet consists of fruits, vegetables, legumes, cereal, whole wheat pasta, and low fat imitation meat products.

Good luck.

Vegetarian

For the most part, yes. 99% of the time, I cook from scratch, using organic ingredients that start in their raw form (I buy a lot out of the bulk bins, and grow a huge garden every year). I'm not a big fan of anything pre-packaged, as even though it may be "organic", chemicals still have their way of making it into the food (cans are lined with BPA that leeches, plastic will leech into foods it comes into contact with, "tv" dinner type foods are in trays lined with paraben-containing waxes ect....). Cooking from scratch, using all organic, reduces the amount of chemicals that possibly come into contact with your food (i also only store in glass containers, use stainless steel pans instead of non-stick ect...). I guess I'm a little paranoid, but I take my health very seriously, and avoid synthetic chemicals as much as possible (they may not yet have been proven toxic, but they also haven't been proven safe, not a risk I'm willing to take on a day to day basis). As for the nutritional content of the food i eat on a day to day basis, Im well researched on balanced meals, and since my food comes from nature, its packed with good stuff. However, I will occasionally buy Amy's brand foods. Every once in a while, a little treat never hurt anyone, and their food is delicious :-)

Vegetarian for 12 years

Yes, I follow a mainly vegan diet which is very healthy.

The whole point of me following this lifestyle is for health reasons.

I had some niggling health issues which cleared up when I cleared up my diet.

I eat lots of fresh organic natural healthy foods that are beneficial to maintaining good health.

I avoid processed foods, colours, preservatives, artificial flavourings, artery clogging animal protein, soda, excess sugar, deep fried foods, and other foods devoid of nutrition.

But sadly there are many very unhealthy teenagers following vegetarian diets, because they don't do their homework properly beforehand and seem to think they can replace meat with cheese sandwiches on white bread, crisps and coke!

No, I am not a healthy vegan. I don't watch my nutrition, I am too lazy to cook so I go days without eating sometimes. I don't take any vitamins. I mainly eat processed foods. I rarely eat fruits or vegetables even when I buy them. When I'm at a vegan restaurant or at home where my mom buys me food, I eat like 10 times more calories than I should.

I don't care though because I'm a busy, broke college student and I'll change my habits before they catch up with me. I didn't go vegan to be healthy, I did it for the animals and that's the only reason I've stuck with it.

My husband is a specialist physician and I am a registered nurse.Both of us became a strict vegetarians in 2010. We changed our way of eating because of the scientific evidence that eating animal products is making people ill. "The China Study" by Dr. T Campbell and Dr. Esselstyn's "Prevent and Reverse Heart DIsease" convinced us that we had to make this change.
Population studies show that it is people that eat a plant based diet with little or no animal products that live longer,have very little cancer and virtually no heart disease or diabetes. In populations that drink the most milk osteoporosis is the highest! This is because milk makes your blood acidic and calcium from your bones is leached out to neutralize the acidic blood. The animal and dairy food lobby is so powerful that we are not being told the truth about healthy food. You can eat lovely food on a strict vegetarian diet. I take time and trouble to make meals from scratch, after all I would rather take time now than lose 10 or 20 years of time through cancer or heart disease later.

We both feel so much better on this plant based diet. Our food is delicious and we don't miss meat at all. Sometimes we miss cheese! My husband has found his IBS has almost completely disappeared.

A plant based diet means a healthier planet too. We could feed the world if we used the land for growing food for ourselves instead of for animals that we then kill to eat. I could go on and on but will try to restrain myself!

http://goo.gl/niUdA
http://goo.gl/VgViL
The China Study book by T.Thomas Campbell MD

I am a disgustingly unhealthy veggie.

I do no excercise, I drink (vegan) beer and wine regularly, and if food can be fried, I'll fry it.

Then I'll fry it again.

I am actually almost proud of how I have turned what has been recognised a renowned healthy eating plan into the disgraceful fat-riddled sham of a diet I follow at present.

Nothing gives me more pleasure than watching someone examine my bloated, corpulent form as I ask for a meatless dairy free option in a restaurant.

However, by new Year, I will either have tried to resolve this, or will have dropped dead from a heart attack.

I love fries and wine.

Yes-the basis of my diet is beans, whole grains, veggies, fruit and low fat dairy. I eat the occasional junk but really, I can't be too proud because I like the good stuff, I'm not really tempted. My sole indulgence is beer and good cheese. I've cut back on the cheese but I really love beer! It's too hard.

No, I eat whatever I like whenever I like. It is healthy and I feel exceptionally well.

http://health.org.au/
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Honestly, not really. I'm a few pounds overweight, and I don't eat very many fruits/vegetables.
I sort of just eat the sides of what my family has for dinner. Sometimes I'll cook a fancy meal but most of the time I don't.

Well, I don't eat unhealthy I'm not fat but I'm not a vegan and super skinny. I eat junk food once in a while but not all the time.

No, I consider myself a healthy omnivore.

Health is about much more than just what you eat.