The Vegan Diet: It's Potential In Your Health And In Your Life

Is Vegan Eating Difficult And Expensive?

The answer is: "not at all" . You do not need to be an expert chef to enjoy vegan food in the kitchen or invest half of your salary for it.

In the past, misinformation made us see this way of eating as something only for a few right-handers in the kitchen. However, there are currently many videos, books, blogs, courses, etc. that teach you vegan food step by step and from a very practical point of view .

On the other hand, the myth that everything is more expensive is out of fashion. It is true that at the beginning the focus was on very rare and difficult to obtain products which made their price higher.

Currently the increased demand has made that is regulated and normalized. In addition, it still costs less a kilo of legumes than a kilo of steak.



Limiting Beliefs About Vegan Eating

There are many limiting beliefs about vegan eating. Very few of you have stopped to think how many times your dish is vegan and you haven't even realized it.
Our fears, customs, automatic action patterns and our beliefs are our greatest executioners .

From the moment someone is not predisposed to change , they are missing out on many things in life, but above all they are suppressing their personal growth. Perhaps no one relates food, in this case vegan eating, with personal development but it is a fact that is closely related.

It is like traveling. Every time you meet another culture, other people, another language, other places, another way of seeing things, of living, etc., you acquire new tools for your life and new perspectives.

When you refuse change without argument, you deprive yourself of learning, growing and developing , above all, in an area as wonderful, broad and sensory and conceptually rich as gastronomy.



Is Vegan Eating Healthy?

Any form of nutrition can be very healthy or very harmful to our health. Everything will depend on the responsibility that one acquires on this.

We mention the word responsibility because it is our duty to inform ourselves, learn and put into practice in aconscious way what benefits our health. This applies to both vegan and non-vegan diets.

In the same way, we will have to discard what harms our body , no matter how much it is typical of a vegan diet. Therefore, eating vegan is not synonymous with eating healthy. Some French fries are vegan but they don't necessarily have to be healthy.

In the same way, a fitness diet does not have to be healthy either. Because if we compromise our organism to achieve a certain aesthetic, it lacks healthiness, no matter how much the aesthetic objective is fulfilled.

We should not confuse terms and that is why vegan food goes much further than a way of eating, but is acommitment to oneself, to their environment and to the planet on which we live.



The Protein Myth In Vegan Diets

This is usually a very controversial topic but at the same time very simple when logic is applied and one is informed. It is known that in a conventional diet there is an excess in the consumption of protein , so we are exceeding the necessary amount in our day to day.

However, we are still obsessed with consuming industrial amounts of it, and so when meat, eggs, or other protein-rich foods are taken from us, there is panic.

However, the vegan diet when it is well balanced , not only will it not have a protein deficit but it can improve the quality of protein intake as we will tell you next.

The biological value of protein is about its quality and assimilation in the body. When we combine certain foods of vegetable origin we achieve the 9 essential amino acids that we need to ingest, since the body cannot manufacture them by itself.

It is rare to find those 9 amino acids in a piece of meat, so attending to this part, we will be able to nourish ourselves more efficiently in terms of the necessary protein in our body if we use this strategy compared to the isolated consumption of protein of animal origin.


Examples:

An example of this will be combining foods such as peas + rice or chickpeas + sesame to achieve the incorporation of the 9 essential amino acids.

Other foods rich in protein are legumes, tofu, seitan, algae, mushrooms, nuts , etc. Benefits of a vegan diet

The vegan diet brings us great benefits to our health.

Many foods of animal origin , especially when abused, cause diseases as common as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases , etc.

There is no miracle diet or eating style that exempts you from the aforementioned, but many studies indicate the relationship between vegan eating and the best parameters in health.



Reasons To Choose Vegan Food

There can be many reasons that lead you to choose vegan food as part of your life.

We are talking about health, about wanting to contribute to the sustainability of the planet, about wanting to inspire others, about leaving a legacy in your environment and family, about empathising with the life given to animals for consumption, etc.

None of the above reasons is mutually exclusive or more or less important. This is precisely why I think



Does A Vegan Diet Lose Weight?

I've talked a bit about this before, but maybe it's good to highlight.

Definitely, vegan food is not synonymous with diet or losing weight.

If you nourish yourself improperly, it does not matter if it is with a vegan diet that you will not get rid of overweight or health problems.

As every day white flours (which are vegan) will not take you. Proper nutrition and most likely make you gain weight, among other things, harmful.

Weight will depend on many factors, but all things being equal, within a vegan diet we can find those who take responsibility and commit to their health and those who do not.

Of course, eliminating or reducing certain foods of animal origin bring us closer to:

• Eliminate saturated fat

• Nitrites

• Excess calories

• Improve digestions

• Cleanse the body of toxins

• Raise our energy level

• Eliminate inflammatory processes

Factors that definitely improve your health and contribute to not being overweight.

But everything in life must be taken with a grain of salt and judgment . And that is where it is up to you to put judgment and responsibility, so as not to cling to your customs and your limiting beliefs if they do not benefit you objectively speaking.



Vegan Eating Gives Us More Energy

We break the myths that if I don't eat meat I don't have enough strength or energy in my day to day life or in the sport I practice.

Thanks to the fact that many elite athletes have joined this way of life, we have been able to verify that this was only a myth.

The Science of Ayurveda explains how living foods (in full growth) such as sprouts , or foods that receive direct energy from the sun (whose growth process continues even after being picked from the tree) such as strawberry, blueberry or apple , They give us an extra Prana or energy than a dead food like a heavy meat.

Dead foods (Tamasic) imply an extra energy for their digestion, so not only do they not give us much energy, but they take it away.

If we add other harmful nutritional aspects, it causes your performance to decrease.

Even in injury recovery processes, vegan eating has been shown to improve and accelerate recovery from omnivorous eating.



Supplementation In The Vegan Diet

B12 vitamin

The main difference when it comes to taking into account when we use vegan versus   non-vegan diets is to incorporate Vitamin B12.

In fact, given the poor quality of animal-based foods and the state of how they are bred in captivity, more and more studies point to the need for non-vegans to consume it as well.

The reason is because B12 is a bacteria that is found in the soil and that animals consume when they feed.

The animals
As they are currently bred in captivity , many of them can no longer acquire it and have to inject it, so here we have another little problem of food manipulation and that we take with us to our body.


The soils
Another cause that makes us not have that amount of Vitamin B12 is due to the impoverishment of the soils and the high hygiene compared to our ancestors, where when washing everything and the soil and food being contaminated by pesticides, herbicides, etc. makes it difficult for us to consume the necessary amount of B12

But regardless of this, the vegan should supplement with B12 and it is very important because a long-term deficit of this vitamin can lead to health problems.

But do not spread panic. It is impossible for a person with this supplementation to experience this deficit, so one less problem than our beliefs or fears can generate the famous paralysis by analysis.


V itamin D

As with B12 many people, vegan or non-vegan, are deficient in vitamin D.

The reason is because we are increasingly locked up and because we begin to generate a rejection of the body so that it is not assimilated.

In the case of vegans, more attention should be paid since not consuming certain foods such as fish, shellfish, milk, etc. that are rich in Vitamin D this can affect them.

If we have a more outdoor life or that the sun gives us, the absence of Vitamin D in vegans is not usually a problem. It should be noted that you must sunbathe without protection for this vitamin to be assimilated.

Logically we must be cautious, so that we ration the dose of sun, not expose ourselves in the strongest hours, etc.