The Positive Health Factors And Effects Of Vegan Diets

When I was growing up I was taught how to hunt, fish and trap animals for food as well as being fed an omnivorous diet, but today I have found that I no longer need animals in my diet. The Vegetarian Times recently found that out of the 311 million people in the US, 7.3 million eat a vegetarian based diet and 22.8 million eat a vegetarian inclined diet. Over the past century people have begun looking into the health implications of plant based diets as a way of improving their health and increase their longevity. This research paper is intended

Eliminating all animal products from the diet increases the risk of certain nutritional deficiencies. Micronutrients of special concern for the vegan include vitamins B-12 and D, calcium, fatty acids such as omega 3 which can be obtained from oily fish. Unless vegans regularly consume foods that are fortified with these nutrients, appropriate dietary/vitamin supplements need to be consumed. Iron deficiency which can cause anaemia will also be a concern as they do not consume any red meat to be able to get the iron their body requires.

It talks about many nutritional deficiencies from diets of this kind. The main one’s being Vitamin B12 and Calcium. It mentions that vegetable alternates for vitamin B12 are not same as getting this vitamin from animal sources, as they are just analogs of the true form. The article states that to get the same nutritional value from plant-based food, a significantly more amount is needed to be consumed. The article also engages in the topic of life expectancy, stating that though vegetarians and vegan may live longer, it can also be a result of them being more health conscious in general. This topic will be helpful for my paper as it provides insight about the other side of the argument. It will also help to write my counter argument. The article was written by Chris Kresser, a paleo nutritionist who graduate from UC Berkeley. He teaches and practices functional medicine. The article was written in 2014, so it is still

Some may believe, that vegetarians are more likely to be anemic due to the lack of meat in their diet. But in fact, all eleven necessary vitamins and minerals are easily obtained by consuming either

Harvard Medical School defines a vegan as a person who does, “not eat meat, poultry, fish, or any products derived from animals, including eggs, dairy products, and gelatin.” (p.1). With veganism gaining more and more popularity in the media and in the western culture, debates have sprung up about whether or not this diet and lifestyle proves to be healthy. Countless studies and experiments have been conducted, and the results have shown that a vegan diet can prove to be a more beneficial diet then the standard American Diet. But, with large food corporations and drug companies in the way, Americans find it harder to switch to the plant-based diet. The vegan diet time and time again shows its outstanding power in reducing

Approximately three percent of the world’s population live an average of eight years longer than the rest. These group of people are also known to have a decreased rate of heart attack, cancer, and other chronic diseases. It is said that the best thing a person could have is their health, so why do these illnesses continue to be our number one killer, and what are these three percent doing differently? The only way to maintain this perfect health most of us dream about is to go vegan, the healthiest lifestyle on the planet.

Donald Watson, on 1944 had a meeting with non-dairy vegetarian, Elsie Shrigley, to talk about the lifestyle and diet of non-dairy vegetarian diets. These pioneers were the first people to discover a new movement – although resistant. They felt that they needed a new name, something more brief than “non-dairy vegetarians”. “vitan”, “dairyban”, and “benevore” were some of the rejected words. They settled on “vegan”, because it had the first 3 and the last 2 letters of “vegetarian”. In Donald Watson’s words, it marked “the beginning and end of vegetarian”.

Although reviews of the vegetarian diet (5; 13) warn that deficiencies in several micronutrients are possible, the only marginal nutrient we found in the vegan group is calcium intake. There are several possible reasons for this difference. Vegans may be more health conscious, physically more active, and have a greater understanding of the role of nutrition in general health. As a result, they may also consume more supplements. Another contributing factor may be the recent increase in commercially available foods fortified with a wide variety of vitamins and minerals that may lead to higher levels of intake when whole diets are examined. These results may be somewhat biased compared to the general population because we studied young adult college women primarily. Another possible confounding factor is the

Veganism isn't as good as speculated by other websites. Nutriciously.com says veganism can put people in a "bad state of health." The bad state is caused by the body adapting to new eating habits. Enpoweredsustenance.com says that vegan foods "don't provide fat-soluble vitamins A and D." That is evidence of the bad side in veganism

Going vegan is one of the most powerful things a human can do to respect and protect the world they live in. A long time ago Albert Einstein said: “Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” Fast forward 70 years and the damage wreaked by the meat and dairy industries has reached massive proportions.

In discussions of comparing the vegan, vegetarian, and omnivorous diet, one controversial issue has been the quality of the diets. On the one hand, omnivores argue their diets are superior for providing proteins and fats to necessary bodily functions. On the other hand, vegetarians could assert that their diets reduce the risk of illness and increase life expectancy. Vegans have even developed philosophical justifications to renounce products omnivores and vegetarians have included in their diets. Americans tend to believe that an omnivore diet has the greatest quality. My whole life I have heard it said that was the case. In an examination of recent works, I continue to support that consensus. The vegetarian diet has been concluded to be

Craig, W. J. (2009). Health effects of vegan diet. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 89(5), 1627S-1633S. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.2009.26736N

The first thing that usually comes to one’s mind when they hear the word Veganism is healthy. However, many points would debate against and for this very statement. There are many researches that prove the vegan diet is a healthy one and that this diet is better than a normal animal product eating one, however none proving that it is better than all the other diets, like some people claim the plant-eating one to be. Being a vegan means that you miss essential nutrients on a day to day basis such as vitamins, iron, zinc and calcium just to name a few. As well as this, when you get rid of all these animal products you are at a much higher risk of developing a nutritional deficiency and becoming under-weight. Looking

At one point in time, veganism appeared problematic due to the lack of necessary vitamins, minerals, and proteins in the diet.

related to them. Vegan diets are proven to have health benefits for a lot of