Ok, this week I will be taking a look at a very interesting and at the same time a controversial diet. And the reason why I’m saying this is because Vegan is a few steps further for the purpose of not feeding on animals.
Let’s start by looking at the word on the dictionary:
Yes, we already knew the first definition, but what about the next one? or the example below the third definition? Seeing this encloses the word in something more than health. Being Vegan comes with social implications. And going back to the diet, you would not tell a vegetarian that she is cheating at her diet protocol if she drinks milk or has an omelet, right? Well, a vegan person does not want cows to be milked and less to eat unborn chicks. So there you have it. In a nutshell, no animals or animal-derived food or products (clothes, shoes) if you want to go the whole nine yards.
A very interesting point of the Vegan Diet is that is 100% Ok with a lot of forbidden food on many other diets. As long as it doesn’t come from an animal, we’re good.
If you can’t live without Bread, Pasta, Rice and the rest of Carb based food, maybe this Diet is for you. Take into consideration however that a big amount of vegetables will be mandatory to try to cover your daily quota of nutrients. Just so you know, this is one of the big complaints about this diet.
If you are interested, you can continue right where I stopped. Since I have the condition known as “Insulin Resistance”, I can’t go with a free pass on Carbohydrates, I must control my insulin spikes instead of increasing the frequency. That is why a very low carb diet like the ketogenic diet is better for me.
It was very interesting, and a lot of people swear by the results of this diet. But as I already said, it is not aligned with the results that I am searching for.
So, I won’t be a Vegan.
In fact, not even an Ovo-Lacto Vegetarian (Milk and Eggs allowed).
But maybe you can…
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