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Anonymous wrote:Where do I get my protein?
So annoying! Educate yourself before asking something so ridiculous.
I am not protein deficient now nor have I ever been in the 7 years that I have been eating WFPB. In fact, I can actually strength train and grow my muscles substantially(mind-blown).
If you called yourself a vegetarian instead of “WFPB” people may understand better.
PP. But I'm NOT vegetarian. I don't eat dairy or eggs. Whole Food Plant Based is the only way to describe how I eat.
Is that vegan? I think saying "mostly vegan" would probably be less confusing. I am a lifelong vegetarian who works in animal welfare and I never ever hear anyone describe their diet as WFPB and would actually have zero idea of what it means if you said it to me. So yeah I'd ask!
I've been vegan for 20 years - I have never heard that term before either. Does it make you more special because you HAVE to explain your diet to literally everyone??
I always assume whole food meant no processed food. You can certainly be vegan and eat processed meat analogs, so assume WFPB posters does not.
I wish WFPB poster would come back and explain.
People understand "vegan." Adding "I only eat whole foods" might come in handy if you're asked why you are declining to eat a Boca Burger. But what exactly is the point of telling people "my diet is whole foods plant based" if nobody knows what that means? And why would she deny being vegan if she only eats plant based foods. It's like she's just trying hard to be confusing.
People often don't understand vegan, but that's beside the point. I don't understand what's so confusing about WFPB diets. I love meat. Even though I'm not a vegetarian, I can grasp the concept of both whole foods (minimally processed, few ingredients, natural) and plant based (sourced from plants rather than animals). Most vegans and vegetarians I know aren't eating processed meat substitutes. They are avoiding meat, not looking to find some frankensteined meat substitute. Most of the vegans I know eat WFPB diets, but it's the PB part that makes them vegan. The WF part is an add on. Also, most vegans I know are pretty devoted to avoiding animal products, including leather products and honey, and it extends beyond food into cosmetics and all facets of life where it's possible to control if animals were involved. Anyway, I don't know if WFPB diet folks who describe themselves that way rather than vegan are devoted to avoiding all animal products or if it's only diet. I guess that would be a personal decision.
Can you say "I'm mostly vegan and avoid processed foods" then, instead of WFPB? Or "I am mostly vegan, and avoid processed foods - we call that WFPB"?
I work in comms and am always telling people that you have to avoid jargon and acronyms if you want people to actually know what you're talking about. A diet like this isn't self-explanatory or common enough not to need some explanation - and if maybe one day it will be, today it's not. If you don't want to explain - the premise of this thread - it seems like there are easier ways to let people know why you're eating what you're eating, or not eating what you're not eating, than using a confusing acronym.
The diet does sound healthy! It's just not common enough (yet) to be able to say it without some explanation. Like keto was 20-something years ago. I remember when my first friend did keto and we had this long conversation about it at a party because it was new - now you hear someone's keto and you don't need any explanation. Maybe WFPB will be like that at some point but it's not now.
How do people not know what whole food means? Or plant based? If someone is too dumb to think about what those two pairs of words mean, I doubt they’d understand vegan.
Whole food? We can understand in some instances, like eating brown rice because it contains the whole kernel of rice. But with other foods, it isn't necessary as obvious as you think it is. Do you not eat nuts because you are only eating the flesh of the nut, but not the shell? We get that you eat root vegetables with the skin, but do you not eat pitted fruits because eating the flesh is not the whole fruit? Do you only eat whole eggs, but not egg whites? So meringue is right out? Do you eat vegetables where you only eat a part of the plant, but discard the rest? So you don't eat artichokes and you don't eat any plant that you don't eat the stalk, leaves, fruit and seeds?
Another issue with stupid names like these is that for every fad diet and eating program, there are as many variations as there are people eating it. Everyone starts with a diet and then tailors it to what they eat, their likes and dislikes and their allergies and food reactions. So, one person eating Keto will not necessarily eat the same things that another person eating Keto will. So, even if we have met one person eating WFPB, that doesn't mean that that will translate to another person on the same diet.
Communication is a two-way street. Not only is it important for the audience to understand the message, but it is also important for the person sending the message to be able convey concepts in terms that the audience will understand. Using jargon and technical language that only a small subset of people use, is fine when you are talking about people in the know, but not when you are talking to the general public.
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