Reply to What to cook when one family member is vegan? Also, vegan bag lunches?

Forum Index » Food, Cooking, and Restaurants

Reply to "What to cook when one family member is vegan? Also, vegan bag lunches?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Veganism sounds extreme, but I believe it is the most healthy diet. I eat vegan foods at home and vegetarian foods outside of the home (so as to minimize the impact on my social life- I don't want to go to dinner at someone's house and quiz them on whether or not they used butter or margerine to cook the meal).

A few things- do some research on dairy in the human diet. Human beings were never intended to consume cow or goat diary products, and our bodies are not designed to consume any dairy products past infancy. We produce lactase in order to digest lactose found in dairy, and our bodies produce less and less lactase as we get older, making it more taxing for our bodies to digest dairy.

Second, unless you are consistently buying the top quality organic meat/dairy/eggs, there are many, many chemicals in our meat and dairy today. Furthermore, factory farming practices cause quality problems to these food products- for example, when chickens are in overcrowded barns, their eggs become covered in feces and urine, which contributes to the transmission of disease. Furthermore, cattle who are fed grain diets are less healthy and more susceptible to disease than cattle who are fed grass diets.

Americans eat plenty of protein and there are many high quality protein sources for vegans or vegetarians. Dairy and meat are usually high-calorie, high-sodium, high-fat foods, and vegans and vegetarians are often substituting healthier plant-based options for protein (i.e., lentils are far healthier than a hamburger).

I do think you and your son should do some research on this, and I think although veganism SOUNDS extreme, it is absolutely a very healthy diet.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics