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Choosing the Vegan Diet
The amount of consumers living by the vegan diet has drastically increased all over the world and it is most likely to keep growing bigger from here. The vegan diet is a plant-based diet, the foods contained within the vegan diet consists of grains, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. The restricted food within the vegan diet is meat, fish and dairy products. The difference with a plant-based diet compared to the other diets is that the plant-based includes what you can eat instead of what not to eat like the other diets. Although the Plant-based diet doesn’t provide one with all the important vitamins such as minerals, vitamin, and nutrients. The plant-based diet definitely does contribute to the growth of young children and helps maintain and improve the health of adults. The protein sources of the vegan diet are primarily plant-based, the sources provide 65% of the worlds protein which include soy-based products, legumes, grain, nuts and seeds. Compared to the protein from a meat based source, it is proven that only 85% of plant-based protein is absorbable to the human body. It is recommended for the group of the vegan diet, should be ingesting about 4-8 more grams of plant- based protein a day. From the protein provided through, meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy provide an essential of Amino acids, which is an acid that the body cannot produce on its own. There are alternates of Amino acids in the vegan diet which beans, products high in lysine content grains like rice and lastly products high in Sulfa content. Whether one chooses vegan, vegetarian or Omnivore lifestyle, the nutrition received through a plant-based diet is the best thing one can do for its body. The benefits of the the vegan diet include, an improvement in your overall health, although its proven that meat and meat by products do nourish the body but they are also the main cause to diseases and health problems. The constant fight of trying to lose weight, have clear skin, live a more energetic lifestyle, and feeling physically healthy and strong, then the vegan lifestyle is one to be lived. Besides the health factor of the vegan lifestyle, Vegan Dieter's continue to live this lifestyle for their beliefs of fighting for animal rights, they are putting a stop to the pollution created by the animal farms, as well as many more moral beliefs that are behind the vegan lifetsyle.