benefits of vegan diet explained

The Positive side

Some of the benefits of vegan diet:

• Higher content of dietary fibre
• Folic acid
• Vitamins C and E
• Potassium
• Magnesium
• Many phytochemicals
• Fat content that is more unsaturated
• Less saturated fat and cholesterol

Vegans tend to be thinner, have lower serum cholesterol, and lower blood pressure, reducing their risk of heart disease. The vegan diet also protects against some cancers.

What vegans may lack

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Vegan eaters may lack the following vitamins, minerals and nutrients:
1- B12
You have probably heard that a problem with vegan eaters is that they are not getting enough vitamin B12, as this vitamin is found mainly in animal food.

When you buy a B12 supplement, please ensure it contains adenosylcobalamin and methylcobalamin. Any supplement that only has one of these is incomplete.
However, B12 can also be found in plant-based milk, such as almond milk, but this milk is high in fat, so you should drink only a little.
Quinoa is also a great source of vitamin b12. Quinoa is low in saturated fat and calories and high in fibre, vitamins and minerals. 
Tempeh, Shiitake mushrooms, Seaweed, algae and nori and Chlorella are good sources of B12.

If you look at the chart at the top of this page, you will see that green coloured vegetables also contain B12.

2- Iron
Non-heme iron, found in plant foods like fruits, vegetables, grains and nuts, is absorbed less efficiently, so you should supplement with vitamin C, which aids in absorbing non-heme iron.
Plant-based sources of iron include chickpeas, lentils, tofu, whole and enriched grain products, raisins, figs, pumpkin, sunflower, sesame seeds and broccoli.

3- Vitamin D3

Further benefits of vegan diet

Cardiovascular benefits of vegan diet

Vegans eat a substantial number of fruits and vegetables rich in fibre, folic acid, antioxidants, and phytochemicals. The benefits include:

• Lower blood cholesterol
• Lower incidence of stroke and ischaemic heart disease

Vegan's higher consumption of whole grains, organic soy, and nuts also protects them from cardiac problems.

Cancer

Vegans, as mentioned above, are leaner than carnivores. Obesity is a substantial factor in the creation of cancer. Vegans would therefore fare better.

The vegan diet that is high in fruits, vegetables, and legumes offers some protection against cancer.

Scholar Winston J Craig also adds: "Fruit and vegetables contain a complex mixture of phytochemicals that possess potent antioxidant and antiproliferative activity and show additive and synergistic effects. The phytochemicals interfere with several cellular processes involved in the progression of cancer."

Many more benefits of vegan diet

A few days before my fortieth birthday, I was diagnosed with liver and large intestines cancer in 1991. The internet and other literature I could find did not make me optimistic about my chances of recovery with modern medicine. A friend who had recovered her health with a strict macrobiotic diet convinced me to change my diet to it. I did so immediately, eventually loosening the macrobiotic diet's restrictions to a vegan diet.

I have been on this vegan diet ever since, and apart from a broken bone in my right hand and a nasty cut on my right ankle, I have not needed medical help since my diagnosis.

I am grateful for the Benefits of the vegan diet; it saved my life.

pitfalls of a carnivorous diet

If you were brought up on Meat and Vegetables most days of the week, you might have ended up with Cancer at around 40 years old, as I did.

Meat, as is well known, is saturated with fat. Often the meat we purchase is frozen.

Cooking methods such as barbecues, frying in oil, margarine or butter, and overcooking will remove most of the nutrients from the meat.

There is strong evidence that eating meat increases the risk of breast and other cancers.

Problems Caused By Meat

This chart clearly illustrates the benefits of vegan diet.

Overeating meat over many years will cause many different problems.

As we know, the flesh decomposes as soon as an animal is killed. This, to some extent, is nowadays controlled by freezing.

Some meat bought from Supermarkets comes from a stock frozen many months or even many years ago (a recent TV program highlighted this incredible fact).

Meat is the most difficult food to digest.

It can take up to a week or longer to digest animal food, especially for the elderly. If you have been eating meat regularly in the past, your Colon has never been clear of this messy digestive process, causing many problems, such as the accumulation of amines (compounds derived from ammonia)  in the Intestines, Liver and Kidneys.

These amines encourage the development of cancer.

The Mucoid Plaque

The continuous accumulation of meat in the intestines will eventually cause the deposit of hardened, undigested putrefying food on the walls of the colon. It could also cause a prolapsed Colon.

Most European and American meat-eaters are believed to carry between 5 and 10 pounds of putrefying matter in their large and small intestines. Yuck!

This process causes a degeneration of the Small and Large Intestines.

Liquids are absorbed in the large intestines. Should a person have a mucoid plaque, the fluid has to pass through these hardened, undigested faeces before reaching the bloodstream.

This mixture of blood and faeces will then travel through your heart, kidneys, liver, and other organs and weaken them.

What a recipe for disaster! This problem will never occur with a vegan diet.

Obesity

As we have seen above, it is common for meat-eaters to have deposits of undigested food in their intestines.

These create swollen intestines that can reach 12 to 15” wide with only a tiny opening for the food to pass through.

Actor John Wayne was in this situation before his death.

If all this is not bad enough, the saturated fat starts blocking the proper functioning of essential organs and blood vessels. This, in turn, can lead to tumours, high cholesterol, atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Haemorrhoids, Diverticulitis and…  Cancer.

Weak Kidneys, Liver and Intestines caused by the above process lead to heart degeneration and faster ageing.

Blocked Arteries From Meat

The fat content of meat will deposit and cause the eventual blockage of arteries leading to severe problems needing surgery. However, surgery will only provide a temporary fix unless a change in diet accompanies it.

Chemicals in the Meat

How would you like a cocktail of sex hormones, antibiotics, steroids and tranquillisers?

Most animals are given sex hormones such as oestrogen, progesterone and androgen to make them grow faster. This promotes the development of Kidney disease, hypertension and low blood sugar in humans.

Our continuous intake of animal food saturated with sex hormones also contributes to the feminisation of males and the masculinisation of females.

Antibiotics and Steroids are mixed in the animals' food, so they don't die too quickly. This use of antibiotics has weakened the effectiveness of the antibiotics we need when we get sick.

Tranquillisers are added to prevent animals from fighting with each other.

Should we really eat meat?

Let’s consider the following facts:

The molars and premolars in our mouths are designed for grinding and breaking down food.

The sharp and powerful teeth of animals, meant to eat meat, are designed to tear the food.

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Our saliva is alkaline to help the digestion of plants. A lion's saliva is acidic as it generates roughly ten times the amount of hydrochloric acid a human generates. This makes the digestion of meat very easy.

The distance between our mouth and anus is about 10 meters (30 feet). This allows us to absorb all the vitamins, minerals and other nutrients needed for good health. A lion's digestive system is about three times the length of its body, and the digestion of animal food is quick. It does not get a chance to decay.

All this tells us that we are not "designed" to eat much meat.

Our digestive system results from what our ancestors have ingested for hundreds of thousands of years. Contrary to some belief, our recent ancestors ate little meat as it was expensive. Modern methods of preserving meat (freezing) were unavailable, and the meat had to be eaten soon after killing the animal.

People fed themselves more on vegetables and other products they could grow locally. It will take a very long time (if ever) before our body can digest the food we ignorantly throw at it.

Meat dangers are one of the primary reasons for the massive increase in Cancer in the past century.

Mr Richard McDonald and Mr Ray Kroc have undoubtedly damaged the health of many people by introducing their fast-food restaurants.

Your whole body runs on sugar, not protein

Any worthy brain surgeon will tell you that your brain is 99% glucose. Your liver and other organs run on glucose. NOT ON PROTEIN.

you cannot lack protein if you eat Vegan food

High protein vegetables

My study of Macrobiotics has taught me that:

"Cancers feed on protein and grow on sugar".

One of my Macrobiotic teachers used to say:

"You cannot lack protein as long as you eat".

I have not eaten any meat myself since being diagnosed with my cancer in 1991. I sometimes eat some wild Atlantic salmon or sardines, but no beef, pork, chicken, other poultry or wild animals. I am now 71 years old and do not suffer from any ailment. I can walk and even run.

Meat protein is difficult to absorb

We must learn that we absorb more than just protein from meat. For our body to create protein from meat, it must first break the animal protein down into amino acids and then manufacture human protein with these. This procedure is very tiring on the body and highly inefficient.

Observing wild animals such as zebras, giraffes, elephants, etc.. we realise that they do not get their protein from animal food but from plants... They know the great benefits of vegan diet.

The plants they eat. There is ample protein in vegetables and fruits, and you will not suffer ill health from a lack of protein if you stop eating animal food...

Linda Lazarides confirmed this in her book “Amino Acid Report”. It verified that most complex carbohydrates found in grains, potatoes or beans have amino acid content perfectly suitable for our protein requirements.

What to do?

As seen from all the above, "meat dangers are genuine". Should you have cancer, I strongly advise you to give it up.

Should you be unwell and have borderline cancer, I recommend removing this food from your diet.