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“Il faut manger pour vivre et non pas vivre pour manger.”

 Molière (1622–1673), French playwright, actor, and poet.

Vegan Diet

This is an extreme way of living.

As more and more young people feel attracted by it, it is primordial to gain some understanding of this topic.

Every food component introduced into the organism contributes to its homeostasis.

Similar ingredients in the body are thus built up, and excess is burned down.

Overall need depends on the turnover of organs involved on one side, and on expenditure on the other.

Eating lipids, for instance, helps destroy unnecessary adiposity.

Excess input causes inflammation, with fibrotic body fat, while essential fatty acids (EFA), for instance fish oil, deploy anti-inflammatory properties.

Vegetables and fruit are rich in muco-polysaccharides, and thus help restore cartilage of articulations.

Despite huge research, very little is known about muscles.

An extremely little quantity of amino acids is necessary for maintenance of our lean body mass.

Requirement stays more on the side of physical activity in this respect.

Excess protein intake is converted directly to glucose.

If this last one exceeds in quantity soring potential of liver, and muscles, it ends up as body fat mass.

The same can be said for sugars and starches.

Because of absence of animal proteins in this diet, there is much less Allergy and Atopy between people on a Vegan regime.

Main issue here are various deficits, about which many practitioners are unaware.

Vitamins, essential fatty acids, and micro-elements, contained in abundance in current nutriments, are probably most important.

Taking special care for informing oneself before adopting this lifestyle is crucial.

Young women can suffer menometrorrhagias because of lack of fats in nutrition.

Beef meat contains 50% saturated fat. A steak in a restaurant is about 250g, which means 150 g of fat.

If you decide to do without such a source, you must provide the body otherwise.

Vegetal oils are purely vegan, and besides representing a precious source of EFA, which are crucial for organs with fast turnover.

The endometrium is such a tissue for instance and needs appropriate supply. Otherwise, it desquamates because of excessive fragility also outside the period.

Precise advice concerning quantity is difficult to give. It depends largely on expenditure.

Dr Kousmine, for example, was saying 50 years ago 3 soupspoons a day were enough. But this concerns non-vegetarians and is already extremely old data.

Precise control of bodyweight is essential if you want to proceed with a vegan regime.

To my opinion, vegetal oils represent a huge advantage towards carbohydrates. Sugars and starches unfold an energy of 4 kcal/g, while fats-9.

Also, fiber carbohydrates are exceedingly important in one’s regime. Again, it is difficult to say how much, as this depends on many factors, like quality etc.

Start with 5 soupspoons of different vegetal oils per day and increase this quantity as needed to control bodyweight and menstruation!

Go and buy all the different vegetal oils, which you can find and switch and swap between them!

Consider also their content, as your organism needs at least Omegas 3, 6 and 9, beside mono- unsaturated fatty acids.

Avoid heating those or exposing them to excessive cold, as such a process destroys EFA!