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A vegan diet consists of plant-based foods. It excludes dairy, eggs, honey or any animal ingredients. Vegans also don't wear leather, fur, wool, silk, or other products made from animals.
The key to a nutritionally sound vegan diet is variety. A healthy and varied vegan diet includes fruits, vegetables, plenty of leafy greens, whole grain products, nuts, seeds, and legumes. Some nutritionists also recommend healthy unrefined oil supplements (like hemp, flax, coconut, etc...) and other vitamins.
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recent results (Average FatSecret member performance for Vegan Diet)
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1.6 lb this week
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1.0 lb last week
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| 26 May 13 |
Lost 1.6 lb |
| 19 May 13 |
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| 12 May 13 |
Lost 0.5 lb |
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 How To Follow Vegan Diet:
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Basic priciples: A healthy and varied vegan diet includes fruits, vegetables, plenty of leafy greens, whole grain products, nuts, seeds, and legumes.
You can also find a helpfull Vegan Food Pyramid online.This will give you the quantaties of each food group one needs to meet your bodies requirements. If you are trying to lose weight eat quantaties at the lower end of the scale.
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by member sabbi23
member since: 12 Sep 07
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sabbi23's top tips
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| 1. | Variety is key!! Try eating new foods on a weekly basis. Don't allow it to be boring. There are plenty of cookbooks and websites with delicious meal ideas. | | 2. | Take it slowly!!! Don't cut meat, dairy and eggs out on the first day slowly cut it out replacing it with substituts like beans, tofu, lentils etc... This way you wont be overwhelmed later on. | | 3. | Don't think of it as a diet but a way of life. |
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About / History
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Vegetarianism, practice of eating foods from the plant kingdom. There are several types of vegetarians. While all vegetarians avoid some or all animal foods—that is, meat, poultry, fish, eggs, and milk—semi-vegetarians avoid meat but eat poultry and other animal foods. Lacto-ovo-vegetarians avoid poultry and fish as well as meat, but do include milk and eggs in their diets. The only animal foods consumed by lacto-vegetarians are milk products. Some vegetarians practice veganism, eating no animal foods at all. Many vegans avoid wearing animal products, such as leather and wool, and are also more likely than other vegetarians to shun alcoholic beverages, processed foods, and foods grown with chemical fertilizers or pesticides.
The word vegan was coined in England by Donald Watson in 1944. He, along with several other members of the Vegetarian Society in Leicester, England, wanted to form an alliance of nondairy vegetarians as a subgroup of the Society
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Why choose "Vegan Diet"?
 Maintain your goal weight
A healthy living alternative
Reduces the risks of diet-related diseases
A roadmap for a healthier lifestyle
features in a nutshell
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