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Eating a Healthy Vegan Diet

Eating a Healthy Vegan Diet. Amy Schiller. Veganism. What is a vegan? Any person who abstains from eating/using all animals & animal by-products Meat, dairy, eggs, honey Leather, wool, silk. Why Go Vegan?. Larger Implications of our food choices Animal Cruelty Environmentalism

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Eating a Healthy Vegan Diet

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  1. Eating a Healthy Vegan Diet Amy Schiller

  2. Veganism • What is a vegan? • Any person who abstains from eating/using all animals & animal by-products • Meat, dairy, eggs, honey • Leather, wool, silk

  3. Why Go Vegan? • Larger Implications of our food choices • Animal Cruelty • Environmentalism • Labor Practices • World hunger • Feminism • Health

  4. Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics • Position Statement: • “appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases”

  5. Change in food consumption in the past 100 years in the U.S.

  6. The S.A.D Diet 7% Processed Foods 42% Animal Products 51% Fruits & Vegetables

  7. Coincidence?

  8. Health Benefits • Lower cholesterol • Cholesterol is only found in animal products • Lower BMI • Lower incidences • heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, cancer & osteoporosis • Increased consumption • fiber, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants & healthy fats

  9. Myths About a Vegan Diet • Calcium • Dairy also includes • saturated fats, cholesterol, hormones, antibiotics & pesticides • Sesame seeds, kale, collard greens, tofu, Ca+-fortified OJ & soymilk • Protein • 10% of calories from protein • athletes • Soy • EBR proves soy does not act as estrogen in the body

  10. Being a Smart Vegan • Risks • Appropriately planned diets • Coke, Fritos & Swedish Fish • Vitamin B12 can be low in some vegans • Fortified soy & almond milks, cereal, tempeh, tofu, nutritional yeast, supplements

  11. How Do I Start? • Slowly: • Meatout Monday • 3 Favorite Veg Meals • Become your own personal chef

  12. How to Go Vegan • Be a smart shopper • Explore the produce section of your local store • Find the Natural Foods section • Visit your local Farmer’s Markets

  13. Living Your Life Vegan • Imagine Vegan Café • Balewa’sVegan Gourmet • Cosmic Coconut • The Love Shack • Jasmine’s Thai & Vegetarian Restaurant • R.P. Tracks • Whole Foods Market

  14. Forks Over Knives http://youtu.be/O7ijukNzlUg

  15. Be a Superhero! • Save the World… • Improve your health • Save the Earth • Protect the animals • Feed the world • …One Bite at a Time! Thank You!

  16. Resources For your health: http://www.pcrm.org/ http://engine2diet.com/ http://www.vegforlife.org/ For the animals: http://www.farmsanctuary.org/ http://www.farmusa.org/ http://www.mercyforanimals.org/ For the earth: http://www.earthsave.org/ For help on what to eat: http://www.meatoutmondays.org/index.php http://vegweb.com/ http://www.theppk.com/

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