The thing with a vegan (especially raw) diet is...
Not only do your poops happen like they were engineered by a Japanese car company, they smell... vaguely plant-like.
The thing with a vegan (especially raw) diet is...
Not only do your poops happen like they were engineered by a Japanese car company, they smell... vaguely plant-like.
That sounds like a raw thing; the process of cooking improves your body's ability extract nutrients from food, so it follows naturally that when your body is extracting less value, it produces more waste.
I, at least, when eating vegan (non-raw) have not had this issue.
Most vitamins and minerals don't seem to be significantly affected, but I guess if you have a deficiency of folic acid? https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/80400525/Data/retn/retn06.pdf
Just judging that from a brief look over the data; I'd have to do more in-depth analysis to be sure.
Sure, very likely. RL's currently eating only raw food, though.
This feels relevant, by the way: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reality-check-5-risks-of/
"But cooking breaks apart fibers and cellular walls to release nutrients that otherwise would be unavailable from the same raw food. Cooking tomatoes, for example, increases by five-fold the bioavailability of the antioxidant lycopene. Similarly, cooking carrots makes the beta-carotene they contain more available for the body to absorb."
The conclusion of the article in terms of the nutritious value of vegetables appears to be that you should be mixing cooked/uncooked to get everything you need.
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