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Good to have more to eat from plants instead of animal products
Good to have more to eat from plants instead of animal products - Lemmy.World
“Researchers, studying fossilized human feces, have concluded that paleolithic people consumed over 100 grams of fiber a day, compared to the average American’s consumption of about 15 grams a day. Since fiber is found only in plants, (meat, dairy, eggs and fish have ZERO fiber) our ancestors consumed huge quantities of plant material every day. So much so, that eating animal foods would have been difficult. Try eating 28 cups of blueberries, or 20 large apples, or 8 cups of peanuts, or 32 bananas, or 20 cups of broccoli or 30 potatoes or any combination thereof to equal 100 grams of fiber a day and see if you have the stomach for anything more." There might be anything that would become too much in a diet. But the healthiest way does not have that problem. Eat more variety of whole foods from plants. It should go up to thirty or as near to that as possible of different kinds of plants from which you have food each week. https://healthyaging.emory.edu/could-eating-30-plants-a-week-be-the-answer-to-better-health/ [https://healthyaging.emory.edu/could-eating-30-plants-a-week-be-the-answer-to-better-health/]
My reasons that I found to be important
My reasons that I found to be important - Lemmy.World
I was seeing the facts about issues to animals and environment, when I had already become vegetarian, had me knowing I should be vegan as soon as it could be managed, there were real obstacles for me still. And it was just what I read a couple of years after I was effectively vegan to know the healthy way, which I wanted, that being with whole foods from plants without the processed stuff that comes with food otherwise, and I changed to that, still making it healthier and healthier. Having plenty variety is really good for that.
Changes I have, still tasty, for healthier ways
Changes I have, still tasty, for healthier ways - Lemmy.World
With learning, which we never need to stop, and using choice we have and acting on that, we can make change for what will be better. I have made change to my way of eating throughout my life, for my better ways. In recent years my cooked meals, besides the other things I have like sandwiches, vegetable soups, burritos, and bits of Complete Cookie sometimes with green tea, are most frequently whole grain pasta, quinoa, or cut up potato, with a variety of several vegetables cut up, including leafy greens, generally lentils, with nuts and seeds, and always with hummus and medium salsa, often with guacamole and also often with jackfruit, and I add seasonings I like. A couple of times each week I add a bit of dried seaweed to it. My meals are really surprisingly delicious.
Reasons for better ways to live I was finding
Reasons for better ways to live I was finding - Lemmy.World
More soil is being used to support the animals that are being used for the food in demand from them, than what would be enough to feed the same people instead from plants. Knowledge for how to eat in healthy ways is important too. I had found information that we could be healthy without meat in our diet and saw I could continue without it, and was happy with thinking this way did not contribute to the slaughter of animals. That was just about twenty years ago. It was before I was online. But with use of online access, I learned in communication about the issues with abusive treatment to all animals in the industries with their confinement, the effect on environment, the greater use of land, water, and resources, I knew to give up all animal products. I later found the healthiest way of eating, which I have shown in other posts from me, with good variety of whole foods from plants.
Why not choose vegan ways?
Why not choose vegan ways? - Lemmy.World
Why limit compassion from any that really want to live? Being human should not be a prerequisite for being a subject of compassion. I understand defense is needed against biting pests, but animals being used are not that but defenseless beings in captivity, from the demand from any of us, who could choose differently, and have healthier ways with that, which I showed in my previous posts, while it does not demand as many resources and as much land and water with diminishing environments and contributing to loss of species.
Choosing this way is good
Choosing this way is good - Lemmy.World
There are items with combined nutrients out there, which are good to have. But we need to be sure valuable parts to provide to our digestive system are not missing from our diet. Fiber is often gone from some things with combined nutrients. Including more and more of a variety from produce that you can manage to have each week will be much better for you, with avoiding processed stuff and any products from animals. The way people generally eat is not better than to not have anything from animals, such as for health, and what is done to this world, with more demand for land, water and resources. It is not right to consider it desirable to have animals that have to be slaughtered, for anything. It is in fact unneeded cruelty. We should communicate more for having demand of things from animals to stop, with the information we have for sharing, for that. And we can communicate what healthy tasty meals we have. https://www.forksoverknives.com/ [https://www.forksoverknives.com/]
About what I show
About what I show - Lemmy.World
I have been showing we can have all our nutrition from the food from plants, with it being whole food that is much healthier for us, and we would not have to eat less, but this way we can eat to our satisfaction. Those saying I have no basis for context disregard what I have previously posted. I add things up for cooked meals this way. The potato, quinoa, or whole grain pasta is cooked ahead, cut up vegetables, besides potato, or carrot when I use it, are added after, and some hummus, and some medium salsa, about equal in amount, often though not always guacamole, and some seasonings, and it is mixed up when everything is in it. I found this combination was making such a great sauce for it. There is such a very healthy way with being vegan, I have been previously showing that. I found out about this way and though vegan since 2013 and going without meat several years more, I have stayed with this healthy way I found for nearly ten years. I do not say ancestors were really vegan. Cavemen were primarily gatherers, though, and not primarily hunters. The study showing this: https://shorturl.at/MXeDM [https://shorturl.at/MXeDM]
Veganism can be such a good choice, with the right way of eating
Veganism can be such a good choice, with the right way of eating - Lemmy.World
Being natural yet more is generally better even for our health. Some might say eating meat is natural for us, I have heard such talk, but our physiology says something else. We do not have claws and teeth for it, we would not just catch animals and eat them. Cooking is not as natural. Predators in nature do not cook. Veganism is the only right choice. There is the healthiest way possible with being vegan, with enough whole foods. Any animal agriculture and industry using the animals involve suffering of animals and the slaughter of them. We should not think there is more reason to not be vegan. The best we can do is learn from our mistakes and make our choices besides what is routine more carefully with our observation, any can make such a commitment as I make that anyone who I eat with, which is now very rare for me, will know I am vegan and what that means, that I would not knowingly eat anything with animal products.
Finding the healthier way
Finding the healthier way - Lemmy.World
The stuff processed with things added, not counting any supplementation with necessary vitamins, is not really so good for you, getting enough variety of natural food from plants is the important thing, this includes the whole grains, legumes, nuts, seeds, fruits, edible flowers, leafy greens, edible stalks, edible tubers, edible bulbs, edible roots, seasonings from herbs, sometimes getting some readied dry seaweed to use a little, still up to thirty different foods from plants each week, and with thirty this way would be the best, without animal products. It may be reached with a gradual transition. It can save individuals from health problems they would have later, still with very enjoyable meals, like what I learned to have, really soon after coming to have whole foods from plants when I learned about this healthy way. See Forks Over Knives. https://zoe.com/learn/30-plants-per-week [https://zoe.com/learn/30-plants-per-week]