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What is a plant based diet?
A plant based diet focuses on eating nutritionally dense plant foods while eliminating most, if not all, animal products from the diet. This diet is chosen to improve or reverse diseases such as heart disease, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes, or to achieve optimal physical health. Followers of this style of eating focus on whole unprocessed vegetables and fruit, nuts and seeds, and beans and legumes for the significant majority of their eating, while avoiding oil. A diet which is compromised of solely, or near-solely, plant-foods is repeatedly shown to protect against diseases of affluence that we see in the west such as heart diseases, cancers, strokes, diabetes, obesity, many degenerative diseases and auto-immune diseases.
What is veganism?
Being vegan is a diet, lifestyle and philosophy which seeks to avoid all foods and products that contain, are derived from, or exploit animal. Vegans seek to do the least harm to animals in daily life. To be vegan is generally chosen for one or more of these 3 reasons:
- compassion for animals as emotional and sentient beings
- the negative environmental impact of raising animals for food
- the improvement to one's health
The vegan lifestyle is reflected in the choices a person makes with food, clothing, personal hygiene products, and entertainment. A vegan does the best they can to avoid the use of any and all animal products but should not insist on perfection as this would be nearly impossible to attain.
More people than ever before are turning to plant based diets and vegan lifestyles to prevent
disease, heal the planet, limit suffering of animals, and connect with their truth.
disease, heal the planet, limit suffering of animals, and connect with their truth.
