I've been thinking about questions I get when I tell people I eat vegan. They are always a lot more tolerant when they find out it's more a health issue. In reality though, I believe that the benefits seen in vegan-ism is a fulfillment of Word of Wisdom blessings, only because it's the closest diet I've seen that enables someone to more fully live the W of W. And, while doctor's will sometimes make the claim that people start looking sickly after being vegans for a long time (and I'm talking decades) I don't think I will. This is why:
- You can be completely unhealthy, and be vegan. BUT most vegans are already health conscious (don't bother looking at PETA's approved foods list, it's crap). On vegan websites and blogs you're more likely to find recipes that are low-fat, low-sodium, high-vitamin ones.
- Vegans traditionally are animal-rights advocates. I assume that means they will just switch all their favorite omnivore foods for vegan ones, like switching dairy products to soy, dairy-free cream cheese, cheese, milk, etc. I'm not a fan. I don't agree on switching one product and going overboard on soy. Nor do I like soy cheese, so I figure if I'm skipping dairy, I'll just skip it, not substitute it. (I must confess, buying a cheese pizza at Costco for the kids lulled me into temptation. 1, 2, then 3 bites of bliss. What the rat on Disney-Pixar's Ratatouille says about the explosion of flavor, oh, I tasted that!)
- I now know of lots of different grains, what to do with them, how to cook them. Last Friday I was tired of wheat, so I made blender pancakes for dinner, but substituted in barley. It was great!
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