Vegan Diet: Advantages and Disadvantages

You must have heard about someone being vegan but wonder what exactly it is? Sometimes it may also pop into your mind it is some diet that people follow to be on a diet. But if we really think of it, is it only about following some strict diet to be healthy? Don’t stress yourself too much this blog will guide you through all the aspects of the vegan diet. You will get to know what exactly is a vegan diet, its advantages, and the disadvantages.

A vegan diet is a diet that people follow in which they abstain from the use of animal products. In simple words, if you want to understand it is the consumption of only plant-based products. These people don’t consume any kind of products that are obtained from animals.

You must be thinking why people consume such food that does not include any animal product. It may have many reasons but the common ones are some believe healthy living is only by being vegan and for some, the culture does not allow to consume animal products. 

Here are some of the advantages and disadvantages of the Vegan diet. Let’s start with some of the advantages: 

1. Helpful in lowering the cholesterol level and keeping control of the blood pressure
   Consumption of saturated fats increases the cholesterol level and its primary source is animal products. By having vegan food you don’t consume saturated fats and it provides you with healthy and nutritious food. Cholesterol food has a direct influence on blood pressure. Having control of the cholesterol helps to keep control of the blood pressure. Saturated food triggers to produce extra cholesterol. 

2. Increases the antioxidant intake  
   The vegan diet means the consumption of wholesome foods that include vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, and legumes. These all are rich in antioxidants, dietary fiber, vitamins, and minerals. It is the easiest way to detoxify the body and have a healthy life. 

3. Helps in weight loss 
   It has been seen through many studies that when we compare people following diets that cut down the calories and those people who follow vegan diets, the people with vegan diets shed their weights more and fastly. One of the things that should be noticed is that people following vegan diets are allowed to eat until they feel full as compared to the people who follow other diets. 

4. Helps in keeping self-control
   To follow a strict vegan diet one needs to have self-control, commitment, and dedication so it also helps to develop self-control. Self is not only essential to follow the diet it is useful in every aspect of life. It also regulates our eating habits and slows down the eating process. By this, we can say that it cut down our unnecessary eating habits. 

5. Reduces the chance of many diseases such as Cancer, Arthritis
   It is useful to prevent many diseases such as Cancer, Arthritis, and many more. It keeps control of fats, carbohydrates, and many more things that can cause some serious diseases. It helps to reduce the weight that keeps many diseases far away from you. We cannot say that there are only benefits. A vegan diet comes with some of the disadvantages also and we have mentioned some of them. 

6. Deficiency of essential vitamins and minerals 
   There are proven studies that show us that vegan food does not include B12 and also have low Vitamin D and calcium. People need to take supplements to fulfill the deficiency of such vitamins and minerals. If not able to take supplements that it can result in many serious diseases. These are only some of the examples you have to keep a close eye on many of such nutrients. 

7. Limited food choices 
   The choice of having different food decreases, the diet restricts certain food items only. It restricts your eating habit and eliminates the majority of the food item from your food list. 

8. Difficulty in dining out
   Having food in a restaurant or at someone’s place becomes difficult as everyone does not follow your diet and they must not be having the food items that you need. Restaurants generally do not have pure vegan food or have only a few listed out. So you might end up when you don’t want to have any of the listed food or you don’t get the pure vegan food. There are many restaurants that offer you vegan food but it’s difficult to shortlist all of them and then choose the one that will fulfill your requirement. 

9. Unrealistic expectations 
   People have a myth that just by having vegan food they will get slim and will lose out all the weights but it is not a fact. In order to lose weight, it is necessary to see the food you are choosing and the quantity in which you are consuming it. These were some of the things that I know about the vegan diet. If you have some more knowledge about the one you can share your views on our app remedySpace app.