veganism: My friend wants to become a vegan but I told her that she shouldn't because she won't get any of the good foods she needs, but she disagrees. I'm not seriously worried about her healthy, I just wanna kind of prove a point. So can you tell me anything about veganism?? Any tips or info about it will be great, thanks! :)|||Vegan_mom nailed it. I've been a vegetarian or vegan most of my life and I'm healthy. The American Dietetic Association stated, "It is the position of the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada that appropriately planned vegetarian diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases." "Well-planned vegan and other types of vegetarian diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including during pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence." http://eatright.org/ada/files/veg.pdf She should learn a bit about good nutrition and eat right. Vegan Outreach has a guide http://www.veganoutreach.org/guide/ which includes detailed information on nutrition from a vegan registered dietitian under the 'staying healthy' section. Here's some info from the American Heart Association http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.j鈥?/a> From the Mayo Clinic http://mayoclinic.com/health/vegetarian-鈥?/a> From the US Department of Agriculture http://www.mypyramid.gov/tips_resources/鈥?/a> From the Vegetarian Resource Group http://www.vrg.org/nutshell/vegan.htm|||Vegetables and fruit, raw nuts and seeds, and sprouts can provide all of the nutrition that a person needs. The important thing is to have a varied diet of nutritious foods (as opposed to a junk food diet of foods that have no animal products, but yet have little nutritional value, such as most cakes, cookies, candies, ice creams, etc.) A successful vegan diet is much more easily managed if one is willing to prepare one's own food, as opposed to depending on purchasing prepared and packaged, processed foods.|||"Good" is a relative term. I am currently munching on cauliflower that I think is good and my body needs it. However, from what I comprehend from your question, you are asking this to further your own agenda, not out of concern and love for your friend. http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/protein.htm鈥?/a> http://www.happycow.net/vegetarian_prote鈥?/a> http://chooseveg.com|||why do people worry so much about vegans being unhealthy? any diet can be unhealthy if one dosent eat right, and the vegan diet is actually pretty much all healthy because your not placing the high fats in your body like animal products have in them. and you do need to consider most people dont become vegan for health reasons, some people do it for animal rights.|||If done correctly you can be very healthy, and you do not cause nearly as much harm to other sentential being as an average person. It's overall a great philosophy to live by, but make sure she does a lot of research on how to stay health. Buy her a book or two if you are concerned. Here is a pretty good one- http://books.google.com/books?id=R7FRvTy鈥?/a> I understand how you may be worried, but it really is a great life stlye, but i can not stress how important it is to do it correctly, so she stays healthy.|||People think vegetarians and vegans make their life ten times harder by choosing not to eat meat. it can actually be so simple. you dont even have to cook. i dont like to go into all those recipes because for one i dont have the money and for two no time, and i honestly think its not necessary. all she needs to eat is fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans, and bread. its a simple lifestyle that you can live. sometimes for lunch i eat a slice of bread and a fruit bowl. it cant get any harder than that. of course you need to watch your vitamin intake, but its really not as complicated as people make it seem.|||Why don't you inform yourself a bit? You found Yahoo Answers, so, it shouldn't be hard to google a few more pages. My entire family is vegan for many years and we couldn't be healthier. I like that you don't worry about your friend's health, but are a nasty person who insists on being right. What a friend! So, why don't you simply move on and let other people decide what is good for them?|||She disagrees with you as you are simply wrong. Please do your research and you will discover that, with very little care, a vegan diet is balanced and contains a good balance of nutrients. There is plenty to read in the links, above|||I admire your friend anybody who decides to stop eating animals can feel pretty good about themselves. Animals feel pain and fear just as we do when there is so much food to enjoy these days why kill something just because you like the taste, live and let live|||It doesn't matter if you're vegan, vegetarian or neither. There are ways to get all of the nutrients you need as long as you eat the proper foods.|||Eating meat is a perfectly natural, or else we wouldn't have canine teeth. Maybe she should just only eat white meats instead of reds. Red meat is harder to digest. Plus poultry animals are retarded anyways.|||Veganism is healthy. You get more vitamins than those who eat meat. It is a noble lifestyle|||"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."鈥犅犅犅?聽聽聽 Pythagoras, mathematician 聽聽聽 "The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men." 聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Leonardo da Vinci, artist and scientist 聽聽聽 "To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime." 聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Romain Rolland, author, Nobel Prize 1915 聽聽聽 "If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth -- beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals -- would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?" 聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 George Bernard Shaw, playwright, Nobel Prize 1925 聽聽聽 "What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"鈥犅犅犅犅犅犅?Jeremy Bentham, philosopher鈥ㄢ€犅犅?"In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought."鈥犅?聽聽聽聽聽聽 Isaac Bashevis Singer, author, Nobel Prize 1978鈥ㄢ€犅犅?"Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."鈥犅犅?"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."鈥犅犅犅犅?聽聽 Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel Prize 1921鈥ㄢ€犅犅?"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."鈥犅犅犅犅犅犅犅犅?Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President鈥ㄢ€犅犅?"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."鈥犅犅犅犅犅犅?聽聽Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist鈥ㄢ€犅犅?"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields."鈥犅?"What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty."鈥犅犅犅犅犅犅?聽聽Leo Tolstoy author鈥ㄢ€犅犅?"I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished."鈥犅犅犅犅犅犅?聽 Henry David Thoreau, author鈥ㄢ€犅犅?"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?"鈥犅?"Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research."鈥犅犅犅犅犅犅?聽 George Bernard Shaw鈥ㄢ€犅犅?"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."鈥犅犅?"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being."鈥犅犅犅犅犅犅?Mahatma Gandhi, statesman and philosopher鈥ㄢ€犅犅?"I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further."鈥犅犅犅犅犅犅?聽 Mark Twain, author鈥ㄢ€犅犅犅?"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."鈥犅犅犅犅犅犅?Thomas Edison, inventor鈥?br> Fabio Kon Last modified: Sat Sep 23 14:56:59 CDT 2000|||i understand why people want to do it however i myself dont think i would be able to do it for more than a week tops. it can be difficult to get the balance right. she may be very ill whilst converting because her body wonmt be used to it an her energy levels will change a lot to get used to it.