Depends on which diet you come from. For having a “standard, western, unhealthy diet” changing nothing but avoiding meat: you have no challenges.
When you take the same diet and substitute all animal products, you could run into issues. Depends on where you’re coming from with your previous diet. Especially true for growing children. But it’s certainly doable, but more effort then just vegetarian.
Vegan milks, meats, etc are fortified with everything hard to get and most macro levels
are naive and based on studies performed on the general population/omnivores. It’s actually harder as a vegetarian as you don’t get the metabolic pathway benefits like the improved omega6 conversion. This is why you don’t get actual negative outcomes shown for low levels of certain nutrients in vegans.
It’s effortless unless you’ve got a selective eating disorder. Just chuck some flax and nooch in sauces and you’re good to go.
Vegetarian: do everything the same, just don’t put meat in your dishes
Vegan: your whole paragraph.
You need to find substitutes for milk to benefit of the additives and need to try out. Took me a long time to find a milk substitute I like. Soy based stuff can cover for Calcium, but soy based stuff is rare in a lot of western diets, so you need to experiment.
That’s my whole point. Certainly it is doable, but not as plug and play as a vegetarian diet. And, when you don’t try the stuff mentioned in your paragraph and mine, you might run into issues, especially with children. That’s what I am saying, that’s a subjunctive.
I mean it was like one sentence hardly challenging? I’ve been vegan for over a decade and been round most of the west, where doesn’t have a ton of plant milks? The only struggle is out of comfort.
Just going veggie and cutting out a major source of your nutrients without considering a replacement is far more dangerous than simply switching to readily available vegan alternatives.
That’s…that’s exactly what I wrote there?!
Apologies. Meant there is no risk from avoiding animal products.
Depends on which diet you come from. For having a “standard, western, unhealthy diet” changing nothing but avoiding meat: you have no challenges.
When you take the same diet and substitute all animal products, you could run into issues. Depends on where you’re coming from with your previous diet. Especially true for growing children. But it’s certainly doable, but more effort then just vegetarian.
What issues?
Vegan milks, meats, etc are fortified with everything hard to get and most macro levels are naive and based on studies performed on the general population/omnivores. It’s actually harder as a vegetarian as you don’t get the metabolic pathway benefits like the improved omega6 conversion. This is why you don’t get actual negative outcomes shown for low levels of certain nutrients in vegans.
It’s effortless unless you’ve got a selective eating disorder. Just chuck some flax and nooch in sauces and you’re good to go.
My point is just that.
Vegetarian: do everything the same, just don’t put meat in your dishes
Vegan: your whole paragraph.
You need to find substitutes for milk to benefit of the additives and need to try out. Took me a long time to find a milk substitute I like. Soy based stuff can cover for Calcium, but soy based stuff is rare in a lot of western diets, so you need to experiment.
That’s my whole point. Certainly it is doable, but not as plug and play as a vegetarian diet. And, when you don’t try the stuff mentioned in your paragraph and mine, you might run into issues, especially with children. That’s what I am saying, that’s a subjunctive.
I mean it was like one sentence hardly challenging? I’ve been vegan for over a decade and been round most of the west, where doesn’t have a ton of plant milks? The only struggle is out of comfort.
Just going veggie and cutting out a major source of your nutrients without considering a replacement is far more dangerous than simply switching to readily available vegan alternatives.