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I want to go on an all-natural, healthy diet. Should I go vegan or paleo?
Both the vegan and paleo diets lower your risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. For those
with Type 2 diabetes, the weight loss and reduced sugar consumption can allow them to
get off insulin.
That’s not why I want to go on the diet. I want to get healthier.
The vegan diet is better if you have heart disease. Because you consume far less fat
and cholesterol, your cholesterol drops, while most vegans lose weight, too.
What I want is to shed 50 pounds and keep it off for good.
The biggest differences between them is the lack of grains and consumption of meat. No
bread or beer allowed on the Paleo diet.
No meat on one, no grain on the other. Why no grains?
The paleo diet is promoted as an all-natural diet. You can eat anything they ate before
we had crops like barley, rice and corn.
Can you be both paleo and vegan?
Paleo can be vegan, if you eat lots of nuts for protein.
Both diets make you healthier than our modern diets, which are killing us.
You do realize that life expectancy has doubled in the past hundred years, right? But both
of these diets can cause malnutrition.
How so?
Both diets suffer from a lack of calcium unless you eat tons of leafy greens. Vegans make
up for this with fortified soy milk or calcium supplements.
Vegans can also drink rice milk and eat nuts with a high calcium content.
Vegans suffer deficits of B12 and often anemia, but a paleo diet rich in meat provides plenty
of these nutrients.
Taking lots of vitamins could make up for it.
I thought you wanted an all-natural diet. B-12 from a bioreactor isn’t all too natural.
The two diets aren’t very much alike.
Both vegans and those on paleo diets eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. Honey is also
allowed, though some ultra-vegans avoid honey.
Is diet soda allowed on either diet?
For vegans, yes, paleo, no. There weren’t any Coke factories in Neolithic times.
What’s the biggest advantage of the paleo diet you see?
A lot of guys like the Paleo diet because they can have barbeques without guilt. And
even go bow and arrow hunting sometimes.
I’ll let them kill it and grill it. I’ll go for being kind to animals and my body,
and go vegan.