Plant-Based Diet
When you think of the word malnutrition, you think of starving and extreme poverty. But if you were to take the word for its literal meaning (the prefix mal meaning ‘faulty’ or ‘poor’), then dietary patterns which produce obesity and diet-related heart ailments like type 2 diabetes and cardiac arrest, fit into the
Vegan Diet
A vegan diet is a plant-based diet that eliminates all types of animal-based food products and byproducts. It has gained popularity in the last couple of years due to its ability to prevent health issues like diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and certain types of cancer. Studies have shown that it helps to manage
Vegan Recipes
One of the common problems faced by vegans is the deficiency of vitamin B12. Getting enough amounts of this particular vitamin can be challenging for vegans, as it is not naturally found in plant-based foods. Hence, they have to depend on fortified foods or vitamin B12 supplements for acquiring this nutrient. Otherwise, they
Vegan Diet
The vegan diet is a popular plant-based diet that many people follow due to the multitude of health benefits associated with it. Nowadays, many follow it to reduce their environmental impact. Apart from these two reasons, it is followed by those practicing oriental religions like Buddhism and Jainism where one of the central
Plant-Based Diet
A hot button issue among the medical fraternity would have to be that of hormones in foods. Ingesting hormones can be harmful to our well-being and health. The milk we drink has a striking correlation with consumed hormones. It is also found that hormones can affect fertility in a negative manner…
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Vegan Diet
Herbs are well-known for their medicinal properties and adding them to your diet can provide you a large number of health benefits. They can be useful for you to eliminate the risk of a large number of diseases and improve your general health.
You can add different herbs to your diet for deriving the
Vegan Diet
Most vegan consumer goods are sold as green products because they are supposedly good for the planet. But this is always not true as the environmental footprint of some plant-based food is significant, and many people who follow a plant-based diet are unaware of this. For example, the excessive demand for quinoa has
Vegan Consumer Goods
Several vegan consumer goods have soy protein isolate as an ingredient, but do you know what it is? Everything from plant-based protein bars to faux meat to certain branded vegan burgers contains it. This means if you are consuming vegan food, then you might just be having the ingredient too. Now, is
Vegan Consumer Goods
Vegan proteins continue to be more and more popular than before. Vegan chicken tenders, beef jerky, and sausage patties have started to appear at grocery stores quickly. Eggs are the most recent food items to have a vegan makeover. With regards to health, eggs are not only quite harmless, but these also
Vegan Diet
Millions of people in the United States and around the world are switching to a vegan lifestyle. Statistics have shown that there is a 600% rise in the number of vegans in the past three years in the US alone. The main reason for this massive shift to veganism is the health benefits
