Vegan is not healthy.

Vegan is to a lot of people presented as better.

Better for what?

And if it is better for something, there are of course always both sides of the story…

When I went to a plant based lifestyle back in 2014, I imagined to discover a community of extremely healthy people. When then going to events organized in the vegan movement, I have to say that at that moment, the opposite was rather true. It felt very similar like in Belgium discovering that politician Maggie De Block, is the Minister of Health. Something for me was not right.

That made me realize, that although I encourage everybody largely to go vegan, it doesn’t necessarily mean healthier.

It is great for the planet, great for the animals… definitely the way forward from that point of view, now it is not necessarily great for my health.

Why not? It is all plant based right?

Yes, well, vegetables and fruits are indeed vegan and if everybody would only eat that, we will definitely see the difference. Now vegan today, means that I can almost live the same lifestyle as I used to live before I went plant based.

Yes, bread, fries, pastas, ice creams, pancakes, sugar, waffles, burgers… can all be vegan. The fact that they are vegan, might be that they are a very little healthier compared to the usual western diet versions of it, now it doesn’t make them the food to live on. If I do live on them, I can imagine the implications maybe not be as radical as in the usual western diet, now they will not be far off it.

Today I know I do not need bread, fries, pastas, ice creams, pancakes, waffles, burgers…to survive, now they provide to some people such an extreme pleasure that they have a hard time living without them.

So it is not with the food that we will solve these issues, and so yes, going vegan provides a lot of benefits, now if I have profound issues on other sides of my life (like I explain here), they will not be solved by eating the vegan versions of that food.

Today we see that a lot of medicines to treat chronic diseases, do include plants.

Broccoli, cauliflower, green leaves… are only a few of the vegetables that contain excellent resources that help my body in the healing process. Why is that, well, I might think nature provided them for us. Well, what would happen if we would actually eat them close to their whole food state? Might it be that we’ve then these excellent healing resources in our body? Personally, I’m not saying it might, I strongly believe it is.

So if I move away from processed food (whether it be out of our western diet or already from a vegan diet) and get back to plant based food as close as possible to their whole food state, that is when I believe we will start to see the health benefits as well.

It is when I felt that my body felt better than it has ever felt before (due to the vegetables and fruits I eat close to their whole food state), together with knowing that I try to do my best for the planet, for the animals (vegan), that I hit the jackpot and found love in everything!

So from my point of view, vegan and healthy go together, now I do realize that if I don’t go all the way, it might not be the case!

With all the products that exist today on the market, transitioning from a western diet to a vegan diet is very easy. I strongly encourage making that step and feel the benefits. I would say, nevertheless, don’t stop there, if I felt some benefits in the beginning when making the switch, there was way more to discover I didn’t imagine...my blog covers the majority of them.
If curious, please go over them and more than welcome to reach out to me if any questions or comments!

http://rawfoodveganlifechangingexperience.blogspot.be/

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