Are vegetarians and vegans the same thing?

It seems that there is not a sin­gle per­son left on the plan­et who has not heard about veg­e­tar­i­an­ism and veg­an­ism at least once. Today we will help you under­stand the pecu­liar­i­ties of this direc­tion in the cul­ture of food, and also tell you about the cor­rect tran­si­tion to it.

In this arti­cle you will learn:

If you opened this arti­cle, it means that the top­ic still inter­est­ed you. It’s time for change!

Do not be afraid of the length of the arti­cle, because if you are inter­est­ed in just one ques­tion: “What is the dif­fer­ence between veg­e­tar­i­an­ism and veg­an­ism?”, Then you can find the answer to it in the first para­graph. All sub­se­quent infor­ma­tion will be for those peo­ple who are inter­est­ed in oth­er aspects of this top­ic and are con­sid­er­ing this type of food for lat­er life.

What is the difference between Vegetarianism and Veganism?

Veg­e­tar­i­an­ism — eat­ing plant and dairy foods with a com­plete rejec­tion of meat, fish and seafood.

The pre­fix “veg” itself means the rejec­tion of meat, but in the cul­ture of veg­e­tar­i­an­ism there are oth­er diet options: ovolac­to-veg­e­tar­i­an­ism and lac­to-veg­e­tar­i­an­ism. The for­mer con­sume eggs, but exclude milk, while the lat­ter con­sume dairy prod­ucts.

But, if you do not want to both­er your­self with a lot of terms, then stick to the clas­sic def­i­n­i­tions of veg­e­tar­i­an­ism and veg­an­ism.

Veg­an­ism is a plant-based diet with a com­plete rejec­tion of ani­mal prod­ucts (meat, fish, seafood and dairy prod­ucts). Also, in very rare cas­es, veg­ans refuse hon­ey, as the process of obtain­ing this prod­uct involves the exploita­tion of bees.

Hav­ing ana­lyzed the nutri­tion­al pol­i­cy of veg­e­tar­i­an­ism and veg­an­ism, it is worth adding that veg­e­tar­i­ans also do not wear clothes made of leather and fur, and veg­ans still do not vis­it cir­cus­es and zoos, and often call for giv­ing ani­mals free­dom by return­ing them to their nat­ur­al habi­tat.

Why switch to this type of diet, and how will it affect health?

There are a huge num­ber of sci­en­tists who prove to us the impor­tance of eat­ing ani­mal pro­tein. But there are also oth­er sci­en­tists and ordi­nary peo­ple who go against the sys­tem, con­duct exper­i­ments and, by their own exam­ple, prove that you can live with­out meat!

There are and will be peo­ple in your life who will say the same phrase that veg­e­tar­i­an­ism and veg­an­ism are evil. But let’s look at this sit­u­a­tion dif­fer­ent­ly: if you decide to change some­thing in your life, and you like it, you won’t lis­ten to some­one, will you? Of course not, because this is your life and your expe­ri­ence! Like­wise with food. Learn the top­ic, feel your body and become health­i­er.

The prod­ucts that are now being offered to us for food in the super­mar­ket are just a bunch of adver­tis­ing projects. Eat­ing every­thing and not think­ing about their health, some peo­ple will say that veg­e­tar­i­an­ism is evil, not notic­ing how they them­selves are killing their bod­ies.

Where to begin?

• Watch­ing doc­u­men­taries: “Earth­lings” 2005, “Cat­tle Plot” and “What does health have to do with it”
• Read­ing books on nutri­tion: The Chi­na Study, I’m Beau­ti­ful. I’m slim. And I’m a bitch”
• Switch­ing to a healthy diet. Food is mate­r­i­al that can be absorbed by the body and become part of its cells and flu­id. There­fore, all use­less mate­ri­als can be tox­ic to the body.
• Avoid all syn­thet­ic and chem­i­cal prod­ucts. These foods have noth­ing to do with healthy eat­ing. Cut them out, but don’t cut out meat entire­ly at this point. Remem­ber that you need to cleanse the body grad­u­al­ly.
• Grad­ual addi­tion of veg­eta­bles and fruits to the diet. Pre­pare sal­ads, snack on fruits, nuts and more. Your diet should look like this: 50% of your usu­al food (ani­mal and boiled) and 50% of new healthy food (fresh fruits and veg­eta­bles) that he will get used to.

• Fruits and veg­eta­bles as a com­plete meal. So you accus­tom the body to fill up on fruits and veg­eta­bles, and it already needs less ani­mal prod­ucts.
• Refusal of prod­ucts of ani­mal ori­gin. At this stage, your body is ready for veg­an­ism, so feel free to try and mon­i­tor your well-being.

Remem­ber that the right approach is the key to an excel­lent result!

Nei­ther veg­e­tar­i­an­ism nor veg­an­ism is evil or insan­i­ty, it is a bal­anced, prop­er and healthy diet, if you switch to it wise­ly and with well-stud­ied mate­r­i­al.

If you are afraid that you will not have enough pro­tein, strength, ener­gy, hair, nails and much more will begin to fall out, then you sim­ply believe all the stereo­types that our soci­ety car­ries. Half of the ath­letes and artists are veg­ans or veg­e­tar­i­ans, and they have enough strength with ener­gy for every­thing.

Just look on the Inter­net for the state­ment of famous sci­en­tists, you will not believe that the top­ic of healthy eat­ing dates back to ancient times.

“We can eat human flesh just as well as we do with ani­mal meat.” — Dio­genes, Greek philoso­pher.

“From an ear­ly age I avoid­ed eat­ing meat and I believe that the time will come when peo­ple like me will look at killing an ani­mal the way they now look at killing a per­son.” — Leonar­do da Vin­ci.

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How to replace animal protein?

• Seeds and nuts. They are not only rich in pro­tein, but also in healthy fats nec­es­sary for the health of the heart and blood ves­sels;
• Legumes (peas, lentils, beans and mache);
• Mush­rooms;
• Sprouts of cere­al crops (wheat, buck­wheat, oats, etc.);
• Broc­coli and more;

5 mistakes when switching to a new type of food

• Abrupt change in nutri­tion. For all the years of your life, the body has become accus­tomed to your type of food. Do not injure him and switch to a dif­fer­ent type of food in one day. Do every­thing grad­u­al­ly. In cas­es of veg­an­ism or veg­e­tar­i­an­ism, you can first refuse meat, and then exclude fish, milk and oth­er things with each sub­se­quent time.
• Start your dietary change by adding a huge amount of fruit. If you switch to a healthy diet, this does not mean that you should eat fruits in kilo­grams. The fact is that at the very begin­ning of a diet change, peo­ple usu­al­ly have a huge amount of fer­men­ta­tive bac­te­ria in the intestines, which over so many years have appeared thanks to yeast buns, sug­ar and oth­er things. What is the dan­ger? The use of fruits will lead to abun­dant gas for­ma­tion and fer­men­ta­tion, which in turn have a bad effect on well-being, give lethar­gy and unpleas­ant odors. There­fore, eat no more fruits and car­bo­hy­drates, but veg­eta­bles!
• Refus­ing meat, lean on cheese and milk. Dairy prod­ucts can cause aller­gic reac­tions, and not every­one digests them well, caus­ing stom­ach pain and con­stant fatigue. Those who have ever encoun­tered the prob­lem of pro­fuse rash­es on the face, back and chest know exact­ly what it is. It is best to replace such prod­ucts with high-qual­i­ty and healthy oils: lin­seed, sesame, pump­kin or olive.
• If, after eat­ing sug­ary or dairy prod­ucts, you notice severe rash­es on your face or body, you should see a doc­tor and get test­ed. You might be the one to stop eat­ing these foods!
• Prove and teach. You begin to prove to every­one that it is your type of food that is right and suit­able for every­one. You don’t need to do that! You are wast­ing your extra ener­gy. Bet­ter take care of your health with­out prov­ing any­thing to any­one. Because the body of each per­son is indi­vid­ual. It is impor­tant to learn to feel it and trust its sig­nals.
• For­bid. You start to change your diet and stay on willpow­er. So, you should not for­bid your­self, but on the con­trary, at the very begin­ning, under­stand why you need it and lis­ten to your body. You can’t go far with willpow­er.

Share, which of you found out your mis­takes when try­ing to switch to a healthy diet?

And for those who have firm­ly decid­ed to change their diet or have already changed, we want to wish good luck and nev­er stop on the path to self-improve­ment!