Vegan:
A vegan (pronounced VEE-gun) is someone who, for various reasons, chooses to avoid using or consuming animal products. While vegetarians choose not to use flesh foods, vegans also avoid dairy and eggs, as well as fur, leather, wool, down, and cosmetics or chemical products tested on animals.
Veganism, the natural extension of vegetarianism, is an integral component of a cruelty-free lifestyle. Living vegan provides numerous benefits to animals’ lives, to the environment, and to our own health–through a healthy diet and lifestyle.
Veganism, the natural extension of vegetarianism, is an integral component of a cruelty-free lifestyle. Living vegan provides numerous benefits to animals’ lives, to the environment, and to our own health–through a healthy diet and lifestyle.
Whole Food, Plant-Based refers to:
- Healthy and made from whole, plant foods -mainly beans, grains, nuts, seeds, fruits and vegetables
- Foods that are not processed foods that were once whole foods
Plant-Based diets: Definitions
- Semi-Vegetarian - small amounts of animal flesh
- Pesco-Vegetartian - no animal flesh except fish
- Vegetarian
- Lacto-Ovo - no animal flesh
- Vegan - no animal flesh eggs, or dairy products
The 12 Rules of Whole Food Plant Based
- Remove all animal products and by-products
- Eat food without labels (no ingredient list)
- If it has ingredients, make sure it has less than 5 ingredients, you recognize them and you can pronounce them
- Stay away from the whites (white flour, white sugar, table salt)
- Stay away from high fructose corn syrup
- Stay away from animal fats, shortening and all oils
- Stay away from food additives
- Stay away from artificial sweeteners
- Eat foods grown in a farmers field, not in a chemists lab
- View food as medicine: nutritional balance
- Eat fresh REAL WHOLE FOOD
"Real food is things that your great-grandmother (or someone’s great-grandmother) would recognize. -Michael Pollan
