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Dairy or Cheese has something in it called casomorphins. These are highly addictive peptides and create happy feelings. I have been Dairy everything free for about 1 1/2 years. I dont crave it anymore. I think that cravings have a lot to do with whats going on in our heads. Milk or cheese is most definately not an essential part of a healthy diet.
Maybe you would do good in looking into some not so good facts about how cheese is made. Basicly if you want to get rid of the craving you need to convince yourslef that cheese is no good. Find something that you can substitute for cheese there are lots of vegan cheese like recipes or products.
Good luck
Heres proof. I have suffered with IBS for about 4 years and it is completely gone since i started vegan! i was doing paleo but took out the meat and now my tummy is like 100%% my constipation is gone too!! yea buddy!
Dairy or Cheese has something in it called casomorphins. These are highly addictive peptides and create happy feelings. I have been Dairy everything free for about 1 1/2 years. I dont crave it anymore. I think that cravings have a lot to do with whats going on in our heads. Milk or cheese is most definately not an essential part of a healthy diet.
Maybe you would do good in looking into some not so good facts about how cheese is made. Basicly if you want to get rid of the craving you need to convince yourslef that cheese is no good. Find something that you can substitute for cheese there are lots of vegan cheese like recipes or products.
Good luck
When I went vegan, I realized that the occasional migraine I use to have had disappeared.
If you look around in the public, there's plenty of proof that the meat-eating & dairy consuming diet being followed by many Americans is unhealthy.
If you look around in the public, there's plenty of proof that the vegan diet of obese vegans is unhealthy.
Just go to any vegetarian and vegan restaurant and watch the people who come and go. You'll see obese people, rail-thin near-anorexics, healthy people, disabled people, people with pace-makers, people who shake uncontrollably, people who are sturdy and hale and muscular, people with severe mental disorders, people who would normally eat a standard american diet but have allergies to certain proteins and are "stuck" depriving themselves of things they really would prefer to eat, people who have ethical reasons to eat vegan, who have no health problems at all and didn't have any health problems before switching, people who are .. all kinds.
Pegging "healthy people" as "vegans" and "unhealthy people" as non-vegans, makes about as much sense as pegging "people who can't tolerate the cold" as "people who live in the Sahara desert" and "people who can't tolerate the heat" as "people who don't live in the Sahara desert."
When I went vegan, I realized that the occasional migraine I use to have had disappeared.
If you look around in the public, there's plenty of proof that the meat-eating & dairy consuming diet being followed by many Americans is unhealthy.
So true! Just check out the American Cancer Society's recommendations about limiting or eliminating red meat and animal
products to reduce cancer risk.
In every diet there is healthy and unhealthy people, through our eyes. Too skinny, unhealthy; too fat, unhealthy. When people do things, say things, that are different than our beliefs then we think they are wrong and want to correct them. I'm a recovering addict of this.
You have nothing to prove if it works for you. Let them talk. And there is nothing wrong with change. vegan/veg/"flesh eater" converted to one or the other, its what your body tells you is right. what your morals are. how you were raised, etc.
Nobody can blame anyone else but themselves for their health. Not meat industry, not vegan diet, nobody. We all want to fit in, but why? God made you special, so wear that helmet with pride when on the short bus! LOL just a joke to lighten this up.
For the people who are always worried about our lack of (animal) protein, perhaps we can remind about Scott Jurek. Just learned about him. He's an ultramarathoner. He wrote a book called Eat and Run:
In every diet there is healthy and unhealthy people, through our eyes. Too skinny, unhealthy; too fat, unhealthy. When people do things, say things, that are different than our beliefs then we think they are wrong and want to correct them. I'm a recovering addict of this.
You have nothing to prove if it works for you. Let them talk. And there is nothing wrong with change. vegan/veg/"flesh eater" converted to one or the other, its what your body tells you is right. what your morals are. how you were raised, etc.
Nobody can blame anyone else but themselves for their health. Not meat industry, not vegan diet, nobody. We all want to fit in, but why? God made you special, so wear that helmet with pride when on the short bus! LOL just a joke to lighten this up.
Take care everyone and have a good weekend!
And addiction it is!
Yes, a vegan diet can be healthy for some people (assuming it's well-balanced, of course).
A vegetarian diet can be healthy for some people.
An omnivorous diet can be healthy for some people.
When you judge people for not eating what makes you healthy, or insist that there is one healthy diet for everyone, you're assuming that everyone is identical. That's a pretty risky (and false) assumption to make.
The reasonable person listens to their own body regarding what makes it healthy. The unreasonable person instead listens to everyone else's opinions about what should make them healthy, whether that be meat or vegetarianism or pop tarts.
Why can't we have a single thread about a veg*n diet without non-veg*ns jumping in to argue about it? It gets old.
Go take your fight somewhere else.
Seriously.
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