| json_metadata | "{"app":"Musing","appTags":["health","vegan"],"appCategory":"health","appTitle":"What are the benefits of being vegan?","appBody":"<p>The benefits that can be obtained will depend a lot on the quality of our diet: a high consumption in fruits and vegetables is much better, from the nutritional point of view, than the consumption of fried products or products made from gluten and soy. Similarly, other factors, such as the consumption of unrefined flours, have a great influence.</p>\n<p><em>Lower risk of cardiovascular disease </em></p>\n<p>In plant feeding, the risk of excess cholesterol is almost nil. Plant foods do not have cholesterol and are also often poor in saturated fats. Cardiovascular diseases are the first cause of death in Spain in men and the second in women.</p>\n<p><em>Lower rate of hypertension. </em></p>\n<p>Linked to a lower consumption of salt (very present in sausages and prepared foods), higher consumption of minerals such as potassium, etc.</p>\n<p><em>Lower rate of diabetes </em></p>\n<p>Due to increased intake of complex carbohydrates rather than simple: cereals, nuts, legumes.</p>\n<p><em>Less obesity. </em></p>\n<p>Vegetable foods tend to have more fiber (it has satiating effect), to be lower in calories-fruits and vegetables-, etc.</p>\n<p><em>Lower rate of cancer (especially colon, prostate, lung, etc). </em></p>\n<p>Due to the presence of numerous antioxidants in fruits and vegetables, more fiber, less body weight, without consumption of animal proteins, which include elements of animal metabolism such as toxins, etc.</p>\n<p><em>Lower incidence of osteoporosis. </em></p>\n<p>Animal proteins, due to their acidity, produce high bone loss. Minerals in fruits and vegetables help in bone metabolism.</p>\n<p>Other benefits lower incidence of: kidney disease, constipation, gallstones, dementia, etc.</p>\n<p><em>Benefits for external causes</em></p>\n<p>When we feed on an animal, we run the risk of transmitting diseases that the animal itself had. This transmission of diseases is not always possible but it is a risk that exists and is known as zoonoses. The world Organization for Animal Health (OIE) estimates that no less than 60% of human pathogens and 75% of newly emerging diseases are diseases that have emerged in this way. Tuberculosis, brucellosis, internal parasitic diseases, etc. are transmitted through the consumption of animal products.</p>\n<p>There are still very recent diseases such as avian influenza or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (popularly known as mad Cows), and, unfortunately, it is supposed that new diseases continue to emerge (which, in addition to the danger it may pose to humans, They carry out authentic exterminations of millions of animals for their control.</p>\n<p>On the other hand, due to the conditions in which animals are bred in intensive farming, crowded and living among their excrements, the diseases that are forced to suffer are multiple, something that the industry tries to alleviate with a high consumption of Antibiotics, which in the long run leads to a natural resistance of the diseases to these which, in addition, ends up transmitting to the human being.</p>\n<p>We should not forget also known pathogens such as Salmonella or E. Coli, present in animal waste and that extend their contamination. Or toxoplasmosis, well known for pregnant women.</p>\n<p>If we leave the farm animals and we go to the sea, is famous the case of Anisakis . But even in the consumption of these animals is worse the intake of heavy metals (mercury, lead, etc), caused by the pollution to which they are subjected rivers, seas and oceans. These metals never leave the body and pass to the organism that feeds on it. To such an extent pollution arrives that even from official organisms is discouraged consumption for certain types of population, limiting for the remainder . Similar case occurs with the ingestion of hunted animals .</p>\n<p><br></p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"fkm4jkb8x","appParentAuthor":"gungunkrishu","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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