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Originally Posted by Erki  I wonder if vegans wear clothes made of wool? |
I dont. Most vegans i know, dont.
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Originally Posted by StepT Do vegans eat honey and eggs? Or do they adamantly avoid all animal derived products? |
Avoid all together. If you eat eggs you aren't a vegan. As to honey, i dont. However, i know a couple people who are less strict about that. They dont buy honey, but if they are at a resturant that only has white bread make with milk etc, and wheat that is not but has honey, they will go with the honeyl. I just dont get the bread or whatever has honey in it.
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Originally Posted by ivylamp I became a vegan at age twelve...don't remember my original reasons...maybe to piss off my mom. My (rather acute) acne cleared up and I was sold. At different points in my life, I tried including a few animal products in my diet, but always returned to vegan (I only recently learned the term "vegan"....I always said "strict vegetarian".) I always had that vague fear that I was doing something wrong that would damage my health long term. But now I'm fifty and can no longer die young. What a relief! (Go ahead Doc....tell me I'm incurable! I dare you! Ha Ha...too late to die young!) I don't talk about my diet much...it gets strange looks and I don't like to argue. I would like to mention this....I've completed menapause without a hitch....hardly any symptoms at all! Also, my long time friends are all suffering from scary health problems and I'm not. I don't do anything fancy with food. A few years ago I was hospitalized for an injury. I told the dietition that I was a strict vegetarian and just bring me potatoes, fruit and veggies...this was fine for a few days..extra portions, please. This brought a lecture from my doctor! I just looked at him and said, "Don't you think I'd know what to eat by now?" After checking my bloodwork, he returned and sheepishly said, "You have the bloodwork of a young athlete...keep doing what ever it is you're doing". As for adjustment to a new diet....I remember losing too much weight at first...but I eventually filled out again. Any new diet will throw your system off for a while. There is one side effect you need to be aware of if you dicide to become vegan....you may lose your ability to digest animal products all together. In other words, you accidently eat a bite of cheese or burger and you're retchedly sick for a day and queesy for a week. (I had this happen recently) |
That is awesome! Sometimes it is scary the lack of knowledge people have about the vegan diet. To be honest tho, there is so much conflicting information out there. I think most of this come from junk food vegans (you know the ones who are vegan for a month and feel awful because they ate chips and fries the whole time, and they did not do their research as to what vegans need to make sure they eat). When i went vegan, i read alot on the topic, and everything contradicted each other. I had to experment and find what worked for me. Trial and error. Took time but well worth it. Thanks for sharing your experinces.
Adrienne
