What are the benefits of a VEGETARIAN going VEGAN?

The health benefits of a vegetarian going vegan will be that they will have cut out all cholesterol from their diets. Milk and eggs and cheese are all high in cholesterol and saturated animal fats.

The environmental benefits if enough people went vegan would be that there would be fewer dairy and chicken farms polluting the soil and water (waste products into rivers and streams near the farms then running off into larger rivers and to the oceans and lakes).

Ethical benefits are that there would be fewer chickens who would have to live their lives in chicken farms, producing eggs until they die, and there would be fewer cows and their calves (a cow has to have a baby cow to produce milk, and the bulls are involved in this too) having to suffer the milk machine every day of their lives.

The babies and fathers are necessary to make the milk, but then they are sold for veal or meat, so milk, cheese, ice cream etc. does involve a culture of killing animals.

You cannot get the milk and dairy products without the bull to impregnate the cow, and the cow to give birth to a calf.

Those calves and bulls enter the bloody slaughter house soon after.

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I m from India and most Indians are vegans. If you could get your hands on some great Indian recipes and learn how to cook them accurately, i think you would never look at any non-vegan thing again. And can haev a great health too.

Also try combining meditation with veganism. You will love the way your life will go.

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You can live eating these things but you will THRIVE eating 100% Vegan.

ETHICS: Check out how these animals are treated. We are not talking about your small local farmer, it's a huge horrible business with no thought to morality of how fellow creatures should be treated.

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I don't think Veganism is about a personal benefit. It's about a benefit to the planet, or to animals.

Vegan's consider the way chickens and cows are treated as akin to torture. If nobody bought eggs, or milk then they'd stop selling them.

As far as a personal benefits, I think the only valid ones are that what replaces it is usually lower in fats, and that you can speak from a higher moral ground.

I AM A VEGAN: because no single food choice has a farther-reaching and more profoundly positive impact on our health, the environment, and all of the life on Earth than choosing vegan!

If you give up beef you should give up milk because the woman cows are breeded to produce milk and the baby cows are ripped for there mothers at birth and change to make for tender veal. And if you give up chicken then you should give up eggs because the chickens are shocked in to producing eggs and those that are chicks are ripped away and called brown eggs.

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You can purify the body, clear the arteries of unwanted cholesterol; and enhanced blood flow, just as long as you eat all that need to be eaten in the vegan diet; this way you still get all your vitamins, minerals, and proteins, fats, monounsaturated fats from oils of the olive, proteins from alfalfa(more than one type of alfalfa, but one of them gives people 3% more protein than meet does, remember soy beans, also as a source of protein, kelp has all the minerals needed for the human body, mixtures of cooking combinations can give you all the vitamins you need, remember various fruits also; if this diet increases your sugar, cinnamon is good to help with sugar in the body, and various teas and other herbs, there are fruits and vegetables that help us with cutting sugar, for instance, chinese red yeast rice will remove cholesterol from the body, garlic also plus garlic will eliminate free radicals knowing that it is filled with anti-oxidants, olive oil is loaded with anti-oxidants and green tea also, honey has magnesium and trace minerals in it, a teaspoon of sugar is about 46 calories, a teaspoon of honey is 64 calories, magnesium is needed to prevent hardening of the arteries along with vitamin E, C, & A; vitamin D changes into vitamin K when it reaches the stomach, calcium can cause cardiac arrest without magnesium in the diet.

There aren't any. Make sure to take some kind of protein supplement, because even with the beans/rice combinations and other sources that do provide some protein, it is still incomplete.

Also, responding to this, "The health benefits of a vegetarian going vegan will be that they will have cut out all cholesterol from their diets."

--That is not a good thing. Our blood vessels can become damaged through irritations by free radicals or viruses, or because they are structurally weak-this is when the body's natural healing substance, cholesterol steps in to repair the damage. Cholesterol in cell membranes give our cells necessary stiffness and stability. When the diet contains an excess of polyunsaturated fatty acids these replace saturated fatty acids in the cell membrane, so the cell walls actually become flabby.

Cholesterol is needed for proper function of serotonin receptors in the brain. Serotinin is the body's natural 'feel good' chemical. Low cholesterol levels have been linked to aggressive and violent behavior, depression and suicidal tendencies.

The cause of heart disease is not animal fats and cholesterol but rather a number of factors inherent in modern diets, including excessive consumption of vegetable oils and hydrogenated fats; excess consumption of refined carbohydrates in the form of sugar and white flour; mineral deficiencies, particularly low levels of protective magnesium and iodine; deficiencies of vitamins, particularly vitamin A, C and D needed for the integrity of the blood vessel walls and of antioxidants like selenium and vitamin E, which protect us from free radicals; and finally, the disappearance of antimicrobial fats from the food supply, namely, animal fats and tropical oils.

I dont believe there are any benifits of a VEGETARIAN going VEGAN, begetarians already live a healthy lifestyle, and there is no need to go strict. I personally bleev that veganism is not gods way, as vegans have to take so many suplliments because they are not gettin them, proving God intends not to be a vegan, thats my view though....

Vegans who dont follow their diet properly always end up with malnutrients. Learn the proper diet pls.