Our dietitians take a closer look at how to become more plant-based or fully vegan, including what foods you can and cannot eat and health benefits associated with the diet.
I am not typically a “diet” person: I am vegan and I eat relatively healthy and clean, but I certainly go through periods of overindulgence and heavy snacking, which is completely possible even if you re not eating animal products. If eating vegan sweets were an Olympic sport, I’d probably have a gold medal!
Despite my love for the expanding array of plant-based processed foods from alternative meats to salty snacks to creamy non-dairy ice creams I realized that there is a better way to go, which is a whole food, plant-based diet of eating only minimally processed food that you recognize as something you could grow. I challenged myself to do this for a full week and see if I felt better. That meant no processed cheeses, chips, cookies, non-dairy ice creams and even cutting out oil, which technically is processed!