Not exact matches
I
eat an
exclusively plant based diet, but I am pretty sure I may have munched on an animal by product somewhere along the way.
When I was
exclusively plant - based I
ate a lot of legumes and whole grains.
Chop up some miscellaneous vegetables, because, while we all want to just
eat cheese
exclusively, we should probably try to
eat some
plants.
Based on the shape of their teeth and jaws, large
plant -
eating dinosaurs are generally thought to have been
exclusively herbivorous.
Giant pandas evolved from bears that
ate both
plants and meat, researchers said, and started
eating bamboo
exclusively about two million years ago.
I spent almost seven years
eating exclusively plant - based, which included a variety of
plant - based proteins, local vegetables, whole grains, and no animal products.
They were
eating a lot of starchy vegetables, starchy grains, and greens, and their protein almost
exclusively from
plant sources, and they had the cholesterol levels to prove it.
«They
ate exclusively the wild
plant and animal foods they could hunt, gather, forage or fish in their native environment,» says Dr. Cordain.
As for your questions regarding recommended protein levels versus level of physical activity, know that there are many
exclusively plant based eaters (vegans, who
eat no animals or their secretions) who are elite, even Olympic athletes.
This does not mean one can not choose to
eat exclusively plant - based, just that if you do choose to do this for moral or sustainability reasons you need to consider how you will get a complete nutrient profile in your diet.
«
Eat carrots for vitamin A.» Such statements, found in many popular diet and nutrition books, create the impression that the body's requirements for this essential nutrient can be
exclusively met with
plant foods like carrots, squash, green leafy vegetables and orange colored fruits.
However, you have to plan carefully if you
eat an
exclusively plant - based diet and still want to build muscle.
It is, however, more challenging to meet protein needs by
eating plant - based products
exclusively.
If you are
eating a
plant based diet the protein is very efficiently used and almost impossible to overdo, with the exception of a few outlier individual foods, but then you'd have to only
eat them
exclusively and a ton of them.
Animal tissues
exclusively synthesize MK - 4, but many anaerobic bacteria synthesize other menaquinones, which they use for energy production much in the way that
plants use vitamin K1.80 We can therefore obtain vitamin K2 by absorbing that which is produced by our intestinal flora or by
eating fermented foods, in addition to
eating animal foods which contain vitamin K2 synthesized from vitamin K1 found in grass.
I was wondering if Dr Greger (or anyone else) has any thoughts about the need to supplement - choline - for people
eating exclusively a
plant based diet (vegans also)?
See the post on Do vegetarians actually age faster for more on the special challenges of
exclusively plant - based
eating.
Most online sources suggest that rabbits should
eat plants exclusively.