My Diet

I love eating, and I could eat as many times as possible on a typical day, for a whole weak. That is why the lifestyle I follow include mainly a vegan diet that is plant based and I consume very little to no meat or daily products or other animal products. This reason for this is that animal products are known to be very toxic and taking in the amount that people do nowadays is very dangerous.  

My diet usually include roughly 80% of carbohydrates, low fats making up 10% of the diet and the rest 10% is for protein. This diet is mostly made up of fruit which I like to eat in large amounts for my breakfast and lunch. I like the whole and ripe since the starch is broken down to sugar when fruits are ripe, digestion is easier and I can obtain all the minerals and vitamins at their peak. My average intake per day is 3000 calories of vegetables, cooked starches like beans, potatoes and rice. I try to follow the 80/10/10 diet lifestyle recommended by Dr. Douglas Graham which emphasis on eating raw vegetables but I include cooked vegan at dinner (Graham, 42).

Research have shown that following a high-protein based on animal products made the risk of death resulting from any cause to be more by around 74% and the risk of cancer death by  more than four times, in comparison to low-protein diet. Thus I maintain a low quality protein based plants like beans, quinoa, tofu, and brown rice. To obtain the essential omega 3and 6 I chose my fat choices like avocado, nuts, seeds and coconut oil. The fruits contain lots of fibre, water that makes one full its sweet sugars prevent the body from a craving of junk, (Levine et. al, 1).

 

 

 

References

Douglas, Graham. The 80/10/10 Diet. Balancing Your Health, Your Weight, and Your Life One Luscious Bite at a Time. (2006). 42-52

Morgan, Levine, Jorge A. Suarez11, Sebastian, Brandhorst. Low Protein Intake Is Associated with a Major Reduction in IGF-1, Cancer, and Overall Mortality in the 65 and Younger but Not Older Population. (2014). 1