VEGANS VS OMNIVORES

Are you vegan, vegetarian, semi-vegeterian, pesco-vegeterian or omnivore? People

have tried to find different kind of diet instead of an omnivorous one. There are a lot
of reasons to do that. For example, most of those people try to protect what it is
called animal rights or consider it is healthier to eat fruit or plants instead of meat.
Some stances are extremist that do not use anything made up from an animal, those
one are called vegans. All kind of diet is risky in one way or another but on the
other hand each one has its own advantages. It is just a matter of how to plan a good
diet that brings you more benefits than prejudice. Afterward, the riskiest aspects of
following a vegan or an omnivore diet will be shown.
It is hard to plan a vegan diet that involves enough proteins, vitamins, and so on to
keep a good health. One of the most common facts in a strict vegan diet is the lack
of vitamin A which is involved in immune function, vision, reproduction and
cellular communication. The deficiency of vitamin A causes Keratomalacia that is a
deficiency of tear production leading to dry eye. Besides the vegan diet is
characterized by a low energy intake, fat consumptions, saturated and monosaturated fat, dietary proteins, calcium and sodium (Clarys, 2014). But not
everything is risky, some researchers have shown a vegan diet improve the life of
someone who suffers from diabetes, reducing fat (Lipman, 2007). Furthermore, it
has been found a relation between a vegan diet and the reducing of asthma
symptoms; in frequency, severity and medication consumption (Seltz, 2007).
On the other side we have the most popular diet in our culture, the omnivorous one.
It differs from the vegan diet in the energy intake, being in the omnivorous diet
higher. But it is considered as one of the riskiest because of its high fat consumption

that leads to overweight and obesity (Clarys, 2014). It also can produce a heart
attack because the fat stands on the blood vessels making a decrease of blood flux.
It is also criticized by vegans because of the bloodthirsty campaign undertaken
against no human animals. Some others argue that if we feed plants to animals, and
then we eat the animals, we are going to spend more sources and produce more
greenhouses gases than if we just eat the plants, in others words, to keep an
omnivore diet is not friendly with the environment. There are a lot of points of view
but none of them can be called to be true.
In the end each one is free to choose what kind of diet to follow but it has to be
aware of the benefits and disservices this can lead you. Before starting with a new
diet it is good to make a search about it. Although all diet are risky in some way it
can be done a balance, keeping so a good health, but we do not have to expect that
diet be the only way to take care of us, there exist some other ways like exercises
that help us in improving our health. Variety will always be a good option to choose.
To be an omnivore diet will not make you a person who is against nature and neither
to be a vegan will become you in someone who is concern about nature. We do not
have to keep stereotype and much less to think what you do is the only right way.
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