5 Powerful Reasons to Switch to Plant-based Diet

First let us understand what a plant-based diet and a vegan diet is and what it would mean to you if you do decide to switch your diet to vegan or plant-based. With all these diet names floating around in the media, It is confusing at times to understand what each one means. In simple language, a plant-based diet consists predominantly of plant foods and it means all the food that one consumes comes from a plant source. However, some people do include small amount of animal products like dairy and fish. In contrast to that, a vegan diet abstains any kind of animal products whatsoever. They are a 100% plant-based and even their protein source is a 100% plant-based protein.

More and more people have started living a vegan and a plant-based way of life. It started off with predominantly ethical reasons, but with more awareness and backed by research, people are now convinced that a vegan and plant-based diet is so much healthier. A lot of people who are gluten-free out of choice or health reasons are also switching to a plant-based lifestyle.

5 Motivating Fact about Plant-Based Diets:

• Plant-based diet supports heart health

Research shows that a plant-based diet reduces your risk for heart diseases as well as helps with reversing an already present condition. Foods coming from a plant sources is naturally lower in fat and high in fiber. This would help in reducing cholesterol and in turn help in keeping a healthy heart.

• Plants are naturally high in fiber

All unprocessed plant foods are high in fiber, with some more than the others. Including vegetables, legumes, and lentil in your diet automatically increases the fiber content. It is easy to include this also with some ready-to-eat products like Rice and Lentil Bowls which are high in first-class plant-based proteins also. A high-fiber diet improves gut health and also increases the absorption of nutrients from the food.

• Plant-based diet reduce inflammation in the body

Inflammation is generally a cause of what you eat. Diet has a direct co-relation to the inflammation in your body. It causes joint-pain, arthritis, and a lot of discomfort which keeps you away from leading an active and healthy life. Eliminating animal protein from your diet and switching to a plant-based diet shows incredible results in reducing and also curing inflammation

• Plant-based diet reduces the risk of cancer

Plant-based foods are high in phytochemicals and antioxidants. Antioxidants kill all the free radicals in the body, which is the root cause of cancers. Being high in fiber it also improves gut health. Fiber is very important in reducing the risk of cancer, especially colorectal cancer.

• Plant-based diet help in maintaining a healthy weight

A healthy body weight is very important in maintaining a healthy life. Almost every health issue is predominantly due to being overweight. A healthy weight can also reduce your risk to cancer. It is easier to maintain or lose weight with a plant-based diet, because it is lower in calories compared to its animal counterpart. Being low in calories and high in fiber, helps one to feel full and hence reduces the food cravings.

Having given some excellent benefits of a plant-based and vegan lifestyle, it is also very important to make sure that you choose the right foods.

Selecting the right kind of protein from a plant-based diet

The number one question everyone has when considering becoming vegan is the quantity and quality of proteins. Although one may feel that by switching to a plant-based or vegan diet would make it difficult for them to get the required proteins, or the quality of protein is not that good, it is not true. In fact, plant proteins are much easier to digest and also very good for gut health. All you need to do is to make sure that you include a lentil and grain source together. By doing so, you are consuming a first-class protein containing all the 22 amino acids. Amino acids are the basic building blocks of the proteins. If all these amino acids are present in your diet during the day, you are not depriving yourself at all from the proteins.

I believe these are good enough reasons to consider following a plant-based lifestyle.

Wishing you lots of good health!

Warmly,

Sonal

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