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So there are people who eat eggs but they don’t eat meat. I mean 70% of people are paleo and vegan at the same time . We need a diet that we can adopt for long term .A diet that will have all the essential nutrients.So here’s the healthiest diet – Pegan Diet.
Pegan diet is a combination of Paleo and Vegan diet. Paleo diet also known as caveman diet is a diet based on types of foods presumed to have been eaten by early humans.Vegan diet consists vegetables, vegetable oils and seeds excluding all food of animal origin .It includes combining the best parts of both the diets. The best part of this diet is that it is less restrictive and more sustainable. It helps to eliminate the processed foods from daily diet .
Processed foods are the major contributors to obesity and illness. Pegan diet emphasizes nutrient rich fruits and vegetables and healthy unsaturated fats . This hybrid diet helps in weight management and in keeping oxidative stress at the minimum. It also helps to manage cholesterol , blood pressure and other heart related functions. Pegan diet incorporates the healthiest elements of both the diets and it is an overall good eating strategy.
Characteristics of an Ideal Diet:
• Low glycemic index
• High phytonutrient content
• Organic
• High in good fats
The need of such diet lead to Peganism.Peganism is the hybrid version of Paleo diet and Vegan diet. Paleo diet is a diet based on types of foods presumed to have been eaten by early humans whereas veganism is practice of abstaining from use of animal products. It involves food that is organic and not genetically enengineered.Pegan diet involves minimizing sugar and refined carbohydrates.
Characteristics of pegan diet :
• Eat right fats
• 75% diet includes plants
• Avoid dairy
• Avoid gluten
• Focus on glycemic load
Benefits of pegan diet:
• Low glycemic load
• Low toxicity
• Lower risk of heart disease
• Weight loss
• Lean protein for muscle growth
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