| Defining why you are vegan will help you get | | | | Standard American Diet. Many people have been |
| through the rough times during the transition. It | | | | able to control or eliminate their diabetes by |
| will give you something to reference to, and | | | | becoming vegan. Eating a diet that is based |
| remind you why you started this in the first place. | | | | around plants is very heart healthy and is an easy |
| There are hundreds of reasons why someone | | | | way to lose weight naturally. From my own |
| would want to become vegan, but the most | | | | experience, I have lost 60 over the last four |
| common are animal rights, personal health and | | | | years, and have never felt better in my entire life. |
| environmental benefit. | | | | By not consuming animals, you are lowering the |
| Animal rights is the most common reason that | | | | demand for livestock bred for food. A pound of |
| people have for becoming vegan. It usually starts | | | | wheat only uses a fraction of the water that it |
| by watching a PETA video or reading one of their | | | | takes to yield a pound of cow flesh. If that wheat |
| many pamphlets about the horrors of | | | | is organically grown, it minimally pollutes as well. |
| slaughterhouses and fur. PETA and other animal | | | | While a vegan diet does not require food to be |
| rights organizations say that the best way help | | | | organic, one will find that most vegan food is |
| animals is to remove them from your diet and | | | | organic or has and organic alternative. |
| lifestyle. Being vegan prevents around 50 animal | | | | Figure out where you stand with these reasons |
| slaughters a year. | | | | and write down why you are, or want to be, |
| A vegan diet contains minimal cholesterol and is | | | | vegan. Defining it now will help you battle urges |
| very low in saturated fat compared to the | | | | and difficulties down the road. |