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<\/a>Diet often plays an important role in reducing weight. A vegan diet helps you shed the extra pounds in just a few weeks or months. Having meat-free, dairy-free and gluten free diet may help one reach his goal. For breakfast, you can have millet cereals topped with bananas, blueberries and almond milk. Lunch can be a little light with a kale salad with red peppers. Kale is rich in vitamins and minerals. For dinner, you can have pasta with a topping of vegan cheese and tomatoes. Changing a diet plan is big step<\/span><\/span><\/span>, but the huge impact it has on your overall lifestyle will be huge!<\/p>\nWhat exactly is a vegan diet?<\/h1>\n
People often confuse vegan as vegetarians. A vegan diet is not a complete vegetarian diet. Vegetarians eat eggs but<\/span><\/span><\/span> vegans do not eat meat, fish, or poultry or anything of animal origin. A vegan diet basically includes fruits, vegetables, plenty of green leaves, whole grain products, nuts, seeds and legumes.<\/p>\n Other sources of calcium includes<\/span><\/span><\/span>: turnip greens, soyabean<\/span><\/span><\/span>, almond butter and commercial soy yogurt.<\/p>\n There are a lot of healthy vegetarian recipes which are great for vegans who wish to lose weight. For breakfast,<\/strong> a vegan can have jumbo chickpea pancake<\/span><\/span><\/span>, blueberry oatmeal waffles, jelly filled muffins or toast with fried beans and avocado. For lunch and dinner<\/strong> the options are: a vegan sandwich, sun-dried tomatoes, mushroom and spinach tofu<\/span><\/span> quiche, smoky butternut squash sauce with pasta and greens, easy flaked almond tuna salad, black bean and\u00a0potato\u00a0nacho\u00a0plate\u00a0and\u00a0Thai\u00a0sweet\u00a0potato\u00a0burger.<\/p>\n Some other diet plans including<\/span><\/span><\/span> gluten free, HCG and low carbohydrate diet. These diets also help to lose weight fast.<\/span><\/span><\/span>d potato nacho plate and Thai sweet potato burger.<\/p>\n Beside vegan diet, Gluten free<\/strong> diet is another diet plan that is gradually gaining popularity. Gluten is a type of protein found in certain foods like cereals, grains and wheat. Gluten helps to maintain elasticity intact during fermentation of foods. Foods consumed in this diet help<\/span><\/span><\/span> in weight loss and make us healthy.<\/a><\/strong><\/span> People having Celiac disease are advised to have gluten free diets. Foods that one can eat include chestnuts, corn, flax, herbs, lentils, millets, corn, soy, buckwheat, rice, seeds, nut flours, rapeseed<\/span><\/span><\/span> oil and sago. Some other foods like meat products, tofu, poultry, fish, fruits and fresh or frozen vegetables form part of a gluten free diet. Another diet followed by millions of people is HCG diet. There are two parts associated with the HCG diet plan. The first part includes the choice between oral HCG alternatives or HCG injections in order to keep hunger down while targeting body\u2019s storage<\/span><\/span><\/span> fat. Second part consists of low calorie diet. One can have tea or coffee sweetened with stevia, 2 liters of water a day, fruits, vegetables and melba<\/span><\/span><\/span> toast.<\/p>\n Following HCG injections along with the diet plan may help to reduce weight. But this diet has not been approved by FDA, so we cannot really get assurance about weight loss. Another diet plan that one can consider for weight loss is a low carbohydrate diet. In this diet one limits carbohydrates<\/span><\/span> intake like grains, starchy veggies or fruits and focuses on dietary proteins and fats. A low carb diet also helps in reducing risks of heart diseases, cancer and diabetes<\/strong><\/span>.<\/a> A low or no carbohydrate meal may include: beef, tofu, chicken, fish, eggs, nuts, seeds, peanut butter, cheese and non starchy vegetables like carrots, broccoli, salad and green beans.<\/p>\n These diet plans can largely help in weight loss and differs according to individual\u2019s preference<\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n Limiting your food intake to just plant based foods helps in preventing major chronic diseases like heart diseases or cancer. It is fact that cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in America, killing millions of men and women in a year. Having a low fat vegetarian diet may help in preventing coronary artery diseases. A vegan diet followed by other diets like gluten free or low carbohydrates may help in weight loss, while also providing essential nutrients to the body. One may opt for vegetarian recipes that suit his body type because eating well is very important to stay healthy forever.<\/p>\n Know anyone who\u2019s deciding to go the vegan way, then please share this blog with them. Also, post any comments if you have any health-related queries.<\/p>\n Also Read:\u00a0Top 10 Benefits of Being a Vegetarian<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Get useful health tips and remedies regularly, on your Facebook<\/a><\/span> feed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
<\/a>Fats-<\/strong> Vegan diets are cholesterol free and low in saturated fats. The diet reduces
\nthe<\/span><\/span><\/span> risk of getting heart diseases and cancer. Oils, margarine, nuts, nut butters, seed butters, coconut and avocado are some high fat foods which should be consumed in lesser quantity.<\/li>\nGood sources of calcium are tabulated below:<\/h1>\n
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Some more foods preferred by vegans are tabulated below:<\/h1>\n
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