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Can one live on rice, vegetables and legumes alone?
Can one live on rice, vegetables and legumes alone?
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Yes, just add fruit, too.
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Go high carb, low fat, whole foods, plant-based VEGAN! I went vegan this year and have lost 40 pounds, with minimal exercise, and eating AS MUCH as I desire bringing down my BMI from 30 to 24. I weigh less now than I did throughout high school, as an overweight teenager, even when I exercised for hours while on Junior Varsity and Varsity sports teams. I went to my annual physical earlier this month, and even my doctor was in shock.
My goal for next year is to lose 30-40 more pounds, I just need to start exercising on a regular basis. Nothing crazy, just 30-60 minutes of jogging, Ballet Beautiful, bike riding.. things like that.
I think it's amazing what I've accomplished so far, just by changing my diet, though. It's a lot easier to go vegan than it seems. I was never vegetarian, I went from being able to eat an entire box of pizza or entire tub of ice cream in one sitting to a full-fledged vegan. I now spend a lot less money on groceries, have more energy (never need caffeine, and never feel lethargic like I used to on a regular basis), have more concentration, am learning to cook, and etc. Try it for a week, that's how I started, and I felt so good that I just kept going, and it's now been 5 months! You can get every nutrient from plant foods, including protein!
Where do you get your protein?! 10 comebacks from a Vegan.
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The only vitamin you need to supplement is B12, and one I personally recommend is Garden of Life's B12 spray (cause I personally hate swallowing pills, and methylcobalamin is better than cyanocobalamin). You can buy it at any health foods store (Whole Foods, Sprouts, Trader Joe's, etc.), or online.
More on vitamin B12
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These two movies turned me into a vegan overnight.
Forks Over Knives
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Processed People
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Cowspiracy
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Here are some good YouTube channels that have helped me, too.
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Good luck!
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Dear Can one live on rice, vegetables and legumes alone,
It depends on your genetic background.
The A blood type could live on nothing else but greens, beans and nuts, if they chose the right ones.
However, if you are O blood type, your body needs certain animal proteins on a regular basis to run optimally.
Here is a little more about my advice.
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Happy reading and good luck!!
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Theoretically yes. But it would require a lot of variation in your vegetables and legumes to get a mix of plant protein sources. Plant proteins are incomplete, so to get the protein your body needs you would need to mix many different sources - also, plant protein sources tend to have less protein. The other issue is getting your healthy fats, which would be possible but you would need to approach it very scientifically.
All in all, possible but difficult to do in a healthy way. If you were to throw in things like nuts, healthy oils, and other grains it would be easier.
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