Brenda Davis, R.D. weighs the pros and cons of a whole food diet vs the paleo diet and why the paleo diet gains popularity over other alternatives.
Internationally acclaimed dietitian Brenda Davis explores the health benefits of vegan diets compared to other dietary choices; explains protein and amino acid requirements at various stages of life; describes fats and essential fatty acids and their value in plant-based diets; investigates carbohydrate facts and fallacies; reveals the truth about wheat, gluten, and grains; pinpoints where to obtain calcium, iron, zinc and other minerals without animal products; clarifies the importance of obtaining vitamin B12; and shows how to attain optimal nutrition during pregnancy and lactation and how to achieve and maintain healthy weights and exceptional fitness on a vegan diet.While much of the emphasis is on the health advantages that vegan diets offer. Plant-based nutrition truly benefits the entire planet, and every bite makes a difference.
Brenda Davis, registered dietitian and nutritionist, is a leader in her field and an internationally acclaimed speaker. She has worked as a public health nutritionist, clinical nutrition specialist, nutrition consultant and academic nutrition instructor. She is currently on a diabetes intervention research project in Majuro, Marshall Islands. Brenda spent 8 months in Majuro in 2006 and returns for 4-6 week periods every year or two. Brenda is a past chair of the Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of the American Dietetic Association. In July 2007, she was inducted into the Vegetarian Hall of Fame. A co-author of nine books – award winners, Becoming Vegan: Comprehensive Edition(2014) and Becoming Vegan: Express Edition (2013), and the best-sellers, Becoming Vegan (2000), Becoming Vegetarian (1994, 1995), The New Becoming Vegetarian (2003) and Defeating Diabetes (2003), Dairy-free and Delicious (2001)and Becoming Raw (2010) and Raw-food Revolution Diet (2008). Brenda lives in Kelowna, British Columbia with her husband Paul. She has two grown children, Leena and Cory.
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for many many years when I was in university we were told it wasn’t safe unless you were an adult only an adult and unless you also consumed eggs and dairy products and and so for many dietitians and doctors and especially in Europe they’re probably 20 years behind where we are in North American thinking about plant-based diets and they there there are position statements it all over Europe saying that plant-based diets are not safe and adequate especially for growing children so we have a position statement from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 2016 that says that that vegetarian including pure vegetarian or vegan diets are safe and adequate and actually may provide health benefits in disease prevention they go on to say that they are safe and adequate at every stage of the life cycle from infancy through childhood adolescence during the senior years for athletes the works that there’s an you know no life cycle category that they would not be appropriate for if they’re appropriately planned and that’s the key and that’s you know what my my career has been about is to help people appropriately plan them because of course there are adequate and at net inadequate vegetarian diet
does vegan ensure good nutrition absolutely positively not not a chance so well when you think about it potato chips are vegan coca-cola is vegan or any other soda you could be living on junk food you could be eating white toast with margarine and jam for breakfast with you know a soda and and french fries with vegan gravy for lunch you could be eating junk all day long and and be in worse much much worse shape than the than an omnivore eating even a semi-decent diet so absolutely positively not there you know at both ends of the extreme so you’ve got sort of the the folks that may say well oh I care about his animal rights or the environment my I’m not that concerned about my health only whatever well there’s concerns there about nutritional adequacy of the diet then on the other end of the spectrum people that are really rigid that that you know it’s it’s whole food plant-based but that say you know want to be a hundred percent natural don’t think we should need any kind of supplementation at all they can end up b12 deficient they can end up vitamin D deficient they can end up iodine deficient they can end up with iron deficiency or even zinc deficiency and so the diet needs to be appropriately planned wherever on this spectrum you lie so definitely being vegan does not guarantee better health and an omnivore but that having been said we know that the average vegan is at some benefit compared to the average omnivore