Are You Ready To Go Vegan?
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What does it mean to "go vegan"?
Making the decision to go vegan means that your lifestyle is a daily, conscious effort to impart the least amount of harm to your own health by refusing all animal products as food, and to animals, by avoiding their exploitation in ways that cause harm, suffering, or unnecessary death.
FOR YOUR HEALTH
Diets containing animal products are harmful to your health. According to a study published in 2016 by JAMA International Medicine, "High animal protein intake was positively associated with cardiovascular mortality and high-plant protein intake was inversely associated with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, especially among individuals with at least one lifestyle risk factor."
Song M, Fung TT, Hu FB, et al. Association of Animal and Plant Protein Intake With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality. JAMA Intern Med. 2016;176(10):1453–1463. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.4182
FOR THE ANIMALS
Animals are sentient beings who experience pain, happiness, and fear just like us. Our culture has perpetuated a speciest culture in which animals living in constant suffering are simply accepted or ignored. Every dollar you spend is a vote either for or against animal suffering and cruelty. Going vegan means no longer purchasing animal products for food, clothing or furnishings, products tested on animals, or using animals as a source of exploitative entertainment.
Philip Low, The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness July 7, 2012
FOR THE PLANET
When you consume animal products, you are contributing to a system that is harming our planet. The greenhouse gasses attributed to livestock are more than double that from all transportation. The deforestation of the Amazon (80%) and other parts of the world are attributed to cattle being raised for food. Additionally, livestock are fed 35% of world's grains while millions of humans are starving each day.
Steinfeld, Henning. Livestock's Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2006. Print.
Let's do vegan... together.
Hippocrates has been pioneering the world of vegan nutrition since the 1950's. You have many options when switching to a plant-based diet, however, not all of those options are healthy. Don't fall into the trap of what many call "junk food veganism" which can lead to deficiencies and ailments.
We are the experts when it comes to adopting a healthy, whole food, nutrient-dense, vegan diet. Doing so will help you achieve maximum wellness in all areas of your life.
Learn with us.
Make the switch to vegan with confidence by participating in our Life Transformation Program at our beautiful retreat center in West Palm Beach, Florida. The lives that will be transformed will not only be your own, but those of future generations that will reap the benefits of a healthier, kinder, and more conscious planet.
At Hippocrates Wellness (HHI), we have spent more than six decades structuring the absolute best and most comprehensive, effective and affordable vegan health and wellness program possible.
Download the free Vegan Food Combining Guide
Combining food in the most beneficial way for human health is a new science with two overriding principles:
1. Foods are chemicals, and combinations of chemicals produce different effects.
2. We all digest food at various rates in various acid and alkaline environments.
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