https://veganrabbit.com/hard-to-go-vegan/ Sun, 29 Aug 2021 19:51:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://veganrabbit.com/hard-to-go-vegan/#comment-15637 Sun, 29 Aug 2021 19:51:48 +0000 http://veganrabbit.com/?p=8215#comment-15637 Taste (aka palatability) is directly linked to satiety and optimal nutrition. The cells in our body give us direct feedback based on the flavor of something as to whether it is satisfying a nutritional need. This is called the “wisdom body.” It is incredible. Nutrient needs change from person to person over time — highly dynamic. The modern food system is designed to confuse this process by hijacking this process with foods engineered to “taste good” (ie nutritious) without actually being nutritious, giving us a dopamine hit without the concomitant satiety. This creates the junk food addiction hamster wheel, which is very profitable (and wasteful and damaging). Eating a whole foods diet helps extricate us from this biological state of confusion. At that point, it becomes much more clear what we should eat, because our bodies flat out tell us. Variations in gut microbiome, genetics and epigenetics factor immensely into this as well. Adaptive flexibility and diversity is key to good nutrition. An optimal diet will not look the same between any two people, or with any single person over time. You can read more about this in the book, “Nourishment” by Fred Provenza.

]]> https://veganrabbit.com/hard-to-go-vegan/#comment-15629 Sat, 03 Jul 2021 03:26:37 +0000 http://veganrabbit.com/?p=8215#comment-15629 Hey! Those are some good reasons. I’m still a teen and I’m looking into veganism or vegetarianism. I have a question though, what is your point-of-view on shearing sheep to make sweaters n stuff? It doesn’t hurt them, in fact, it helps them a lot by keeping them cool. Kind of like pruning a bush. Is it humane to turn unneeded wool into clothes?

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