https://www.nomeatathlete.com/b12-for-vegans/ Plant Based Diet for Athletes Sat, 12 Mar 2022 19:45:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.nomeatathlete.com/b12-for-vegans/#comment-180052 Sat, 12 Mar 2022 19:45:10 +0000 https://www.nomeatathlete.com/?p=21143#comment-180052 I feel like a lot of vegan plant-based folks don’t understand that supplementation is not an adequate answer for the average person. I was vegan for 15 years before I started my family, and the reality is that most American families do not have 60 dollars per person to spend every month on Dr Fuhrman’s algae-based DHA supplement, not to mention a b12 and vitamin D supplement. It’s much more affordable to follow the usual recommendations and eat fish twice a week, for my family that adds up to about 40 dollars a month for four people. The hyper focus on using expensive supplements to make a strict vegan diet work I think is very alienating to many working class people who would otherwise be interested in eating more plant-based. Also, many health-oriented people these days want to get back to nature and avoid drugs and supplements, they’re suspicious of a diet that requires supplementation, so they’re being drawn more strongly toward the paleo diet. That many people eating that much meat on a daily basis is a big problem for those of us concerned about factory farming. Surely it would be better if those people were just told that it’s okay to eat adequate amounts of meat on a plant based diet to avoid nutritional imbalances.

]]> https://www.nomeatathlete.com/b12-for-vegans/#comment-62029 Fri, 10 Jul 2020 13:35:33 +0000 https://www.nomeatathlete.com/?p=21143#comment-62029 Thank you so much for this article! My husband has pernicious anemia and so B-12 is unable to be absorbed from foods. He has to get B-12 injections regularly to live. We have always eaten pretty healthy, but have been transitioning to more plant based dishes slowly over the past three years with the past two weeks being almost totally plant based. During my education (I’m a registered nurse) I focused a lot of my research on B-12 and was very adamantly against a completely plant based diet. I kept wondering why someone would purposely put their bodies in a position that had almost killed my husband??? I truly appreciate your frank explanation and your knowledge of the subject. We believe that this transition will be very good for our health and for our love of long distance running and we look forward to learning more as we embark on this journey.

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