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What is the Pegan Diet and what are its benefits?
We figure out where it came from and what you can eat if you stick to it.
Apart from the notorious “to be or not to be?” the eternal question is also “which diet is better?”. There are a great many of them, and everyone chooses for himself what he likes, his taste and liking. A new diet has recently been added to the great multitude – the Pegan diet. Its founder was Dr. Mark Hyman. During a discussion about nutrition, two of his colleagues got into a verbal squabble: one argued that the vegan diet was the best, the other was an advocate of the paleo diet. To soften the rough edges, Mark joked that the best diet is Pegan, combining both diets in one name. And later I thought: maybe this is not such a joke …
What is the Pegan Diet?
The name comes from a cross between vegan and paleo diets. The essence of each of them is as follows: a vegan diet is built on the idea of rejecting meat products, as well as rejecting gelatin and honey. The paleo diet means eating meat, fruits and vegetables, but avoiding legumes, dairy products, root vegetables with a high level of carbohydrates, cereals …
It turns out that the connecting link in both diets is vegetables and fruits that are allowed to be consumed both there and there. But it is, of course, almost impossible to eat only these foods. And in this case, we will not talk about the full value and balance of nutrition. So Hyman took the best of both diets and came up with the following Pegan diet formula.
What can you eat on a pegan diet?
The Pegan diet excludes the consumption of any kind of semi-finished products, frozen vegetables and fruits, canned food, fast food, as well as foods with sugar, refined grains and bread.
The ideal pegan, according to Hayman, is a person who also refused imported products from abroad and prefers local ones. At best, he buys from farmers.
You can eat meat and fish, however, grown in free water and not stuffed with growth hormones and antibiotics. You can eat any vegetables and fruits, except root vegetables, mushrooms, nuts, legumes, cereals, eggs, vegetable oil, soy, nut or coconut milk.
Even desserts and alcohol are acceptable! But, of course, within reasonable limits, about twice a week for one serving. And once a week you can arrange a cheat meal: allow yourself absolutely everything you want!
What are the benefits of the Pegan Diet?
The fact that a person does not have to give up meat and cereals, as required by one diet, or give up fish and eggs, as required by another, is a huge advantage.
before other diets. After all, the diet turns out to be saturated and rich in all kinds of important minerals, vitamins and amino acids.
And a person does not feel a shortage of food, because he, in fact, has no obvious limitations, because of which it can be psychologically and physically difficult for him. On the contrary, the diet encourages its adherents to consume quality and healthy products from local markets, rather than industrial “gifts” from supermarkets.
Benefits of peganism
Diet in the classical sense cannot be called peganism. It is rather a diet that will allow you to get rid of harmful products in the diet and make the body cleaner and healthier.
On such a diet, you can not only benefit the body, but also lose weight, because the diet still creates a calorie deficit, which is necessary for losing excess weight. Establish a drinking regimen, add sports to your life – and you will gradually, without sharp leaps for the body, go to an ideal body!
Cons of the Pegan Diet
Despite all the positive aspects, there are still disadvantages. The amount of carbohydrates does not reach the required level, so a person can feel drowned, lifeless, as they say, just woke up, and already tired!
Yes, and without dairy products is also not good, because the body may lack vitamin D, which is already most often deficient in the body, as well as calcium.
We believe it is important to listen to your body and fill in the gaps it needs. Diets are good, but only when they benefit the body, rather than depress it. It is worth taking a closer look at peganism, especially if you know for sure that you will not be able to follow strict diets, but there is almost everything, but high-quality and healthy is your goal.