Your Body
We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are. — The Talmud
My personal experience with becoming vegan has been an increase in energy, improvement in digestion, increased enjoyment of food, a lowering of cholesterol, stable blood pressure, safe glucose levels, and slimming down a bit. And I am not the only one (see Newsweek article for another example).
Veganism has been credited with lowering cholesterol levels, decreasing incidences of heart disease, lowering blood pressure, preventing incidence of
cancer, decreasing incidence of kidney stones and decreasing calcium loss and osteoporosis. One would expect a plant diet to lower cholesterol as plant foods have no cholesterol in them. Heart disease and blood pressure would also logically decrease without animal fat and the burden they place on the body. There is also concern that animal products actually interfere with calcium absorption in the body, so even though a plant diet might have less calcium than an animal-based diet, it may allow for better absorption. There is also evidence that veganism decreases cancer, particularly in breast and colon. Not only does a vegan diet decrease animal fat but there are certain properties in plant foods that seem to fight cancer as well. (See PCRM.)
