Whether someone chooses a vegan lifestyle or they just want to eat a more plant based diet, science is continuing to show that plant based nutrition has some impressive benefits. If you’re not already eating a plant based diet, now’s the time to start!

There’s so much you can get from a change in your eating habits, including a level of health you may not expect, more peace of mind, and a feeling of well-being and contentment you didn’t know you could find. That might not sound too scientific, but it’s possible. Here’s what science is saying about the amazing benefits of plant based diets.

Amazing Benefits of Plant Based Diets

You’ll Lose Weight and Reduce Several Health Risks | Benefits of Plant Based Diet

For years, scientists have been saying that people who eat plant based diets typically weigh less than their meat-eating counterparts. They also have a lower risk of heart disease, lower cholesterol levels, and fewer instances of Type 2 diabetes. Those correlations are the strongest in vegans, followed by vegetarians, but being “flexitarian” can also make you healthier. Flexitarians don’t avoid meat or dairy, but they consume much less of it. So while they aren’t vegan or vegetarian they typically have a plant based diet.

You Can Be Responsible for Helping to Save the Planet | Benefits of Plant Based Diets

Even just reducing how much meat you eat, and choosing a more plant based diet, can put you on the right track toward saving the environment. Right now, the planet is in danger. Despite some who don’t agree with that, the science on the matter is very clear. Summers are becoming hotter, winters are becoming colder, and storms are becoming more severe. With all of that going on, you have the chance to help. Eating plant based won’t just provide huge benefits for you, it will also provide huge benefits for the entire earth. We only have one planet, and working together to protect it is a great feeling.

So, What Else is New With Plant Based Eating? | Benefits of Plant Based Diets

One of the most important things to remember about all the amazing benefits of a plant based diet is that the quality of the food matters. You can stop eating meat and dairy and still eat a lot of junk food, but that’s not really going to make you healthy. You’re not going to have the health and happiness you need and want, and you will still feel sluggish and uncomfortable. By focusing not just on what kind of food you’re eating, but on the quality of the food, as well, you have the chance to truly be healthy and reap all the benefits that come along with that. It’s an adjustment and an investment, but one that’s well worth it.

Plant Based is the Way to Go for the Future | Benefits of Plant Based Diets

Finding the abundance and joy in your life is important, and there are a lot of ways that can be done. But if your health isn’t good, you’re tired a lot, or you just generally don’t feel well, it can be very difficult to know what to do next. How do you get out of that? What’s going to make you feel better, and feel like yourself again? Well, choosing a plant based diet is a good start toward reclaiming anything about your health that you may have lost. Not only that, but the planet will thank you, too.

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Let’s be honest: no one can tell you what will make your life better. People may try. They can share what worked for them. Some will offer advice while others deliver admonitions or prescriptions. You may be tempted to listen to well-meaning family or friends, gurus, or doctors, but as Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, said, “The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.” Everything you need to live a healthy, happy life resides within you. When you turn inward and learn how to differentiate swirling, inner noise from authentic wisdom, you are on your way to living your best life.

5 Reasons Why a Vegan Diet Will Make Your Life Better

When it comes to your diet, start by asking yourself a few questions: What kind of a diet feels right for me? What are my values? What’s important to me? What do I enjoy eating and why? What’s best for my body? For the planet? For animals? Let your inner knowing and life experiences guide you. Listen deeply, and then open your mind and heart to other people’s ideas and opinions. Try them on for size. See what fits and ignore the rest. Be genuine and stay true to yourself, which includes being mindful of your body, mind, and spirit.

I adopted a raw, vegan diet to holistically heal chronic stomach problems. I ate a 100 percent raw,vegan diet for five years. Hippocrates also said, “Let food be your medicine, and medicine be your food.” This has worked for me. Today I eat a 100 percent vegan diet, with as much raw food as possible.

Here are 5 ways my vegan diet has made my life better, and how this kind of diet may help others, too:

1. Improved Health

I stopped getting my annual cold and/or flu and my digestion is much better. I used to suffer from Gastro Reflux, but since a raw vegan diet is alkaline (as opposed to acidic), I no longer suffer from GERD (Gastroesophageal reflex disease). Meat produces an acidic environment in the body as opposed to the alkaline environment vegan foods create. Acidic foods contribute to inflammation, which is the first stage of many diseases.

All diseases come from the same source: toxemia. When the lymph system is overburdened with toxins, it can’t do its job of keeping the body healthy.

Another health benefit was that my bad cholesterol went way down while my good cholesterol went up. Before going on my raw, vegan diet, my doctor was about to put me on medication for high cholesterol, but after, he was pleasantly surprised to see that I no longer needed it.

Studies show that eating meat can lead to diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, and other diseases.

2. More Energy

Vegan food is easier to digest than meat and diary products, and leaves me feeling energized! Eating fresh fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, beans, nuts, and seeds, I need less sleep, and feel vibrant, enthusiastic, and well-nourished. A little raw, vegan food goes a long way. I never feel bloated after a meal. I’ve learned that the best test of a great meal is how I feel after eating it. Of course, you want it to taste great going down, but how do you feel after you eat? I feel perfectly satiated after a good meal, but never have that uncomfortable, stuffed feeling.

3. Weight Loss

Not everyone wants or needs to lose weight. When I ate a 100 percent raw, vegan diet I was very thin. I prefer having a little more weight on my body, and a vegan diet keeps me at a slimmer weight than a non-vegan one. Before I went on a vegan diet I was gaining about ten pounds per year. I ate sugar and carbs for energy, which created a downward eating spiral, because I was consuming empty calories, which left me hungry and craving more junk food.  Once I discovered that dark, leafy greens eliminated sugar cravings, I never looked back. It makes sense to nourish myself with whole healthy foods that satisfy, rather than deplete it with edible rubbish.

4. Heightened Consciousness

The first time I became aware of the life force in food I was seated in my back yard and had just finished eating my first plate of raw zucchini pasta. Traditional pastas left me feeling bloated, and I never felt satiated. The raw pasta satisfied me completely. Not only that, I felt high. My backyard came alive. Ivy leaves sparkled. A breeze cooled my skin and the sweet aroma of grapefruit blossoms filled the air. I felt energized, light, and—no doubt about it—buzzed, as if I could feel the life force of the food. I felt connected to the earth through the food I ate. Even though this felt like a physical—visceral—connection, it was also spiritual, because I felt connected to life force.

5. Inner Peace

I am content knowing that no animals were mistreated, drugged, tortured, or killed in order for me to eat. I like not being part of this violent cycle. Many animals suffer, are given strong antibiotics, and live in horrific conditions.

The slaughtering of animals is cruel, senseless, and unnecessary. It gives me peace knowing I don’t subsidize the mistreatment and slaughter of animals. What we take into our bodies has energy. I can do without the energy of animal suffering. I can do without their hormones, antibiotics, adrenaline, and terror.

My life feels lighter and richer as I enjoy my vegan diet. It’s much easier today than ever before to eat this way. There are wonderful vegan cheeses, meat substitutes, and more. It’s been decades since I’ve eaten meat or dairy products, and I don’t miss them at all.

But don’t choose your diet based on someone else’s story. Figure out for yourself what makes sense. Let meals be both nourishing and pleasurable. When you sit down to eat, be present. Be grateful. And enjoy your food!

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Imagine A World Where Money Comes Before Compassion… (Inspirational Speech for Animal Rights)

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Transcript – Imagine A World Where Money Comes Before Compassion… (Inspirational Speech for Animal Rights)

When we look back on our life, in our last breaths, we will all wonder, did my life mean something?
Did I have an impact on this world?
Did I love? Was I loved?
Did I have an impact on anyone else’s life?
Did I contribute to the peace on this planet?
 Did I make a difference?

Before you reach that last breath, today might be the time, to make a change
Make your time on this Earth matter

Oscar Wilde once said “to live, is the rarest thing in the world, most people exist, that is all”

Imagine a world where someone decides who lives and who dies…
Where we humans choose which animals are family pets, and which are food.

Imagine a world where money comes before compassion.

It’s not hard to imagine, because that’s the world we live in.

If we only knew that animal meats can cause cancer and disease, that they’re not making our bodies stronger.

If we only knew that billions of animals suffer and die each year for food.

If we only knew that if everyone on this planet eliminated animal meats from our diets, there would be enough grains to feed every single human being on this planet.

If we only knew that animal farming is the leading cause of environmental degradation…

If we only knew that plants are the planet’s greatest food.

We do know all this.

Millions of people are learning, learning what factory farming does to animals and to us all.

Albert Einstein once said:
“The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.”

I refuse to do nothing when all the information I need is at my fingertips.
 When I know eliminating animal meats and dairy not only eliminates killing another soul, but it also improves my health, improves my life.
 Not only does it improve my life, but it helps the planet I call home: from the rainforests to the oceans.

I refuse to do nothing when I can do something. 
I will be the change that I wish to see in this world.

Charles Darwin once said:

“There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.”

Animals are not products. Life doesn’t have a price tag.
A life deserves respect, dignity, and compassion. All life.

It might not be easy at first to give up something you’ve done for a large part of your life, but each day is a new beginning. You have the power to change your life – to save lives.

What will you do next?

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