الثلاثاء، 18 مارس 2014

Benefits Of Vegan Meal Replacement Shakes

By Gwen Lowe


With people leading a fast lifestyle, fast-food restaurants have become the order of the day. Today, not many can spare some time to prepare a balanced diet consisted of vegetables, whole grains and fruits. You will find people with refrigerators, pantries as well as stomachs full of processed foods that provide a lot of fat, sugar and sodium. There are serious dangers posed by this unhealthy lifestyle and one way to avoid such is to opt for vegan diets. Such contain no diary, poultry, meat, eggs and fish, among others. Vegan meal replacement shakes will also come in handy for those with busy schedules and can hardly spare time to prepare a healthy meal.

Foods void of meat and dairy are not necessarily tasteless or deficient of any nutrient. In fact, one will find almost any essential nutrient for the body in vegetables, fruits and legumes. In some cases, the said nutrients will exist in large quantities or beneficial forms in these vegan foods. Such foods are prepared using leafy greens, nuts, whole grain products, fruits and vegetables.

Other foods fitting this category include spinach, wheat bread, potatoes and broccoli. Vegans also enjoy spaghetti, oatmeal, whole-grain cereals, peanut butter, guacamole, fruit smoothies, hummus and almonds. You will find that these compose a proper balanced diet as required by your body.

Some surprising dishes that can be made from vegan ingredients are eggless cookies and pancakes, corn chowder, vegetable burgers, soy hot dogs, soy yogurt, banana muffins, spinach pies, falafel, pumpkin casserole, rice pudding, and tofu lasagna. Essential proteins and vitamins such as calcium, zinc and iron are found in many of these foods. People who choose this diet can rest assured that they are getting plenty of what their body needs; even without dairy, meat and eggs.

Even if the said foods are easy to make and will take not much of your time, there are people with busy schedules that do not allow them the comfort of consistent healthy eating. Vegan meals replacement shakes come in handy for such people. There are various choices in the market today, making sure those with tight schedules do not have any excuse to miss proper diet. Online stores and local retailers have these packages in different sizes, flavor and nutrient composition.

The packages come with meals composed of proteins equivalent to that found in 26 grams of rice or pea, per serving. These can give enough energy for one to go that extra busy day or engage in any hectic workout. Others cater for your daily needs for vegetables and fruits, vitamins and minerals. With the continued improvements, the market is full of some that will offer equivalent of what the super-foods have. Foods like millet, seaweed and amaranth fall in this class, and there are powder forms of equivalent nutrition value.

Different ways of taking these supplements exist. You can add them to your juice, water or almond milk. They are available in packets of different sizes. Large quantities exist in canisters too.

They also come in affordable price ranges. A single-serve packet is about $3. Depending on your requirements, you can get large canisters worth $40. Generally, both fanatical vegans and people seeking a vegan diet for health reasons have various choices available for them. This leaves the different groups of people without a good reason not to lead a healthy eating lifestyle.




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