There can be difficulties but being vegan in itself is not difficult
from FredVegrox@lemmy.world to vegan@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 09:23
https://lemmy.world/post/48528033

Fourteen years ago, there were my own money troubles, so that I was needing to get food where there was help for that, this made a difficulty in going vegan when I might have otherwise. Going vegan itself right after that difficulty was not hard, I can give tips for that.

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osanna@lemmy.vg on 23 Jun 09:32 next collapse

Yup. And you’ll feel better too. Going vegan is only as hard as you make it

kbal@fedia.io on 23 Jun 10:29 next collapse

Well I've got a question I've been wondering about for a while, so since you offer advice I'll ask it here:

How do you get enough choline in your diet without spending a lot of money? Searching the web hasn't turned up an answer for me so far. Of all the vitamins and minerals known to nutritional science it's literally the only one I haven't figured out yet. I'm eating eggs for that (it's the number one non-vegan thing about my diet) plus a supplement, and it's still not quite up to the officially recommended level although I think it's probably good enough. But I'd like to not have to eat so many eggs and the research seems to indicate that dietary choline is somewhat important.

mech@feddit.org on 23 Jun 10:43 next collapse

I’d never heard of choline before, but it seems to be available in decent amounts from soy beens, whole grains, peanuts, brussels sprouts and broccoli.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choline#Content_in_foods

Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 Jun 10:46 next collapse

Ive never even heard of this before. Just searched it, found a random webpage

www.healthline.com/nutrition/foods-with-choline#v…

The second half of the list mentions vegan sources, including Cruciferous vegetables, lima beans, red potatoes, almonds, kidney beans and others.

kbal@fedia.io on 23 Jun 11:16 collapse

So from that list —

  • soybeans: one cup gives 39% of the recommended amount.
  • wheat germ: it's expensive and 12 tablespoons for 28% seems like a lot of wheat germ.
  • shiitake: I love them but it's too high a price around here.
  • the rest are small amounts from a variety of stuff some of which I'm already eating but will never add up to the recommended amount unless I totally redesign my whole diet around just this one nutrient.

I was hoping for an answer other than eating two cups of soybeans every day. I'm not even sure whether or not it's possible to get them at a reasonable price in this part of the world, but I guess I'll have to find out.

Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 Jun 14:28 collapse

This is probably why 90% of usians dont get enough, as stated in the article. It’s like this for Vit D around here too. No one gets enough vit D.

If youre really concerned about this one specific vitamin or mineral, Id ask your doctor, if you can, about it. Id guess its not something to be too worried about, but Id ask your doctor about it.

queermunist@lemmy.ml on 23 Jun 13:36 collapse

Studies are actually limited on this. Actual deficiency seems to only occur when intake is less than 50mg/day, which is why vegans generally don’t all drop dead from fatty liver disease even though their daily intake is less than the adequate intake recommendation.

But, again, studies are limited. Society doesn’t really care if vegans kill themselves so no one bothers to study this kind of stuff. I supplement with 250mg/day, because I only really get around 200mg/day from my normal diet and I don’t feel like eating several cups of soybeans lol

jerkface@lemmy.ca on 23 Jun 11:48 collapse

Other than the social element, the difficult part is losing the psychological defense mechanisms that carnism provides, while still having to cope with living in a carnist environment.

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Empathy HURTS. Experiencing a fraction of the pain and atrocity that others experience HURTS. There are no vegan cowards.