What is with you vegans and nuts?!
Uggg vegans always putting nuts on EVERYTHING!. I am allergic--
I went to the vegan restaurant and there was NOTHING on the menu!.
I went to this vegan supermarket and there was nut dust everywhere and I got the hives!.
AHHH! I'm so sick of it-- my family is making me cook a turkey since thanksgiving is at my place and my vegan friend are making like GIANT nut rolls!.
I feel so alone!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I went to the vegan restaurant and there was NOTHING on the menu!.
I went to this vegan supermarket and there was nut dust everywhere and I got the hives!.
AHHH! I'm so sick of it-- my family is making me cook a turkey since thanksgiving is at my place and my vegan friend are making like GIANT nut rolls!.
I feel so alone!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Answers:
sorry to hear about your situation!.
meals can be made without nuts!.
i think indian cooking is made without nuts!. italian too!.
The following suggestions helped me overcome my own allergies, and I've seen them help many clients and friends as well:
"Go Raw" or take digestive enzymes!. Each raw food carries its own enzymes necessary for digestion!. When heat destroys these enzymes through cooking, our pancreas works overtime, creating "digestive enzymes" to break down food!. (Humans have the largest pancreas relative to body weight in the entire animal kingdom!.) If the pancreas becomes fatigued, inadequately digested food particles arrive in the intestines!. From there, undigested protein molecules sometimes enter the blood stream and cause an immune response!. Low stomach acid can also result in incomplete digestion, and some people find raw blended greens a natural means of improving hydrochloric acid levels!. (For more information on green smoothies, read Green for Life by Victoria Boutenko!.) Some foods have enzyme inhibitors and need to be soaked in order to activate their enzymes!. A few actually digest easier when cooked!. If you don't like raw foods or have minimal access to them, digestive enzyme supplements taken right before meals can also reduce your pancreatic load until you get back on track!.
Control Candida!. Commonly known as "yeast," Candida albicans exists in the digestive tracts of all humans!. Antibiotics, birth control pills, stress, and sugar can result in Candida Overgrowth, causing Leaky Gut Syndrome, food intolerances/allergies, thrush, "yeast infections" and a host of other symptoms!. Though difficult to eradicate, Candida does hate oil of oregano, pau d'arco, sugar restriction, and probiotics like L-acidophilus and B-bifidus!. For more information, you can read The Yeast Connection: A Medical Breakthrough by Dr!. William G!. Crook!. From a Medical Intuitive perspective, I've also noticed Candida resonates with "victim!." As people empower themselves and curb feelings of victimization, Candida symptoms often dramatically improve!.
Cleanse your Body!. Even though vegan diets tend to be "cleaner" than the Standard American Diet, at times we can pass a threshold of toxic or allergenic overload!. Maybe it's hay fever season, we lived entirely on Tofutti last summer, have black mold in our home, or accidentally ate larvae on organic produce!. Ewwww!!! Hey, sometimes it happens! A friend of mine always quotes Harry Potter's Hagrid: "Better out than in!" Whether through a full parasite cleanse, a one-day-a-week fast, or gentle herbal support, food sensitivities implore us to lighten our load!. Macrobiotic principles suggest people chew food well and detox with the seasons: Liver/Gall Bladder (Spring); Heart/Small intestines (Summer); Spleen-Pancreas/Stomach (Late Summer); Lungs/Large Intestine (Fall); Kidneys/Bladder (Winter)!. For more information on cleansing with the seasons, I recommend The Self-Healing Cookbook, by Kristina Turner!.
Cleanse your Mind!. Stress has been shown to lower the threshold for allergens, so take a few deep breaths and relax!. Spend some quiet, reflective time each day!. Ask yourself what stands in the way of your being able to eat the foods you like!. What expectations, fears or judgments are limiting your naturally free and compassionate mind and heart!? On the physical level, allergies and intolerances result from mistaken judgments—the body labels a neutral substance "bad" and launches an attack!. The process, not the antigen, causes the problem!. We accept the cliché, "You are what you eat" but rarely recognize that the inverse is true as well!. We eat as we are!. If we want to re-pattern our bodies to embrace the nourishment we offer them, then it helps to stop reacting in other areas of life!. In my work, I've also found that people sometimes react to foods simply due to their association with an unpleasant event that no longer consciously registers!. In such cases, food allergies offer an opportunity to heal the soul as well as the body!.
Eat with Gratitude and Love!. A little Mindfulness goes a long way in this fast-paced world of ours!. Because gratitude and love are incompatible with fear, cultivating these states encourages our bodies to feel "friendlier" and less likely to overreact!. Pausing before we eat also signals the body to transition to a more relaxed state, which optimizes digestion!. In case words fail you, June Cotner's Graces: Prayers and Poems for Everyday Meals and Special Occasions offers multi-cultural prayers, poems, songs, and invocations ranging from a Sanskrit sun salutation to Native American blessings, to inspirational words by Helen Keller and Ralph Waldo Emerson!. Whether a formal reading or a quick lift of the heart, expressing gratitude and love for our food reminds us of the reasons many of choose a vegan lifestyle!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
meals can be made without nuts!.
i think indian cooking is made without nuts!. italian too!.
The following suggestions helped me overcome my own allergies, and I've seen them help many clients and friends as well:
"Go Raw" or take digestive enzymes!. Each raw food carries its own enzymes necessary for digestion!. When heat destroys these enzymes through cooking, our pancreas works overtime, creating "digestive enzymes" to break down food!. (Humans have the largest pancreas relative to body weight in the entire animal kingdom!.) If the pancreas becomes fatigued, inadequately digested food particles arrive in the intestines!. From there, undigested protein molecules sometimes enter the blood stream and cause an immune response!. Low stomach acid can also result in incomplete digestion, and some people find raw blended greens a natural means of improving hydrochloric acid levels!. (For more information on green smoothies, read Green for Life by Victoria Boutenko!.) Some foods have enzyme inhibitors and need to be soaked in order to activate their enzymes!. A few actually digest easier when cooked!. If you don't like raw foods or have minimal access to them, digestive enzyme supplements taken right before meals can also reduce your pancreatic load until you get back on track!.
Control Candida!. Commonly known as "yeast," Candida albicans exists in the digestive tracts of all humans!. Antibiotics, birth control pills, stress, and sugar can result in Candida Overgrowth, causing Leaky Gut Syndrome, food intolerances/allergies, thrush, "yeast infections" and a host of other symptoms!. Though difficult to eradicate, Candida does hate oil of oregano, pau d'arco, sugar restriction, and probiotics like L-acidophilus and B-bifidus!. For more information, you can read The Yeast Connection: A Medical Breakthrough by Dr!. William G!. Crook!. From a Medical Intuitive perspective, I've also noticed Candida resonates with "victim!." As people empower themselves and curb feelings of victimization, Candida symptoms often dramatically improve!.
Cleanse your Body!. Even though vegan diets tend to be "cleaner" than the Standard American Diet, at times we can pass a threshold of toxic or allergenic overload!. Maybe it's hay fever season, we lived entirely on Tofutti last summer, have black mold in our home, or accidentally ate larvae on organic produce!. Ewwww!!! Hey, sometimes it happens! A friend of mine always quotes Harry Potter's Hagrid: "Better out than in!" Whether through a full parasite cleanse, a one-day-a-week fast, or gentle herbal support, food sensitivities implore us to lighten our load!. Macrobiotic principles suggest people chew food well and detox with the seasons: Liver/Gall Bladder (Spring); Heart/Small intestines (Summer); Spleen-Pancreas/Stomach (Late Summer); Lungs/Large Intestine (Fall); Kidneys/Bladder (Winter)!. For more information on cleansing with the seasons, I recommend The Self-Healing Cookbook, by Kristina Turner!.
Cleanse your Mind!. Stress has been shown to lower the threshold for allergens, so take a few deep breaths and relax!. Spend some quiet, reflective time each day!. Ask yourself what stands in the way of your being able to eat the foods you like!. What expectations, fears or judgments are limiting your naturally free and compassionate mind and heart!? On the physical level, allergies and intolerances result from mistaken judgments—the body labels a neutral substance "bad" and launches an attack!. The process, not the antigen, causes the problem!. We accept the cliché, "You are what you eat" but rarely recognize that the inverse is true as well!. We eat as we are!. If we want to re-pattern our bodies to embrace the nourishment we offer them, then it helps to stop reacting in other areas of life!. In my work, I've also found that people sometimes react to foods simply due to their association with an unpleasant event that no longer consciously registers!. In such cases, food allergies offer an opportunity to heal the soul as well as the body!.
Eat with Gratitude and Love!. A little Mindfulness goes a long way in this fast-paced world of ours!. Because gratitude and love are incompatible with fear, cultivating these states encourages our bodies to feel "friendlier" and less likely to overreact!. Pausing before we eat also signals the body to transition to a more relaxed state, which optimizes digestion!. In case words fail you, June Cotner's Graces: Prayers and Poems for Everyday Meals and Special Occasions offers multi-cultural prayers, poems, songs, and invocations ranging from a Sanskrit sun salutation to Native American blessings, to inspirational words by Helen Keller and Ralph Waldo Emerson!. Whether a formal reading or a quick lift of the heart, expressing gratitude and love for our food reminds us of the reasons many of choose a vegan lifestyle!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
It's mainly about sources of protein, but also minerals and to some extent B vitamins!. Nuts aren't necessary as such, and i agree that walnuts are disgusting!. The point is, you've got cereals, non-cereal grains like quinoa and amaranth, then pulses, other seeds and nuts!. Those are our main sources of protein!. Pulses are the mainstay, but after a while they get boring and they're bad news flatulence-wise, so nuts are an answer!. Not the only one though!. Walnuts, i suppose, are positive because they grow locally (if you live in a temperate northern region)!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I'm vegan and I don't eat nuts!. There's a lot you can eat, salads, stir fries, just ask the restaurant to leave the nuts off your order!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
since vegans dont meat (main source of meat in most diets )they dont get their recommended proteins intake
so they need another source of protein
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so they need another source of protein
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I feel you!. Nuts have protein, if your not eating meat you need to find the protein somewhere!. But they can always replace them with beans to cater to people with allergies!.
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My sentiments exactly! Vegans, no offence intended, but you all seem to be on a crusade to change the behaviours of everyone else!. I am all for it if you want to be a vegan, but don't try to make me into one!. Some of us are true carnivores, others of us have to avoid nuts!. Some of us like to hunt and eat the kill, others of us like to gather acorns!. So live and let live! Don't try to make me feel guilty just because I happen to have a different belief system than you do!. So, I am off now, to find an oak grove!. The wild turkeys will be settling in for the winter, soon, and I should be able to get one for Thanksgiving dinner!. I sure hope some vegan hasn't beat me to the acorns!. Without them, the wild turkeys won't stay in the oak grove!.!.!.Www@FoodAQ@Com