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diabetic vegan

izzzi

izzzi

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I have been on a vegan type diet for just over one year now, my results are more than satisfactory.(I am not a vegan,just the diet)
I have looked on Google to find out how many actual vegans are diabetic, Oddly enough I am having a problem finding this information.

This could be a indication that a vegan type diet is not such a bad idea compared to many so called simple diets out there.

Roy,
 
I have been a veggie for about 25 years give or take. I am not truly vegan as I still drink at least a pint of semi-skimmed milk per day. I became type 2 several years ago, so being vegan or close, didn't stop it happening. I am interested to know what your diet consists of.
Lee
 
lrw60 said:
I have been a veggie for about 25 years give or take. I am not truly vegan as I still drink at least a pint of semi-skimmed milk per day. I became type 2 several years ago, so being vegan or close, didn't stop it happening. I am interested to know what your diet consists of.
Lee
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I would say the same as you, just without dairy products.
Oddly enough we also have a lot of gluten free products. I have porage with hot water to start with,(I never was a milk person but I do miss cheese), then the usual fruits,nuts,beans and veg. My lot are quite clever at making meals tasty and attractive.

Like you I like classic cars, which keeps me out of mischief in my semi retirement.

Roy. :)
 
Hi Roy, I suspect that the reason you cant find any info on this is simply the number of vegans in the UK being very small. This is from Wikipedea and talks about vegitarians:

From Wiki said:
United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, increasing numbers of people have adopted a vegetarian diet since the end of World War II.[41] The Food Standards Agency Public Attitudes to Food survey 2009 reported that 3% of respondents were found to be "completely vegetarian", with an additional 5% "partly vegetarian (don't eat some types of fish or meat)
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So if there are 2 million diabetics in a population of 66 million thats 3% of this country are diabetic. And if 3% of the population are vegetarian then fewer still would be vegan.

Now if only 3% of the country are truly vegetarian then that would mean that (3% of 2 million) there are just 6000 diabetic vegetarians in the UK, now by that reckoning then there would be only a small fraction of those 6000 that would be vegan.

So if my maths is correct then I think the reason that so few vegans are diabetic is that there are relatively few vegans to start with as a percentage of the population so diet would probably not have much to do with it unless there are non vegan diabetics at all which I doubt.
 
Hi izzi I am veggie no fish only almond milk been veggie for abt 50 years vegan on and off......I do eat veggie cheese only half fat now..... K
 
I did in fact get my maths wrong in the above post, not sure what I did there :oops:

But there are still relativity few vegans in the UK, the vegetarian society of UK says that only 2% of the UK population are vegetarian and less than 1% are vegan:

https://www.vegsoc.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=753
 
Thanks Sid, that does make a lot of sense.

Do you think that the low % of diabetes on a vegan type diet are not being highlighted to be a success.

I think I am getting a little lost in my calculations.

Roy.
 
I will go out on a limb here and offer the suggestion that veggie/vegan diets are more healthy because they are a chosen way of life. I made a decision not to eat meat, I then had to determine what meat was, that meant no eggs. Some veggies will eat eggs. I think if you make a decision to change what you eat you will look into what you eat more closely. A bit like low carbing.

Some veggie friends went a step further and wouldn't eat anything that wasn't organically grown. I don't think they had an ounce of fat between them, and they were and still are superbly fit.
 
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