Lysine is an essential amino acid and therefore quite important that I get the required amount. I might need to pay more attention to lysine and cystine. Protein is one of the last things I worry about as a vegan. So where do you get your protein from? I get all of my 142% RDA (on average) from plants. This will definitely be considered in my next blood test. Although it would increase, I doubt my ratio will differ too much. Most oils contain large amounts of omega-6, shown in the fab chart below (chart taken from GB Health Watch ).įrom my Lipids bar chart above, we can see my ratio is around 1:1 but as i had previously mentioned, maybe I had left out some of the oil we used to cook and considering we mainly use vegetable or olive oil for frying, this would definitely mean an increase in my omega-6. The closer the ratio is to 1:1 the healthier, however the ratio is more like 1:16 for the average person in this day and age because of the over-use of oils. First off, both are slightly low but I don’t think I took into account all of the oil we used when frying our dishes, which would mean they would increase (especially omega-6).Īdditionally, there is a lot of research regarding the omega-3 omega-6 ratio. LipidsĬronometer tells me I have a very healthy amount of fat in my diet, pretty much kissing the 100% line at just over 99% so I’m happy to give this one a green tick of approval (for at least the week I recorded the data). Hopefully he’ll have commented (below) by the time you’re reading this. Wonderful Husband, do you wish to comment on how we should go forward? His cooking is super tasty, but this amount of salt cannot be healthy… I think this is definitely something I would like to address in our diet and hopefully cut down on quite a lot. Not only do we cook a lot of asian recipes (you should totally check out the recipe book Vegan Street Food by Jackie Kearney ) hence we use a lot of tamari, but Wonderful Husband also likes to add salt. Lastly is the sodium and I totally blame this one on Wonderful Husband. So a little bit of recipe planning wouldn’t hurt over the next couple of weeks. Fortunately it’s not hard for vegans to gain potassium and some great sources are spinach, white potato and aubergines (all which I love!). On average I got 51% of my RDA for the week in question. This was weirdly low and something I need to definitely consider. I won’t worry about calcium, as it was so close, but to be safe I’ll make an effort to drink more fortified milk. This was, on average, slightly below the RDA at 90%. This graph is a little more interesting than the previous one. To be honest I’m really not bothered about vitamin D because I live in Spain and I would guess that I get the majority of my vitamin D from the sun. On average I got about 79% of my Recommended Daily Allowances (RDA) of vitamin D from my food. Everything looks pretty normal apart from the dodgy vitamin D. Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce you to the vitamin chart. So let’s see what this vegan was deficient in… Vitamins
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