"The word 'veganism' denotes a philosophy and way of living which seeks to end the idea of animals as property and exclude all forms of intentional exploitation of, use of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing, research or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, including people and the environment.
In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals."
Baking soda and lemon juice works for people as far as gas problems.
This should give you the info to help start off veganism a lot easier:
Here is a list of animal ingredients to avoid:
http://www.happycow.net/health-animal-in鈥?/a>
More things to avoid:
Animals as clothes:
Leather, skins, furs, wool, silk, down, feathers...
Animals as entertainment:
Circuses, rodeos, zoos, aquariums, animal fights, animal races, hunting...
Companies that DO NOT test on animals(however CHECK INGREDIENTS they only verify testing not ingredients):
http://www.leapingbunny.org/indexcus.php
Vegan products:
http://www.veganstore.com/ (I know them well and they aren't doing as well in this economy but they are a great source for awesome hard to find stuff and they are very friendly and giving even if they really don't have much if anything to give)
http://gentleworld.org/vegan-evolution/p鈥?/a>
Vegan recipes:
http://vegweb.com/
More info on veganism:
http://animal-rights.com/
http://www.vegetus.org/honey/honey.htm (I get the honey question a lot)
http://www.youcanhelpstopthis.com/How can I maintain a vegan diet when I get extremely gassy and bloated?
I am pretty much the same way. Figure out which foods it is that truly do this to you and write it down. For me, I found that I just cannot eat raw broccoli, certain beans, and a few other veggies. Fruit doesn't bother me and even if I cook the broccoli, it won't make me bloated. The only beans I can really eat are garbonzo beans.
Just make a list of things you know to stay away fro
Your body is transitioning from eating meat to plants. It's going to mess with your digestive system til your body gets used to the change. It took a couple months for me. Tums really helped with the cramps.How can I maintain a vegan diet when I get extremely gassy and bloated?
Eat a more balanced diet. You are wrecking your digestive system. The bacterias in your stomach is being over loaded by the over consumption of plant fibers and acids.
Peel, soak, de-seed all the food that you can.
If you soak and cook your own beans- take the skins off. If you soak them, keep them in water and refresh ot daily, for a bout 4 days, the gassy bubbles in the water are the gas- the more you soak, the less gas is in the beans, and the skins will slip off after a few days. As lo if you soak them, they take half the time to cook. It's the main thing I'd recommend. THe first few days while you have beans soaking you'll have to wait, but after you're on a roll, it's great to have beans, chickpeas, lentils, all legumes that don't give you 70% of the gas- you've got rid of the skins and sulfur.
For the rest. Things like broccoli, cucumber, potato, tomatoes- anything that can be peeled- PEEL it. Broccoli is a good example. Take the tough skin from the stem and pull it upwards off the stem, up towards the tiny green buds ( the part most people think it the edible part- when in fact broccoli stems are fantastic to eat).
SO take the tough skin off, then shave the very tinyend dark green buds off. Save for a soup, or use as ccompost YOu're left with a bald pale green tree- cook it, and you don't get much bloating from it- the skin is totally indigestible and all your intestine is, is a silky soft delicate tube that you stuff ffoodinto.
Potatos- peel them. Tomatoes, peel them, blanch first then slip the skins off. Or use canned. I love tomatoes, so I know this may be a chore- your choice.
Apples, pears, green bean ends, celery- peel them all. Celery- break the stems backward, de-string them THEN peel them. May be a lot of work- but for your case, needed. Try these things without losing the nutrition ( celery stems and stings are no nutrition, it's just the soft celery flesh that you want) and see how you do.
Another thing- cooking gassy foods like broccoli , cauliflower beans, okra, cabbage- will make the gas release faster so it hits your digestive tract just when it's in full release mode.
Raw foods do not do this at all. Believe me on that, I'm a prime example.
Raw foods are biologically designed ( it's this amazing company called nature, and it makes us too) to work WITH the body. Not against. WHen you cook the structure out of foods, you end up eating the strings, tough fib res, and the food has 30% of the nutrients left. These are blended into watery pulpy mush, and your body does not have the digestive powers going that you have when you crush the raw foods to squash their juices out, it's already done.
Think of it like putting whole cooked apples, oranges and bananas with peel in to a juicer, blending is halfway, then drinking it and calling it juice- not nice.
Eating raw don't know if you've considered this, but the gas and bloating was the first thing I noticed gone.
I also used Bean many times and ended up inhospitall from it. It makes things worse.How can I maintain a vegan diet when I get extremely gassy and bloated?
What you need to do is follow the vegan diet properly. Know what you should eat. Your problem could be because you drink too many fizzy drinks. It could also be because of some processed food. Try stopping processed food for a while and see if your condition improves. If it does then one of the processed food was the culprit. I could also be due to some medication which does not agree with your body. Do you take any medicines. I suggest you to consult a doctor on this one. Here's some tips regarding what to eat and what not to eat:
You need to make sure you eat pulses at least three times a week and fruits and vegetables everyday. Have a fruit for breakfast and a vegetable/pulses for lunch and dinner.
Make sure you include all vegetables,pulses,lentils and beans(kidney beans,chickpeas,black eyed peas,green peas and many more)
Don't eat mock meat as soybean as mock meat contains sodium(and its also processed) and soybean is bad for health( http://rheumatic.org/soy.htm ).
Mock meat is also soy based so too much soy can be bad for health.
Actually even a little soy is bad for health.
What's wrong with soya?
Soy beans are naturally toxic to humans, but they're harmless when they go through a fermentation process, which is how we get tofu. But soy is being used in more and more things these days. Just look through your cabinet. You'll be surprised. Anyway, most companies aren't putting their soy beans through this process because it takes too much time, and time = money.
Instead, they put it through a chemical process, but this rarely gets rid of the soy's toxicity completely.
Symptoms of a high soy diet are thyroid problems, breast cancer, and other complications.
People get these symptoms because they soy they eat isn't fermented.
Mock meat can never be part of a staple diet(food what you eat everyday).
You can may be have it once or twice a month.
Its a luxury and not a need. You need to consume naturally occurring fruits,vegetables,pulses,nuts and grains. Make something like rice and bread your staple diet. You can have rice with vegetables for lunch and bread with pulses for dinner(or you can do it whichever way you like though that's the way I do it). You can have fruits for breakfast besides something else. You will get all vitamins and minerals from fruits,vegetables,pulses and nuts. Also,don't fall for the myth that says vegans/vegetarians need to take multivitamin supplements.
Vegans/vegetarians don't need to take supplements as they get all their nutrients from fruits,vegetables and pulses. Supplements are supposed to be taken by people with deficiencies so do not take them unless they have been prescribed to you by a doctor.
Here are some recipes:
http://www.vegiehead.com/index.html
http://www.manjulaskitchen.com/category/鈥?/a>
http://www.indianfoodforever.com/indian-鈥?/a>
http://www.easy-indian-food.com/indian-b鈥?/a>
http://www.indianfoodrecipes.net/vegetar鈥?/a>
http://www.manjulaskitchen.com/category/鈥?/a>
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