i eat meat or dairy once a week , until i am getting usused to teverything, i take vitamins and i eat alot of fruits aveggies. my skin has been breaking out really badly in the last couple of months.. maybe it is stress. but i was wondering if i am maybe lacking some vitamins or nutrients because i have just recently changed my diet? help please?|||Detoxification. Your body expels toxins [being vegan enables your body to kick out the toxins easy] via urine, fecal matter, skin/sweat glands [which is why you're breaking out], etc. Don't worry...just continue eating good. If you aren't getting enough vitamins and minerals, then do so...but you're good. You will feel like crap for a while too, but dont stress it, just continue eating good.|||First: a vegan diet is perfectly healthy. I've been vegan for 7 years and have felt much more energized and healthy than when I was vegetarian
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I think two things might be going on:
One: you might be overdoing it with the taking vitamins -- especially if you're taking a vitamin designed for veg*ns -- while still eating meat AND if you're eating a balanced diet, you don't need to be supplementing your diet with vitamin pills.
Two: It could be an allergy to something new you've introduced in your diet or you may have developed an allergy to something you're having too much of. I have a friend who breaks out if she eats wheat or strawberries. Try and thing about what you're putting in your body and if anything's new or you notice any patterns in your break-outs.
Good luck with your veganism :-) You're smart for checking in and being cautious about your health!|||I'm not sure I understand... you used to eat meat and dairy once a week but have been vegan for the past two months, or you've been trying to become vegan for the past two months, and have decreased your intake of meat and dairy to just once a week?
If it's the former, chance are that something other than your diet is going on. Your skin likely would have started to freak out a long time ago if there was an issue with the diet. (I'm assuming that your diet remained largely the same, just without the once-weekly meat/dairy.)
If it is the latter, look at what you've been eating that you didn't used to. What you don't eat won't usually cause skin problems. Generally, skin problems are the result of what you DO eat. Have you been eating more soy or wheat? Those are common allergens/sources of sensitivity. Try cutting them out. Switch to oat or almond milk, or try cutting wheat. Do this for two weeks. If it clears up the problem, maybe you have a sensitivity.
You could also try drinking more water, or looking into what you've been using lately on your body. Did you switch soaps, or recently move? What about laundry detergent? Have you swapped recently? New makeup?
Again, it's unlikely that a lack of meat, eggs, and dairy would cause breakouts. Eggs and milk (especially milk) are not uncommon allergens, so that could be causing a problem, but if you never had problems before, I'm guessing that it is not to blame.
Check with a dermatologist and/or a nutritionist.|||What changed diet?
You're not a vegan or even a vegetarian.
I don't want to be rude, but you can't honestly consider it being your "vegan diet." You could be starting your period? It could be the weather? It could be a number of things but it's not because you're "vegan."
Maybe you should try to actually go vegan, then really see if your body reacts to it.
About 50 years ago most people only eat meat about once a week, if that. People used to not consume meat daily. So I wouldn't point fingers at the lower consumption of meat.|||skin problems can be a sign of vitamin %26amp; mineral deficiencies. C, folic acid, %26amp; Zinc come to mind. you are not "detoxifying" other than what you're liver has already been doing for you you're entire life. if you're change in diet IS the reason you're breaking out and not from a defeciencie, its more likely from a reaction to the addition of a new food, rather than the absence of old ones.|||My skin began breaking out when I moved to Italy for a study abroad quarter, when I got back, my aesthetician told me that any drastic change in diet (e.g. American food to pasta every day) can cause your skin to break out.
If it has been going on for months, though, there may be something going on with your sebum production. Were I you, I'd see a doctor, preferably a dermatologist, if that's an option.|||Hm, the one thing that pops into my mind is that you may have a gluten intolerence or it might be the little bit of dairy causing it. I also break out when I drink diet soda because it contains aspartame or if I eat a lot of oranges (I could easily eat 3-4 per day lol)|||Don't worry your body is detoxing all the chemicals you have intoroduced to your body over the years.... don't pop em they leave acne scars get the lil biore dots if they embarras you and wear em in public like I do ....rather have a lil bandaide then a big ole zit..... and try burts bees cream cleanser ...... after you wash your face and makeup if you wear any with johnson and johnson baby shampoo... good luck.....
Make sure your not overdoing edible oils or one certain food with a high concentration of it...oils per say|||Try dropping the once a week stuff and your skin should clear up. It sounds like your just prolonging the meat detox period.
Get the Vegetarian Starter Kit from -
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
http://www.pcrm.org/health/veginfo/vsk/|||Eating meat and dairy once a week isn't a vegan diet. But good luck with changing your diet. What I would do is examine everything new you are eating. If you mean breaking out in hives or something, you probably have a food allergy that you're not aware of. Or, if you've switched to vegan soaps, detergents, other products, you could consider those too. You just said you're eating vitamins, fruits and veggies. I'm not sure how you would be lacking vitamins. Maybe you're taking too much niacin. Is it a mega-vitamin with huge amounts of some vitamins? Cut back, and get your nutrition mostly from food, unless told otherwise by a doctor. Be careful if you're taking vitamins and also eating loads of nutrition bars with vitamins added. Take a vitamin B12, or get it from fortified food, and eat a balanced diet.
You can get the nutrients-- protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, and minerals without eating muscle tissue, and milk is only intended for babies. Cow milk is for baby calves. Breast milk is for baby humans. It's not necessary for an adult to drink breast milk, or cow milk. It would be odd to see adults breastfeeding on other adults, or crawling under a cow to drink from the udder, nudging her calf aside. I don't see how that's natural, or necessary. You just need to eat a nutritious diet.
Since you don't appear to be familiar with nutrition, you could ask a registered dietitian to have a look at what you're eating. Write down everything you eat or drink for a week, including the amounts. Then take a good look at it, or have the dietitian look at it. That's really the only way someone can tell if your diet is missing anything. I have no way to know if you're eating an Oreo cookie for breakfast, a slice of lettuce for lunch, and three scoops of organic sugar for dinner. That would be a vegan diet, but wouldn't be nutritious. It wouldn't be a nutritious diet if you put a slab of muscle tissue in there either. If on the other hand, you're eating plenty of nutritious foods, you would be doing fine.
It's also possible you have another problem unrelated to diet, if you're not eating anything different than before.|||See a nutritionist; they will be able to carefully analyse your diet and pinpoint the cause. It's possible that you have a condition where you can't have too much of a particular food, or you need more of a particular food than most people.
And please don't go vegan - it is NOT healthy! A vegetarian diet, however, is. The human body needs small amounts of animal products.
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