Vegan food guide

[Rochellita]

This might be a useful and nutritionally sound resource for new vegans.

http://www.theveganrd.com/food-guide-for-vegans

[LisaB]

I don't like how she says you don't need fats. Fat is essential for our health, especially brain function. That is why there are essential fatty acids. Plus it is satiating, so fats have actually been helping me lose weight. Good fats like avocado, coconut oil, olive oil, hemp, etc.

I also think she promotes too much grain consumption.

[LisaB]

Though, to be fair she does talk about the importance of Omega-3s in some of her other recent posts. Just seems wierd she says fat is not necessary in her food guide.

[Rochellita]

The legumes, nuts and soyfoods group contains fats from nuts and seeds, it looks like she's not advocating a minimum amount of processed fats like margarine and oil. If you click on her fat links there more information on that. I'd include more fat personally but it wouldn't be margarine or excessive amounts of oil. I'd include flax or rapeseed.

Here she talks about Fat and vegan diets and why very low fat diets are not the best way to eat, so she's definitely not in the anti-fat camp

I personally don't think that amount of grain is excessive. In the UK it's 6-11 servings in the conventional diet recommendations and she's recommending much the same really.