Posted on 10/18/2017 7:25:54 PM PDT by Olog-hai
There are more than half a million vegans in Britain, and that number is rising everyday — making a plant-based diet one of the nation’s fastest growing lifestyle choices. It’s why this month several of the country’s biggest chain restaurants have launched or expanded vegan menus, so that those who eschew all animal products have more choice when they dine out.
Many assume that a vegan lifestyle is much healthier than being a meat eater or even than being simply vegetarian — but some of the new menu items prove that vegan dishes are not always good for you.
Some of the new plant-based dishes on menus at popular high street eateries contain more than 1,000 calories, and more fat than a McDonald’s Big Mac. […]
Zizzi has the two most calorific vegan dishes of the most popular chain restaurants that have a vegan menu and supply nutritional information. Its two new vegan pizzas — the vegan pepperonata topped with peppers and chillies, and the vegan zucca topped with butternut squash, with both featuring vegan mozzarella — contain more than 1,200 calories each. That’s more than half a women’s daily recommended calorie allowance. They also both contain more than 4 grams of salt each — which is two thirds of an adult’s recommended daily allowance. …
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Chow down and bulk up, vegans.
Vegan....old native word meaning ...bad hunter...
The concept of dietary calories is ridiculous nonsense. Are there people who really still believe that crap? Next theyll tell us that the food contains at least five times the daily recommended amount of phlogistan.
“The concept of dietary calories is ridiculous nonsense.”
Not sure I understand your post.
You mean “Phlogiston.” Phlogistan is east of Turkmenistan.
All that salt to give the swill some flavor, no doubt.
Teeth prove that humans are omnivores. Vegan diets are harmful.
Using bomb calorimeters on food, ironically, was more scientific than using mathematical estimates.
There is no specific relationship, though, between chemical energy content of foods and overall health that I can see.
Good Lord, I found out that my "healthy" drink had 2000 calories.
I've stayed far away from that place, since.
I suppose it depends on the total caloric intake over time.
Vegans I see are gaunt or obese.
How can idiots fall for the “war on calories”? What, they think caloric intake isn’t what keeps them alive?
A thousand calories is only about half what most people NEED in a day.
I notice that meat restaurants have “vegetarian” choices (salads, peanut butter sandwiches), but vegetarian restaurants never have meat choices for us meat eaters. Seems the meat restaurants are doing all the heavy lifting in the choice department, if you ask me.
Here’s what I would avoid, the stuffed red pepper which somehow has 49 g of sugar! And I’m not even diabetic.
It must be stuffed with corn syrup and ice cream...
but the main problem might be the portions are way over the top. Typical.
After you eat the psychedelic mushrooms youll just throw everything up anyway
You could have had two or three chocolate shakes.
Vegan’s don’t give a crap about calories.
Have you ever seen a fat vegan?
Cows are vegan to fatten them up so we can eat them.
Just sayin.
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