Have you tried talking to a nutritionist/dietician who has experience with vegan diets?
Unless you're eating nothing but junk food, it's physically impossible not to get enough protein, so I don't worry about it. The World Health Organization says that to make sure you get enough protein, 8% of your calories should come from protein--and that's with a relatively large safety margin built in. Think about it: when do you grow the most? When you're an infant. What's the perfect food then? Breast milk. Breast milk has 5% of its calories as protein. Most Americans eat waaay too much of it.
Most tired vegans I've seen are either not getting enough calories, period (something I'm working on--tahini and peanut butter and olive oil and bread are my friends).
Maybe B vitamins? Those aren't hard to get.
It probably wasn't iron. Vegans have higher iron levels than lacto-ovo vegetarians because dairy isn't taking up calories--dairy has no iron.
I have O+ blood and was told I should be eating animal protein, but honestly? I think the blood type nutrition thing is BS.
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Date: 2005-02-16 03:47 am (UTC)Unless you're eating nothing but junk food, it's physically impossible not to get enough protein, so I don't worry about it. The World Health Organization says that to make sure you get enough protein, 8% of your calories should come from protein--and that's with a relatively large safety margin built in. Think about it: when do you grow the most? When you're an infant. What's the perfect food then? Breast milk. Breast milk has 5% of its calories as protein. Most Americans eat waaay too much of it.
Most tired vegans I've seen are either not getting enough calories, period (something I'm working on--tahini and peanut butter and olive oil and bread are my friends).
Maybe B vitamins? Those aren't hard to get.
It probably wasn't iron. Vegans have higher iron levels than lacto-ovo vegetarians because dairy isn't taking up calories--dairy has no iron.
I have O+ blood and was told I should be eating animal protein, but honestly? I think the blood type nutrition thing is BS.