What Do Healthy Vegans Eat

vegans – what do you eat for fat?

I’ve been having trouble hyperventilating. I’ve been told that I don’t have enough fat in my diet. I hadn’t realized the only fat I was eating was a little flax oil on my salads – if even that. I started eating avacados and it has helped some. I do still have hyperventilation episodes, just not as often. I have started eating a little salmon because of the fat. I am a healthy vegan. I don’t eat junk and I eat very little soy. Any ideas? Thanks.

There’s fat in nearly everything – you don’t really need meat to get fat (though there’s plenty of fat and grease in meat).

Try making dressing for your salads – oils are pure fat. Olive oil is great, for instance. I drizzle olive oil onto greens. Olives in general have a high fat content.

Avocados are fantastic and very high in fat. I use a butter knife and I spread very ripe avocado on bread as if it were butter.

Nuts of all sorts and types have lots of healthy fats – almonds, walnuts, pistachios.

The healthy fats in salmon – omega 3′s – can be found in flax seeds and many other vegetarian fats, and sometimes in greater quantities. Flax seed oil has the greatest concentration of omega 3′s than any other source, as I have learned.

If you are eating your flax seeds whole they may not be getting digested. Grind them up to release the oils, or use flax seed oil. Flax seeds also go stale very quickly so refrigerate them to prevent the omega 3′s from breaking down. On top of that, using it in baking and frying can break the omega 3′s down as well. Maybe just use flax seed oil as a supplement – have a spoonful or two every day.

As a side note, I’m not sure how not eating enough fat can cause hyperventilation. If you’re eating a balanced vegan diet you should be getting WAY more than enough fats. Maybe the reason you were told to eat more fat is because fat helps the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins? A vitamin deficiency can lead to unusual symptoms in some people.

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