Vegan doesn't always mean Healthy

So since we've decided to do the whole foods, live foods lifestyle, 'Vegan', I've had concerned people telling me about vegans that they've known who were fat and sick.  This isn't surprising at all.  What we don't think about when we hear Vegan is that you can be a healthy Vegan or an unhealthy Vegan.   Think about this,  A Vegan can still eat refined sugar, margarine, white bleached flour!  They can bake using an egg substitute and eat junk just as much as someone who is not a Vegan.  Think about Christmas Candy, regular candy, cookies, cakes, pies, White bread, PB&J sandwiches...and more....all that is Vegan.   So whats the difference in what we're doing?  

The Vegan Live/Whole food diet is:  Whole grains, no bleached flours or refined sugars, no processed foods, all live fruits and veggies.  We will do some cooked beans and rice and the boys will be more vegitarian than Vegan.   We will also incorporate fresh fruit and veggie juices, not the processed kind from the grocery store, we will use our electric juice extractor to make our juices. 

Vegitarian: can eat eggs, dairy, chicken and fish
Vegan: no animal products.

So think about it, could a Vegan who still bakes and eats all kinds of rich desserts, be fat and unhealthy?  Of course.   So we have to be careful when we throw all Vegan/Vegitarians in one pot, saying that they're not healthy and they're fat, and remember that anyone, Vegan or not can choose to be healthy or unhealthy.  It's all about our choices and habits that we form.

  

Vegan Pie                                                          Regular Pie

Both made exactly the same way!  LOL