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The vegan diet is increasingly popular and popular. Before trying to do it, you should first understand the seven side effects vegan diet that can happen to the body.
Recently, many diet trends have developed and become popular among society. One of them is a vegan diet which stops consuming animal foods and switches completely to plant-based ingredients.
The vegan diet has become popular because it is claimed to be able to maintain health and reduce weight significantly. To become a vegan, you must abandon animal intake such as animal meat, eggs, animal milk and various processed products.
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Even though it is considered healthy, it turns out that a vegan diet also has side effects on the body. Both positive and negative effects must be known first before starting to apply it strictly.
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The following are 7 effects of a vegan diet as quoted from the Mirror (2/1):
 Vegan dieters will experience the ability to recognize flavors. Photo: Getty Images/Drbouz |
1. Improve taste ability
Many vegans claim to have experienced an increase in recognizing tastes after becoming vegan. According to research that has been conducted, vegans experience an increase in recognizing tastes but a decrease in recognizing the taste of fat, salt and sugar.
Shilpa Ravella, a gastroenterologist and assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University, said that the taste palette on the tongue is changing that quickly. Even people who don’t eat fast food for a week need to adjust their palate to fatty foods.
2. Improve the digestive process
When following a vegan diet, the majority of foods consumed will be high in fiber content. Plant foods that are high in fiber are very good for increasing stomach activity compared to animal foods.
A study published in Frontiers in Nutrition found that plant foods can enrich the beneficial microbiota in the gut. As a result, when the microbiota develops well, the quality of health will improve.
3. Weight loss
It is not a surprise that a vegan diet can help with weight loss significantly. Aliza Savage, a nutritionist, said that a diet that focuses on plant foods can help with weight loss because it eliminates high fat intake and added sugar.
However, some vegans actually experience weight gain due to consuming nuts, coconut oil and high-calorie plant foods even though they are considered healthy. There are also vegans who admit to eating more because they have to meet their daily protein needs.
