Is it healthy to start a vegan diet after age 50?
According to the expert’s view, it is not possible to determine whether a plant-based diet has greater benefits than a less restrictive plant-based diet. “Most studies do not separate a vegan diet from a vegan diet – Dr. McManus stresses – so we don’t have a lot of evidence comparing one vegetarian diet to another.”
What seems certain is that a vegetarian diet, if not properly regulated, can also carry health risks, especially for children, teens and the elderly. In fact, excluding products of animal origin, the expert asserts, can lead to a deficiency of some key nutrients especially if it is focused on people over 50 years old.
First and foremost football, is important for many functions, especially for the health of bones, teeth, heart, nerves, nerve transmission and blood. Then the proteins necessary for having strong muscles, bones and skin, especially after a certain age when there is a physiological tendency to lose muscle and bone mass and you may experience longer healing times in the case of wounds.
Not only. An improperly planned vegan diet, after age 50, can also lead to vitamin B12 deficiency A vitamin that comes only from food of animal origin and is essential for DNA (along with folic acid, this vitamin aids in DNA synthesis and RNA), formation of red blood cells (in the prevention of pernicious anemia) and new cells, glucose metabolism, nervous system well-being, serotonin synthesis, prevention of hyperhomocysteinemia, as an important cofactor for enzymes.
Is it healthy to start a vegan diet after age 50?
“Other important deficiencies that can be found in a plant-based diet, if not properly formulated, are related to the intake of omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin D — explains Dr. Maria Paula Zampella, a dietitian specializing in food sciences at Humanitas Medical Care in Monza – which can be obtained by focusing on high-quality nuts and seeds.
Finally, a vegetarian diet can also prove to be excessively restrictive from a caloric point of view, causing fatigue and a state of malnutrition, or vice versa even excessive from a calorie point of view if you compensate for the lack of high-calorie animal products thermal. The carbohydrate content is simple and complex.
How do you avoid deficiencies or excesses?
According to a nutritionist, these risks can be contained by following targeted strategies.
