Hi,
I post about nutrition to help you follow a vegan diet that can - hopefully - contribute to the prevention of disease and to living an energy-filled, active and pleasurable life.
If you are vegan but don't care about nutrition, consider taking a B12 supplement at least. If you have vegan children you really need to know more than that (see my recommendations which are not very complicated to follow at all).
There is a lot we know about nutrition (for example about nutrient deficiencies). And there is a lot we do not know.
I don't offer nutritional counselling. I offer nutritional information (simple recommendations) that should make nutritional counselling unnecessary for the average vegan. A vegan dietary pattern centred around fruit, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, nuts and seeds is likely going to have *AMAZING* effects on your health - but keep in mind that these foods don't necessarily supply ALL essential nutrients, so please do check my recommendations, at least the first point, the one about vitamin B12.
Also keep in mind that next to nutrition other aspects are important for your health, notably physical exercise/movement, relaxation/stress management, and likely also a sense of community. Yes, not smoking and avoiding alcohol excess, too - put these two first in line.
If you want to contact me for whatever reason, don't be shy.
I sort of speak English, German, and Spanish.
christiankoeder [AT] gmail [DOT] com
Because of veganism the idea of animal rights is directly connected to nutritional science. But nutrition is connected to social justice issues in many more ways.
The vegan/animal rights movement - just like the rest of society - has so far largely failed at conveying practical, do-able nutrition info to the general (vegan) population.
In one area of nutritional sciences - let's call this area nutritional epidemiology - certain methods are used to test which nutritional factors influence health and disease. This systematic way of testing is very different from anecdotal observations that one person can make in their own life/lifetime. These systematic tests generate scientific evidence. At the same time a science-based approach understands that evidence is not everything - because many (or most) things have never been tested in this way.
These systematic tests are very important so we can understand which nutritional factors can help us prevent or even cure many illnesses. And this is important if we want to make our lives more pleasurable and less painful.
However, you as a vegan have some knowledge that most nutritional scientists don't have. You have the experience of living your life as a vegan, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. That i worth something (a lot). But it does not make scientific research which can create scientific evidence unnecessary. It's not scientific evidence vs. experience. Both of them are necessary.
Sometimes I also post about other topics that interest me. I've been vegan since 1997. And I've been a skateboarder since around 1989. And without skateboarding I probably wouldn't have found veganism.
Skateboarding is not a relevant issue to most people's lives (neither is veganism unfortunately). But maybe you can see parallels to something in your own life. May you find something that gives your life as much meaning and pleasure as skateboarding does in my case.
May your life be happy and free.
I have a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in nutritional sciences (both from JLU, i.e. Justus Liebig University Giessen in Germany) as well as a PhD (doctoral degree, technically a doctor of natural sciences, so more like a ScD) also in the area of nutritional sciences (with a focus on plant-based diets, healthy lifestyle change, and cardiovascular disease reduction; from LUH, i.e. Leibniz University Hannover, Germany ... Anti-confusion info: in English "Hannover" has only one "n").
I am not a member of any organization whatsoever (I think).
I *festively* declare to have no conflicts of interest - with this I mean that vegan nutrition information needs to be neutral and objective. Wrong information - even if it's meant to make veganism look great - can harm vegans.
And if you don't mind me saying, science and veganism are not ends in themselves that need (or want) to be worshipped. They are tools to make our (animal) lives better and to create a world with a little more justice.
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