Hello everyone.
First of all, I have to mention that the following problem doesn't concern my person. It does concern my friend.
He is a veggie and does train running and cycling. He doesn't train using certain volume: somtimes he puts on 10000km/year on his bike, somtimes he gives up cycling and train running, about 5hr/week. He is 53y old and he has been following veggie diet for very long - 37y. He is 176cm tall and weighs about 75kg.
Firstly, he was diagnosed with anemia, IMO caused with iron defficency, i'm not sure. Now he's better with red cells. But there's another, more serious problem. When he had his bllod examined by hematoligist later, it turned out that he has tyo much white blood cells. Doctors don't know what it is, suspecting lot of things including some cancer realted activity.
Veggies when they not plan their diet carefuly are in risk of iron, zinc, or B-group vitamis defficency. Poropably also other macro/microelements can get low. But Joe Friel did mention that veggies may have protein deficency, both in total protein intake, and certain amino acid deficency. When body is lacking in any essential amino acid it may cause same symptoms as too low total protein intake. Even when the intake itself is OK. And as far as i know it is difficult to provide all esential aas when on veggie diet.
I also know that lacks of protein may cause problems concerning immune system. What do you think? Is it possible that this is the cause of hi WBC count? This is the first question.
The second one does concern supplements for a veggie. What aids are required to stay healthy when exercising a lot? Which are helpful? Iron? Zinc? B-type vitamins? Protein or amino-acid supplements?
The last one's about diet. Maybe there are good tips in existing threads. If so, I'd be grateful for a link.
If there are not, I'd like to ask for daily diet examples (if possible), tips how to make one, or general rules which have to be taken into consideration while doing so.
Maybe there are any web pages concerning these things?
Searching takes me long and does hardly ever give expected results.
I'm not a veggie myself, so i have hardly any experience on the subject.
Thank you for any help.
Cheers
yash
First of all, I have to mention that the following problem doesn't concern my person. It does concern my friend.
He is a veggie and does train running and cycling. He doesn't train using certain volume: somtimes he puts on 10000km/year on his bike, somtimes he gives up cycling and train running, about 5hr/week. He is 53y old and he has been following veggie diet for very long - 37y. He is 176cm tall and weighs about 75kg.
Firstly, he was diagnosed with anemia, IMO caused with iron defficency, i'm not sure. Now he's better with red cells. But there's another, more serious problem. When he had his bllod examined by hematoligist later, it turned out that he has tyo much white blood cells. Doctors don't know what it is, suspecting lot of things including some cancer realted activity.
Veggies when they not plan their diet carefuly are in risk of iron, zinc, or B-group vitamis defficency. Poropably also other macro/microelements can get low. But Joe Friel did mention that veggies may have protein deficency, both in total protein intake, and certain amino acid deficency. When body is lacking in any essential amino acid it may cause same symptoms as too low total protein intake. Even when the intake itself is OK. And as far as i know it is difficult to provide all esential aas when on veggie diet.
I also know that lacks of protein may cause problems concerning immune system. What do you think? Is it possible that this is the cause of hi WBC count? This is the first question.
The second one does concern supplements for a veggie. What aids are required to stay healthy when exercising a lot? Which are helpful? Iron? Zinc? B-type vitamins? Protein or amino-acid supplements?
The last one's about diet. Maybe there are good tips in existing threads. If so, I'd be grateful for a link.
If there are not, I'd like to ask for daily diet examples (if possible), tips how to make one, or general rules which have to be taken into consideration while doing so.
Maybe there are any web pages concerning these things?
Searching takes me long and does hardly ever give expected results.
I'm not a veggie myself, so i have hardly any experience on the subject.
Thank you for any help.
Cheers
yash
