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[–] 9 points 1 day ago (18 children)

How long until I get my Vegan powers?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    They start the first time you can mention you are vegan in a conversation that isn't about food or animal products.

    I use arch btw.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    It's a gradual building process, but some perks happen very quickly. Like your whole body being in distinctly less pain - that can happen in days depending on your inflammation status. Or being super bloated because you started eating way too much fiber way too soon, that can happen in a day.

    After a few years you may find your immune system starts to become superhuman. Not even joking, it's kind of wild how much more resilient I am to sickness these days. Getting sick far less frequently, symptoms consistently becoming laughably mild, and duration is far shorter too.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    well, I'm a decade in, and still no powers D:

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (4 children)

    It's a passive, you just statistically live longer and feel better.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    there is education that goes along with it to actually manage nutrients/macros than just 'go vegan' and leave it at that

    beans are not a protein that every body can digest

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

    That's why I said statistically. Yeah you can go vegan on oreos and french fries and drag down the stats, but on the whole vegans do better.

    It know, not a great superpower.

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  • [–] 1 point 19 hours ago (1 child)

    Personally, I think that stat is going to see some dips soon, with everything being loaded with coconut oil these days.

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago*

    I don't think so. The processed vegan meat substitutes are almost as bad for you as the real deal, but they're also really expensive. After a year or two of that most of us are forced to learn to cook for ourselves from scratch, and once we do that we learn that you can get way tastier / healthier / cheaper meals that way. At least, that was my trajectory.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    once you go vegan you instantaneously get the power of a smug sense of superiority. though, admittedly, it doesn't do anything but make you an annoying asshole.

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