Publisher's Synopsis
The seventh issue contains an article titled On Critical Positions against Veganism 7: Insights and Lessons from Criticism, which is the seventh part of a series of articles motivated by the German Nutrition Society's critical viewpoint towards the capacity of vegan dieting to provide adequate nutrient supply. The article contained in this issue provides a discussion on the relevant insights that can be drawn from the prevailing criticism towards veganism as a dietary choice, arguing that the most notable insight is the importance of nutritional balance monitoring, an individual vegan dieter's elevated awareness concerning the importance of the proper nutritional balance for human health, the adequate intake of all essential nutrients from their diverse plant-origin sources in a balanced and continual manner. Furthermore, the potential for nutritional deficiencies, chronic nutritional imbalances and the deterioration for human health that they have potential in causing, elevates the importance of nutritional value content of the dietetic staples in vegan diets in order to guarantee that they do not contain phytochemicals that inhibit nutrient absorption or other antinutritious organic compounds detrimental for human health, a quality absence of which is a requisite for nourishment plants as well as nourishment preparation methods qualified into the authentic macrobiotic vegan diet, a nouveau dietary regimen that in essence has emerged as a conclusive response to the criticisms that have prevailed against standard forms of veganism.
