Category: Health

Achieving optimum health is a personal choice for vegans, says DR PAUL PALMER. Here, he offers some simple guidelines. In my first article for the SAVS newsletter, I would like to address an issue with which I’m sure most vegans are quite familiar. Have you ever heard someone say ‘but I know a vegan who got cancer’, or ‘I have a vegan friend who is fat’, or something along these lines?

The case for a balanced plant-based diet has been exhaustively argued by many qualified nutritionists and other professionals. Vegan diets are widely supported as perfectly healthy for all people, at all stages of life,...