This is a YouTube video titled "What Is The Pegan Diet? #shorts" created on June 6, 2023. The content features Ask AI Mark explaining the Pegan diet, emphasizing it as a plant-rich diet rather than strictly plant-based, detailing food choices, organic recommendations, and healthy fats to include.
How would you follow the Pegan diet? What does it look like? First of all, it's a plant rich diet, not a plant based diet. And that's an important distinction. Plant based implies vegan. Plant rich means your diet's mostly plants. And that should be three quarters of your plate covered with colorful veggies, lots of colors, mostly non starchy veggies. I do eat a purple sweet potato or sweet potatoes fine. Winter squashes are fine, especially if you're not insulin resistant or diabetic. Try to choose organic or regenerative when possible. Use the Dirty Dozen guide and the Clean 15 guide from the Environmental Working Group. That's EWG.org. download those guides and you'll learn all about which are the foods you want to stay away from that are the worst contaminated. For example, don't ever eat strawberries unless they're organic or nectarines, for example, whereas you can eat avocado or banana if it's not organic. Also load up on the good fats. Try to eat fats in their whole food forms, seeds and nuts, avocados, pasteurized eggs, fatty fish like mackerel, sardines, herring, anchovies. Olive oil also is a very minimally processed oil. Try to stay away from the hexane extracted deodorized solvent, you know, mixed refined oils if you're going to eat canola or soybean oil. I don't highly recommend that, but they can be part of cooking and other things if you want. And only if they're expeller pressed, only if they're organic. Mostly they're GMO, mostly they're sprayed with glyphosate. You just stay away from that.
