Are people with type 1 diabetes allowed to be vegan?
I have a friend with type 1 diabetes who just recently went from being vegetarian to vegan.
She dosent take any iron/calcium or any other vitamin tablets.
What kindof risks etc. are there with this?
This is something you must discuss with your doctor.It’s to important to get your answer off a website.
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It is virtually impossible to eat a balanced diabetic diet without meat, and there is a lack of essential amino acids and iron. Even in the hospital I could not properly treat a vegetarian. Even if it religious, eat your meat and live.
Its possibly but not a smart thing to do. I am a type 1 and I can not imagine not having dairy! This is not a smart practice for a type 1.
there is only one answer that will work for that question.. Your friend needs to talk to her doctor. The person who has tested and diagnosed her. Only he will know exactly what diet she needs to stay healthy.
I have no problem with the vegetarian diet, since you can get high quality complete protein from egg and milk, and folate from egg.
However, the vegan diet is not advisable, even for a healthy person, unless you are very educated in how to balance your amino acids and to get everything you need, especially folate and iron. With diabetes, any problem will be magnified.
Of course you can supplement yourself with multivitamin, but why eat pills if you can get everything you need in good food ?
There is no reason why this is impossible or bad for her health. In fact, it may be a good thing provided she makes the effort to eat a balanced diet.
She can get protein from soybeans, lentils, other legumes, and nuts. She can still eat oats, veggies, brown rice, and olive oil, all great for managing BG’s and/or promoting health.
She should make sure she takes a multivitamin just because vegans should in general. They are often deficient in nutrients.
She can also use flaxseed for Omega 3 fatty acids (shown to help prevent heart disease and beneficial to both types of diabetics). Fish is the best source, but flaxseed will do if she refuses to eat it.
Make sure she meets with a dietitian who specializes in diabetes just to go over her meal plan.
You are a very nice friend for caring!
Being a Type 1 diabetic Vegan is fine! I am a vegetarian, and I know that they are both pretty far apart, but it hasn’t changed my diabetes control one bit! Diabetics can pretty much eat what they want, as long as they do more or less insulin when they do, although I suggest she goes and sees her diabetic consultant or doctor just to talk things through. Hope it helped!