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SvennoJ said: I live in Canada. Most of the year fruit and veggies come from far far away. I try to buy what's local which severly limits options for variation in vegetables and fruit. And nuts are rediculously expensive here imo. I don't eat meat every day, but some other animal products like eggs and cheese sure. My diet is fine I think, I wouldn't know I don't pay much attention to it. I'm in the best shape of my life thanks to regular excercise. I'm rarely sick even with my young kids bringing all kinds of crap home from school, and if I get sick it usually only lasts a day. Don't fix what aint broken. |
I also live in Canada. I buy local produce when I can, and when I can't I buy a mix of fresh and frozen produce. Frozen is often better than fresh when it comes to imported because it doesn't degrade in shipping like fresh does. I eat whatever produce I want, any time of year (though favour what's in season to the degree I reasonably can, especially when buying local). I don't buy much in the way of nuts, but I buy a lot of nut butters (I get organic nut butters that have no additives, they're just pureed nuts in a jar).
I'm a vegan and I'm not calcium deficient, but I eat a lot of calcium rich seeds, in addition to calcium rich leafy green vegetables. The average person doesn't plan their meals, doesn't track what they're eating, and has no idea what they're deficient in until they're so deficient that a symptom shows up. That's true for vegans and omnivores both. It's just that the average vegan eats more food in total (thanks to lower caloric density of plant-based foods) and is eating foods that have more nutrients per calorie, so the average vegan is less likely to be deficient than the average omnivore. :)
As for you being in great shape, that's a separate issue. A person can be in the best shape of their life from a fitness point of view, and then keel over from a heart attack because their workouts were stressing a heart that's being fed by clogged arteries. Strength and fitness on the one hand, and heart health on the other, are not nearly as intertwined as people would like us to believe. One study looked at sedentary vegans vs. marathon-running omnivores and found the sedentary vegans on average had better heart health. Cancer is another issue, sedentary vegetarians have lower cancer rates than healthy omnivores (source: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/vegetarians-versus-healthy-omnivores/).
