Cystic Fibrosis and Becoming Vegan, Would It Be Ok?
Saturday, July 17th, 2010 at
6:02 am
Ingrid asked:
I have Cystic Fibrosis. Recently i became interested in becoming a vegan, my mother doesn’t think it would be ok at all because she says it couldn’t provide me with enough nutrition and I have a hard time keeping enough weight on now even by eating meat and such and eating large meals. Does anyone know if actually could be ok to do? Can my mother be proven wrong? Is there a way I could be vegan and still get enough nutrition? I’m a teenager.
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Sorry to tell you this, but your mother is probably right on this issue. While I won’t go so far as to say there’s no way a CF patient can become a vegan, I should tell you that it’s a very bad idea. Vegetarian diets are great for most of modern society specifically because they’re low in calories but still filling, making them great for people trying to lose weight. With CF, though, as you probably know, you’ve got enough problems absorbing the nutrients in food and getting the calories, so throwing a low calorie diet into the mix is only going to make things worse.
So, in summary, I don’t think going vegetarian is advisable, but if you are really serious about it, I’d recommend speaking to your doctor or a dietician, and they might be able to suggest a high calorie vegan diet.