Vegetarian Diet for an Easy Transition to a Vegetarian Lifestyle
Guiding patients through their new vegetarian lifestyle by providing a practical, healthy, and safe way to transition to vegetarianism.
What is the 30 Day Vegetarian Diet?
The 30 Day Vegetarian Diet is a sensible, healthy, and safe method that your patients can follow in order to easily transition. This diet plan is all about eating healthy foods: lean meats, lots of fruits and vegetables, low carbs, and only healthy fats such as avocados, olive oil, and nuts.
BodySite’s 30 Day Vegetarian Diet is primarily a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet, meaning it excludes meat, fish, and poultry, but allows dairy products and eggs. This type of diet is most often associated with being a “vegetarian” – that is, no fleshy meat.
This vegetarian diet will help your patients adjust to their new vegetarian lifestyle and apply these same principles for life.
How Can a Vegetarian Diet Benefit Your Patients?
You may have some patients that are looking to begin a new vegetarian lifestyle but aren’t quite sure of the benefits or the exact type of vegetarian diet they’ll want. The benefits that come with following a vegetarian diet may vary, but each one typically includes benefits such as reduced risk of heart disease, diabetes, and some cancers.
The types of vegetarian diets are as follows:
Lacto-vegetarian diets exclude meat, fish, poultry and eggs, as well as foods that contain them. Dairy products, such as milk, cheese, yogurt and butter, are included.
Ovo-vegetarian diets exclude meat, poultry, seafood and dairy products, but allow eggs.
Lacto-ovo vegetarian diets exclude meat, fish and poultry, but allow dairy products and eggs.
Pescatarian diets exclude meat and poultry, dairy, and eggs, but allow fish.
Vegan diets exclude meat, poultry, fish, eggs and dairy products — and foods that contain these products.
Since the 30 Day Vegetarian Diet is primarily a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet, your patients will only be excluding, meat, fish, and poultry. Compared to those who do eat meat, vegetarians consume less saturated fat and cholesterol as well as more of vitamins C and E, dietary fiber, folic acid, potassium, magnesium, and plant chemicals such as carotenoids and flavonoids. As a result, those following a vegetarian diet are likely to have lower total LDL (bad) cholesterol, lower blood pressure, and lower body mass index (BMI), which are all associated with longevity and a reduced risk for multiple chronic diseases.
However, some vegetarians may rely too much on processed foods that are high in calories, sugar, fat, and sodium while failing to consume enough fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and calcium-rich foods that will cause them to miss out on the nutrients that they provide.
This is why it will be important for your patients to follow a strict vegetarian diet with meals involving foods that will supply them with the important nutrients that are the reason for the benefits they’re receiving. The 30 Day Vegetarian Diet will properly equip them with the information needed to safely follow a vegetarian diet while receiving all of the health benefits that it can provide.
What Eating Habits Are Involved in This Diet Plan?
For your patients that aren’t already following a vegetarian lifestyle, changing their diet can be challenging in the beginning but this program is here to help make it easier for them. While a vegetarian diet can be restrictive in some aspects, it doesn’t have to be all about deprivation. There are so many non animal-based foods available to your patients.
Your patients will be following recipes that exclude meat, fish, and poultry, but will allow dairy products and eggs.
For vegetarian lifestyles, eating breakfast is very important. Breakfast is an easy meal for your patients to stock up on essential nutrients for their body. Eating a balanced vegetarian diet can offer many advantages over the typical American diet, but ironically some vegetarians don’t actually enjoy vegetables. Instead, some vegetarians become “carbivores” and fill up on bagels and pastries. Your patients can’t survive on carbohydrates alone. Fortunately, the 30 Day Vegetarian Diet program will provide your patients with healthy tips for eating a balanced vegetarian breakfast.
Not only are healthy and balanced breakfasts crucial for vegetarian lifestyles, but lunch and dinner are also great opportunities for your vegetarian patients to include several important nutrients. Some vegetarians may believe that they can just cut back on the amount of food they eat in order to achieve successful weight loss with a vegetarian diet. But to achieve the best results, your patients must include those important nutrients such as protein and fats no matter if they’re trying to lose, maintain, or gain weight. This diet program also includes healthy lunch and dinner tips for your patients.
What’s Inside the Plan?
Guiding your patients through new eating habits and lifestyles can be difficult, and it can definitely be a chore to collect all of the needed information.
Fortunately, their program will provide them with daily recipes, motivation, guidance, and tasks in order to help them transition to the 30 Day Vegetarian Diet made specially for them. This way, they can maintain their vegetarian eating plan even after the 30 days are up.
Each day, their program will start with some motivation or helpful tips that they can follow throughout their everyday lives. Here is an example:
These are intended to keep your patients motivated and/or to give them some tips and ideas that will help them maintain a healthy lifestyle during and after the 30 Day Vegetarian Diet Plan. Patients can take in the information provided and use it throughout their daily lives.
Their daily motivation or tips are then followed by daily tasks that will keep them on a healthy, grounded schedule throughout their plan. Here is an example:
These tasks encourage patients to make sure they are tracking the food and metrics that need to be tracked in order to keep you updated with their progress.
Following these tasks are the daily recipes that your patients will follow. They are provided with a shopping list for each week so that they never miss a day of good meals. Here is an example:
Each day provides this content for your patients and are a great help when it comes to easily adjusting to their new plan.
Why the 30 Day Vegetarian Diet?
We recognize that some doctors and some patients may need individualized approaches to wellness plans, so that’s why our 30 Day Vegetarian Diet Plan as well as our 60+ other remote care programs are all customizable using our content management system, if you choose to modify the program.
Their program will also come with access to a complete remote patient monitoring web portal and app for iPhone and Android. Patients will be able to track their progress, keep a journal, and follow your prescribed program materials everyday with ease, all while making the process of health monitoring much easier for you.
Use the 30 Day Vegetarian Diet today and help your patients experience the benefits of this eating style including a reduced risk of heart disease, weight loss, increased nutrient intake, decrease in hormone consumption, and other benefits that come with this diet. If you’re not already using the BodySite remote care platform, you can sign up for a free trial at this link. If you’re already a member, check out the 30 Day Vegetarian Diet today!
SOURCES:
1. https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/becoming-a-vegetarian