What it means to live clean vegan

I wanted to take a minute today and just talk about what it really means to live clean vegan as the website title implies. For me, there is a dual meaning in the name and I hope that readers and visitors of the site will get that too.

The first meaning is simply to follow after a healthy vegan diet. The word healthy is emphasized here. I have known plenty of vegans in my days and only a few of them have eaten healthy. The rest were into the processed junk foods that didn't make them any better off from a nutritional standpoint. So in essence, a clean vegan is one who strives to eat the foods that were meant for the body. Hopefully we all know what foods are processed and what foods are considered junk. If you do not know, then I highly suggest that you educate yourself on the subject. Look at the ingredients in the labels and you will soon see a host of chemicals and substances that you can't pronounce and that are harmful to your system. In my eyes, these should all be avoided.

It's a plant based diet that a healthy clean vegan should be eating. Whether that diet is "Raw" or based on grains and starches is entirely up to you. I have personally felt the best on raw foods eating mostly fruit but I'll leave the experimentation up to you.  Keep in mind that caloric intake is equally as important as eating the right foods. If you find yourself calorie restricting on a plant based diet then you will run into problems.

The second part of a clean vegan is of a more spiritual nature. Whether you believe it or not, there is a duality to our being. We have the physical and spiritual side and as important as the physical aspect is in life, it does not hold intact without the spiritual. This means that it is our spirits that govern choice and control our physical sphere. If you remove the spirit from the body, the body ceases to operate. Thus it is in our own lives. If you we remove the responsibility to tend to our spirits then the body and the physical reality begins to decay. Relationships weaken, circumstances become unfavorable, and everything seems to fall apart. It just so happens that as you begin to become accountable for your choices in this physical realm, then you begin to let your spirit thrive.

I will be talking more about both aspects in the future and how they relate but for now I'll leave you with these things to think about. Let me know if you have anything to add or if you want me to talk about in more depth.