Chinese Buddhism, Vegan, and Diabetes
The public healthcare and government-advocated diet, which is high-carb, low-fat with seed oil, are not the main sources of metabolic diseases like diabetes. Here in Taiwan, at which Chinese Buddhism is widely spread and advocates veganism to its people, things are just got complicated very, very much. My family is also influenced greatly by it, resulting in miserable and irretrievable sickness. Because of my parents' Buddhist belief (my mom actually), my diet had been based hugely on starch and seed oil, though not vegan completely and meat was still allowed. However, my diet since kid was mainly composed by rice, noodle, rice porridge, vegetable cooked by soybean oil, flour and sucrose. For me, this kind of diet had lasted until 2021 when I was 35 years old, and my health got even worse when I was studying in Chinese Buddhism school (no meat at all) for about two and half years. I was thin and tall since kid, for about 170 cm when graduated from elementary school at twelve; I als...