My research question/inquiry questions is the vegan eating style more healthy than my regular eating life style? How is being a vegan different from being a vegetarian? I wonder if you get the same nutrient without eating anything with animal products? What can you eat in the vegan life style? What can't you eat? I wonder how many type of veganisms are there?
-Why did you settle on this question? What interests you about the topic? Explain.
I settled on this question because the night before this assignment was issued, my roommate Torrence told me he was going on a vegan diet. I'm interested in the vegan eating habits because 1) In one of my favorite comic series, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, there's a character named Todd Ingram who lives a vegan lifestyle and is granted massive telekinetic powers 2) I'm interested in how much healthier would one person be without indulging animal products into their system. 3) I love eating animal products and can't imagine not eating them, so I curious as to the reasons to why some people choose not to.
-How is your question/topic timely? Why is it important to address this topic? Why should people care about it?
Health issues and looking 'fit' is stressed highly in today's media. It's important to address it because health issues regarding food and diet is high in the U.S. People should care because it's our health we deal with everyday. We can't take a break on our health. What we ingest has positive and negative effects on our health and knowing a better eating life style that can save your life one day is helpful.
-What do you expect to find in your research? What preliminary research have you done that makes you expect this?
I exepect to find alternate products for certain foods like veggie burgers, veggie meatballs, tofu, soy, etc. I'm hoping to find some research documents that examined one group of participants that took a vegan diet and compared their health to a group who's diet consist of anything. I want to find supporting arguments that at least shows a health improvement in individuals or a decline in fitness. According to one of my preliminary research, the American Dietetic Association stated that a vegan diet can reduce an individual's chances of developing heart diseases and cancer. This document will surely help me support my argument in improving one's fitness and health.
-Are you coming across scholars w/ different answers to your question, or different views of your topic? (If you're NOT and people seem to all agree, then your research question and topic probably aren't worth pursuing, right?) Explain what these answers/views are that you are finding. (Remember that our textbook warns us of the dangers of binary thinking on pg. 6.)What do you think about the different viewpoints? Where do you stand on the issue, and do you think your mind could change the further you get into this semester-long inquiry?
I haven't came across scholars with a different view than mine but I have came across an article where a woman claims that the vegan lifestyle made her and her daughters extremely ill. Her daughters had
stick-thin legs and rotten teeth before she realized that the vegan lifestyle was instead making her family worse. I can't imagine myself going into the vegan eating habit but I'm for pro vegan lifestyle and this article about vegan diets will definitely help me address both sides of my topic. I'm hoping that looking at this topic from both issues will help me choose if I will partake in a vegan diet for my health down the road someday.
-Any questions or concerns you'd like to address?I personally want to know one of the diet plans of reducing obesity in more detail and does it really lead a healthier lifestyle than my current eating habits?
Such an interesting topic, Sean!
ReplyDeleteHave you come across any of the dangers of eating too much soy? I think that's a staple in a vegan diet, and I wonder if it's unhealthy.
Also, my brother's name is Todd Ingram.