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"Aaptiv" featured Assistant Professor and Founding Director of the Nutrition and Dietetics Program Christen Cupples Cooper in "Everything You Need to Know About the Pegan Diet"
By now you may have heard about the trendy pegan diet that’s attempting to replace keto as the new-new in the nutrition world. Even if you know relatively nothing about this diet, you may recognize that its name sounds oddly familiar. There’s a reason for that. In fact, the diet, which was coined by Dr. Mark Hyman from the Cleveland Clinic, blends elements of the also-trending paleo diet with the vegan diet. “The paleo diet, which proponents believe mimics the diet of early humans, focuses on non-starchy vegetables, meat, eggs, and fish with limited amounts of fruit, nuts, seeds, and oils,” explains Christen Cupples Cooper, Ed.D., R.D.N., assistant professor and founding director of the Nutrition and Dietetics Program at the College of Health Professions at Pace University.
Unlike a vegan diet, which focuses solely on plant-based foods and avoiding all meats and animal byproducts, Cooper explains that the pegan diet takes the whole-food, plant-food emphasis of both diets. It encourages people to incorporate vegetables in two-thirds to three-quarters of their meals. “To compensate for protein, the pegan diet allows for smaller portions of meat, fish, and egg,” Cooper says.
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