Welcome back to The Paleo View listeners. (0:40)
We have an interesting episode for you this week friends.
Stacy's nine-year-old is rebelling like a teenager.
Cole is pretty cool as teenagers go. Stacy enjoys his sarcasm and dry humor.
Finnian was recently described by his teacher as gregarious.
Stacy's baby, Wesley, has a bleeding heart and is very aware of his impact on his community and the world.
He has been passionate for years about consuming meat, which is an interesting topic for Stacy.
Stacy was vegetarian for seven years before she went to college, but she has changed her tune on that.
She now does a lot of educating and sharing about humanely and sustainably raised animals and how important this is to their family.
Wesley has talked about going vegetarian a couple of times but has decided against it until recently.
Recently Wesley saw something on YouTube that inspired him to make the move and go vegan for at least seven days.
Pescatarian is always the route that Stacy has suggested. However, Wesley wanted to go full-on vegan.
From sharing about this challenge on social media, Stacy has heard from so many people that their children also experiment with this.
It has always been Stacy's approach that children are their own people and they make their own decisions.
As much as this feels like a complete rebellion against everything Matt and Stacy believe, they do want to support that this is something he has thought about for a long time.
Matt and Stacy decided to support him in this challenge, but they also saw it as an educational opportunity.
Sarah commented on how Matt and Stacy empower their children with their choices.
 
Educational Opportunity
The first thing they educated Wes on was protein, using a graphic from Robb Wolf's Instagram. (7:44)
They are also discussing micronutrients and what he is missing in a vegan diet.
Wesley is their Paleo baby. He has never had standard American foods, outside of gluten-free treats.
He is following both a gluten-free and vegan food plan right now. Stacy is also avoiding soy and filler junk foods.
They did find a lentil-based burger for Wes, but it was very hard to avoid canola oil in products.
Sarah shared on Canola oil and the history of this product on the food market.
Stacy shared a bit more on the foods they have found for Wes and what he has liked.
What Sarah wants to add to this conversation is about the fat options available to you in a vegan diet. (14:32)
The vegan community has done messaging very well, in terms of how they have distributed their arguments for their choices.
Sarah does agree with the information shared on how negatively impactful the meat, dairy, and processed carbohydrate-heavy the average American diet is.
A big part of the conversation needs to be on how important vegetables are, and how important it is to modify protein intake.
There are nutrients that we get from animal foods that we cannot get from plant foods, and vice versa.
Sarah thinks of Paleo as a plant-based diet.
The only way to meet our nutrient needs is to consume from both categories of food.
Sarah referred to these resources for omnivore education.
We need nutrients from both plants and from animals.
There are plenty of nutrients that you can get sufficiently by either going vegan or carnivore. However, in either extreme, there is a group of nutrients you are missing out on.
Sarah's views this as an opportunity to talk to the flip side of the coin.
 
The Nutritional Gap
There are nutrients that we get from animal foods that we either cannot get from plant foods, or we can only get from a very limited list of unusual plant foods. (18:01)
In these cases, it is hard to get sufficient quantities of these nutrients.
The nutrients that we could be missing out on including heme iron, the animal form of vitamin A, zinc, vitamin B12, vitamin K2, vitamin D3, CLA, DHA, EPA, creatine, taurine, carnitine, and selenium. 
Sarah shared a bit about the various ways you can supplement your vegan diet