where paleo meets vegan: the case for a plant-rich diet

“Every time you take a bite of food, consider that you are programming your biology for health or disease. When you eat healthy food, you are, in fact, eating medicine.”
― Mark Hyman, The Pegan Diet

At first glance, paleo and vegan diets seem to sit at opposite ends of the nutritional spectrum. One embraces meat and ancestral eating patterns; the other excludes all animal products in favor of plants. Yet when you look beyond the headlines, the two approaches share far more common ground than most people realize. Meat aside, both emphasize whole, unprocessed foods and discourage sugar, refined starches, dairy, and artificial additives. In other words, both diets point in the same general direction: toward cleaner, more intentional eating.