Originally Posted By sarbar
There are plenty of vegan hikers that I have met. Whether or not they go the unprocessed/lf route is up to them. For example....at home we eat lower fat but there is no way I can do that while hiking. We eat a mostly unprocessed diet but are not vegan.


That's something I've thought about--how sustainable a low-fat diet would be with heavy hiking. On the AT I was dropping weight very fast. (I've regained it all by falling off the wagon after the trip, unfortunately.) That's not a bad thing for me right now, but eventually I might have needed to add in more calorie-dense foods like nuts or oils. I would think though that if I less fat on my body, the extra would just be burned for energy, and if I wasn't eating a lot of saturated fat my cholesterol wouldn't suffer.

--camelman