Vegans face accusations on forums that they are only “psychopaths” who enjoy tofu bacon. However, this is not the sole reason for their dislike. Vegetarians are more pro-social and support environmental conservation. Researcher Network member Monica Barnard investigates why vegans are often disliked by non-vegans and suggests solutions.
A survey data analysis found that only 1% of adults identify themselves as vegetarians and report not eating meat. Both vegans and vegetarians are particular about their diets and reasons for doing so, but for vegans, it tends to be more of a lifestyle than just a dietary preference. Vegans are often misunderstood as vegetarians, diet enthusiasts, animal lovers, or people from elite groups.
Ethical concerns over animal treatment by meat eaters often lead to misconceptions about veganism. While the ideas of veganism stem from vegetarianism, they are different lifestyles. Vegetarianism refers to people who don’t eat the flesh of any animal, and it is uncomfortable for them due to judgement and stigma. Vegans eat fruits, vegetables, legumes, grains, nuts, seeds, mushrooms, and products made from plant-based ingredients.
Vegetarians hide their veganism due to convenience, simplicity, taste, and health, while non-vegans often argue that animals are alive and that we abuse them for food. Veganism and veganism aren’t always eco-friendly, as cows used for dairy are exploited.
📹 If Meat Eaters Acted Like Vegans – Ultra Spiritual Life episode 35
As I share these veganly insights with you in true Ultra Spiritual fashion, but sure to take notes because this is very nutritionally …
What is 100% vegan?
Vegans abstain from consuming animal products, including meat, seafood, poultry, dairy, honey, and any additives derived from animals. Vegans select from a variety of plant-based foods, including fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, vegetable oils, legumes, grain products, pasta, bread, soy-based foods, nuts, and nut butter, as well as plant-based alternatives to meat and dairy products. Additionally, vegans abstain from consuming honey and any products derived from animals.
Is Brad Pitt a vegan?
The actor Brad Pitt, known for his role in “Fight Club”, is known for his vegan and alcohol-free diet. While he is not publicly known about his diet, publications like Glamour and Men’s Health have reported that he enjoys pizza and Indian cuisine. Some restaurants that Pitt might consider stopping at after a long day on set include wildrabbitbistro, which is located at 48 E. Granada Blvd., Ormond Beach.
Why are people vegan not vegetarian?
A vegetarian diet is a stricter form of veganism that excludes animal flesh, dairy, eggs, and other animal-derived ingredients. Vegetarian diets have been documented as early as 700 B. C., and they encompass a range of variations based on health, ethical, environmental, and religious considerations. The practice of these diets is motivated by a variety of factors.
What is surprisingly not vegan?
Red-colored foods, such as juices and candy, contain carmine, a cochineal extract, E120, or Red 4, which is not vegan. Nuts, a nutritious food, are often vegan, but some varieties, like Planters Dry Roasted Peanuts, contain gelatin, a protein from collagen. Gelatin is used to bind foods together, like Planters’ peanuts. Cereal, also a common vegan food, contains milk products, sugar, food coloring, shellac, and lanolin oil, which is animal-derived and used by Kellogg’s and General Mills to add D3 to their cereals. These ingredients can be found in red-colored foods, nuts, and cereals. It is essential to be aware of these potential allergens when purchasing food.
What are pescatarians?
A pescatarian is a vegetarian who primarily consumes a diet comprising plant-based foods, including whole grains, nuts, legumes, fruits and vegetables, and healthy fats, with seafood serving as the primary source of protein. However, there is considerable variation in the composition of pescatarian diets. Some individuals adhere to a meat-free diet that is high in processed starches, junk food, and fish sticks, rather than a healthier diet based on whole foods.
Is Coke a vegan?
Coca-Cola offers a range of vegan and vegetarian products, including Coke Classic, Coke Vanilla, Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Coke No Sugar, Fanta Orange, Fanta Jelly Fizz, Sprite, Powerade, Lift, Appletiser, Grapetiser, Coke Raspberry, and Fanta Passionfruit Cream. However, the BARISTA BROS flavored milk range contains dairy ingredients.
What are strict vegans called?
Level 4 vegans are those who are committed to veganism and follow a strict dietary regime, often incorporating more fruits, vegetables, and nuts. They often eat out at vegan restaurants or choose vegan options when not available. They are passionate about animal rights and often participate in animal ethics protests. Level 5 vegans are considered extreme vegans and are seen as the most committed to the vegan lifestyle.
Why don t we call vegans herbivores?
The human digestive system lacks a cecum, which is necessary for the prolonged digestion of vegetable matter. Instead, our system is of medium length and is capable of processing both meat and vegetables, enabling us to consume both.
Can vegans eat honey?
Vegans aim to minimize animal exploitation, including bee exploitation, and often exclude honey from their diets. Honey, made by living bees, is not vegan, and vegans avoid it to protect bee health. Instead, they opt for plant-based alternatives like agave, maple syrup, and date syrup. Vegans also avoid eating animal products like meat, eggs, and dairy, as well as their derived foods. This approach supports the principles of veganism and animal welfare.
What is the argument for veganism?
Veganism is not just about avoiding animal exploitation, but also about showing compassion for animals. Emotional attachments to animals and the belief in the right to life and freedom are key factors in adopting a vegan lifestyle. Vegan diets are well-planned and suitable for all ages and stages of life, with research showing health benefits such as lower blood pressure, cholesterol, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and some types of cancer.
Veganism also offers an opportunity to learn more about nutrition and cooking, as it allows more room for health-promoting options like whole grains, fruit, nuts, seeds, and vegetables, which are rich in fiber, vitamins, and minerals. Veganism is a great way to improve one’s diet and contribute to a healthier lifestyle.
What is the difference between vegans and vegetarians?
Vegetarians and vegans follow a strict diet, avoiding meat, fish, shellfish, crustacea, gelatine, and animal by-products. They also avoid dairy products and eggs. A vegetarian diet consists of a variety of foods, including fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins. Vegans, on the other hand, avoid animal products like dairy and eggs. This diet promotes a healthier lifestyle and promotes a balanced diet.
📹 Vegan diets don’t work. Here’s why
NAVIGATION 00:00 – Why do people get crooked teeth? 1:10 – Why do 84% of vegans quit veganism? 2:13 – Humans’ shrinking …
It’s just so damn exhausting. No matter what diet you have there’s always a thousand people pointing a finger at you telling you why you’re going to die because of it. There’s so much conflicting information that it’s hopeless to ever try to piece together any sort of meaningful understanding of it all.
I just want to say that : nutrition science is a very approximate science . Their claims change constantly. It’s because it is incredibly difficult to observe, analyse and understand the countless interactions in between dozens of organs and thousands of compounds: and their cross interactions etc I take everything they say with a grain of salt or two, but not three
17:23 In korea its also customary to feed pregnant women kelp soup. I dont remember where i heard this but there are certain tribes in africa who burn kelp and feed the burnt kelp to pregnant women Pretty cool how people from different corners of the world discovered feeding seaweed to pregnant women makes babies healthy.
There is also a connection between issues with the dental arch, crooked teeth and having not been breastfed. Breastfeeding uses many more muscles in the mouth, jaw and face than bottle feeding. Breastfeeding appears to help the mouth, jaw and face develop properly. In many studies bottle feeding was correlated with issues with the development dental arch, crooked teeth, etc. So in addition to highly processed food for older children and adults causing serious issues, highly processed food and “highly processed” feeding methods (using an easy to suck latex or silicone bottle nipple rather than a difficult, muscle developing breast to milk nutrients from) for infants may contribute to mouth and facial development. (Yes, I am well aware some women can’t breastfeed I’m an IBCLC (lactation consultant) but just because some aren’t doing or can’t do something doesn’t mean that something isn’t still the the most healthy thing.)
I found the snippet at the start about meat sales being on the decline quite amusing, since my company (I work in market research) conducted a study about this recently. We did indeed find our target demo decreased their meat consumption in the past couple of years, but by far the most common reason was COST, not health or environmental related reasons. It seems most people wouldn’t be vegetarian or vegan if they had more financial flexibility
I’ve been vegan for 7+ years and vegetarian for 20 and while I do take vitamin D supplements (because I live in the north and like to wear clothes) and I didn’t have any issues other than my doctor said it was low, my B12 is fine. B12 is a tricky topic and the research is still coming in. B12 is a very complex vitamin and is destroyed in the the upper intestine but absorbed in the lower intestine. If taken as a supplement or eaten as part of ones diet, the amount of B12 that can be absorbed by one’s lower intestine is limited by the amount of intrinsic factor their stomach is able to produce. Many bacteria have been found to produce B12 and vegans and vegetarians can get enough B12 from a health gut biome. Nutritional yeast is also in everything these days. Being vegan takes commitment, discipline, and an understand of nutrition or it won’t work. Pottinger’s cats shows another mechanism for malnutrition and shows that modern diets have had an effect on people’s teeth among all sorts of other things. I think veganism is being blamed for the shortcomings of the people trying vegan diets and not the diets themselves.
One of my biggest eye openers in life was finally realizing first hand how i was supposed to feel. Happened when i cut out the junk and ate veggies fruits and meat only. I mean after 6 weeks i realized my whole being leveled up. Mental state, function, emotions, anxiety vanished, brain fired on all cylinders, i felt young and alive. I cant say enough about it. Dont eat junk. Society would be a better place if everyone did.
At 10:07, you incorrectly cite DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/78.1.131. The 92% holoTC figure explicitly refers to individuals that did not take B supplements. 88% of vegan “vitamin users” had low holoTC – very similar number, but if you look at the actual levels, they were substantially better on average (14 pmol/L vs 4 pmol/L) for vitamin-users. B12 levels for vitamin-using vegans were actually slightly better than LV-LOV individuals in this study. Clearly, B12 supplements do *something*. In the study, “vitamin users” took B vitamin supplements, but not with any particular protocol. That said, the study does show a stark contrast between omnivores and vegetarians – only 1% of omnivores had low B12, and 11% had low holoTC levels,
I would be interested to know how fermentation (Generally done with yeast and/or lactic bacteria – if your product has a salt brine and is refrigerated, it’s generally fermented) affects the vitamin uptake from vegan diets. And of course the other end – pickling (Generally done with an outside acid such as vinegar, longer shelf life, doesn’t usually need to be refrigerated) and how that affects the vitamin uptake. Let me know if you do a article on this difference!
Later on in the article where you’re talking about the Plains Indian’s height and pemmican, it’s of interest to note some of the accounts of the franciscans that accompanied Spanish explorers 500 years ago. One Franciscan most famous for recording the people and events in the Southwest wrote about the Pima Indians. In one chronicle, he describes a seven-foot-tall Pima Indian warrior running the same speed as a bison, while taking it down with his bow and arrow. He describes the Pimas of that era in glorious terms. Today, the Pimas outside Tucson, Arizona are the fattest, most diabetic people in the entire world. Their diet consists of US surplus: canned and boxed foods + sodas and fruit juice.
Ok, just so you know, something being oxidised doesn’t mean that you now need an anti-oxidant. Oxidation is one-half of what we chemists call a Redox reaction – that’s a reduction-oxidation reaction. As ‘x’ is oxidised, ‘y’ is reduced. An anti-oxidant would prevent the redox reaction from taking place at all and NOT- as you suggested- be used as a sort of ‘morning after pill’ for random oxidation happening without a corresponding reduction. I hope that makes sense. If not, please read up on “Redox Reactions,” to give you an ACCURATE understanding of oxidation, as opposed to the use of “Oxidation” as a buzzword.
My eldest brother was born in Holland in 1943, in an urban area. This meant that he experienced a degree of starvation during his first two years of life (German occupation, the so-called winter of hunger of 1944/45). He is markedly shorter than eight of his siblings (his sister, born in 1944 is even shorter) and he has the crookedest teeth of the whole bunch. Other than that he is perfectly healthy and compos mentis now at 80.
Montenegrian here. I grow up eating homemade food. my breakfast as a child was boiled 1 cup of milk that was milked for 2h before that milk had fat floating on top and we would add a bit of salt to it, then high-fat cheese in taste and texture similar to mozzarella nowadays, home baked bread, onion, garlic, egg, and baken made on wood fire because we smoked meat so we always had fire going on. for lunch it would be cabbage or some of those green vegetables in soup, onion, carrot, garlic, home-baked bread, and ofc some smoked meat like ribs for example, another version of lunch would be baked meat with potatoes, and always I mean rly always soup. for soup when baked lunch was there it was usually full of vegetable and bone broth. For dinner, we usually skip it or eat whatever is left from lunch. Sometimes if we had something extra there would be cheese pie and something like Greek yogurt or kefir, or just a cup of milk that is extra from that day with some bread and cheese ofc. So most of the diet was cheese, meat, eggs, fat, and vegetables. But keep in mind vegetables that can be grown all year long and can remain longer period fresh like cabbage, carrot, onion, garlic, potato. Every day I would have liked school then helping around animals, cutting or moving things around, etc, so it was active, and in our free time we would play sports or ride bicycle. I never had issues with my mouth health etc. Yes I am just under 2m tall. Also worth to note that today’s milk isn’t milk, you have to rly try out milk that is milked then boiled .
Whenever mother-in-law went on holiday, husband and I would move into her flat, to look after her cat. Year 1, the cat couldn’t get enough of the raw meat we fed it. MIL came home and chewed our heads off. “They mustn’t have raw meat. It makes them too frisky.” So that was us told. Pet cats must be kept in a permanent nutrient-deprived stupor.
During the ‘health craze’ of the 1970s, I was shopping for groceries with my dad and we came across a spread that touted it had 30% less of something than margarine. I pointed this out, we looked at each other, and decided that we weren’t going to eat a substitute for a substitute. It was butter or nothing after that.
When determining the significance of a study, there are several factors to consider, including the study design, sample size, statistical methods used, and the credibility of the researchers conducting the study. A study that is well-designed, has a large sample size, uses appropriate statistical methods, and is conducted by reputable researchers is more likely to produce reliable and valid results.
Brave article, i imagine you wont be reading the comments much for your own peace of mind. Still, i think it’s worth saying that i noticed one glaring inaccuracy in the content: ancient wild fruit would NOT have been “only as sweet as a modern carrot.” In many cases, yes, humans have selectively bred more sweetness, but as someone who forages as a hobby, i can IMMEDIATELY think of at LEAST 3 wild fruit in my area that are non-cultivated, have no gene flow with cultivated fruits, and are still exceptionally sweet. And that’s not even counting the variety in the warmer parts of the world! Fruit have been coevolving with plenty of sweet-loving species for millions of years, and the plants know how to make a fruit that will absolutely delight a hungry primate of any species
the study about the soy isoflavones is misrepresented here as is often the case. a man would have to eat two kilograms of raw soy a day to get any effect. i wonder how many other sources are misrepresented in this 40 minutes of cope. if you’re worried about growing tits, maybe consider all the bovine growth hormone in your food
It was mentioned in he comments but i also have read that doing sports during childhood and teenagehood and chewing harder foods as our faces grow and specially as food is introduced after 6months of age really has an effect on the size and shape of your jaw. My brother is the only sporty on in our family and his jaw is massive and has natural straight teeth. He even had space for all his wisdom teeth, which is something rare amongst all the people i know in their 30s and 20s now.
Me and my wife was vegan for around 3-4 years, but then quit because…Life, we became parents and our child had problems during birth and we had to feed her certain things to keep her gaining weight due to being so small, all of these things were ofcause animal based foods and we also had to taste it to check its warmth amoung other things. So yea being vegan worked for a while then it didnt, we have been quite a bit healthier since then also, we mix more foods now.
I’ve been saying for YEARS that the research on red meat has been horrendous. I was 16 when this was the case and people still advocate against it. The worst part is when a family member had blood loss due to severe IBD, he was urged to eat more red meat. Silly to see contradictions until they’re no longer applicable.
It seems like you haven’t yet released a article on gut microbiome, which is a trending topic these past years among others. It would be great to see your view of that topic, especially with this controversy with no/low-fiber diet that looks healthier, based on this article, than a common-sense gut-healthy one.
Veganism as a diet for a flimsy goal like weight-loss, doesn’t work… because diets don’t work. As soon as the individual meets their goals the diet is abandoned. But I’m an ethical vegan and have been for 11 years. I would rather die of starvation than consume animal products. If veganism were unhealthy, and let’s be perfectly clear… it isn’t, then I would still do it anyway. If you think that veganism is a diet then tell us that you know exactly NOTHING about veganism without telling us that you know exactly NOTHING about veganism.
Well, my wife and I are recent parents and before my wife was pregnant she used to eat a very restricted diet given digestion problems of her. Once she got pregnant most of her digestion problems went away and she started to eat a lot like me, with lots of red meat, home made bread (I bake it myself), dairy products, green leafs and vegetables, almost no suggar drinks and instead plain water or fruits blended into water. And our son was born with perfect weight and is being breast feeded along with some formula, but mostly breast milk, and recently incorporating solids, and he is very large for his age, most people saying he is the size of a two years old when he is only 7 months old. Funny thing is that according to all weight and size charts he is pretty much where he should be for his age, so that makes me thing that a lot of kids are undernourished or even malnourished without people noticing it.
Why correlation does not equal causation? and why is using correlation instead of causation is a manipulation of data? you take two facts that seem to happen at the same time and then you draw mistaken conclusions. for example: 1. people in Netherlands drink milk a lot 2. people in Netherlands are very tall. this is correlation not causation. It does not immediately mean that they are tall because of milk. proving evidence for causation: Netherland = #3 in milk/capita and #3 for height worldwide disproving evidence for causation: Bosnia & Herzegovina – #41 milk/capita and #2 height worldwide also disproving: Serbia – #55 milk/capita and #5 height worldwide cherry-picking countries as a claim for benefits of milk for height is not science. BTW, tallest people in the world on average are from Europe. There is a higher likelihood of the cause being genetic rather than diet based. Don’t fall into fake news…
I feel that this is one of the most dishonest articles I’ve seen in a long while. I’m afraid that you resort to cherry picking studies, taking findings from those studies out of context and then asserting claims that aren’t actually what the studies themselves were getting at. You also rely on a lot of anectodal evidence. It seems to me that you are using any excuse you can to justify eating animals and their products. A well planned vegan diet can be perfectly healthy, and most importantly of all, it doesn’t involve the intentional mass killing of animals. I am unlikely to persuade you but I hope that some of the people reading my comment consider mine and other vegan perspectives in this article.
I’ve been a vegetarian my whole life and I’m perfectly healthy. Love cheese and cooking with my pet chickens eggs too much to go vegan! Also, Vegetarians seem a lot more level-headed than vegans. I went vegan for a summer with my step mom once but had to go back to vegetarianism after feighnting when I came back home. It’s a lot more hard to be vegan!
Since I’ve been recently experiencing quite severe symptoms of GERD, I immediately felt compelled to google what was said at 13:54 that “dietary fiber is known to weaken the stomach acid” and all the articles and studies I looked over assert the exact opposite (“fiber, among other things, absorbs liquid in the digestive system, which prevents the displacement of stomach acid”). Was that just downright botched in the article or am I misunderstanding it?
I’m much healthier since I’ve become a pescatarian, but I don’t think it’s for lack of meats like Turkey and Chicken, it’s just that pescatarianism lead me to be more mindful about what I eat in general. This happens with most diets, so I think it’s less about what diet you have and more just having a diet
For every diet that you could think of and every piece of research that you could come up with somebody else will have the exact opposite thing to say with a ton of research backing their claim. Pick a camp if it works for you stay there if it doesn’t try something else. There is no one size fits all diet
i stopped perusal at your b12 debate….. I’m not vegan I’m not carnivore but open minded, but you go on how like 7% of vegetarians are deficient in b12 compared to meat eaters and can only be found in meet…explain why over 30% of Americans are deficient in B12 and they eat meat… any body with a open mind knows B12 IS NOT NATURALLY found in meat or dairy, its added through the animals diet than stored in the body just how someone would supplement with B12… vegan vegetarian carnivore etc
Can you make a comprehensive article summarising all the stuff you DO recommend? Instead of what not to eat haha? I sometimes get overwhelmed with all the different food options, vitamins, minerals, and all the other fancy stuff you talk about. Even tho it’s really interesting. It’s spread out across so many different articles. I almost can’t keep track.
I was also very worried about calsium, protein, and Vitamin B when I first became a Vegan. After 6 months I went to the doctor to get my blood tested. Only 3 values was problematic. She said I have such high levels of Calsium, protein and Vitamin B, that they toxic. She told me eat less meat and cheese. It is not about being vegan or eating meat. It is about having a healthy diat.
One really fascinating thing about most herbivores is how often they will eat meat when they don’t get enough of something in their diet. Theres actually was less obligate herbivores than there are herbivores that need to eat meat on occasion. Can’t keep poultry with most other farm animals because of it (even with each other sometimes…)
Canadian here, raised in eastern Ontario, had gallons of whole milk as a kid (3.25% Holstein), and lots of eggs, pork, beef, chicken, white bread, potatoes and rice. … I’m 65 now, I have all 32 teeth including wisdom teeth, had 2 cavities, filled 30 years ago, no new ones since. My BMI is in the zone, resting HR is 57, I work full time. (Note: a sample of 1)
Dear Joseph, I really appreciate your effort and love all your articles. For me as an academic, the most important aspect about claiming something is to have evidence. You do it already, but not for every article where you claim something scientific. I would appreciate it, if you put the source of these articles/ articles/ pictures you use. Thanks a lot!
Did vegetarian and vegan for about 7 years, and realized my body was not recovering after sport. I would wake up with pain all over, muscles contractures, tired, lack of energy during trainings, and I was using supplements. One day my body was craving beef so badly that my mouth was watering just by thinking of it. Went and bought it, reintroduced meat and fish and went back to my original Mediterranean diet. I eat real food; not stuff out of packages. Meat, fish, veggies, fruits, leguminous etc. But most of all what I learned was to listen to what my body is saying. Find your balance, your body tells you what it needs.
my mother used to be a movement scientist and my father proffesional athlete. they knew alot about proper and healthy food. ive been eating a very healthy and natural diet. my little brothers were born 10 years later now we eat a nearly vegatarian diet im intrested to see what will happen in another 10 years or so.
I don’t like the title of this article. Very clickbaity. Veganism works for millions of people on this planet including myself. Am vegan for 7 years, got great blood values and I’m healthier than before erasing animal products from my plate. On what I’m agreeing with the article is to eat a balanced diet and limit the consumption of processed foods.
I thought that Impossible Burger must have something truly new and innovative…but when I looked at the ingredients list I realized that it was just a standard junk food crappy soy burger with unhealthy oils, lots of MGS to make it savory, and the only innovation is the HEME iron added. I am sure that they are dirt cheap to make…but sell for a very high price. What a scam!
One of the most infuriating things about the cat diet research discoveries in this article is that current regulations make it extremely difficult for animal food companies to produce a raw meat diet for pets that they can legally market. I have a cat that started having health issues around age 12, we switched him to a raw diet and he became healthy again. He just turned 21 years old. He has some arthritis and hearing loss but is otherwise healthy. He doesn’t even need dental cleanings. The raw meat diet brand we used was put out of business because the government won’t allow them to sell raw meat to predator animals THAT THRIVE ON RAW MEAT! It also has a bit to do with pet food companies that make baked kibble and cooked canned food, lobbying against raw brands. Brands like Science Diet pay off veterinarians with scholarships to peddle their brand. It’s even more corrupt than the people food industry.
Most non vegans are relying on supplemented vitamins, mostly via “nutrient enriched” foods like rice, bread, cereals, iodized salt, etc. They enrich staple foods to boost nutrients that are low in the entire population, but because they’re optimizing for non vegans, vegans can benefit from supplementation.
Back in high school I was vegetarian for two years and vegan for one year. Never took any supplements or anything. Quit because I wanted a hot dog one day. I hadn’t considered it before, but that diet is probably the reason that high school was just a huge blur for me. I always felt like I was dreaming, and I hardly remember anything from that time in my life.
Myself, my parents, my grandparents, great grandparents, and great great grandparents, have been only consuming only vegan+daily for all their lives. We have been in great health, lived long lives, have great teeth, and are also doing great financially, mentally, intellectually, and also have had great family bond. Just that my whole generation have been lived their lives in India, eating traditional Indian food, which have been consumed by the whole community as big or bigger than the size of an average European country, and had no problems. I think your research and stats are biased to a specific group of people, hence you are getting all the negative results. And hence, your conclusion, i.e. “Vegan diets don’t work” is NOT accurate.
Creatine, carnosine, anserine and taurine are mentioned at Minute 29:25. One of the major components of aging is non-enzymatic glycosylation, or glycation. Carnosine can prevent this issue, & possibly remediate it in cataracts by using a liquid version of acetyl-l-carnosine. The Russians developed this technique. Anserine is the bird version of carnosine. The reason why a pigeon lives 35 years, and yet a comprable rodent of the same weight will only live 4-6 years is because of anserine. It’s anti-glycation properties are six to seven times more powerful than carnosine.
I can’t speak on the other ex-vegan influencers but the way you frames cosmic skeptics situation was quite disingenuous and it makes me question the framing throughout the rest of your article. Alex (cosmic sceptic) has severe IBS that predated him turning vegan. Whether he could have made it with guide from a dietitian is a different question but using his as a prominent example of someone who got health issues due to veganism skews the truth to say the least.
I think it’s absolutely key to eat fermented foods, critical for our health. We’re apes who live on the ground. We learned to eat fruit when in the trees and grew up eating it off the ground. Fruit + fungus on the ground = fermentation. One of the oldest genetic adaptations humankind underwent is our ability to get less drunk than other animals, because we grew up eating fermenting fruit. I would like to see the data on those people who said they had digestive issues without meat if they were to regularly consume fermented foods The idea that you can just add chemicals together like you can math is one of the biggest misconceptions about modern food science, it doesnt work that way. Now make sure you get enough sodium + chlorine today, split them up if you think thats a healthy option
I hope you find an opportunity to dig deeper into RDA. Minimums vs RDA vs optimal – I am interested in timing. Are vitamins and minerals actually required on a daily, bi-weekly, weekly, monthly or seasonal basis? Many people obsess about daily nutrition but truthfully many vitamins and a minerals are absorbed, stored and used within the body in varying ways over varying time cycles. I suspect RDA’s were in many cases best guesses. RDA, like food guides, are a convenient but over simplified system devised to be helpful. Although possibly also used by supplement produces for marketing. I always search for food sources and try to avoid supplements.
Fun fact, kinda unrelated but when i got to the article talking about increasing people with peanut allergies, as a baby I also had not only a peanut allergy but a shellfish one as well, not sure if this is just an asian thing but my parents would feed me miniscule amounts of peanuts or peanut products and shellfish everyday for 2-3 years with increasing amounts every year until at some point I had no allergic reaction at all, happy to say at 22 im enjoying pb and j and the occasional sea foods (although the pb and j might just be the only thing i can afford during school currently) A caveat is that (with no scientific research, just my parents experience) you do this only when you’re young, i know friends now that if they even so much as catch a whiff of peanut essence they’ll go into anaphalatic shock
Drawing conclusions from single studies, especially in terms of medicine is at least unreliable. The different dependencies are usually very complex and there can be hidden biases like lifestyle choices a lot of vegans have in common, that have effects that do not come from the diet and also just statistical deviations are often large. If you want to look at scientific results you should look for meta studies with proper selection criteria. Those are an extra check for biases and since the sum up a lot of studies they are also less voulnerable to statistical outliers. I know this is common in “sicence” yt but i hope maybe it gets better some day.
I’ve been vegan for 14 years and I see a lot of these articles, and I’m not here to use anecdote to discount science it just leaves me wondering, “Why do I feel healthy and great if I’m supposed to be having such issues?” I will say I take a B12 supplement, but other than that I just eat a lot of whole foods, fermented foods (kimchi daily) and in place of meat I sometimes use beyond beef type products but often times just swap out for beans or mushrooms. I will also note I’m a chef for a living so I do cook for myself 90-95% of the time.
We are not Vegans nor Carnivores. We are Omnivores. Our Canine and Molars teeth prove that we are Omnivores. Today I had Texas Barbecue Baked Potato, Blooming Onion, Potato Salad, Cole Slaw, Jalapeños, Sweet Tea and Pecan Pie for dessert …and I was thinking wow I could have had one of those “delicious” (boring, no taste) Carnivore or Vegan meal today instead…😂😂😂
Although at first glance it might seem that mental illness rates have spiked, you have to remember that those are the diagnosed mental illness rates. As societal acceptance has grown, of course the amount of people seeking help has increased. Same goes for other illnesses. And also the survivability rate of these illnesses has gone up drastically, so there’s a survivorship bias.
There is an 8 year age gap between my brother and I. During my childhood, our family would eat a regular omnivore diet. When my brother turned 18 and subsequently moved out, around the same time our mother became obsessed with the concept of a raw vegan diet. I spent my entire adolescence being unable to put any kind of animal products in my mouth without being shamed for making “an unhealthy choice” by her. I am currently 20. Compared to my older brother, I am significantly shorter and weaker. It was as though my life was an unintentional experiment. How would a pair of genetically similar individuals turn out when raised on different diets? And the conclusion appears to be that the little brother who has not tasted meat or fish in over a decade was left stunted and frail, forever left in the shadow of his more physically capable older brother.
I’m a vegan/vegetarian since 1983. I’ve a Degree in Biology & Nutritive Sciences UIC, ‘83 + RD. Transitioned from 2MaD to 1MaD. Never have had a cavity my entyre life…although I do have a supposed “genetic” predisposition to periodontal disease. Although I absolutely am abhorrent to the idea of killing a sentient being in order to bury it in your stomach to “survive”? I’m convinced that the Bovine Is 1000% ideally suited for a well founded & healthy human diet (unfortunately). Thought Question? Where do the Animals that provide Vitamine B-12 Get THEIR B-12 from since most all animals consumed by humans are vegetarian Animals. (My Theory is that Vitamine B-12 is produced through Bacteria Action in the Throat while one sleeps & absorbed via the illeo-cecum)
I’ve been vegan for years and would never look back. Veganism is better than just fine if you eat fruit and veg as near as they were formed in Eden as possible before we were thrown out of the garden, as legend has it. No processed / junk-vegan, expensive faux meats or vegan cheeses, etc. You need to supplement with 2000 micrograms of B12 but only once a week, that’s all, as it’s stored by the liver, the animals some of you eat wouldn’t have much B12 if their feed wasn’t supplemented. Chemical agriculture has destroyed all the soil bacteria that used to provide B12 for carnivores, omnivores, vegetarians, and vegans alike. A tablespoon of freshly ground flaxseeds and/ or a small handful of walnuts as your only oily or fatty foods per day keeps up your omega 3 and vision / mental processes clear. Vegan D2 powdered mushroom supplement once a day keeps us pasty city types healthy. Eating all your calories early in the day ( before 2pm) and then fasting until the next day along with enjoying clove and peppermint tea stops any feelings of bloating. Fiber is not your enemy, it is your best friend and it’s especially friendly to your gut bacteria, you will have a big poo once a day, it’s over very fast, it’s comfortable, and you won’t be trapped, fighting that tuff turd for hours whilst painfully trying to finish reading War and Peace. Not too much faff really when balanced against all the pain, suffering, zoonotic pandemic diseases, and early death (of humans and of other animals) that commercial farming creates.
I thought I heard the name Weston Price somewhere before, I looked it up, turns out his research has been criticised by prominent scientists of the time and even his own colleagues, basing your entire article around his “research” is a pretty biased take and this is coming from a meat eater like me lol
My twin brother has been vegetarian for 50 years. At age 55 he developed Type 1 Diabetes and 18 months later found he had throat cancer (thankfully he is now cancer free). As his twin I am genetically identical, but so far my health is OK – I eat an omnivore diet, although I’ve cut out processed foods and sugar.