14 Comments

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   Jennifer Treasure on February 10, 2012 at 12:39 pm

   I feel a lot healthier through not eating red meat, though I eat fish and chicken.

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   Jane Remington on February 10, 2012 at 8:25 am

   The reason vegans can reduce their cholesterol levels and blood pressure, and heal arthritis is their diet is “chock full” of fruits and vegetables – which are anti-fungal. Fungus is the root cause of cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity and osteoporosis.

   It’s fascinating this researcher “implores vegans to supplement with zinc, vitamin B-12 and iron to insure that they meet other nutritional needs.” All of these are found in meat!!! Mankind was designed to eat meat in order to meet our nutritional needs – but moderate portions only and organic, grass-fed only.

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   Christina Zamfirescu on February 10, 2012 at 1:33 pm

   I would appreciate if your articles would give the whole reference to the papers, quoted, in this case Dr. Craig's review paper you are mentioning. Thank you!

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   Patti on February 10, 2012 at 8:37 am

   I believe they ought to study how pesticides and hormones and obesogens are used in regular “healthy” fresh produce too, even if you are vegan. And, I believe the problem with meats and poultry as well..is what is used in feeding them, and injecting them with things like antibiotics and hormones, being a big part of the problem, making animals gain weight faster, and us too. I eat less now because I buy organic of both produce and meats.

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   Larry Mc Millan on February 10, 2012 at 2:20 pm

   Go cruciferous go.

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   Caecillia Jeanne Adeline Herdianto on February 10, 2012 at 5:00 pm

   Craig has to debate Mercola and Brownstein

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   Ilse on February 10, 2012 at 2:57 pm

   Then why does every vegetarian or vegan I have ever met look like death warmed over? Everything I have learned in my 64 years goes against vegetarianism. I eat well rounded meals and have no health issues what so ever. Explain that. In fact I have been working out with heavy weights most of my adult life and need red meat, granted low fat. We grow and raise most of what we eat and I believe that is where it is at.

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   Joe Stypes on February 10, 2012 at 8:33 pm

   While there are definitely some benefits to the Vegan diet, it is strange to me that several of my friends who follow this lifestyle seem to be sick on a very frequent basis. Could it be that their immune systems have been compromised in some way?

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   Antonia Farr - Student on February 10, 2012 at 3:53 pm

   Its pretty hard to get all the calcium you need from a diet with no fish and no dairy. This makes me wonder how they can be suggesting that a vegan diet can help protect against osteoporosis. I thought it was pretty well agreed that decreased levels of oestrogen, low intake of calcium, low levels of vitamin D from low exposure to sunlight and lack of weight bearing exercise (any or all in combination) were the key risk factors for osteoporosis.

   I eat very little meat (less than once a week) but would not want to cut out dairy for the above reason. Calcium needs can be met from a pill but some fairly solid large scale quantitative research seemed to show that calcium supplements increase the risk of heart disease (‘Effect of calcium supplements on risk of myocardial infarction and cardiovascular events: meta-analysis’; Published 29 July 2010 BMJ 2010;341:c3691). I do not know if the reasons for this correlation is known but the evidence seems pretty sound. I decided to stick with including some dairy in my diet, at least it’s more natural than a supplement.

   If we’re going to cut out something completely for the sake of our health I reckon that should be white sugar. That makes more sense to me (and yes I did mean completely).

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    jenny treasure on February 11, 2012 at 8:26 am

    Amidst all the advocation of eating well, many people in the UK eat too much sugar and not enough real fibre. Mainly because they won’t cook. One cashier at a local Tesco’s store didn’t even know what garlic looks like, as I was checking the item out. I always cook with garlic, ginger, onion, as the basis for most meals. Again, after living in Belgium for 22 years I like Belgian beer and it is good for you as it is real beer and will cost around £5 for four bottles. This has barley in it good for the calcium levels. But people buy boxes of 12 at a cheap price – full of chemicals!! I don’t know where Tesco, Marks or Sainsbury’s get their wine from but it is disgusting, even the expensive bottles and I just cannot drink it.

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    Janet Lukomski Herrmann on February 11, 2012 at 9:31 pm

    I agree!

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    Francesca on February 12, 2012 at 7:07 pm

    I understand going vegan if you don’t want to eat animals, but not for health reasons. If you have to take a supplement then your diet is not healthy on its own. I believe that the root causes of obesity are (1) too much sugar and (2) too much starch, and (3) our meals are way too big and not balanced. I remember what the size of home cooked meals used to be before we all started eating out and serving up restaurant-sized meals at home. Restaurant meals are rarely nutritionally balanced and we copied those large meat servings along with the huge serves of starchy carbohydrates. No wonder we’re sick. Oh, and don’t get me started on corn syrup – who is responsible for allowing that addictive substance to be put into food that children eat? Of course kids are going to get fat eating that poison – it’s in food like cereals and is intended to make a person crave more.

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    Anita Baker on February 14, 2012 at 9:12 pm

    I'm not in agreement with full vagen diet, but I'm sure most health conious people do eat some of the vagen foods.

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    Lazaro Litchfield on June 10, 2012 at 3:20 pm

    My very own special vegan recipe is grilled tomatoes. Yesterday i cooked for my 2 friends. They really like my vegan meals.