Poll: A Vegan Diet Almost "Killed" Angelina Jolie

My wife has been vegan for two years with absolutely none of the affects you are experiencing. She only supplements B12 and, mostly during the winter, D.

Being vegan is not as simple as eliminating animal products from your diet, just like being omnivorous is not as simple as eating anything you see.

I have been vegan for over six years. the healthiest six years of my life. occasionally when i'm not eating right i get low iron levels. I can correct this with a supplement or by just eating right for a few weeks. its easy to slip into an overly processed diet weather you eat meat or not, avoid the processed food. eat whole grains, veggis etc. and you will be just fine. takes a little common sense to eat right weather vegan or not. I get sick of people who can't grasp the simple concepts of nutrition and blame their illness's on a vegan diet. your lack of common sense caused you to fare poorly on a vegan diet.

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I've been vegan going on seven years. I was veg for about 5 years before that.

I ran two marathons last year and am running two more this year. My bloodwork is fantastic and I'm healthy. Your experience is NOT the norm and, frankly, shouldn't be blamed on the vegan diet. Perhaps you weren't eating enough fat/protein (sounds like it), perhaps you just weren't eating enough calories. Hell, maybe your personal body chemistry requires different macronutrient percentages.

Newsflash, many omnivores are anemic. Many omnivores (most people, actually) are vitamin D deficient. It's not only vegans getting osteoporosis. Or breaking bones. Or any other health issue. Humans eating a variety of diets have problems. Some of that is imbalanced diets (and those high in processed crap and chemical un-foods) and some is just the individual's body.

This post just reads like scaremongering.
As does the original article.

Why not ask all the vegan endurance athletes how THEY feel? There are a couple vegan Iron Man winners, distance runners like Scott Jurek, etc. How about all the healthy famous vegans? Just because Jolie couldn't be arsed to use all her money and get a nutritionist/ chef doesn't mean that veganism is unhealthy. it just means she didn't do it properly. Or that she is looking for a good excuse that'll get her off the hook for eating animals again.

MEAT DIET IS HARD, DIFFICULT, PAINSTAKING, UNHEALTHY.

VEGETARIAN DIET IS EASY, DELICIOUS, STRONGER, BEST.

SCIENCE PROVES VEGETARIAN DIETS ARE EASY:

NEWS: STUDIES EXPLODE MYTHS ABOUT VEGAN VEGETARIAN DIET

VEGETARIAN:
'A study published in the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, by Neal D. Barnard, M.D and colleagues show that PATIENTS EASILY TRANSITIONED FROM AN UNHEALTHY OMNIVOROUS DIET TO A VEGETARIAN DIET" and it resulted in the people losing weight, lowering blood pressure, and improving their health.'

"Doctors confirm that a low-fat vegetarian diet can reverse heart disease and provide other benefits. However, some mistakenly think that patients will not make the transition.

VEGAN:
"Now, there are at least 4 studies published in scientific journals showing that patients CAN and DO adapt to a strict vegan diet that dramatically improves their health."

AND THERE YOU HAVE IT. VEGAN VEGETARIAN WORKED. AND VEGAN VEGETARIAN IS EASY!

FACT: A MEAT DIET IS THE PAINFUL DIFFICULT HARD DIET.

The most difficult diet to follow and remain healthy is a diet that includes meat. An Omnivorous Meat diet is way more difficult. Even painful to follow. You have to painstakingly avoid this, watchout for that, beware of this, dont eat that, dont eat too much of this, dont prepare that one that way, dont cook it too little, dont cook it too much! Etc!

1. First of all, the word OMNI VORE means to "Eat" "Everything"--» that means even EAT GARBAGE. An example of omnivores are a Rat and a Pig. Pigs eat slop, whatever's in it. Rats eat raw meat, garbage, things that are dead and rotten, infected and stink. Humans are NOT Omnivores. If a human eats a rotted infected carcass like a Buzzard, a human will get sick and die. Humans don't eat everything, humans are NOT Omnivorous.

2. In order for a human to ingest redmeat, and be sure not to get infected, you HAVE to cook it. What this means, is that it is NO LONGER BIOLOGICAL. In other words, if humans were DESIGNED to eat meat, they'd be able to eat it Raw, without getting sick, like a Buzzard, or a Lion, which is not the case. Anyone who erroneously alleges that humans were "designed" to eat meat, simply tell them: PROVE IT, EAT NOTHING BUT RAW MEAT FOR 1 YEAR. If you're not sick or dead after that 1 year then people will believe you that humans were precisely bioligically designed for it. Otherwise they are discredited. Vegetarians have already done this, and not just living 1 year but vegetarians are some of the longest-living, 100+ years, and not just enjoying it but healthier than eating meat!

3. Here's how difficult it is trying to follow a Meat Diet:

4. First, you have to make sure it's cooked right. You can't cook it too little (rare) and bloody, otherwise first of all it tastes horrible, like coagulated blood and metallic iron, but also meat can be infected with bacteria such as ecoli, salmonella etc, and you Must watch out to make sure that its been cooked for so many minutes at so much of a temperature, and on and on.

5. Not only do you have to make sure it's not cooked too little, with meat, you have to make sure it's not cooked TOO MUCH! Otherwise you can get Cancer. Results have now found that if you cook meat, the kind that meat-eaters clamber about, with those burnt "grill-marks" on it, that burnt meat has converted chemically into chemical substances that are carcinogenic! In other words, not only do you have to painstakingly belabor how little you cook meat, but also how much, otherwise you can either get infected with bloody diarrhea, or become inflicted with Cancer!

6. Meat is known to be soaked with Estradiol (guys, that means Estrogen. In other words guys, you're eating girls menstrual hormones. Meat is not manly, meat is making you feminine.) Meat is implanted with Synovex, Ralgro, Heifermax, melangestrol, and bovine growth hormones. Meat farmers do that to fatten it up and make meat-eaters pay more. These are roids and female pregnancy hormones. You're eating it. Guys, this is like You eating a woman's pregnancy hormone juice in every bite of that hamburger or piece of beef. Remember your phrase big 'juicy' steak? Think 'woman's menstrual hormones that can make you effeminate' the next time you see that 'juice'. Oh, and ladies, not good for you either, estradiols are implants that are put into cattle and the compounds it releases into the meat can give you malignant lumps of cancer in your breasts. Oh, and by the way you can't "cook it out", this is not bacteria or parasites which are killed when you cook meat but you're still eating their dead eggs and larvae, the estradiols, di-ethyl stilbestrol, melangestrols, etc are still in it after cooking meat. You're eating it.

7. So what meat-eaters do next, is say "Oh, but *I* only eat Organic, free-range, grass-fed, hormone-implant-free, meat!" (presumably from the cow that lives in the plastic bubble). When a meat eater says this, they've lost. They didn't just win the argument they LOST it. You've won. Why? Because ONLY less than 1% of all the meat produced is "organic"! So what the meat-eater has just admitted, is that they consider 99% OF ALL MEAT IS UNFIT FOR CONSUMPTION. They just admitted that they know it's bad and they won't even touch it! They think they just won, saying to eat only organic or grass-fed meat, but in reality, they just admitted that over 99% of meat is unfit. So now what that means, is a meat-diet is MORE DIFFICULT, you now have to be so picky as to watch out for 99% of all meat out there. If you are on a diet that includes meat, you are restricted to only less than 1% of all meat being even edible. A meat diet on which one can remain healthy is MORE DIFFICULT because you now cant even eat 99% of what's in it! You have to go around seeking, assuring, scrutinizing, and painstakingly making sure that the meat isn't infected, isn't soaked with roids, hormones, estrogen, melangestrol, has to be "organic" and grass-fed, and whatever else, just so you can even eat it! Imagine going to a friends house, asking all this stuff. Oh, does this meat have girl's menstrual hormones in it? Is this Organic? Did you make this burger with meat that was grass-fed?? You'll have to go through this also at every restaurant. What happens when you go to Burger King, McDonalds, KFC, etc? All of those establishments use meat that contains Estradiol, and women's hormones in it. You can't eat it.

8. Meat can also have tape worms in it. Pork can contain Trichinella larvae. Bacon can have the egg casings of parasites and worms in it. Lamb can be infected with Scabies. Steak can have Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy prions in it. Wild meat can have ticks, hunter's meat can be infected with brucellosis, deer have CWD or chronic wasting disease, hunter's shot game, ducks, etc are now infected with LEAD (Eat LEAD PAINT CHIPS anyone??) In other words, bullets are made out of Lead. Hunter shoots the animal with Lead, guy who brags about how 'fresh' and clean his shot game is just ate prions, may have infected himself with Lyme disease, and just ingested enough Lead to reduce his brain's intelligence enough for him to go out and eat more meat, with more lead in it. Hunters don't eat redmeat, hunters with guns eat "Lead meat". Don't think so? Look it up. Put "LEAD MEAT" in google and find the results yourself.

9. If you're eating Hamburgers, you're drinking WINDOW CLEANER. Yes, like the blue fluid. The meat industry has been pumping chemical Ammonia into meat to disinfect it. So now you have to avoid that. Either that or you can say "pfft I'm a meat-head and I don't care about no Ammonia in my meat!", and go under your sink and pull out a bottle of blue window cleaner and use that as your next 'barbeque sauce' (not recommended) because that's what you're saying. Go look it up. Google "Meat ammonia" and you'll find out.

10. Next, if you're on a meat diet, you'll have to avoid excess grease, lard, and oily white or yellow pieces of fat. Hamburger is made (remember hamburgers are concocted, they are purposely produced out of offal, unfit for sale pieces of meat, snouts, ears, scrotes, etc, all ground up) and formulated to contain from 10 to 20% FAT. Hot Dogs are made (on purpose) with over 20% fat (surprise!). And the unhealthy kind too.

11. Next you have to go to the trouble of worrying about blue-tongue disease, foot and mouth disease, poultry can contain bird flu (can cause death). Then on a MEAT-DIET you have to worry about Obesity, Cardiac and Heart problems, Pancreatic Cancer, Testicular Cancer, Bladder Cancer, Arthritis, Blood Diseases including Leukemia, Chicken meat contains Arsenic (!), Beef is soaked with veterinary drugs and anti-biotics. Meat can be covered in invisible dots of Feces and have come in contact with Urine. Unless you like eating out of your toilet. And then you have to watch out you haven't been fed pieces of Dog, or Horsemeat, or Seal Meat and Whale meat infected with Methylmercuric poison and illegal in the US, nematodes and worm larvae in raw sashimi and sushi, Methionine in Meat, Heme iron (the iron in meat is bad for the heart), and worry about DIABETES, Morbid obesity, and worst of all, the taste of meat: horrible. Meat has to be made edible with plants. Meat's original taste is bad, this is why meat-eaters need to use plants to make meat taste better, such as all kinds of Barbeque sauces, ketchup, mustard, hickory smoked flavors, barbecue grills using mesquite charcoal from wood (a plant!), KFC's claim to fame is The Colonel's Secret Recipe, what is it? Meat? No. KFC's slogan is not meat, it's "11 herbs and spices!" It's plants that taste good, not meat. The original flavor of meat is Raw. Like roadkill, raw pieces of skin, or fishy, or greay blubber. Nearly all the greatest flavors of the world come from plants, not meat. Meat's original flavor tastes awful. Even if you cooked it, it's still disgusting. The true taste of a piece of meat even if cooked would be plopping a piece of meat in a pot and boiling it. With no herbs, spices, salt, etc. Think of how plain boiled meat would taste. THAT is the true taste of meat. When someone says "ooh, yum! big juicy burger, that meat-head is actually noticing the taste of Plants! A hamburger is made in some cases with almost up to 50% of grains and wheat! There's garlic in there ( garlic is a plant!), there's salt & pepper in it, salt is a mineral, pepper comes once again from plants, it has ketchup (plant), mustard(plant), special sauce (once again from plants!), a bun (made out of plants), lettuce, tomato (all plants), cheese(which is still vegetarian!), sesame seeds (plant), onions(plant), and on and on and on. Meat-eaters carrying on about big juicy steaks and barbeques aren't talking about a piece of boiled meat, or a piece of raw yellow chicken skin, they dont know that they are actually proving how good plants are. They're talking about the salt, pepper, A-1 steak sauce made out of tomatoes and spices and plants, spicy barbeque sauce, hot wing sauce (again, made from plants), the great smell of the breading and 11 herbs and spices on the outside of that KFC which is all due to plants in the first place. Meat tastes awful in its natural state and tastes the same and boring. It's even a whole running joke about how everything 'tastes like chicken!' Think about it, that shows that whatever meat it is, all kinds of strange stuff, whatever it happens to be, has the SAME flavor, and even meat-eaters assert that it all tastes the same! It's vegetarian items that are responsible for nearly ALL the great tastes in the world! Seasonings! Spices! hot! tangy! sweet & sour, ooh, the smell of freshly baked bread! Strawberries! Lemon Lime! Luscious juicy fruits, even cool refreshing peppermint! Blueberries! Cashews! Pistacchios! Oooh, pizza sauce with rich tomatoes, oregano, basil, and spices! Spaghetti Marinara! Thai food! Curries, jalapenos, guacamole dip, sweet potatoes, corn on the cob, red delicious apples, banana fritters! Coffee, tea, wine, beer, apple juice, plums, apricots, Vanilla Beans, Hot Chocolate, all of these are from plants!

A VEGAN VEGETARIAN DIET IS EASIER, DELICIOUS & HEALTHIER.

A MEAT DIET IS BURDONSOME, HORRIBLE, TASTES BAD & TO REMAIN HEALTHY ON A MEAT DIET IS MORE DIFFICULT.

The China Study is largely based on observational studies - not completely without use, however merit-less when it comes to teasing out the causes of disease.

All the China Study shows is that populations that don't eat meat can be very healthy. I don't contend this and I think Ms. Jolie is being a drama queen.

Someone who has a iron blood deficiency, have to eat some form of meat, or take iron pills for the rest of their lives... I rather just eat meat...

"NEWS" does not mean "studies", even if you use the word "STUDIES" in front of a news story.

research- although i applaud your enthusiasm, you need to calm down and stop pushing you beliefs down everyone's throats. check out your teeth. if we were meant to eat only plants would have all molars or no top teeth like all herbivores. our sharp front teeth are meant to tear and rip meat. nor do we have multi-chambered stomachs like most herbivores. being vegan may be great for you, but its a choice. you need to calm down and enjoy your celery sticks.

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