Monday, December 27, 2010

Veganism is Inhuman

Don't trust a vegan for nutritional advice.
Especially for weight loss.

Before I proceed with today's post, I just want to clarify this.  My stance against vegetarian/vegan type diets mainly focuses on their effect on human health.  I am not going to defend my view if your disagreements are religious or morality based, (or even about taste or conveniency).  If you do have something scientific to show that a plant-based diet is superior than an balanced, omnivore-type diet for weight loss, sports performance, or general health, please reference your comments.  

Again, I'm not advocating a Paleo/Cavemen diet or even a high protein diet.  Just anti-plants-based diets for health.  Enjoy.

Evolutionary Evidence:
1. We are meat eaters.
http://www.ajcn.org/content/71/3/682.full
http://beyondveg.com/cordain-l/grains-leg/grains-legumes-1a.shtml#intro
http://www.newtreatments.org/why%20are%20grains%20and%20legumes%20so%20unhealthy
http://www.beyondveg.com/nicholson-w/hb/hb-interview1d.shtml

2. Remains of fossil humans indicate decrease in health status after the Neolithic.
http://www.beyondveg.com/nicholson-w/hb/hb-interview1c.shtml
"In most respects, the changes in diet from hunter-gatherer times to agricultural times have been almost all detrimental... With the much heavier reliance on starchy foods that became the staples of the diet, tooth decay, malnutrition, and rates of infectious disease increased dramatically over Paleolithic times, further exacerbated by crowding leading to even higher rates of communicable infections...   Skeletal remains show that height decreased by four inches* from the Late Paleolithic to the early Neolithic, brought about by poorer nutrition, and perhaps also by increased infectious disease causing growth stress, and possibly by some inbreeding in communities that were isolated"

3. Eating meat made us smarter.

Health Problems Vegetarians/Vegans Face: 
1.  Forty-seven percent of women genetically incapable of getting adequate vitamin A from plants
http://donmatesz.blogspot.com/2009/11/another-vegetarian-fallacy-exposed.html 

2. Vegans suffer B12 Deficiency.

3. Vegetarians are more likely to suffer heart disease.

4. Protein deficiency in vegetarian type diets causes Type II Diabetes.

5. Low fat intake from vegetarian diets lower testosterone.
6. Vegetarian diet speed up aging - Martin Berkhan @ "free the animal"

"Vegans and vegetarians have lower circulating IGF-1 levels, and IGF-1 might speed up the aging process (in laymens terms). This is thought to be due to lower protein intakes and specifically lower methionine intake. Calorie restriction might also play a role. Similarly, anabolic pathways, such as MTOR, is associated with various diseases such as tumor growth, while catabolic pathways such as AMPK is asscoiated with various adaptations that may promote life extension."

7. High fiber intake in vegetarian-type diets aren't that great.

8. Creatine Deficiency.
"vegans tend to have elevated blood levels of homocysteine and decreased levels of HDL, the "good" form of cholesterol. Both are risk factors for heart disease"

We Ate Plants as Last Resort!
http://donmatesz.blogspot.com/2011/02/more-raw-truth-about-raw-vegan-diets.html
"The fact that chimps eat more fruit than any other type of food does not indicate that they prefer fruit to all other types of food, any more than the fact that Chinese eat mostly rice means that they prefer rice to all other foods. In fact, chimps prefer to eat termites over fruit, and always start their foraging looking for insects, only moving on to fruits after they have exhausted their insect supplies".


The Science (or lack thereof) Behind Veganism.
  
1. Veganism supported by ADA is unscientific.

2. The China Study (Vegan Bible) Lies Revealed!
http://rawfoodsos.com/category/china-study/

3. T. Colin Campbell thinks rat metabolism is the same as human metabolism. 

4. Animal Fat is Not the Problem.
http://donmatesz.blogspot.com/2010/12/fat-is-not-problem.html
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-carbs-20101220,0,5893431,full.story
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4419153/eat-your-fat-not-your-vegetables/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8WA5wcaHp4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuxDuLKz39c&feature=related

5. The French Paradox.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Paradox
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1768013/?tool=pmcentrez

6. Worst, unscientific, plant-based diets ever.
http://www.amazon.com/Skinny-Bitch-Rory-Freedman/dp/0762424931
http://www.youngwomenshealth.org/vegetarian.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elimination_diet

7. Sites to stay away from for sanity.
http://vegan.org/
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4777
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2523&c=11
http://www.veganhealth.org/

What make Vegetarianism/Veganism so Popular?  Scare Tactics and False Promises.
  • Denise Minger Interview on LLVLC about how veganism is a cult and information are censored regarding people's health concerns following veganism on vegan sites.
  • Underground Wellness on the Vegan Cult.
  • The Cholesterol Story 

Plant-based diets (PBD) helped people lose weight because anyone moving from a 'Stanard American Diet' to a diet that eliminate tons of essential protein and half the fat is going to cut down a lot of calories, but that doesn't mean you're going to be healthier, feel better, or lose tons of fat. 

Due to the incomplete amino acid profiles of popular plant protein sources like nuts and spinach (lacking nutrient density), often lead dieters to have to eat more of them to reach optimal protein intake (which increase overall calories) or they lose muscle mass.  Those who eat under their daily needs while exercising usually lose more muscle than fat.

If you've visited any vegetarian sites, the food pyramid they proposed (similar the USDA recommendation) consist of mostly carbs calories coming from grain (+50%).  Just because someone switch from SAD to PBD doesn't always mean they are going to eat more fruits and veggies.  They usually up their grain intake (pasta, oatmeal, soy, rice, and starchy veggies like carrots, potatoes, or corn) and tons of ice cream and cupcakes. 

Learn more about the danger of grain.

Let Them Eat Meat
"Eventually the carbohydrate loading and the low amounts and even lower bio-accessibility of nutrients starts taking its toll. And before you know it, you’re wondering why everything about your health is on the “lower” end of the spectrum: Lower body mass, paler skin, lower blood pressure, lower heart rate, lower body temperature, lower energy, thinner hair, weaker bones, etc."


Others:
Plants have feelings too... just saying.

Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian... lol, this is so wrong.

"A better way to support the welfare of animals is to support farmers who raise animals in a more humane way"
Buy products from your local food stores.
http://www.earthlings.com/

Milk & Muscle

Milk and Weight Loss
http://www.oprah.com/food/The-Health-Benefits-of-Milk

Just because a very, very small percentage of our population have allergic reaction or food intolerance to non-plant-based food sources doesn't mean they have the rights to tell the rest of us how to eat. 

Eggs and Cholesterol Myth
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16340654
'According to the U.S. Government's latest guidelines, one egg per day does not result in increased blood cholesterol levels. Nor does it increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in normal people.

What it might have said is that 12 eggs per day will not increase your blood cholesterol or have a significant impact on cardiovascular risk. And the government could say this about many other cholesterol containing foodstuffs such as whole milk and butter'

So what did we learn....  We can make any diets work as long as we're eating a variety of food that makes our diet complete and balanced, with the right vitamins and minerals.  If you're on a vegetarian diet or are thinking about it, do some research on what vitamins/minerals you may be lacking and the proper macronutrient ratios that will work for your goal (weight loss, athletic performance, allergies, muscle gain).  Get a blood test done, then get it done again periodically. 

If you're an  athlete (especially endurance) or on an exercise program, the last thing you want to do is embark on a plant-based diet.  The deficiencies will cause you more harm than good... impedes performance, slowed recovery, low energy level, impair your motor functions and muscle growth.

If you truly believe a plant-based diet is going to work for you, please educate yourself first.   Honestly, 99% of vegetarians/vegans don't know crap about the basic  essential nutrients the human body requires for optimal health. 

Vegetarians will tell you they've done their research, eating plenty spinach for protein, taking flaxseed for omega-3 (far less cost-effective than fish oil), and only eat grain-based products 'whole' (shows how misguided they are), yet they don't understand why they are suffering from health issues such as osteoporosis, vertigo, Leaky Gut syndrome,  anemia, B12 deficiency, withdraws, chronic fatigue syndrome, autoimmunity, diarrhoea, metabolic syndromes, and various neurological disorders.

Jem Yeh M.Ed., CSCS, CPT.

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"The funny thing is, when you're looking at what their diets are about, they're not eliminating animal products as a mean to prevent or reverse disease, they're also eliminating things like processed starch and sugar, refined carbohydrates, excessive sodium, and vegetable oils... but in the vegan world, when you eliminate all those things, along with animal products, animal products is the one thing that gets the credit for causing diseases..."  - Denise Minger
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Updates:

Feb 14th, 2011
Does protein leach calcium from the bones? Yes, but only if it is plant protein

Nigel Kinbrum said...
"...something inherent to animal foods that stimulates an increase in the absorption of dietary calcium, even in small amounts?"
Nigel Kinbrum said  "In addition to what Joe said, there's also Vitamin D3 & K2 in animal produce. D3 increases Ca absorption & K2 directs Ca towards bones."
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Updates:

Feb 15th, 2011
The Vegetarian Myth is the book that 16-year-old girls should be reading. Instead of that piece of garbage best-seller, Skinny Bitch
http://www.cheeseslave.com/2011/02/14/book-review-the-vegetarian-myth/

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Updates:

Feb 21st, 2011
Veganism - the diet that destroy your hair!
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Update:

Feb 23rd, 2011
Cholesterol 'does not predict stroke in women'

The research followed 13,951 men and women, who took part in the Copenhagen City Heart Study.
During the 33-year study, 837 men and 837 women had strokes.

They reported that the cholesterol levels in women were not associated with stroke, while there was only an association in men with levels higher than 9mmol/litre. The average in UK men is 5.5.
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Update:

March 1st, 2011
There's Vegetarianism and then there's "Smart" Vegetariansm

So what I mentioned above are various nutrients and factors that most people know about. Most vegetarians do supplement B12, most do try and consume good proteins, some supplement iron, some Vitamin D3 etc... (However Vitamin K2 and higher doses of D3 is something that hasn't become popular yet). Beyond these basic nutrients there are other ones that I consider to be essential. These are called carninutrients. Basically they are nutrients found only in meat and have very beneficial properties. If I was a vegetarian I would be supplementing these:
  • Taurine
  • Carnosine (beta-alanine)
  • Creatine
  • CoQ10
  • Carnitine
  • Conjugated Linoleic Acid
  • B12
  • Alpha Lipoic Acid?? (Don't know if its only found in meat)
  • Glutathione??
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update:

March 6th, 2011

excerpt from "Let Them Eat Meat" - Interview With an Ex-Vegan: Erim Bilgin
"The most common trait of people who get pulled into veganism is powerlessness. Most people who become vegans have weak characters. They cannot step up and decide their own values for themselves, so what they do is become the guardians of society’s values — they become model citizens. But then they look around and see that the very society whose values they loyally adopted don’t actually abide by those values themselves! They tell us to be non-violent yet they kill animals by the truckload, and so on.

And so, like a teenager whose dad tells him not to smoke and then lights one up, they get pissed at the contradiction. And veganism just gives them a way to channel their anger towards a cause: animal rights. Now, not only can they express their anger over society tricking them, they can also feel like they’re rebelling against society’s values, so by rebelling they feel like they’re establishing a personality, for the first time in their lives stepping up and establishing something for themselves. And that’s how “vegan” becomes part of their personality.

Veganism allows them to hide all these primordial emotions under the guise of “compassion,” so they also gain the moral high ground. But is it just me, or do vegans give off a wave that’s not very compassionate? Yeah, it feels like their primary motivation is to settle the score with society, doesn’t it?"
Vegan Purity:
"Veganism teaches that your only obligation to animals is to avoid consuming animal products. There is no obligation to free animals from cages, or even to convert other people to veganism, though the later is certainly encouraged. Whatever suffering reduction/rights defense impact giving up animal products on an individual basis has on the world, that’s the impact we are required to have in order to consider ourselves a decent human being doing the very least we can possibly do. Everything beyond that impossible-to-quantify impact is a moral bonus

Technically, then, you don’t have to be vegan yourself if you can achieve that invisible impact in other ways. A cheese eater who converts two people to veganism is better than a vegan who converts no one. Alicia Silverstone could go stab a cow in the eye right now and she’d still have done more for veganism than a vegan who hasn’t berated any friends or relatives into guilt and animal product abstention. In fact, perhaps she should. She’s earned it"
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update:
3-14-2011

Parents of ill vegan girl may face police
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article4087734.ece

"A 12-YEAR-OLD girl in Scotland brought up by her parents on a strict vegan diet has been admitted to hospital with a degenerative bone condition said to have left her with the spine of an 80-year-old woman

The condition is caused by a lack of vitamin D, which is needed to absorb calcium and is found in liver, oily fish and dairy produce. Decalcification leads to the bones becoming brittle and can cause curvature of the spine.

Jonathan Sher, head of policy at Children in Scotland, an umbrella group representing 400 organisations, said social workers should intervene where a vegan diet was putting children’s health at risk

Last year, an American vegan couple were given a life sentence for starving their six-week-old baby to death. In 2001 two vegans from west London were sentenced to three years’ community rehabilitation after they admitted starving their baby to death."
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March 03, 2011

This is what happened when you eat a raw vegan-plent based diet .


French vegans in dock over baby's death

 Sergine and Joel Le Moaligou, whose vegan diet forbids consuming any animal product including eggs and cow's milk, called the emergency services in March 2008 after becoming worried about their baby Louise's listlessness.
When the ambulance arrived at their home in Saint-Maulvis, a small village 150 kilometres (90 miles) north of Paris, the baby was already dead.
 
The ambulance workers called the police because the child was pale and thin, weighing 5.7 kilos (12.5 pounds) compared to an average eight kilos for her age. The baby had only been fed on the milk of her mother, who was aged 37 at the time.
 
An autopsy showed that Louise was suffering from a vitamin A and B12 deficiency which experts say increases a child's sensitivity to infection and can be due to an unbalanced diet.
 
"The problem of vitamin B12 deficiency could be linked to the mother's diet," said Anne-Laure Sandretto, deputy prosecutor in the city of Amiens where the trial is taking place.
 
The couple has been charged with "neglect or food deprivation followed by death" and face up to 30 years in prison if convicted.

read more about people's reaction to this story
http://freetheanimal.com/2011/03/stop-the-madness-vegans-keep-killing-their-kids.html
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Study finds vegetarians have smaller brains

http://thehealthyskeptic.org/study-finds-vegetarians-have-smaller-brains

"When the volunteers were retested five years later the medics found those with the lowest levels of vitamin B12 were also the most likely to have brain shrinkage. It confirms earlier research showing a link between brain atrophy and low levels of B12.

Vegans are the most likely to be deficient because the best sources of the vitamin are meat, particularly liver, milk and fish"

Vogiatzoglou A, et al. Vitamin B12 status and rate of brain volume loss in community-dwelling elderly. Neurology 2008; 71(11): 826-32.
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update : april 18th, 2011

Nutrition Density Challenge: Fruit vs. Beef Liver

http://freetheanimal.com/2011/04/nutrition-density-challenge-fruit-vs-beef-liver.html
"this makes liver about 20 times more nutritious than fruit by weight. Also note the protein. Four ounces of liver and you get 10g more protein than in 5 pounds of fruit. What you don't get, however, is 211g of sugar, a full 207g more than in the liver


So, while he was able to achieve a rough vitamin and mineral equivalent consuming 850 calories and 5 pounds of fruit to  150 calories and 4 ounces of beef liver, if you actually add the rest of what you would need for an 850 calorie meal from eggs, starch and fruit, you simply blow the 5 pounds of fruit out of the water by a very wide margin, on average. What's more, you don't have to eat five pounds. Estimating my meal at 650 grams total, you're under a pound and one half of total food.
This ought to give any vegan pause, especially feeding infants and children."
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update: 4-9-2011
http://freetheanimal.com/2011/04/listen-to-the-real-health-debate-this-thursday-6pm-pacific.html
 The Real Health Debate: WouldaCouldaShoulda"

""from equator to arctic circle, and from sea level to elevations in excess of 16,000 ft" to describe the human experience in the context of migration. And this is a good way to think of the Paleo framework. Or, in terms of primitive humans at dietary extremes, from Kitavan to Inuit and everything in between. Now, you see, Kitavans eat about 70% of energy as carbohydrate primarily in the form of starchy tuber while the Inuit have a very low carbohydrate intake and only in the spring and summer. On average, they are 70% or more from animal fat.

And allowing for each to escape the harshness of childbirth and growing up in the hostile, unprotected wild, both reach advanced age in excellent health presenting with none of the diseases of civilization such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, autoimmune and others. And in between, there are numerous examples of primitive people who have been studied who equally enjoy good health. Their diets vary dramatically, but they all include animal products."
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1 comment:

Jem Yeh M.Ed., CSCS, CPT. said...

pretty much sum up the cholesterol myth

http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/the-llvlc-show-episode-464-the-healthy-skeptic-chris-kresser-challenges-mainstream-health-myths/10518

12/7/12 10:38 AM

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