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.

http://donmatesz.blogspot.com/2010/12/another-way-eating-meat-makes-us.html
http://thehealthyskeptic.org/study-finds-vegetarians-have-smaller-brains

4. We are not evolved to eat a completely plant-based diet.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6823/5/10
http://www.springerlink.com/content/n2871q7u63170045/
http://castlegrok.com/what-our-ancestors-ate/
http://robbwolf.com/2010/12/09/tweetchat-with-prof-art-devany/

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 

http://www.soyonlineservice.co.nz/03summary.htm

2. Vegans suffer B12 Deficiency.

http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v64/n9/full/ejcn2010142a.html

http://freetheanimal.com/2010/11/go-vegan-the-new-vegan-diet-raw-and-all-natural-b12-solution.html
http://forums.wrongdiagnosis.com/showthread.php?t=9948
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110202082307.htm

3. Vegetarians are more likely to suffer heart disease.

http://www.themedguru.com/20100926/newsfeature/vegetarian-indians-more-likely-suffer-heart-disease-study-86140640.html

http://rawfoodsos.com/category/general-problems/

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU5bMe-7hvY&feature=relatedhttp://www.diabetes-warrior.net/2010/12/19/diabetes-statistics-i/

5. Low fat intake from vegetarian diets lower testosterone.

http://www.fitnessspotlight.com/2008/09/26/eight-ways-to-lower-your-testosterone-levels/

 http://www.drlam.com/opinion/soyandestrogen.asp

6. Vegetarian diet speed up aging - Martin Berkhan @ "free the animal"

http://freetheanimal.com/2010/11/leangains-martin-berkhans-workout-approach.html

"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.

http://livinlavidalocarb.blogspot.com/2007/05/another-viewpoint-fiber-folly-finally.html

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/why-grains-are-unhealthy/

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/nutrition/fiber-its-natures-broom.html

8. Creatine Deficiency.

http://freetheanimal.com/2010/12/the-latest-uh-oh-for-the-vegetarians-and-vegans-creatine.html

9. Omega 3 Deficiency
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110202082307.htm

"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.

http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/12/06/an-i-promise-im-not-dead-update/