Health problems on low fat raw vegan and vegan dietsvegan raw food pyramid. My recent analysis of Harley Johnston’s (3. Bananas a day) aka Durianrider. Another story of a cancer patient treating themselves through diet has surfaced. Not long ago we shared a similar story of a man with stage 3 colon cancer who refused. Veganism is both the practice of abstaining from the use of animal products, particularly in diet, and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of. As for his diet, Harper is a former vegan who several years ago dished on why he decided to change his diet and return to eating animal protein. As I wrote in the analysis, because one person is able to do this – it does not make it a diet that I would recommend. I believe only the extremely high calorie intake has allowed him to get adequate nutrients, added to this some genetic luck. A loose observation is that all those who are able to stay on this type of diet do a large amount of endurance exercise. This uses a large amount of carbohydrate for fuel, maximises insulin sensitivity in the muscles and thus enables the high carbohydrate intake. The high calorie intake is absolutely essential for adequate nutrients. For me to condone such a diet would be negligent and even downright dangerous. Firstly no serious scientist would refute that humans evolved as omnivores, and that an omnivorous diet is the best diet for us to thrive. From Loren Cordain: Metabolic Evidence of Human Adaptation to Increased Carnivory. As a nutritionist my primary commitment is to my clients’ health. I see no evidence that making a permanent switch from an omnivorous to a vegan diet would improve the health of any client. ![]() In the short term however some people appear to benefit from a change to a raw vegan diet, however long term, health problems from dietary deficiencies and imbalances inevitably catch up with people. Denise Minger wrote about this in her article Raw Gone Wrong, When the Honeymoon is Over“. Maybe you start feeling like something is inexplicably missing. Maybe your energy takes a dive and noontime naps become the norm. Maybe your weight loss plateaus. Maybe your last dentist visit wasn’t so pretty. Maybe those niggly health problems you had prior to raw—aches and pains, lethargy, allergies, arthritis, skin conditions—start resurfacing out of nowhere. Whatever the reason, raw just doesn’t seem to be working as well as it did in the beginning. A sprightly centenarian says a vegan lifestyle is the secret to his sharp mind and incredible health at 101 years old. Dr Ellsworth Wareham worked as a heart surgeon. ![]() Your enthusiasm diminishes, and in its place comes doubt, discontentment, and a plethora of questions. In other words, you start seeing raw foods’ freaky nose hairs and you begin to wonder: what did I get myself into? My own raw honeymoon ended around the one- year mark. Intermittent fatigue, dental woes, hair loss, concentration problems, and some not- so- happy blood test results forced me to rethink the dietary regimen I was so tightly clutching. During this time, I started scouting out the counsel and wisdom of other disgruntled rawbies. What I discovered was this “honeymoon end” was a common phenomenon among raw foodists, and that its occurrence usually led to two things: 1. What worked in the beginning may not work forever, and sometimes you need to tweak things to regain a sense of vitality and health. If you’re in the troubling situation of having been raw for a while but feeling that something’s off, don’t worry—you’re in good company..” Read the rest of the post here. Here are more stories from vegan’s themselves about the health problems encountered after the honeymoon period: Erim Bilgin: Interview with an ex- vegan.“. I was extremely susceptible to stress. Anything would get to me, and I had to learn about self- mastery and breathing techniques and all that shit. It’s funny, because I was saying I was eating a raw vegan diet because it was “natural”, but here I was depending upon all these “unnatural” techniques. It never occurred to me that mental strength should come naturally. I just thought today’s world was too hectic. I would skip school a lot, because just the thought of getting out of bed made me anxious some days. Speaking of the bed, I also had some difficulty sleeping once in a while around my second year of LFRV. Not only was my sleep too light, I also had difficulty falling asleep, since I had to shift my legs all the time. I would later learn that this is a medical condition called Restless Legs Syndrome, a neurological problem. Why weren’t you formed in my gut as promised?)My mood depended entirely on outside conditions. Talk about ups and downs. Cloudy sky meant bad mood. Cold weather meant bad mood. I became addicted to my mp. I just didn’t have the zest to go through the day without some stimulating rhythm. All this, even though I knew pretty much everything necessary to remain calm and centered. But, like I said, I didn’t acknowledge this as a problem with me, I just thought today’s world was too harsh. The problems started to become more physical sometime around the first quarter of 2. My teeth started getting incredibly sensitive, and there were clear signs of heavy acid erosion. I thought the tips of my teeth were always this transparent and that the darkened spots near my gum line were just stains from all the colorful food I was eating. My gums started to recede, I broke a molar by biting a tiny piece of a hazelnut shell by mistake, and a few months later my dentist would find six cavities in my raw vegan mouth. Jokingly, she told me I had “basically every dental problem that we have a name for”. But I was taking better care of my teeth than ever! I even avoided those acidic animal products! You know, the ones that leech calcium from your bones? I wondered how I remained cavity free before when I didn’t even brush, let alone floss, let alone brush and floss thrice a day. After the introduction of goat’s kefir and yogurt, I immediately felt an increase of energy, slept better and many issues started to clear up – my acne started to disappear, my knees stopped aching after a run, I gained back weight lost, I was able to retain muscle mass better, I could get out of bed in the morning, etc. I actually asked her to show me the blood test results because I thought there had to be some sort of mistake. But there was no mistake, it was right there in black and white; deficiencies and abnormalities across the board. The results explained perfectly why I had been feeling weak and exhausted for more than 6 months. Whereas I had previously lived for working out and even an hour on the elliptical wasn’t enough for me, lately doing more than 2. When I could I slept till noon, I felt lightheaded when I stood up, I couldn’t remember simple words or the names of my friends, and I was freezing cold even in the midst of a sweltering Saudi summer. Of the myriad symptoms I’ve listed here and the ones I will not be describing publicly, the absolute worst of all was my depression. This awful, lifelong foe I’ve been battling on and off was sneaking back into my life, painting the edges of my world a sickening black and stealing the joy that I had fought so desperately to regain. Lizzie should have been flourishing. Instead, her cheeks were pinched, she was small for her age, and although she had skinny arms and legs, her belly was big and swollen. When Lizzie smiled, Paige suddenly noticed her upper front teeth were pitted with holes. From the article Raw Food Vegan Diets: “. I also read any and every book and article on raw foodism that I could get my hands on. They contained story after story of people curing their heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and other diseases through raw foods. The diet simply made sense. Since humans are the only animals who cook their food, we’d have to be better off eating a more natural diet of raw foods. I had low body fat to begin with, and on the raw foods diet my weight dropped from 1. As a regular weightlifter, I noticed my strength decline considerably. I got frequent colds (some say this is the body detoxifying; a more likely explanation is that I wasn’t eating enough protein to ward of infections). I constantly thought about how much I wanted to eat cooked food. The couple who mentored me were also struggling with the diet. One day, I had to admit that it wasn’t working. I slowly weaned myself back onto cooked foods to curb my cravings. Though I tried to resist, my diet became more cooked all the time. One day in 1. 99. I decided to follow my cravings and eat as much cooked food as I wanted. Since then I’ve eaten most of my food cooked and have felt much better. The experience turned me to science, relying more on published scientific research and much less on popular theories and anecdotal reports. As I read more mainstream nutrition science, it became clear that many of the claims made by raw foodists were not true. With respect to gluten alone 3. These health improvements are also similar to those that people rave about when they switch to a conventional paleo diet, that also removes grains, legumes, dairy, processed foods, and high omega 6 vegetable oils and sugar. Some nutrient intakes are improved on a raw vegan diet specifically antioxidants: Antioxidant status in long- term adherents to a strict uncooked vegan diet, and improved fecal flora Faecal microbial flora and disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis during a vegan diet. Another reason for some short term improvements could be the switch from a high protein to a low protein diet which starts a process called autophagy. Here is a list of the nutrients that are deficient: Nutrient imbalances. A thorough outline of vegan diet nutrient deficiencies comes from vegan Registered Dietitian Jack Norris, President of Vegan Outreach who maintains an informative website Vegan Health. A committed vegan, he dispels myths surrounding vegan diets, and provides practical information on deficiencies and supplements required to remain healthy on a vegan diet. Another problem with raw food diets – plant toxins. This article on raw foodism, includes and interesting section on toxins in some raw plant (and animal) foods: http: //www. Avoiding poisoning. As the consumption of raw foods gains popularity, some potentially unsafe foods have reentered the diets of humans. However, the following list includes many foods which are rarely promoted by the educated proponents of raw foodism, especially beans or legumes.* Buckwheat greens are toxic when raw, particularly if juiced or eaten in large quantities by fair- skinned individuals. Vegetarian and Vegan Diets: Nutritional Disasters Part 1. Over the years since the publication of my first book, I have been asked time and again if there is a vegetarian version of The Paleo Diet. Vegetarian diets are a bit of a moving target because they come in at least three major versions. We all know in principle that vegetarians do not eat meat, poultry or fish . Less restrictive are lacto/ovo vegetarians who limit their animal food choices to dairy products and/or eggs, whereas vegans eat plant foods exclusively. A recent study published by Vegetarian Times Magazine revealed that 3. U. S. The study also indicated that over half (5. Additional reasons underlying their vegetarian lifestyles were: 1) animal welfare cited by 5. First, let me say I respect everyone. I also respect people. Nevertheless, as a scientist, I hope that we all try to make dietary decisions based not just upon philosophical and ethical issues, but also upon foods that are good for our bodies and long term health. Accordingly, I simply can. In our comprehensive analysis of 2. I showed beyond question that no historically studied foragers were vegetarians. In fact, whenever and wherever animal foods were available they were always preferred over plant foods. The chart to the left shows the overwhelming preference for animal foods in all 2. Notice that not a single foraging society fell into the (0 . Scientists are able to determine the relative percentage of plant and animal food in extinct human (hominid) species by analyzing elements called isotopes within their fossilized bones. Every single hominid skeleton examined since the emergence of our own genus (Homo) 2. Further, if we compare our biochemical and anatomical machinery to cats, who are absolute carnivores, we both share evolutionary enzyme pathways characteristic of processing lots of meat. If you are interested in these details, I have written about them in my debate with the noted vegetarian, Dr. Colin Campbell, author of The China Study. Download the Full Debate Here. If we accept the idea that vegetarianism represents an ideal human diet, then this manner of eating must be part of a much larger or ultimate mechanism governing human biology. Any unified theory of human nutrition is a detective story in which scientists attempt to reveal or uncover biological systems that have been designed by, and put into place by evolution through natural selection. Accordingly, hypotheses regarding what we should and shouldn’t eat must be consistent with the system and ancient environments that engineered our current genes. If we are to buy into vegetarianism, then the system, evolution via natural selection, which shaped our present genome necessarily had to be conditioned over eons by a plant based, vegetarian diet. Otherwise, there is no rationale alternative hypothesis to explain why humans would . This information should be your first clue that there just may be some problems with vegetarian dietary recommendations created by humans for humans. What is that expression? I urge you to always let the data speak for itself, and don. I can guarantee you that the assessment of positive health effects, or lack thereof, caused by vegetarian diets is not just a straight forward matter involving objectivity and a mere sifting of scientific facts. Rather, this inquiry is politically charged involving charismatic individuals and well known scientists promoting a vegetarian viewpoint that is frequently at odds with the best science. If you are currently a vegetarian or vegan, one of the most powerful health expectations for adopting this lifestyle is that you will outlive your “hamburger eating” neighbors by escaping cancer, 7. In fact, if truth be told, your lifelong dietary deprivations will not prolong your lifespan, but rather will produce multiple nutrient deficiencies that are associated with numerous health problems and illnesses. If you have forced plant based diets upon your children, or unborn fetus they will also suffer. Now let’s let the data speak for itself and get into the science of vegetarian diets and health. In their 2. 00. 9 Position Statement on Vegetarian Diets,2. The American Dietetic Association tells us,”. Well- planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.” I don’t know what planet the authors of this paper came from or what scientific journals they have been reading, but these statements simply are not supported by the data. To start with, if vegetarian diets are so healthful, then any reasonable person might expect that people eating plant based diets would have lower death rates from all causes than their meat eating counterparts. This question was never fully answered until 1. Dr. Key and colleagues at Oxford University conducted a large meta analysis comparing overall death rates between 2. I quote Dr. I have underlined and bolded the last words of this sentence to emphasize the fact that vegetarians do not fair any better than their hamburger eating counterparts when death rates for all causes are considered. A more recent 2. 00. The EPIC- Oxford Study), employing the largest sample of vegetarians (3. I quote the authors, “Within the study mortality from circulatory diseases and all causes is not significantly different between vegetarians and meat eaters.” The results of this study. American Dietetic Association. Taken at face value, it would appear that all vegetarian diets including vegan diets are nutritionally sound all by themselves and don’t require any additional nutritional supplements. In order to get to the true meaning out of the ADA. The last line informing us that supplements and fortified foods “sometimes” are useful, is an outlandish understatement. In reality, it is not just in some cases that supplements and vitamin fortified foods are required, but rather in all cases for vegan diets and in most cases for lacto/ovo diets. Consequently, if you decide to become a vegan, by default you will become vitamin B1. B1. 2 fortified foods. Any lifelong dietary plan that requires nutrient supplementation on a regular basis makes no sense from an evolutionary perspective. You don’t have to be an evolutionary biologist to realize that wild animals don’t take nutritional supplements, nor do they normally develop vitamin deficiencies when living in their native environments. You will recall that not a single hunter- gatherer society consumed a vegetarian diet. This choice was not just a haphazard decision on their part, but rather was dictated by evolution through natural selection. If our ancestral foragers didn’t eat B1. B1. 2 deficiencies which in turn impaired health and survival thereby worsening their chances of reproducing. Accordingly, any behavior that favored all plant diets would have been quickly weeded out by natural selection because of our genetic requirement for vitamin B1. Unlike modern day vegetarians, hunter- gatherers couldn’t simply pop a vitamin pill to make up for nutritional shortcomings in their diets. Without B1. 2 supplementation, every hunter- gatherer who ever lived would have become vitamin B1. I want to emphasize that this flaw in nutritional logic is not just a minor point to be shuffled under the rug as the ADA2. USDA1. 42 have done, but rather represents a colossal error in judgment for recommending vegan diets. To fully appreciate this massive breakdown in reasoning let. Because it was the last vitamin to be discovered (1. B1. 2 only became available as a commercial supplement in the 1. Consequently, every person on the planet who consumed a strict lifelong vegan diet before B1. I wonder if the ADA2. USDA1. 42 would recommend vegan diets to U. S. This case in point shows how absurd their rationale for vegan diets appears . Hermann and colleagues of 9. B1. 2 whereas a staggering 9. The elegance of this study was that the researchers employed a powerful new procedure to precisely monitor vitamin B1. The simple measurement of vitamin B1. B1. 2 in our bodies. Nevertheless, a study (The EPIC- Oxford Study) which examined simple B1. B1. 2 deficiencies were widespread within these groups. If we use the normal cutoff point (1. B1. 2 deficiency in the blood, then the data from the EPIC- Oxford study shows that 7. B1. 2 deficiencies. These two scientific papers are representative of nearly all other studies reporting vitamin B1. When this many people who follow vegetarian or vegan diets become vitamin B1. Even more disturbing is a report by Dr. Corinna Koebnick and co- workers in Germany showing that long term ovo/lacto vegetarian diets impair vitamin B1. The problem here is that maternal B1. B1. 2 depleted milk. B1. 2 deficiency in pregnant women is not just a simple benign nutritional problem, but rather has potentially disastrous health outcomes for both mother and child. B1. 2 deficiency in pregnant women is known to cause spontaneous abortions, weak labor, premature and low birth weight deliveries, birth defects, and the condition preeclampsia where mothers experience high blood pressure and damage to the liver, kidneys and blood vessels. Infants born from mothers with vitamin B1. These data hardly support the ADA’s position that “Well- planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood. Alexander D, Ball MJ, Mann J. Nutrient intake and haematological status of vegetarians and age- sex matched omnivores. Aug; 4. 8(8): 5. 38- 4. Appleby P, Roddam A, Allen N, Key T. Comparative fracture risk in vegetarians and nonvegetarians in EPIC- Oxford. Dec; 6. 1(1. 2): 1. Appleton KM, Rogers PJ, Ness AR. Updated systematic review and meta- analysis of the effects of n- 3 long- chain polyunsaturated fatty acids on depressed mood. Mar; 9. 1(3): 7. 57- 7. Baines M, Kredan MB, Davison A, Higgins G, West C, Fraser WD, Ranganath LR. The association between cysteine, bone turnover, and low bone mass. Dec; 8. 1(6): 4. 50- 4.
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