Look, if you were born and rose up eating everything, including meat, but later when you became a mature person you decided to become a vegan person, you will cause damage to your body instead of benefit.
Only the ones who always were vegans, they can maintain their diet as such.
You see, when you ate vegan diet your whole life, you body will find out how to assimilate the food in order to supply your body with enough energy. Same as well when you eat solely meats 90% plus of the time, like Eskimos.
But, if you change your non vegan only diet and you are an adult, your body will take long to make adjustments.
A neighbor of mine, I just saw her today, she became a vegan like you, and for years she was OK. But, recently she started to have problems with her health, and the doctors told her she must start eating fish and chicken, because vegan diet is not supplying her the necessary proteins and nutrients. She is tall and have huge legs, not fat at all, but eventually her vegan diet caused her problems.
Years ago, in every party at my house, she was the only one having salad only, the rest of us having delicious rib eye steaks, salad, drinks.
And again, if you weren't vegan since childhood, then forget it, you are damaging your body instead of becoming more close to God.
There is no study or science behind this ridiculous conclusion, that flies against studies showing otherwise. Isolated accounts of "vegans" about whom you do not know all about what they were really eating does not show otherwise. If you only leave salad as her option when you have her over while you and your friends feast, you were not helping her health at all. No one, vegans or otherwise, will do well just having salads, and that was deprivation. Obviously a good variety, with real meals, is essential for healthy eating. Done right, with being sure to get essential vitamins, supplementing if necessary, having only plant-based food and no processed foods is the very healthiest and avoids real health problems. Many studies show this and it is conclusive, though food industries keep the information suppressed and their commercials on air time to not get any other information airing to contest them. This text from Forks Over Knives is authored by doctors who have the studies that show this, along with their results of saving lives of their patients:
Americans are sick, tired, and over-medicated. Every fifty-three seconds someone in the United States dies of heart disease, which, as the nation's number one killer, claims about 600,000 lives per year. Cancer, now the second leading cause of death, takes the lives of more than 1500 people per day. Meanwhile, nearly 10 percent of the population has diabetes; and our children are getting sicker, as indicated by the startling fact that obesity has more than doubled in children and tripled in adolescents in the past thirty years. We have turned to the medical system for help, and it has delivered medication in a big way: Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug, more than 50 percent take two, and 20 percent are on five or more prescription drugs. Despite the billions of dollars being spent on pharmaceuticals, the needle almost never moves downward on the rates of chronic disease, and the people still feel lousy and sick.
Health statistics aren't just about numbers on a page or data on a statistician's ledger. These are our mothers, fathers, siblings, and children. These are our friends. The health crisis is taking a real toll on our daily lives, profoundly affecting the personal happiness and productivity of millions of us every single day.
There is good news, though. Research is revealing with greater certainty that we understand the main cause of this epidemic: an American diet that derives more than 90 percent of what we eat from animal-based and processed foods. Understanding the cause means there's hope! The research tells us that if we change to an entirely different way of eating, we can dramatically alter our health destiny.
Modern pioneers like T. Colin Cambell, PhD; Caldwell Esselstyn, MD; Dean Ornish, MD; John McDougall, MD; Neal Barnard, MD; and others are leading the charge. Thanks to these doctors and researchers, along with an emerging body of scientific evidence from all corners, we now know that a whole-food, plant-based diet is more powerful at preventing and treating chronic diseases than any medication or procedure. We are so convinced by the evidence that we believe if this diet came in a pill, it would be heralded on the front pages of newspapers and magazines around the world for its effectiveness.
There is a movement under way as hundreds of thousands of people, if not more, are trying the whole-food, plant-based lifestyle for themselves and finding great success. We have personally seen remarkable results in our own medical practice, not to mention experienced it in our own lives. Here are just a few of the significant life-changing results you may expect:
Prevent and reverse the leading chronic ailments. A whole-food, plant-based diet can prevent, halt, and even reverse heart disease and diabetes. Other diseases that are also positively impacted by this type of diet include: high cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, and overall mortality. Cancer is also significantly affected by this diet. In fact, the foods that make up this diet are the exact same foods that were recommended in the first "surviving cancer" dietary recommendations. There is also evidence that a plant-based diet may reduce the risk of diverticular disease, gallstones, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, and kidney disease. Furthermore, after switching to a plant-based diet, people routinely report experiencing or seeing in others improvements in a range of ailments, including osteoporosis, arthritis, headaches, acne, asthma, sexual dysfunction, reflux, lupus, inflammatory bowel disease, constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, dementia, Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, infertility, insomnia, and sleep apnea. They even find themselves experiencing fewer or less intense colds, viruses, and allergies.
Reach your ideal weight. Our friend Doug Lisle likes to point out that humans and their domesticated pets are the only earthly creatures that suffer from being overweight and obese ... in spite of the fact that we're also the only creatures who practice portion control! Why is this the case? It's simple. All the other animals on earth are eating foods that are appropriate for their species. If we also eat foods that are appropriate for our species -- whole, plant-based foods -- then we, too, will be able to eat without portion control and will naturally reach a comfortable weight.
Improve mental clarity Eating a whole-food, plant-based diet improves cognitive function and protects against dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Most people experience greater clarity of thought, improved ability to concentrate, and better memory.
Experience only positive effects, not "side effects". Perhaps you would choose to transition to a plant-based diet to reverse heart disease or reduce your diabetes medications, but now you could see that you would welcome into your life an abundance of positive effects. These can include better mood, sounder sleep, improved bowel function, and more vibrant skin. You will have more energy to do the things you love, like playing with your children or grandchildren, biking, gardening, walking, swimming. You may even want to exercise more. By contrast, as we'll discuss more, medical procedures and medications can have all sorts of major unintended negative consequences.
Have a sense of well-being and empowerment. You are in control of your health. You do not have to settle for compromised health or believe that you are destined to succumb to chronic disease. You can live with less fear that a heart attack can happen at any time or that you will be struck by the same chronic ailment from which other members of your family have suffered.
Save time and money. Whether you have health insurance or not, you will likely have to pay out of pocket for at least some of your health care expenses if you are sick. Fewer trips to the doctor and fewer procedures and pills equal more time and money you can spend in other areas of your life.
The Forks Over Knives Plan, pages 15-18
See the forksoverknives com site for effective ways to transition to really healthy eating. I can't show the link, being a new member in this forum site, but you can certainly look it up.
We are not Eskimos, who live where there is no choice but to use animals caught from the sea for their food. But we live where we can have a healthier way of eating. It is not truth at all that it is not healthy to change to this, nothing shows that. But this is the way, not having too little variety, or not bothering with having the needed vitamins, or still eating processed foods instead.
This way would certainly be corresponding to the design for us shown in the beginning in God's creation, that we would see in the Bible. The healthiest way we have is what God provided us with from the beginning. After the fall, people still lived the longest then, before having any meat was ever permitted, which happened after the global flood when God destroyed the world of wicked humanity, and there was not adequate edible vegetation growing then. That could not have been meant to last, visions of what is to come show there will be no killing or death of animals in the restoral that God promises is coming.
