Hello, I'm not sure if you can help me with this but I have a friend whom is Vegan but only lives with a healthy diet. As in she will not permit herself to have any foods that are processed or dessert related foods like chocolate or anything sweet. She also seems to be working out a little too much and all this in the goal of losing weight. I've tried telling her she might be suffering from an eating disorder and that her health only diet might not be as healthy as she thinks it is. I do assume that restricting yourself everyday from having certain foods because they contain sugar might be somewhat awful on the mental side of her health. I would like to know, aside from a constant deficiency in B12 and iron what else would be unhealthy in being an overly healthy Vegan that works out every day of the week.
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Yes, a deficiency of good sense. Vegans and vegetarians are guilty of pseudo-science combined with pseudo-religion and a violation of nature. Science says any animal with incisors must eat meat. Religion says "Rise, kill and eat." Nature says lousy diet = weight gain.
A person needs about 0.4 gram of complete protein per pound of body weight every day. Complete means a balanced combination of eight different proteins. If one does not eat meat then one needs a PhD in nutrition to get complete protein from plant sources.
That agrees with my intended point, but apparently I neglected to actually say it: A vegan needs a PhD in nutrition to maintain health. Otherwise, a strict vegan is a sick vegan.
I trust nature more than I trust chemists. People who live away from (western) civilization and eat only local products usually have excellent health and perfect teeth, but chemists have never figured out how to bestow those blessings on people who follow the western diet.
i wont go into your whole comment but i have to say that the "Science says any animal with incisors must eat meat." is completely wrong. the largest incisors on earth belong to 100% herbivores, Hippos.
Wikipedia.org says "The common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), or hippo, is a large, mostly herbivorous mammal."
"Mostly", get it? Not entirely.
Possibly the most ignorant answer above I have yet to come across on a platform made to give advice and help those in need... a simple google search will bring you to hemp seeds, an absolutely COMPLETE PROTEIN since you haven't heard of it... the hemp seed contains all essential amino acids along with many other vitamins and minerals that we need. It is also the only food on earth that contains omega 3 and 6 fatty acids in the correct 3:1 ratio that humans can utilize during digestion. In case you were wondering all protein essentially comes from plants.