Thu, Dec-15-16, 11:08
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Plan: EpiPaleo/Primal/LowOx
Stats: 220/130/150
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Progress: 129%
Location: USA
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Originally Posted by pete533
I guess all those success stories from Dr. Esselstyn and Dr. Barnard are liars.
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Yes. It is incredible how much lying goes on in vegan circles. Several years ago some prominent vegan bloggers revealed they had to go back to eating meat because of health reasons: and the abuse, which included death threats, was so great these folks had to erase their sites from the web. But before they vanished, they revealed that many in the vegan community emailed them with a basic, "Yes, we all eat meat but shut up about it, you will ruin us."
I have never forgotten that.
Fortunately, we also have this thing called "science" which is not enamored of the vegan diet, either:
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I noticed this with my own vegan and vegetarian experiments. The first 3 months, you’re on fire. Then things start to break, including your brain. I’ve heard this countless times from coaching clients and people who attend my SVHI.com meetings. The sad thing is that the most competitive, hardest working people who try vegan diets tend to stick with them the longest, for the simple reason that they remember how good the first 3 months felt. When their performance – and then health – decline, they convince themselves that it couldn’t be the vegan diet, because of how good it made them feel.
So they suffer while they try to figure out all the other reasons their quality of life is gradually declining, but they do not make the connection. I call this the vegan trap – it’s a naturally occurring phenomena that takes advantage of the fact that behavior changes we stick to for 40 days (or 6 weeks) tend to become permanent, and the unfortunate fact that what is a fundamentally unhealthy diet makes you feel good for a time longer than 40 days. It’s the same psychological mechanism behind drug addiction.We don’t know with certainty exactly why Carl Lewis’ performance began to decline. Maybe it was age, loss of enthusiasm, or simply better competition. However, there is good reason to believe a vegan diet contributed to his rapid decline.
Athletic Anti-Nutrition: What a Vegan Diet Did to Carl Lewis
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People often have a hard time the first few weeks of a low carb diet, as their bodies adjust to the new fuel. Then, things get better, and better, and better!
Vegan diets seem to be the opposite. From other parts of the article, there are descriptions of the mechanisms of why people feel so good when they go vegan. But then, things get worse, and worse, and worse!
The people who believe the lies wind up losing years of their lives and sometimes, their health.
Here's a pointed comment from that post:
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As someone who attempted a vegan diet for a little over a year, your article really hit home for me. You pretty much describe what happened to me. I felt great for a few months. Then I noticed that my brown hair was suddenly and rapidly turning white. But I had felt so good and had been told by so many vegans that "everyone can thrive on a vegan diet" .. that instead of aborting the experiment immediately, I kept trying to find a way to fix it. Meanwhile, an endless list of other alarming symptoms began to accumulate, including difficulty maintaining muscle tone.
Well, there was no way to fix it. And reading articles like yours finally made me realize ... the problem was not me, it was the entire premise of a vegan diet.
Not surprisingly, when I announced this to the world, I was the recipient of a huge amount of hatred from vegans. I can't help but wonder if the hatred vegans spew arises out of a sense of deprivation ... That deep down we all fully knew a vegan diet wasn't cutting it, but were so attached to the idea that it "should" work ... that it was actually painful to see someone have the courage to walk away from it.
Anyway, I haven't reversed all the alarming symptoms that arose during my unfortunate vegan experiment, but I'm feeling better and certainly going to try to get back to 100%. Thanks for this very insightful article. Sure, nobody can prove causation ... but your theory fits very well with what I experienced.
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Last edited by WereBear : Thu, Dec-15-16 at 11:22.
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