Vegan: Healthy or Unhealty?

Healthy or Unhealty?
This pertains to the diet, as you can imagine(I know someone would bring something else up eventually).
Also, true Vegan's, not the fake kind.

I would have to say its unhealthy due to a deficiency in several key nutrients.

its unhealthy


Humans are Omnivores, we NEED the stuff thats in meat to survive.... they get aroud that with suppliments and pills... but when you have to take a drug to survive because your diet would kill you... how does this seem healthy at all?

If you have to addict yourself to supplements so you can eat the way you want, how can that possibly be healthy?

i eat whatever i want/can get my hands on and im not dieing, and im unhelthy... 2 Thumbs Down...

Unhealthy

Meat and fish have key proteins that plants lack.

Yeah, some vegetables/beans such as soy have similar hormones added to them as beef

The vegan diet should be /illegal/ to feed to children under the age of 10. You're essentially stunting your kid's growth by not feeding him meat and milk.

The thing I think is dumbest about vegans/vegetarians...

Vegetarian protestor- "Don't eat animals!"

Me- "Why?"

Vegetarian- "Because it's wrong to kill animals!"

Me- "So let me get this right... you don't want me to eat this cheese burger because it will bring back the cow?"

Vegetarian- "... well no but.."

Me- Ahh now I get it, you're a cult that brings animals back from the dead! Here have my hamburger and bring back this cow!"

I was out in the city while this group of crackpots was protesting outside a McDonalds. So my buddy and I went in and bought our food and they threw shit at us on the way out. So I got in an argument with one and so on, needless to say about a half hour later they got arrested for "violent protesting" I lol'd.

My sister is a vegan and she has terrible health, she gets sick all the time, if she doesn't take her suppliment every day then she has to go to the hospital otherwise she can die. It's a death wish to follow that diet for an extended period of time.

A wise man once said, for every cow that a vegetarian saves, I pledge to eat three.

Rotaretilbo wrote:A wise man once said, for every cow that a vegetarian saves, I pledge to eat three.

New favorite quote XD

eh, as long as they're taking proper supplements to make up for the nutrients that they're missing out on... it seems perfectly healthy to me.

I don't really understand to whole "anti-medication" mentality. You may say it's unnatural but.... well so is all medication. Being unnatural doesn't make it "bad."

Medication is there to help. If it can help you maintain your ideal life-style, by all means take it.

Saw this comic right after looking at the thread.

ReconToaster wrote:eh, as long as they're taking proper supplements to make up for the nutrients that they're missing out on... it seems perfectly healthy to me.

I don't really understand to whole "anti-medication" mentality. You may say it's unnatural but.... well so is all medication. Being unnatural doesn't make it "bad."

Medication is there to help. If it can help you maintain your ideal life-style, by all means take it.

itrs not the medication that maks it bad... its the fact that without the medication a vegan would die...


which means that the diet itself is unhealthy

I suppose if you take supplement for all the nutrients you're lacking, it is healthy. Veganism does have it's problems, that however is only if you poorly designed your diet. The main concern of vegan diets being unhealthy is lack of nutrition. You can get all the nutrients you need that a vegan diet would lack, as supplement.

The main one that I heard people say you get a lack of was vitamin B₁₂, and that's because the bacteria that produces it resides in animals more often than not. Cyanocobalamin (which is an artificial form of Vitamin B₁₂) is just as good, and doesn't come from animals meaning a vegan can take it.

While I don't particularly agree with the vegan diet, seeing as how I can't give up delicious animals , I won't say it isn't healthy. So as long as you get the necessary nutriets to counter and nutrient deficiencies, i'd say you're fine. I'm not a dietary expert, but I can use the internet and I do have an audiobook (which I can't really use since it's an audiobook :\) that tell me you can get all those nutrients apparently. I'm not aware of any other health dysfunctions... feel free to share them I guess.


Note: I am strictly talking about the HEALTH of veganism, not the ETHICS of it, which you's already mentioned. Don't bring that crap up, read the thread title.

KrAzY wrote:

ReconToaster wrote:eh, as long as they're taking proper supplements to make up for the nutrients that they're missing out on... it seems perfectly healthy to me.

I don't really understand to whole "anti-medication" mentality. You may say it's unnatural but.... well so is all medication. Being unnatural doesn't make it "bad."

Medication is there to help. If it can help you maintain your ideal life-style, by all means take it.

itrs not the medication that maks it bad... its the fact that without the medication a vegan would die...


which means that the diet itself is unhealthy

Yeah, but if you take the proper supplements that are apart of the vegans diet, they're okay.

So while the actual diet isn't healthy, you can counter that with supplements. If we're talking about the diet w/o the supplements then yes, it's not healthy at all.