Comments on: Recovering from Vegetarianism

By: Eliza

Eliza — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:02:53 +0000

Hello,

There is a facebook group “Ex-Vegetarians”. If you failed to be healthy on a vegetarian diet, please join us! We are trying to get an idea of the number of such people (including myself).

Thank you

By: Anita

Anita — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:37:38 +0000

More on the Hunzas-
The Hunzans ate the least meat of the four centenarian groups reviewed, and seemed to have the worst health. Clark (1956) noted that while some live to be very old, many Hunzans suffer from a variety of problems, including malaria, dysentery, worms, impetigo, goiter, dental decay, rickets and tuberculosis. It appears that those who survive the harsh early life, become immune to many diseases, and live to old age.

By: Anita

Anita — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:37:17 +0000

Faye, The Hunza people were never vegan or vegetarians, or even close to it, by choice. They refrained from eating many of their animals in the summer, because the animals were the main source of food in the remaining 10 months of the year. They ate a high-animal fat diet all year long, especially in winter when the consumption of animal fats increased. The butter, yogurt and cheese made from the goat, sheep and yak milk was very high in fat, especially saturated fats. Clabbered goat’s milk played a large part in the Hunza diet–they consumed it virtually at every meal. (As far as I know, goat’s milk is an ANIMAL food; it is also more fatty than cow’s milk.) In winter, as with the Eskimo and others, the Hunza ate all that is edible of the carcase, and not the meat only.

The diet that vegetarian authors CLAIM was eaten by the Hunza people can be found in other modern and primitive societies. The present people in Southern India are strict vegetarians by religious conviction, but they have the shortest life span on earth, as scientifically proven. They are ravaged by disease, diet deficiencies and suffer from frail body structures. The children exhibit a failure to thrive, and the childhood mortality is very high. Not a good advertisement for vegetarianism.

By: Cathy Mifsud

Cathy Mifsud — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:37:26 +0000

Hello faye
You’ve been vegie and vegan a very long time. I was wondering if you have any children?
Kindest regards,
Cathy

By: Faye

Faye — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:59:01 +0000

“Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind’ - Albert Einstein.

I’ve been vegetarian since the age of seven - by my own choice (my family were meat eaters) and have eliminated dairy as well over the last five years. I’m a professional dancer and almost 50 years old. Yes my diet has kept me looking younger- most people think I’m in my 30’s and I even got asked out by an attractice 20 year old a month ago - but I’m not complaining, why would looking younger and healthier be a problem - strange! I also have the same slim figure I had as an 18 year old - still not complaining. If I stand next to a typical fat, frumpy, wrinkly 50 year old woman I would look like her daughter - still not complaining. I eat healthy food but I don’t think about it or go to any trouble with it and I don’t even know what ‘food combining’ is.

My health has improved since eliminating dairy. I actually don’t even get colds anymore. I know many vegans and all look and seem particularly healthy and energetic and most are above normal intelligence. And by the way, we’re in pretty good company: Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Leo Tolstoy, George Bernard Shaw, Pythagorous, Plato, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Mahatma Ghandi, Albert Schweitzer, Thomas Edison, Issaac Bashevis Singer and John Jacques Rousseau to name but a few.

Why is everyone here ignoring the Hunzas ( indigenous people more or less vegan who never get sick live to be well over 100) and also the traditional Aisian diet. Obviously none of you here have read the China Study. Do some research! And while you are at it look at the 2006 United Nations report, ” Livestock’s Long Shadow” because if you don’t care about animals or your own body, you should at least care about your children and grandchildren- they may not have a planet to live on if we keep eating the way we do!

I’ve met a few people who suffer from aenemia but they are all meat eaters. None of the vegetarians/vegans I know seem to get sick. Maybe it’s something in the water you are drinking? And blaming not eating flesh for being short? Well now I’ve heard everything. I’m 168 cm - 5ft 8 which is a little above normal height for a female I would think.

“My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I made the greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.” - Benjamin Franklin

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:45:53 +0000

Hi I am a 27-year-old man, and want to share my story. I was raised as a vegetarian for 19 years. However we did eat fish, eggs and dairy products in my family. I lived this lifestyle since I was 2 years old and first when I was 21 I was mentally able to break that habit. It was very hard to quit vegetarinism because I was programmed to think that meat was uneatable. In my mind it was non-food just as we all know that sand, stones etc. are not meant to enter the mouth.

Throughout my life I have always been smaller in size compared to people of similar age. I have always looked min. 5 years younger than my age. I have never suffered from any serious diseases, and I have a healthy body, and an above average IQ. However, I think the lack of growth caused by vegetarism has caused me disadvantages in social life, and I would strongly advise against any parents raising their kids as vegetarians, or even worse, as vegans. I think I excel in most areas of life, but I cannot influence my height anymore. Therefore I would caution against anyone feeding their children with this damaging estrogen rich food for prolonged periods. Soya is evil.

If any of you readers have recovered succesfully from vegetarism, also in adult life, please tell how you did. It is very difficult to find reliable information on this subject. Please share your stories too. Michael

By: Amy

Amy — Sun, 04 May 2008 12:44:08 +0000

Thanks Lacey. I will get into the book a lot more than I’ve been doing.

By: Lacey

Lacey — Sun, 04 May 2008 06:33:37 +0000

Amy, I think that the ‘NT’ protocols would be considered anything traditional that has been done for ages. Things like fermented foods, raw milks, bone broths, soaked beans and grains, full fat creams and yogurts, organic vegetables and fruit, raw honeys and real maple syrup and the like. I think it also means staying away from processed foods and grains, preservatives and boxed meals. If you read the entire NT book, it’s explained well. Sally goes into great detail about diet and preparing food aside from just for a meal.

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:34:58 +0000

Many times I’ve seen people say that their health has changed since following the NT protocols. I am a loss as to what this really means. Does it mean following the recipes and the literature written in the book or is there something that I am missing?
I do have the book and would love to follow its suggestions and implications but I just would like to know if there are other suggestions.

By: Clarence Gaston, LCCN

Clarence Gaston, LCCN — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:47:27 +0000

Mary
I know what you mean. To watch good friends destroy their health, and their family’s health in the name of vegetarianism is painful. All the information that you can give them to the contrary is ignored, and this is even after they experience many problems with their health. I guess we should pray that things will work out right for them in the long run. Somewhere they are missing the mark because if they are food combining properly they should not be having so many health problems. I wonder if they are following a vegan lifestyle because of spiritual reasons or health reasons. If it’s for spiritual reasons then they are commited to their belief and the suffering they experience for some reason is justified. These are the consequences they accept.
Peace, joy, love, health, happiness.
Clancy