Vegan Diet And CR -- Risky ???

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Hello Mike and CR ALL:

The caution given below by Mike (please read it) about

trying to practice a vegan diet (no animal-source foods consumed

of any kind at all) is one of the best posts clearly explaining

some of the risks of a vegan lifestyle.

Those risks are compounded (multiplied) if trying to limit

caloric intake (CR lifestyle). One must have extra high nutrient

intake, all packed into those few calories ... or there is a

true potential health hazard.

If this hazard is then misunderstood or unappreciated over

a longer period of time, like a year or two (or more),

one risks failing to recognize why the body has gradually

oh so gradually deteriorated ... due to the doctrinaire

belief that a vegan diet is somehow healthy. This belief

compounds the risk factor even further, since most vegans

are usually very firmly committed, almost adamant even,

and quite orthodox in their allegiance to their practice

of veganism.

The vegan diet over time becomes habitual and focused,

sometimes to the point of near religious fervor, with the

very strong committal belief that their vegan decision

represents the diet they believe to be ideal. The more

they study their vegan diet, trying to make it better

and less risky, the more erroneously focused they become

by fixating on their erroneous habits.

So the cautious choice is to select an omnivore diet --

where you eat a little bit of everything -- even things

that revolt you utterly -- then to sacrifice self on the

alter of extremist viewpoints that contradict our long

evolutionary heritage over the many millennia, as Mike

clearly outlines below (please see).

-- Warren

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On 12 Oct 2003, Mike wrote: (RE: Vegan Diet)

> However, I think that a knowledgeable vegan can avoid all these

> risks, and potentially have a much healthier diet than non-vegans.

* B-12 (optimal amounts, not just enough to prevent deficiency)

* Zinc (keep in mind difference in bioavailability between plant and

animal foods)

* Vit D (optimal amounts, not just enough to prevent deficiency)

* Retinol (especially if you're a child, diabetic, have low thyroid

function, etc)

* DHA/EPA

* Cholesterol (especially for older people)

* CoQ10

* CLA

* Gelatin

* The Wulzen factor

* And probably dozens of things I don't know about...

* And probably dozens of things not understood yet...

Good luck challenging a few hundred millennia of evolution.

You'll need it...

Mike