It is incorrect to imply that self starvation complications are only experienced by vegans, or that all vegans experience them. Anyone on any kind of diet can starve themselves. I am sure that there are vegans that do and I KNOW that there are meat-eaters that do as well.
I have had an eating disorder in the past (which I have now recovered from) when I was NOT vegan and I did experience all of these symptoms even though the little food that I did eat included meat, eggs and dairy. I also am now currently vegan and am healthier than I have ever been (yes, I know that is partly due to my recovery, but I mean I am healthier than when I was eating animal products before my eating disorder).
I know what starvaton feels like, and I am all to familiar with the "high" experienced when your body eats itself but well thought out, researched veganism is nothing like that.
There are healthy vegans and sick meat-eaters and vice versa so it obviously has more to do with the individual and how well they look after themselves.
Please stop focusing on the dietary aspects of veganism and think about the ethics of animal rights - that is what veganism is really all about.

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Hello,
I am sitting here reading and re-reading these comments and ultimately feeling both relieved and conflicted. I was a vegetarian for 10 years, but after 3 years I suddenly started getting unexplained vertigo-oh, and I was also overweight. I got depressed and started down a not-so-good spiral.

My husband fought with me repeatedly to take fish oil, but I was anti-eating or consuming anything that "had a face", and refused. Until one day I was so depressed I couldn't stop crying and decided I might as well try it.

4 years later, I'm taking fish oil every day, and eating seafood happily.:) I haven't yet moved over to consuming "things with legs" ;), but have been toying with this possibility for awhile now.

I don't know if eating fish and seafood provides enough nutrients that eating other kinds of meat is unnecessary, or if fish doesn't qualify as "real" meat. I'd love your thoughts on this.

In addition: I do not eat wheat, brown rice, quinoa or high-oxalate foods, cheese or anything "cured". I have felt better since going off of wheat, but not totally back to where I need to be...

Lastly: I've heard horror stories of people when they transition back to being an omnivore, and getting very very ill. Since I have a phobia about "tossing my cookies", I have avoided this transition with something akin to fear. I'd like to hear suggestions on making the transition, and in particular people's true experience with it.

Thanks for your bravery in posting on a topic not really "popular" at the moment!

Vegetarianism and veganism are clearly eating disorders, more properly termed: Phytorexia.

(phyto = plant, rexia = consumption)

The author of this article is an idiot. Watch 'forks over knives' or research the debilitating effects our western diet's meat, eggs, and dairy consumption causes us from diabetes to cancer and certainly the millions who die each year of heart disease. Other people in the world don't eat like we do in America and as a result they do no have the health problems we do. America eats then most meat and also spends the most on healthcare. coincidence? I think not.

To all you vegans or vegetarians. congratulations for standing up against adversity. People like this author are obviously the walking heart attacks that end up as one of the millions of heart related death statistics.

I really feel sorry for this author.

I think this article is alienating some people (including me) for a few reasons:

1. It's important to take other factors into consideration when evaluating the success and failure of diets, and looking at extremes isn't the answer. Just like many veg'ns will point at meat eaters and say "look how high your obesity rate is!", meat eaters like to point fingers at the weird hippie vegan who looks like they just got out of a POW camp and say "but look how unhealthy YOUR diet is!". Regardless of the diet, it's about balance.

2. Most people don't realize how many vegans/vegetarians that surround them, because most of us are healthy. I went vegetarian and started exercising and weight lifting in the same year and gained 17 lbs. (I'm a chick, and I fit in the same clothes). If I wasn't vegetarian, I'm sure I would have had the same benefits, but the point is, it happened anyways. To this day not a single person has guessed that I don't eat meat or dairy by looking at me, and more often than not they are surprised. Why? Because I actually exercise and eat healthy foods and try to minimize processed junk.

Meat eaters get unhealthy because their diets suck and/or they don't exercise.
Non-meat eaters get unhealthy because their diets suck and/or they don't exercise.

Basically, I wish there would be a more civilized discussion regarding dietary choices. I personally support backyard farming/egg raising and grass-fed beef, but I get a lot of religious veg'ns/meat eaters/paleo-types on both sides saying I'm insane/stupid for my way of thinking. Articles like this do nothing but add heat to the fire. Vegans need to realize there ARE sustainable/humane ways to eat meat and animal products, and meat eaters need to realize that you CAN be healthy without eating meat.

I really enjoyed reading a bunch of other articles on here until I got to this one. Veganism is a way of life that stretches beyond the pantry for a lot of people, and I think you are missing that with this article. Making fun of cereal eaters is one thing, making fun of a vegan who is against the slaughter of a sentient being is another.

Hopefully this makes sense and appeals to your reason. I'm trying to be as fair as I can about the issue. Perhaps I am too much of a dreamer, (that's the hippie in me), but I don't see why paleo/veg/health-conscious people of all walks can't unite and start influencing some real change in how we view and produce food in this country. That's a lofty goal but I believe that's why you write all of these articles.

I couldn't help by laughing as I read this post. I really thought it was sarcasm, something tells me that it still may be; a mockery of the uneducated. As amusingly entertaining as this blog is, it is full of fallacy and common ignorance, however, the concept is original, and probably give new ammunition to Vegan haters. Obviously the blogger fails to understand basic human physiology, but to his defense, most of his information is common knowledge among people will limited nutritional information, i.e. B12 deficiency, blah, blah, blah, repeated from a 1980's college text book which indicates that humans must be omnivore. Human physiology is that of a frugivorous ape. Cobalamin deficiency is non existent in a well planned Vegan diet.

JBG
New England University, Program Director of Human Medical physiology dept.
28 Years in the field of human Physiology
14 Years first hand vivisectional studies and animal behavior, Boston University
35 Years of nutritional studies, some incorporated in Dr. T. Campbell's China Study
4 controlled Veg. studies with over 4000 human subjects over a decade.
Member of the PCRM
4 studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine...

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