I am in no way claiming it to be natural, I believe we here meant to be vegetarians, not vegan, or maybe eat small amounts of white meat. My point is I keep seeing answers saying it is impossible to be a healthy vegan or a healthy teen vegan and I would like to know why you think that? I mean there are a lot of healthy vegans. I will respond to answers so please keep watching since I will try to respond to all answers.|||I'm so jealous of you! My parents wont let me be a vegan, only vegetarian. I admire vegans so much. Anyway, on to an answer.... Because people think meat and dairy products are the only way to get protein, essential and nonessential amino acids, iron, b vitamins, vitamin d, zinc, and calcium. Plus, most people grow up around meat, and believe it's natural.|||Because most people have been raised in meat-eating families, and they were raised to believe that it's the healthiest way of living to eat meat and other animal products.|||I think like you said, it can be disastrous if done wrong. But other wise it is fine and healthy.|||I mean, you can perfectly survive on vegetables and etc., but it's good to get some protein too. Veggies and fruits keep you strong, taste good, are healthy, and don't get you fat. But protein is very much needed in your body at one point or another.|||I think most people are just misinformed. The meat industry has done a wonderful job of convincing people they need meat. Those of us who have done the homework know that we do NOT need meat to be healthy. We can get all of the vitamins, minerals, proteins, enzymes, and nutrition we need from a plant based diet. Like you said, and with any diet, it has to be well balanced and consistant to be healthy, but I am FAR better off healthwise since giving up meat many years ago. Most people just choose to remain blissfully ignorant to the true facts. They find it easier to let some other entity dictate their health and food choices for them. I prefer to be the champion for my own body, and not rely on misinformation from someone whose sole purpose is to jump in my pocket, and who has no concern about my health. Again, its really all just about ignorance to the facts.|||If you want to talk about a natural diet and totally forget the animal welfare issue for a moment, the most healthy diet would be one of wild game, nuts, and fruit. Humans where never designed to eat farmed meat or consume milk products...we would have eaten eggs though like lots of omnivores do in the wild. The trouble is that unless you are a hunting person there is no point eating game as most of it is farmed nowadays as well :P I can't drink milk etc as me and my kids have lactose intolerance so we have calcium enriched soy milk...we don't eat meat but we eat our own home reared eggs. My 3 boys are well muscled active (tooooo active lol) healthy kids on our almost Vegan diet, so long as you pay attention to nutrition ( as you should WHATEVER your diet) there is no reason to miss out on any nutrients. The meat eaters who stuff their faces full of McD's and triple cheese pizzas will all start to wonder about how healthy veganisum is when they are suffering from obesity and heart problem :P|||"Why do people find veganism unhealthy?" May be 'cause usually people do not understand about nutrition.|||I used to be a vegan. I cannot speak for them all, but I found cooking became very difficult. For instance, vegan cheese and soy milk didn't make my recipes taste very good. There is the vitamin B12 issue, but also the substitutions of vegan cheese etc may raise concerns of how healthy they are? I'm not saying they're unhealthy but it's definitely abstract to simulate something like cheese from a vegan source. I am currently a vegetarian and this works well for me from all directions. Veganism was just too tricky for me personally. A lot of the anti-veg stuff, in my opinion, is slightly based on guilt and they feel we're pointing out their shortcomings. Whether we are or not is up to the individual, but I think they think were trying to say what they're doing is wrong and perhaps it hits a raw nerve.|||maybe because people keep saying vegans are unhealthy, over and over until it becomes common knowledge.|||People find veganism and even vegetarianism unhealthy because of several reasons but most stem from 1 key point. They are mislead, perhaps downright brainwashed into thinking it's the only way. Unfortunately the world as a whole today is very commercialized and capitalistic. The meat, dairy and egg industries are huge multi-billion dollar corporations. In a world driven by technology it all comes back to greed and advertising. The "standard American diet" is a sham to begin with and highly unhealthy, yet we are taught to eat this way from an early age. It's all about consumption and profit. The American diet has changed dramatically over the years. Just 50 or so years ago, the average American family ate some sort of meat 3-4 times weekly. Now it's eat eat eat, get your meat every day in every meal. Portions are also drastically larger than they were back then. Being a healthy, strong vegan is not hard at all these days. We have it easy compared to the brave souls choosing to live this way decades ago. There are so many animal free options and replacement items for cooking and baking that make things a lot easier for us. Take a good vegan multivitamin and eat lots of legumes. Nuts and flax seeds are great and if the natural low fat in a vegan diet becomes an issue healthy oils like olive and grapeseed are very good for you in moderation. Veganism isn't as difficult as people think but the simple fact is that most know nothing about the lifestyle. People are opposed to things that are different and fear the unknown. A little research might change some minds. The cruelty of factory farms is atrocious but morality aside, the food industry fills animals full of dangerous drugs and hormones that end up in the meat. They also send sick animals to the slaughterhouse. Even cows with late stages of cancer or open sores are allowed to be labeled USD grade A. If we lived in simpler, cleaner, honest times things would be different. But we don't and I do not see this changing anytime soon. As it stands now, the meat industry makes products that no educated or sane person could possibly call healthy.|||Because they are not taught or knowledgeable on this topic. 82 % of people, including chef;s think all they could eat is fish, pasta and or salad.|||> Why do people find veganism unhealthy? They do? Who? Not me. I, in fact, do believe that humans are meant to be 'vegan'. By 'vegan' I mean, natural human; without meat, dairy, etc. Sure, as a 'wild' human you might come across some bugs or an egg in the spring, and eat clay for trace minerals etc., but basically free of animal food. B12 is found in one-celled organism's poop. Where ever you find one-celled organisms, you will find B12. In your mouth, in your digestive track, in fermented foods, on surfaces all over the place, in dirt, they are everywhere. B12 deficiency is not commonly found in vegetarians or vegans, but is commonly found in fat overweight American meat and junk food eaters. We do not need protein. All we need are essential amino acids. That is why there are called "essential", because we cannot produce them in our bodies. We need them. Why do our bodies not make these? Because they are very easily found outside the body. I.e. plants. We can find these amino acids in protein (chains of amino acids, our body breaks protein down into amino acids to utilize and send to different parts of the body to form protein), but amino acids can also be found separate too (not chained together). From my research it seems to me that humans are best suited to consuming a diet of mostly fruit. Fruits have pretty much all we need. They are packed full of amino acids, for instance. Yes, that's right, fruit is a great source for amino acids (or as the lay person might say "protein").|||i dont think its unhealthy, but it is lacking the right amount of vitamins found in red meat, and the amount of protein needed daily to preform daily tasks. sure, nuts provide SOME protein, but not enough.|||http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMHvMAUDH鈥?/a> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=鈥?/a> -T. Colin Campbell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfnIzYE4L鈥?/a> Vegan IS the ONLY way to live.... after being raised with meat and dairy and consuming the standard North American diet.... I only started to care about health after the birth of my daughter... now I am OUTRAGED at the lies being perpetrated over the healthfulness of meat and dairy.... Oh and did you know that it would take 30 years of consuming nothing with vitamin B 12 in it for you to run out???? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsfapVCJq鈥?/a> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=鈥?/a> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqV鈥?/a> -very graphic Meet your Meat Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ts4GEpnz鈥?/a> -very graphic Meet your Meat Part|||I think veganism can be seen as unhealthy since veggies can lack some of the nutrients meat provides.|||Because you need more than white meat and if your a teenager then you need all the nutrients and vitamins you can get. Come On, you cant live off soya milk and quorn meat forever.|||Um... being a vegetarian is good! ... as long you make sure to get your protein ( eggs, peanuts). Eating meat is good too, though. That's what people way back then ate and almost nothing else. You can get diseased from meat if you're not careful, but I live in WYO and here we eat wild meat, which is deer and elk. That way we know for sure that what we are eating is 100% natural and there is so added hormones in it. Personally, I think that eating meat is very good and being a vegetarian is too much work, for me anyways. But being a vegetarian is definitely a good thing. I guess it's how you look at it. Each one has it's benefits.|||Vegans are more likely to suffer from a vitamin B12 (cobalamine) deficiency since this is found in animal foods like meat, fish, eggs, and dairy products. Lack of this important vitamin may cause neurological and gastrointestinal problems. Strict vegetarians likewise lack vitamin D which is found in fortified milk and eggs. To remedy this, they should expose themselves to sunlight for about 20 to 30 minutes daily. If not, the use of supplements is advised. Rickets, another deficiency disease that causes deformed bones and a curved spine, has been observed in vegans. So have calcium and iron deficiencies. Children who adhere to vegetarianism tend to be smaller than omnivorous kids, Yetiv revealed. "If you are considering vegetarianism you are one stupid idiot"

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