Look, people who are vegan generally live longer, and meat is murder that murders. watch this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05zhL1YUd鈥?/a> the oldest person to ever live in Britain was vegan and we have evolved from an animal which was vegan. our digestive system hasn't changed much since then aswell. i am a vegan and i live in the UK|||I think that a carefully planned vegan diet is the healthiest diet out there. Many people don't realize that it's possible to get most of our necessary vitamins and minerals from vegetable sources. Many people believe that the ONLY way to get calcium is from milk, Iron only comes from beef, etc.|||Some vegans don't eat the right foods to get enough vitamins, so they have a vitamin deficiency. If you really do the research, you shouldn't have problems.|||if you were going through the struggle i am, you'd understand I HATE the stuff i'm eating. I HATE tofu and the like Who cares if I live longer if i hate eating what used to be the thing i looked forward to so many times in my life I assure you it's not healthy chewing off my arm, but that's what I feel like. I feel like i could eat a fork.|||Lack of B12 and vitamin D.|||Veganism is the healthiest diet there is. But there are different forms of vegans. Some eat junk food and other food like that because it isn't meat and isn't dairy. Then there are some that strictly eat organic foods that are a healthy replacement for the vitamins that we need in meat and dairy [remember, its the vitamins and protein people need, not the milk and meat itself]. The people who think we are "unhealthy" probably categorize us as the junkfood addicts. They're don't want to believe the fact that vegans and vegetarians are healthier than them (:|||I think that is just a lack of awareness in most cases. I have been vegan for 8 years and have had a healthy vegan pregnancy and I still get people wondering "how I did that". They think that all I can eat is salad and worry that it is unbalanced. The general population seem to be very uneducated about diet and health and think you need milk and meat to be nourished properly - this is thanks to the advertising campaigns of the dairy and meat industries (ie: if you don't eat dairy you will definitely have crumbling bones by the time your 40 etc)|||Vegetable oil is vegan, many margarines are vegan, lots of sweets (candies) are vegan, fries are vegan, crisps (potato chips) are often vegan... Vegan doesn't equal healthy. It can but not if you eat like an idiot! The main reason it is considered unhealthy by some people is because those people are ignorant of the range of foods vegans can eat. Like most people they don't know much about nutrition except what they might have been told at school (propaganda, Meat = protein, cheese and dairy = calcium, chicken = 'lean meat', etc...). Many doctors are very patchy on nutrition too, lots of folks I know have had weird responses from doctors, most of whom have only had a little bit of nutritional training. Its no big deal to get Vitamin D or B12 in Britain or any other developed country, they are added to many vegetarian and vegan foods anyway. Read up on nutrition, ignore propaganda from anyone who wants to sell you something, especially if they have had to subsidise it to grow it! Live your life, don't preach be a shining example of how its easy and fun :-) I hope thats a useful response.|||I guess it's healthy as long as u get the proper nutrition u need. So, yeah, if u r sure to get all of the essentials from non-animal sources, u don't have 2 worry about saturated fats. It's quite simple, really. If u don't eat fried steak or french fries & other high fat foods like these (and exercise!), u will b less likely to die of heart disease- the leading cause of death in the U.S. IDK what's the leading cause of death in the UK. However, as far as that video goes, I don't agree at all. We r omnivores and they were comparing us to carnivores. So, u gotta compare apples to apples- NOT apples to oranges! Compare us to swine, poultry, monkeys, or apes. That would b comparing apples to apples. Personally, I think we evolved as scavengers. Just eating whatever was around- berries, vegetation, and animal carcasses. Pigs r an excellent example b/c we r so closely related. We feed them mostly soybean meal, corn, and vitamin mineral premixes. So, if the pigs can prosper off of that, we could, too. LOL! As far as the teeth go, we have molars.. yes. We have k-9s.. yes. Even though they r small, look at the pig and wild boar! Through evolution b/c of tools, our mouths have become smaller... they r actually still getting smaller b/c we use forks and knives. This is y so many ppl r having to get their wisdom teeth removed; We simply don't have room for 'em. Chimps eat termites and fruit... etc. Some even hunt in packs for smaller monkeys to eat. "Meat is murder that murders." I understand the 1st part "meat is murder," but not the last part. Could u explain it, please? BTW, I recently learned that ur body synthesizes vitamin B12 if u get sufficient cobalt in ur diet. It's found in broccoli, spinach, and oats. Yum. Vitamin D is made by ur skin when u spend time (15 min.) in the sun. U'd have to b a vampire to have THAT deficiency. I guess it takes a lot of work to b a healthy vegan.. more than a healthy non-vegan. The 1st thing I think of is milk. Duh? Of course u can drink soy milk. Every1 isn't a nutritionist.|||A few reasons, 1) Some people hate vegans cause they feel attacked by anyone with differing views, so they make things up. 2) Regular meat eaters find it difficult to comprehend not eating dairy, meat, eggs etc so they pick any flaw in a vegan (skin, weight etc) and blame the veganism. 3) Some vegans are unhealthy. Their hearts are in the right place but they don't vary their diet and miss out on essential supplements. It is a shame because it gives people a bad impression of vegans who in general are perfectly healthy. 4) Plain ignorance. ADD: Soy milk cotains both B12 and D2. (see what I mean about ignorance)|||People think vegans will lack protein but meat isn't the only source of protein.|||It mainly has to do with B12 deficiency (and, depending on whether or not one knows how to eat the right combination of partial-protein and amino-acid sources, protein deficiency).|||Whether or not meat is murder is a matter of personal opinion, not fact. Though the phrase "meat is murder that murders," is a bit strange. Many animals eat other animals to survive, and humans ARE animals. We can make the choice to not slaughter other animals for food, but the question of whether it's moral for us to do what other meat-eating animals do is a personal decision I would argue that we most definitely have NOT evolved from vegan animals. Vegetarian, maybe, but assuredly not vegan. But the fact does remain that our bodies ARE designed, right now, to be omnivorous, regardless of what we were designed to eat a few hundred thousand years ago. If we weren't capable of eating meat--i.e. 'meant' to eat it, then nobody would because it'd make us sick or kill us. For the record, I say all that as a vegetarian. There are plenty of good reasons to eat either a vegetarian or vegan diet without getting diving into the realm of supposed facts for which there is a mountain of contradictory evidence. Veganism is considered unhealthy by people who eat meat because it's a foreign concept to them. It involves the utter exclusion of what for many people is the primary source of their diet, so they immediately think of the things that meat offers--B vitamins, iron, protein--and the first thing that occurs to them is nutritional deficiency. Vegetarianism is easier to swallow because so many vegetarians continue to eat eggs and dairy products. But since veganism is so much stricter, they don't think beyond the excluded foods, not at first. At let's face it, veganism, and vegetarianism also but to a lesser extent--CAN be unhealthy if you aren't careful. It requires more consideration and effort to get all the things your body needs, and lord knows it's entirely possible to eat an unhealthy diet as a veg*n. There's plenty of junk food in the world that contains no animal products. So I think that most people just assume that someone getting into a vegan diet is not going to be making any changes to their diet beyond excluding meat, dairy, and eggs. It doesn't occur to them that someone going vegan is (or should, assuming they're intelligent) going to do their homework in order to find out how to eat conscientiously without sacrificing their health. All they see at first are the excluded foods, not the overall dietary changes.|||Its these non vegetarian people who to justify themselves have started spreading that vegetarianism is not healthy since veg food does not provide all nutrients. Which is absolutely incorrect. There are plenty of fruits, vegetables and pules that provide all nutrients required to lead a healthy life. Different vegetables have different levels of nutritional values. Therefore, it is very important to have a healthy combination of foods in the vegetarian diet, so as to provide the body with all the essential nutrients. Now-a-days people are quite conscious of their figure. In such a situation, a vegetarian diet is always preferred over the non-vegetarian diet. A vegetarian diet consists of vegetables which have low level calories and high level of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. In fact, a non-vegetarian diet is not healthy. In the past, many viewed vegetarianism as strange and faddish but appropriately planned vegetarian diets are now recognized by many, including the American Dietetic Association, as being nutritionally adequate, and providing healthful benefits in the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases. Choosing a nonvegetarian lifestyle has a significant health and medical cost. The total direct medical costs in the United States attributable to meat consumption were estimated to be $30-60 billion a year, based upon the higher prevalence of hypertension, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, gallstones, obesity and food-borne illness among omnivores compared with vegetarians. A large body of scientific literature suggests that the consumption of a diet of whole grains, legumes, vegetables, nuts, and fruits, with the avoidance of meat and high-fat animal products, along with a regular exercise program is consistently associated with lower blood cholesterol levels, lower blood pressure, less obesity and consequently less heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, and mortality. BEING VEGETARIAN has a host of beefits. Not only you save a poor animal's life, but also led a more healthy life. Ayurveda has also proved that people who eat non-vegetarian food are more aggressive and have high chances of involving in violence. While vegetarian food keeps the balance of body and mind. Also, you must not only be vegetarian in your diet but also in your lifestyle. You must avoid use of leather and other items in your lifestyle that comes from the life of a poor animl. Check this link for CRUELTY FREE FASHION: http://beautify-flr.blogspot.com/2009/01鈥?/a>|||Vegans are healthy people. Its a matter of your lifestyle, what you eat, how you live, stess factor, exercise routine etc that would determine your health. vegan diet provides all nutrients to lead a healthy life. You just have to eat a healthy diet. Vegans and vegetarians are the healthiest people alive. You must have heard of the famous actor Amitabh Bachchan? He is a strict vegetarian, 6 feet 1 inces tall and even at this age (67 years), he is healthy, fit and doing umerous movies, world tours, etc. Its just people who want to excuse themselves justify their killing of animals by saying that being vegan woul be unhealthy. However it is quite the contrary|||That should be obvious http://www.crispyontheoutside.com/2009/0鈥?/a>

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