Re: A great article about being a former vegan and making changes

Wired,

i agree with you 110% about meat being murder. I am also a PETA supporter, and a true animal lover. Although the chickens that I eat are from a local farm where they are kept very well and allowed to roam free, I still believe that there is no humane way to kill anything. But when I think of this, I remember having to feed my burmese python large rabbits. It used to horrify me in the beginning, but I knew it had to be done. Try feeding a python some lettuce! Unfortunately this is nature and there are predator animals and there are prey animals.

Most apes are omnivores, and they are the closest relatives to our species. If you look at the anatomy of an herbivore, their eyes are on the sides of their head, their teeth are flat and blunt for grinding, and many of them (like cows) possess intricate digestive systems that are built to break down tough plant fibers. Now look at a carnivore. They have sharp teeth for shredding, eyes in the front of their heads, and a highly acidic digestive system build to break down heavy protein.

We as humans, are an exact hybrid of the two. We have flat molars, but also sharp incisors. Our eyes are in the front of our head. We have alkaline and acidic digestive properties. This is how we were made, and this is why I believe that we were meant to eat a very balanced diet. Too much one way or the other is ,in my opinion, never good.

As for Natway, I am not even going to provide an answer to his post. He regurgitates the same lingo over and over without providing any insight as to whether or not he experienced debilitating adrenal fatigue. I have never seen him post anything different than what he always does, and sounds nothing like any of us who have really seen the 7 circles of hell on this forum. I for one would also be very interested to read his real story and not hear "I cured my debilitating symptoms with fruit" ok, what were those debilitating symptoms besides "toxic hunger". What were your crashes like, hmmm?

I agree that most of the people that feel better on 80-10-10 are in early stages of fatigue, and not pure burnout. I believe that when I first began this diet, I was in the early stages of fatigue, which is why I had so much energy the first couple of years. Unfortunately it was not healthy for me in the long run and wound up ruining my digestion (my body had to work too hard to process all the raw food) and eventually led to real burnout. There were other factors involved with my burnout, but I was extremely deficient of zinc and very high in copper- a typical inversion with vegans. There were also many other deficiencies, and my body was actually eating itself to survive.

The test proved it, and my body told me what it needed. As far as I'm concerned there is no proof more solid than that.

I would love to go back to being at least a vegetarian (not even a vegan), but if I never do I'm ok with it. My health is most important to me, and I will eat whatever I damn well have to in order to have it back and keep it.

I wrote my original post because I am sick of these arguments and hijacking of threads. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but this forum should be a place where people feel welcome, supported, and comfortable. Not a place that they come to find an argument or be bullied. Tweet