Dr. Shawn Baker challenges vegan jihadis, eats only meat for 15 months. Think he's unhealthy? Here's what happened...

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palou said:

John2290 said:

That is why you don't. Almost every meal from cultures around the world has a balance of everything with meat taking up a small percentage of the plate. Eating meat is not unhealthy for men and unless Vegans get everything down to a tee and wrap their entire lives around their meal plans it can be a disaster, for men more so than women. If you have a 9-5 or a job that is more demanding than that being a Vegan and male is more than likely going to have far more negative effects than positive effect not to mention if you are a laborer or are in the line of labor intensive work. It's fine for people in certain life situations with the time enough to devote. I don't think Vegans are inherently idiotic as the other poster but when it comes to believing everyone in the world can be Vegan and still be healthy they are quiet naive, way off of the mark and some who protest this can seem idiotic. 

hmm... 

 

While *most* cultures have had meat in their diet, I'd like to point out that for the last couple thousand of years, minus the last hundred fifty or so, that portion was a *very* small proportion of the plate, for the vast majority of the population - simply due to logistic facts of an earlier agricultural society. The poor (and with that, I mean, 90 + % of the population, in medieval times and earlier) almost exclusively fed off of whatever regional starch crop could be grown the most efficiently in that area of the world, be it rice, wheat, corn, etc... Mind you, they had the joy of engaging in continuous heavy physical labour, as well. Which demonstrates the fact that the "omnivore" trait of humans is the *capability* of surviving off of anything, rather than the *necessity*. We are extremely flexible, our bodies have with only very few exceptions the capabilities of synthesizing the necessary out of just about anything.

 

I don't know where you are getting the male-specific thing from? To my knowledge, these types of deficiencies appear more quickly within women (due to the constant loss of essential material from menstruation.) Sexual hormones which distinguish female/male otherwise are generally synthesized by the body, not consumed. Which makes sense, since they are extremely specific from species to species.

 

I mean, of course you anyone can live off of a vegan diet if they wanted to, in the modern day. Nutrition isn't voodoo magic, we know what each meal is composed of, and if you really want to, the exact nutritional properties of meat can be recreated with no trouble at all from non-animal products (GMOs, etc.. can make that even easier). What's "natural" really shouldn't come into play when we have access to more extensive knowledge. What actually gets absorbed by the body, after all the digestion are some pretty simple molecules we'd have no issues synthesizing in a lab to perfection, if you're really picky about it.

Yes, the people from medieval times would never hunt some rabbit or other small mammals to put some meat on their plates, and of course their 35 years of average living is the proof of healthiness right?