Well if you’re cutting out all animal products you’re going to be cutting a lot of foods out. Foods that your body probably needs, so unless you really know what you’re doing it’s probably not a good idea to go on a vegan diet. check out http://www.diet-myths.com for more info

I wonder if her anorexia and depression was what was making her feel fatigued or the small medicine chest of recreational drugs rumors say she liked taking.

Why doesn’t anyone say that their meat-based diet almost killed them!?

Accordingly to the WHO, most of the diseases we have are the result of eating animals…
Please don’t ask me for sites where this is mentioned. I saw it on the news.

If one doesn’t have a varied vegan diet one will have health problems… the same goes for someone who has a meat diet!!!

And yes, there are substitutes (without taking supplements) for all the nutrients found in meat and fish.

Do some research before commenting on something you know nothing about, okay?

I couldn’t help but notice how emotional and accusatory the vegan and vegetarian-leaning comments are here. If you cannot accept that carnivores live among you and will not be put off their traditional diets, then you will be very unhappy. There is so much self-righteousness that seems to accompany veganism.
What you must learn to do is to understand that not everyone thinks as you do. Choose your diet for yourself- not me, not my offspring. You do not have a corner on morality.

that is totally stupid that you think everyone would benefit from a veagan diet. That is the whole point of what Jolie was saying. Everyone has a specific diet that works best for them and some people do better with meat.

So since everyone would benefit from a vegetarian or veagan diet, how do you think an eskimo (who eats all fat and meat) would do eating all veggies?

Angelina, you need to get real you were on the right diet as we are by nature frugivorous animals. But, I have seen a horse eat baby chicks on our farm when I was a kid. And probably if you put a feed bag of baby chicks under the horses nose every day it would eat them too. But it would not be long before the horse was fat and bloated with depression, indigestion, headache’s, autoimmune diseases and arthritis stumbling around the farm passing gas everywhere it went like Angelina and 95% of the American public. The horse would live only half of its life time and die of cancer or a massive coronary somewhere out on the pasture.
I am just telling the public the truth like the FDA, USDA and HHS should if they weren’t in the pockets of big agriculture the food business, pharmaceutical companies and the AMA. Who make nothing but profit off of feeding us garbage and toxic medications while we get sicker and sicker from doing just what my horse did.
And of course my being one of those borne again close-minded, arrogant vegans due to discovering what it takes to beat cancer naturally. With out the entire load of BS the AMA wants to torture you with till you are on morphine and kicked out of the hospital so you will die elsewhere. I will keep on telling everyone who has a mind open enough to listen what the truth is. That they need to stop accepting the feedbag full of indigestible crap they are handed because they are considered suckers by those in the government, the AMA and big business get real take charge of their life.
Paul

I am reluctant to offer an opinion because it is hard to have a rational conversation with people who are vegan for philosophical reasons.

I started my career as a research biochemist and even though relatively speaking our knowledge is growing rapidly, we still know virtually
nothing compared to what there is to know about how our bodies work on the inside and the relationship of food to our bodies.

Given that I put very little credence in so called scientific studies claiming this or that. Most of these studies are based on the
flawed assumption that people are all the same and that what may apply to the majority of people in some random sample applies to any
one individual. In addition, these studies are based on statistics not on a thorough understanding of the underlying biological phenomena.
In graduate school we called statistical studies junk science. Most so called medical science falls into this category.

The only thing that we know for certain is what we experience first hand. People are not lieing when they say that this particular kind
of diet makes them feel good and this other type makes them feel sick. Clearly some people thrive on vegan diets while others feel horrible
on them. It is pointless to argue against this clear fact using evidence from statistical studies.

I for one have tried a vegeterian diet and was as sick as a dog on it. Even though my body told me that it doesn’t tolerate soy, legumes
in general, nuts, grains, and even certain kinds of fruit, I tried it and just felt horrible. Meat doesn’t make me feel ideal, but it makes me feel far
better than vegetables and fruits alone. Sushi actually makes me feel best. If a person can’t eat legumes, nuts and grains, how could they
possibly survive? Fruit I can eat in only slight moderation.

On the other hand, I know people who thrive on precisely that kind of diet. No amount of scientific studies can refute people’s first hand
experience.

When we stop talking about people’s first hand experience, we then move into the realm of speculation. What I am going to say going forward
is pure opinion and you can argue it to your heart’s content, but we are afterall entitled to our opinion.

There is ample archeological evidence that man evolved as a hunter gatherer eating animals, fruits and vegetables that could be eatan raw.
This pretty much leaves out the staples of the modern vegan diet, cooked grains, legumes, and otherwise unedible vegetables like potatoes,
certain root vegetables, etc.

Man started eating grains and other cooked vegetables around 10000 years ago in the middle east with the onset of agriculture. It is
reasonable to assume that over the last 10000 years man has evolved to adapt to such a diet.

People who settled in other parts of the globe such as northern europe and even the north pole probably never ate grains and cooked vegetables.
For example, it is highly unlikely that eskimos ever ate much in the way of cooked grains or vegetables in their entire evolutionary
history. It is also reasonable to assume that they evoled to thrive on a diet consisting of fish, sea mammals and the small amount of
fruit in the way of berries during the summer available in the artic.

People of middle eastern descent and eskimos are probably 2 extremes on a spectrum of carnivores, omnivores and vegeterians.
Most people fit somewhere in between. This could explain why some people thrive on one type of diet over another.

It is also known that eskimos who move to the big city and consume a typical american diet have an abnormally high incidence of
diabetes. This could be explained by the possibility that they have evolved to thrive primarily on fish and meat.
This also applies to native american indians whose traditional diet was that of a hunter gatherer. Indians started eating grain
based foods only after being introduced to it by the Europeans.

To the extent that meat is unhealthy it may have nothing inherently to do with meat itself. We evolved to eat the raw meat of freshly
killed animals living in the wild just like other omnivores and carnivores do.
This is a far different matter than eating chemically poisoned and grain fed cows that are then
stored for long periods of time and cooked. The chemicals and growing process makes the meat unhealthy, while cooking makes it
carcinogenic.

I wish I could be a vegeterian because it is much cheaper and easier to find natural organic fruits and vegetables than it is to
find raw meat from freshly killed animals living in the wild.