alanbluecat

That's awesome, well done!

I eliminated both of these health problems (and more) by switching to a low fat raw vegan diet. Contrary to some other advice above (hi aroundthemulberrybush :)) my diet is about 90% fruit, 10% vegetables and breaks down as 80% carbs 10% fat 10% protein. I think it is about experimenting and trying some different things…

OK, bye! Thanks for your insightful contribution to the discussion. Have a nice day :)

I'm not 'attacking' anything. You made some comments that are not true and I've pointed out that they are incorrect. That's not me attacking your beliefs, it is correcting you when you make incorrect statements with nothing to back them up. I've never said 'look at me I'm an example of a healthy vegan'. I've only made…

OK, so tell me more about WHY you're not wrong. Which proteins do I need that I can only get from an animal source? I couldn't give a stuff about you changing your diet. Like I've stated before on here I'm not here to try to convert anyone, I'm here to refute any claims that vegans can't be healthy. I'm also not trying to…

That's fantastic and a superb testament to eating vegan if ever I heard one! Congratulations on your health triumphs! I have had similar health benefits too. Cholesterol has gone from being too high and requiring medication to being totally normal with no medication required. Blood pressure has gone from being very high…

It's time for my bed here in the UK so I don't have the time or the inclination to give you individual studies just because you demanded it. I assume you can use google just as well as me. I've made it a bit easier for you - Here are some studies on a vegan diet -…

Sorry, I've no idea what this means. The only bit I can decipher is about being healthy as a meat eater. Human bodies are not designed to process meat therefore it follows that if you eat meat you are doing something to your body which is not healthy. If you don't eat too much of it and you have an otherwise well-balanced…

I also think non-vegans can be (somewhat) healthy, if they educate themselves and eat the right foods.

Sorry, you're wrong on the animal protein. It's not required and actually it's unhealthy to eat dead rotting flesh. Humans don't require it in our diet and our bodies are not built to process it effectively. So, in your 'opinion vegans are not healthy' - back this up please otherwise it's just one of those untruths that…

Love this reply! There's no effort involved for me either.

From vegan food,

Well the fact remains that you can get every nutrient your body requires from a vegan diet. There is nothing in chicken and turkey that we need that you can't get from a vegan source. Specifically which nutrients did he need to get from the chicken and turkey? If you can find out, I'll find out where to get them in a vegan…

Come on man that's such a generalisation. Show me some figures, otherwise that sentence is worthless.

First of all, that's bad advice from the doctor. You can get everything you need from a well-balanced vegan diet. Secondly, go to any doctor or hospital waiting room and you will find many examples of people with illness caused by or made worse by their poor diet - vegans, vegetarians and meat-eaters alike. I've often…

Absolutely right! I've been vegetarian for the last 15 years. In that time I've eaten a load of rubbish and was very unhealthy and at other times I paid attention to what I ate and was very healthy. Prior to that I was an occasional meat eater and had healthy and unhealthy periods just the same. Nowadays I'm vegan and I'm…

are non-vegans healthy? Go ahead and generalise. It depends on the individual.

I don't share mine because I eat low fat raw vegan 80/10/10 style and most people don't understand it and take it upon themselves to criticise and tell me it's dangerous, I don't get enough x y or z, or I eat too much a b or c, I don't eat any so-called 'high quality protein' i.e. rotting animal flesh etc etc etc. I don't…

OK, you have your opinion and I have mine. All this, you said X, I say Y stuff is pretty futile. I've thoroughly researched my own way of eating to my satisfaction. My doctor agrees with me and fully supports it. I believe my way of eating is the most healthy way but I accept that in terms of numbers I'm a minority voice…

I don't mean to hog this thread but I think I need to reply. OK, so it is not your theory. I don't buy whoever's theory it is, no matter who paid for the research. Yes I do have limited fat intake on purpose. I get 80% of my calories from Carbs, 10% from Fat and 10% from protein. This might not be considered 'normal' but…

Your longer post was an interesting read but what you say seems a bit improbable to me - You say that 'Most obese people have a toxic reaction to fructose' and reason that I've lost weight by eating fruit because 'You probably don't have the "toxic fructose syndrome" that others have'. I can accept that there is a…

How would you or your doctor explain my 53 pound weight loss then? My diet is 90% fruit.

Never read so much rubbish in my life! The majority of my diet is fruit and I'm 100% raw vegan. I've lost 53 pounds eating mostly fruit. My high blood pressure has normalised and I'm off the medication for it. My cholesterol has gone from high to normal. My liver function test went from abnormal to normal and all other…

I started off needing to lose just over 100 pounds and thought it would take roughly a year. I'm on track with or slightly ahead averaging just over 2lbs per week. I've lost around 50 lbs so far. Although it has averaged around 2 lbs per week I don't think there was any individual week where it was 2 lbs. For me it usually…

Just noticed I've been censored for using a word that sounds like snicker but I spelt as - s+'theNword' lol. Note to the censors - I'm not a racist!

Don't worry about it. People are too wrapped up in themselves to even notice other people most of the time. In my life I've been very fat and very fit at times. When I was at my fittest I remember seeing an extremely overweight guy running the same outside circuit as me. I remember thinking at the time 'Well done you for…

How do you make it?

Since May I've lost a steady average of 2 lbs per week, some weeks a little more, some a little less. I had experimented with fasting for health benefits, not weight loss, in the past but last week decided to commit to IF 5:2 fasting with 600cals on the fast days for the next 3 months at least. I lost 6.5 lbs last week…