Sun, Jan-20-19, 09:41
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Plan: EpiPaleo/Primal/LowOx
Stats: 220/130/150
BF:
Progress: 129%
Location: USA
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Originally Posted by GRB5111
It's incumbent on the individual pursuing a certain WOE to fully understand how to achieve health and pros and cons including understanding one's n=1 experiences of a certain approach. For the pure message that good health can be achieved by lifestyle changes, this series could be beneficial if one can wade through and discriminate among all the approaches described to select the best approach for the individual.
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Which is half the problem. From my observation, most people do not have the confidence, expertise, or patience to juggle all the competing information and arrive at what is right for them.
Another angle is how the beginning months of a vegetarian/vegan diet are known as the "honeymoon period" and people feel great. As described in the linked article, when things start to go bad, it is very difficult for a human to believe it could be the malnutrition, since they felt so good making the change.
In addition, principled defectors are speaking out about the longterm damage to their health, but they are small voices in the volume of press support and famous vegans who lie and claim they never eat animal foods, when it is their dirty secret that they do. Death threats are common when former vegans try to tell the truth. |