The 7 biggest myths about veganism

Let's get right to it, no fooling around. In today's short (meh) article, we're going to show you some myths and bullshit (as the title actually says) that are not only spread by vegans, but also by ignorant people. So you're going to learn a lot here today.

And if a vegan contradicts you, fuck him right back and then send him to me and I'll explain it to him, because not every vegan can be as smart as me.

1. "But fruit makes you fat! I can't be vegan!"

Oh, yeah, right, everybody says that, so they must be right, right? So tell me about all those obese people in Mecca eating Mc'bananas...

2. "Vegans are protein deficient."

That always gets me. When you return fire with the question of how much protein the human body - or they themselves - need, overwhelmingly no one has a clue. But the answer is simple. Vegans have plenty of protein if they care and know what they're eating.

And who doesn't do that in fitness, please, and hasn't for a long time.

If there is a deficiency of anything, even protein, it's only because of if one is not eating enough or under-eating (long-term not taking in an adequate number of calories for their goal and body), then it's hard and it's not veganism's fault.

Protein is everywhere. To a lesser or greater degree. Unless you're just advocating table white sugar and things like that.

You'll find all the background below the article. As well as a bonus who people can argue about amino acids. Feel free to discuss that more another time, but all the necessary AMKs are found in a plant-based diet if that's currently bothering anyone.

On the other hand - you'll hear this statement said or asked about protein from people who mostly go to the gym. From people who buy protein type supplements, protein bars, etc. month after month. looking for which one is best and cheapest so they can have "enough" protein, which they have an abundance of in their diet.

3. "After all, we need meat to survive!"

Back in the days when I wasn't vegan myself, this nonsense would never have occurred to me. Plain and simple, you don't need it, no matter how much you tell yourself you do. The human body has no need to ingest anything animalit's just something that society is trying to push into your heads and capitalize on your stupidity. But we won't debate that here, it's beyond the focus of the site.

Who would be more interested in a few studies, healthiness and the need for meat, can check out the nicely written article belowm this article in the list of sources, or a meta-analysis of studies on the healthiness or unhealthiness of meat right below it and judge for yourself.

Basically everywhere you go you just read how great meat is and what good it contains, whether one exercises or not. But unfortunately that's only half the truth. Nowhere do you see the rest, the harm to our bodies that is hidden in meat, heaven forbid meat products, and does to a person's health.

Eating meat all your life, the body, also thanks to evolution, somehow copes with it, but that does not mean it is healthy or good for the personIt is not good for humans, there are no such changes (you can also read this in the sources below - it is an interesting reading).

As one gets older, it starts to show. When? It depends on a lot and other factors, but on average it is people from 29-42 years old when something slowly breaks out. I write tentatively what has been observed.

Let's start simple. Cholesterol in meat does not do the human body much good, and increases the risk of both high cholesterol and cloggedblood vessels over time, leading to heart problems, obesity, diabetes, strokes and so on. Another nuisance is the animal protein we consume with it (For this issue, you can read or listen to the audio book The China Study or The China Study. Also interesting and discussed in more depth). And somehow all together it doesn't have the best effect on our health.

And refuting the American Dietetic Association is a very big mouthful even for the average reader.

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Basically, this association issued an evidence-based statement and concluded that a vegan diet, certainly a healthy vegan diet goodbuilt, is not only healthy and nutritionally balanced, but also that it is suitable at all stages of life, from birth to adulthood. It also prevents a host of "civilisation/certain" diseases.

4. "Cholesterol and fat from meat contributes to higher testosterone!/Cholesterol is a must!"

Animal fat only contributes to clogged blood vessels and diseases with thosewhich somehow can't happen on a plant-based diet (well, although...).

So what now? The correlation between dietary cholesterol intake and an increase in testosterone has not been proven. Rather, vegans have been shown to have some percentage (7%) higher levels of free TST and 23% higher levels of SHBG, or sex hormone binding globulin.

What exactly is this?

Sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) is a protein that formsin the liver that carries female and male sex hormones in the blood. The amount of it in the bloodstream depends on age, sex and the level of sex hormone production. SHBG testing is used primarily to assess the status of male sex hormones (androgens). In men, the subject of interest is their underproduction, in women, on the contrary, excess production.

When is the value of this parameter examined in men?

When determining the causes of infertility, erectile dysfunction, decreased sexual desire, enlargement of the mammary glands, hair loss.

And in women in infertility, disappearance of menstruation, excessive pubic hair, acne, anorexia.

So, and remember the meat being 'healthy' and what it does to your arteries from the last point? That's why I highlighted the word erection.

As the first cause in a man that something doesn't play, but feels healthy when he consumes liveanimal products is, yes, you guessed right, erectile dysfunction, that he just doesn't get hard anywhere. Doctors prescribe medication and there's peace of mind. But why deal with the aftermath when one can go right to the root of the problem and save on doctors, etc.?

How is that possible?

Well, if you don't give the body things to deal with and cause it to sufferin the body, then everything flows as it should, simply put. It has also been found that men on a vegan diet who have higher testosterone levels also have less cancer overall. Coincidence?

But back to cholesterol.

The human body makes all the cholesterol it needs in the liver itself. What a novelty.

Thanks to Messrs. Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein, who received the Nobel Prize for their discovery in 'Regulation of Cholesterol Metabolism in the Human Body', we know much more about cholesterol.

In fact, they discovered and demonstrated the ill effects on the body of high dietary cholesterol intake and also how to successfully reduce it and treat any diseases that may have already been induced. Also, when we take in cholesterol externally into our bodies, it essentially 'shuts down' our own production. What causes the excess? What about such clogged arteries in the picture?

The human body makes all the cholesterol it needs all by itself. What's new? Well, now you know. For more on this Nobel Prize winning discovery and the potential complications of dietary cholesterol intake, see below.

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5. "B12 is normally found in the diet."

You'll hear this crap from vegans (too). Yes, unfortunately. I've encountered a few, thankfully online, because otherwise I'd have to...

But to the problem. Vitamin B12 does not occur naturally in the normal diet of today's world! The fact that it's in meat is only because it has to be given to animals as a dietary supplement that you eat once it's filtered through someone's body. That makes sense.

For it is not normally found in meat, animals do not produce it, they must also ingest it.

The point is that B12 is in charge of one little bacterium, and it makes it in the soil, water, or in our intestines to some degree, or in our sra.... stools.

Well, since we're washing everything off and not eating ourstool or the soil from the garden or drink the dirty water by the river like a lion, so tough luck.

ICE! You'll be eating fortified foods with added vitamin B12! Simple, that. Or you'll get a supplement with B12.

And if someone suffers from a deficiency anyway (the doctor will find out, not you, because you may have trouble absorbing it yourselfB12 ingestion), which is not a problem for vegans, but for up to 39% of the US population, the last resort is injectable.

Like recently on an unnamed online magazine, it was reported that B12 is naturally in lentils and thus consumption is necessary.

I immediately wrote to them about it and there was no response, so hopefully they'll fix it. This is how misinformation spreads in the fitness world.

6. "We're carnivores!"

I could put this to the paragraph about the claim that humans need meat to survive, but this next one deserves a point all to itself.

Are you a lion for wanting meat? Just because you eat meat doesn't mean you're a carnivore. Ridiculous to me, but people really do claim and think that eating meat = carnivore.

So they've actually changed their body physiology, interesting.

(Why people eat it, more on that another time).

7. "Soy increases estrogen and leads to ''manboobs''!"

Interesting that the hormones in meat/milk don't interest people, which they should more. And meat in particular has been shown to lead to gynecomastia in various cases as well. But not just meat, other 'foods' too, which maybe another time.

The estrogen in meat/dairy is very similar to what the body makes itself, and also far more potent than from any plant.

Unlike the phytoestrogens in plants - soy beans for example - which don't affect your own estrogen levels in the body.

IF you don't gorge yourself from morning to night on nothing but soy and soy products and don't go overboard, you're fine. So far, only one person has been discovered with a soy-associated problem who has been eating this way for a long time and pouring soy and stuff like that in there really all the time.

So hopefully this has shed a little light to people about soy and the estrogen/phytoestrogen in them, and with a balanced diet they have nothing to worry about.

Unless benche doesn't make your goats grow, in which case....

And what does Filip #interruptedknee Grznarhave to say about veganism?

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Testimonials nice from start to finish:

1. Fruits make you fat. Meat and weight gain, or how to gain weight on meat/become obese (bad for most of the population, unless you compensate with exercise, but more on that another time)

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2. "Lack of protein"/amino acids

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3. "After all, we need meat to survive!" (correlation between meat and diabetes, etc.)

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(Don't worry about the pictures, you can read the whole study by tapping onthe study in google, don't be a lazy person like me with the pictures...)

4. Cholesterol, meat fat and TST

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5. What's up with the B12

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6. Are we carnivores or omnivores?

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This is hard for people to accept, but what's the big deal? Evidence, etc. and no one had to explain anything to me twice. Taking into account that veganism is mostly about something else, but that's probably not going to be discussed here.

7. 'Soy increases estrogen and leads to 'manboobs'!'

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Last word:

Of course the pictures just capture the general situation and I found them funny and it makes it a bit more enjoyable to read, there's nothing more behind it. The article is certainly not directed against the mass eating population, it just tries to show and exposethings that most people just don't have a clue about and educate themselves a bit on the subject. This article isn't trying to make people vegan, it's too short for that!

For the next piece on vegans and building muscle as a vegan, perhaps another time.

Article author: Lukas Greg

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