A vegetarian diet can be very harmful for your health!

January 12, 2019

Nutrient Deficiencies Inherent in the Vegan/Vegetarian Diet

Nutrients We Need Animal Foods For:

Vitamin A
Vitamin D
Vitamin K2
Vitamin B12
Vitamin B6
Zinc

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When Weston Price traveled to the South Sea Islands of the Pacific, he hoped to find “plants or fruits which together, without the use of animal products, were capable of providing all of the requirements of the body for growth and for maintenance of good health and a high state of physical efficiency.”

He was disappointed. On the island of Viti Levu, he instead found inland-dwelling groups relying largely on plant products who found it so essential to consume shellfish at least once every few months that they would trade plant foods from the mountains for shellfish with coast-dwelling groups even when these groups were at war with each other. Shellfish are especially dense in animal-based nutrients.

One serving of clams per month provides the same amount of vitamin B12 as two servings of salmon per week. One serving of oysters per week likewise provides the same amount of zinc as a quarter pound of beef per day.

People who wish to minimize their intake of animal products would do best to consume small amounts of shellfish to obtain these nutrients. For those who do not wish to eat shellfish, the requirement for animal products might be much higher.

Wondrous Roots Case Studies of Health Problems Associated with a Vegetarian Diet

Caucasian Woman

From my Client Report:

You are a woman of 43 years, appearing to be in good health overall. You are married and the mother of a young daughter. You are a medical doctor and currently work for an non-profit organization in the city. Your daily life is very demanding, and your work requires frequent travel.

You are a very disciplined person in your lifestyle habits. Two years ago you adopted a vegan diet that is mostly raw. You really enjoy the foods you eat on a daily basis, and the thought of heavier food does not appeal to you.

Initially, when you began this clean diet, you felt fabulous, but later you began to experience gas and bloating, some constipation, and changes in your energy level – less energy, and, as you put it, “general malaise.”

Hispanic Man

From my Client Report:

You are a married man of 28 years, appearing in to be in good health overall.

However, you comment that you are “sick and tired of being sick and tired.” You feel as though your energy could be better. You sleep well but do not feel rested. Your list of health concerns at present includes:

· Fatigue

· Digestive issues x 15 years

· Halitosis, longstanding

· Acne

· Low libido

· Memory difficulty

· Dandruff

Case #2 and Case #3 are Married: Comments after rounding out their vegan/vegetarian diet with supplements .....

Hispanic Woman

From my Client Report:

You are a woman of 30 years, married, and appearing to be in good health overall. You mention digestive issues and state that you would like to be better informed regarding how to be more healthy in general. During our interview, other concerns that were mentioned include:

· Short-term memory, 3 years

· Irregular periods

· Significantly decreased libido

· Always "cold"

· Sinus pressure, mucus

· “Weak bones” at times painful bones; tendinitis, joint pains.

· Chronic gas/indigestion –

· Headaches

"Have to say, I was a little concern at the beginning with so many pills to take as supplements to our diet, but since we have started taking them, we feel so much better!!!!"

Not-so-wondrous-roots after all!

The American Vegetarian Society was founded in 1850 by Sylvester Graham (1794- 1851), an early advocate of dietary reform in United States and the inventor of Graham bread, made from chemical-free unsifted flour.

Highly influential, Graham promoted vegetarianism and a high-fiber diet as a cure for alcoholism and lust. Graham preached that an unhealthy diet (one containing the confounding variables of meat and white flour) stimulated excessive sexual desire, which irritated the body and caused disease.

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John Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943) followed in Graham’s footsteps. Inventor of corn flakes and a process for making peanut butter, Kellogg advocated a high-fiber vegetarian diet to combat the twin evils of constipation and “natural urges.” Kellogg preached against sexual activity even in marriage.

Today we recognize the demonization and suppression of “natural urges” as a recipe for the pathological expression thereof; in fact we’d probably label Graham and Kellogg as nut cases suffering from serious insecurities.

But the diet proposed to accomplish their goal of character building and social piety is still with us, enshrined, in fact, in the government-sanctioned food pyramid based on grains, vegetables and fruits with the addition of small amounts of lowfat animal foods.

Lop off the top of the pyramid and you have the vegan diet, still promoted with religious fervor even though its original dogmatic basis has been forgotten. The language of moral rectitude still lurks in the vegetarian arguments of sexually liberated New Age youth.