A vegan bodybuilding experiment: Joshua Knox at TEDxFremont 

SO TELL ME MY MACRO SPLIT FOR AN OPTIMUM CUT ON A COMPLETE PLANT BASED DIET

People go on a whole foods plant based diet for health reasons. You go vegan for the animals. So you can quit a whole foods diet but you never quit being vegan, it's a moral stance. It's extending a right to life to animals without exploitation.

Go vegan for animals, go vegan for the earth. that’s all there is to it 🌎

Vegans do it for the animals. If you are doing it for health, you are plant based.

This is great, your sister is awesome!!!😄. Most people actually go vegan for moral and ethical reason though, the health benefits are the bonus that comes along with a choice to be kind to Gods innocent creatures 🕊

Wow that’s amazing eat enough how do you mean. Thanks

Same.. haven't been sick since I turned to a plant based diet. It's amazing how having a cold was "common" but now not having a cold is something weird to me haha

@@christianmoose at last nature is the best thing we have🥺❤️❤️

Its been 9 years you probably must be dead by now

Annie Garcia Soy un cordobes vegano y algunos parientes y amigos lo ven con curiosidad otros son escépticos, Argentina y Uruguay quisas los peores paises del mundo para ser vegano

Marcos Battista Sisi, totalmente. Aunque de a poco la gente se va acostumbrando al veganismo. Hay que tener paciencia!

Annie Garcia En Colombia es igual, hace poco tuve una pelea con unos amigos por ese tema.

Annie Garcia Kudos to you for sticking with it! :)

Annie Garcia do you still have social pressure?

Pradhyumna Gupta good luck

Do it :-)

+Pradhyumna Gupta My grandparents are 104 and 98 respectively, still taking their grand grand children to school and all their life they have been meat eaters and no diseases whatsoever or any bad health or mental disorder. Perhaps its just something different and not meat or veg.

+Pradhyumna Gupta Could also be that your family just has some really good genes for growing old. Unprocessed meat on it's own usually isn't the culprit, but people who go/are vegan also tend to smoke less, drink less, and are more in shape. Those factors do play a major role

I agree that many factors affect our lives. I also believe that as long as we do not abuse what we eat drink consume we are capable of healthy and lengthy lives. Genes also play role, some people are less healthy therefore veg may apply to them. Plenty of factors... Its best to study for yourself and know what your body needs most.

Hey bro good luck! I coming on 10 yrs now feel amazing, do Kenta if research and wish u well on your journey!

Bad idea...

Follow up?

are you still vegan? @Zoltan

@@randyhollier Why? It’s supported by every Dietetic association in the world

How's it going, are you still vegan.

@@Chris-kr7gg Still vegan and loving it. Healthy and strong. I look way younger than I actually am.

@@redplayer89 what's your main food, do you eat legumes and grains etc, vegtables and fruit.

@@Chris-kr7gg I love eating tofu and rice. I also eat lentils, beans, veggies, fruits, nuts. Not hard getting your protein and calorie intake on a vegan diet. So much to eat. Replace meats with beans, lentils, and tofu for protein. Oatmeal also has a lot of protein. I make this huge veggie protein smoothie and I add all kinds of veggies, fruits, flax seeds, chia seeds, and a scoop of protein powder.

@@redplayer89 what's your take on phytic acid in beans, veg etc and the supposed inability to be an anti nutrient.

Eating clean? You do realize that means washing your food? In other words there is nothing special about it.

gosh, ur crazy,it is u who dont understand!!!!!let me educate u then, eat clean means no white sugar,no processed food,no white flour,no chemically-enhanced foods, no artificial ingredients,so ur body is clean,no junk!

sophia smith lol don't mind david. he's trolling!

sophia smith I get what you mean. I use healty lifestyle for living. Not only that I live a healty life, but I earn money living it. In other words what I eat is my number one priotiry. Eating clean is not a term. Eating organic, non procesed food is. Now what you eat depends on a sport you do. Not everyone requers the same amount of macronutrients. For example I eat 40% carbs 40% proteins and 20% fat. My carbs are mainly fruits when I need a quick energy boost and the rest is not white bread, but whole grains for example. My proteins are all top quialty. Poultry meat, fish, eggs, soy beans, any kind of beans, kale... And for fat I use fish oil also known as omega 3 there are more healty oils, but I hope you get the points. It's called eating healty, not eating clean.

Hi sophia just wondering what challenge you did. Was it the 30day veganeasy one?

It's a lot harder I guess, but you can find proteins in vegetables. Lot's off them, it's just that their amino acids are not as good, but they are enough. When your lifestyle is vegan, then I believe its not as hard. But from my curent perspective, it does seem hard to eat enough proteins using only vegan product, but not impossible. Keep it up! :)

everyone who body builds drink protein shakes

@@Monikainlove You more people going of protein shakes only eating naturally, some body builders ive watched for the couple of months. And they doing just fine

Rice and pea protein is just protein powder. All Omni gym goers I know supplement their protein with whey protein powder. Nothing to be ashamed of

Not the diet, what I find offensive is how they name call and seem to hate people that choose to eat meat.

@@glennbishopbishthemagish When you say that you’re saying that all vegans are like that. I know for a fact that not all meat eaters are the same and for that reason I don’t name call and I don’t hate. There are idiots in all groups but very few groups are populated by exclusively by idiots.

@@glennbishopbishthemagish Is your reaction to someone telling you they are a list of excuses why you aren't?

@@glennbishopbishthemagish I wouldn't make fun of anyone that wasn't vegan, it would just make being vegan appear in a negative light. Do you!

Hasn’t changed much in 6 years unfortunately. Luckily there are so many more options these days

like what?

Nice hope it goes well

+EllisEvolvedProductions. My main concern is that you seem to have a poor understanding of our language. "Vegan" means "vegan", yet you, somehow, are able to reduce that word to a "percentage" of animal intake. Strange days indeed. Good luck and thanks for sharing.

+EllisEvolvedProductions Don't forget to cut out eggs too! But it's not about cutting out, it's about what you can include in your new diet, that's the beauty of veganism, you begin to discover the real foods you were missing out. It's also important to replace all the meat with protein rich food such as beans, lentils, peas and other nutrient rich foods such as greens (kale, swisschard, collard green, etc). Here's an exhaustive list of all plant based food category: Fruit, vegetables, whole grains, legumes (beans, peas), nuts and seed.

ameagher2 thanks for your warm heart opinion, but how about you take your arrogance and pseudo-intelligence and kindly....go fuck yourself ;-) Thanks Felica

Exactly, industry types are running scared, when there really is no reason, as those farms with cows and all slaughter houses workers will have to be replaced with a plant based culture . I'ts not rocket science, and everyone will be healthier, our planets warming will be reduced along with going green and we'll save countless animals from suffering, than no human would ever wish on any fellow human.

@@MindsetsShift Speaking of something not needing mentioning. Apparently 95 people liked what I wrote 7 years ago.

@Alvin da champion Time flies, and the older you get the faster it goes.

What do you eat on a regular basis as a meal. I recently started going back to a gym, and wondering which vegan food have protein.

course you are

Great channel!!!

How long have you been vegan

@@joshuasmith7369 hey how is it going? you didn't ask me, but I would say grains, legumes, fruit, vegetables, nuts and seeds, B12. that's all you need

The china study book is a bit of a fraud, google Denise Minger, don't know why you think salt is 'bad for you full stop' it's an essential nutrient, that animals will risk their lives for. eggs and dairy don't seem likely to be a poison, unless you eat them as icecream, a recent epidemiological study correlated dairy with longer lifespan

Simon Long Of course there are people that want to and are trying to discredit The China Study, If you read it you will understand why. The ideas in the book criticize and threaten billion dollar industries. You can get enough sodium without having to sprinkle every meal with it. I've never heard of a salt free vegan that had a sodium deficiency! Eggs and dairy are poison. Eggs are a fast tract to heart disease and stroke, Dairy is potentially a fast track to everything from obesity, and diabetes to cancer. OF course there is positive nutritional information around about Eggs and Dairy. Their are billions of dollars behind these products and they sponsor studies and sponsor health & diet regulators. It really comes down to of you want to believe what the dairy industries with billions of dollars at sake want you to know about Dairy or if you believe independent information from people with no other interest other than a passion for nutrition and finding the truth. That and the fact that people tend to find any excuse to keep eating how they have their whole life and ignore anything the suggests it's wrong or that they should change even if it could save their life or just improve the quality of their life. nutritionfacts.org great information about eggs, dairy and other foods.

Simon Long Unfortunately, table salt usually has added compounds but even so, people tend to use way too much of it. Recently, I stopped using it and have introduced instead small bits of seaweed into my diet, primarily for the iodine. There is already plenty of sodium that occurs in the plants we eat. There is absolutely no need for table salt, it just forces your kidneys to work that much harder. As far as dairy, it's been scientifically proven to grow cancer cells. But, hey, go on believing the propaganda machine funded by the dairy industry. But don't forget that many of the industry watch dog agencies now allow members of industry to sit on their boards and push their agendas on the public. They fund all kinds of biased studies in their favor and not in your health's favor.

vulturnuszan what I believe is a common mistake is that people eat wrongly and they get problems, because nobody, unless you are a nutritionist, or an athlete, has a real cultureon the subject food. Then they take a radical decision, and jump on the vegan wagon, and since they eat way less calories, they drop weight and say "this is the right thing to do, look at what this did for me". If they were not overeating in the first place, they would not be like they were. Plus there are plenty of people that feel that there is this giant conspiracy of industries to sell their food, so they push it, and there a re a lot of people with an agenda of pushing it. but is really simple: our body evolved to to eat both vegetables and animals, point, if not, we would not have even possibility to digest a particular food. anyone has the right to adopt any lifestyle he/she wants, until he/she, damages the other person. One must always understand the difference between use and abuse, before pointing fingers to something and label it as "dangerous". we can even die for abusing water: if we drink too much we die, but you cannot say thaty water is bad right? it is bad if you drink too much,of it, not if you drink, same goes vith veggies and meats.

Frank Duse Yeah, that's all well and good, the whole moderation thing but science says otherwise. And, it proved the case for me, too, hence why on a vegan diet (more calories than before), I got rid of all my health issues while on a meat-based and dairy-based diet. While you believe you can bend the laws of nature, it's only a matter of time. How old are you?

How has it been now? :D

@@manuelmoreira8575 Still going...hopefully for life.

@@armaanpremjee146 do you take b12 supplement?

@@DonkeyFrogI don't. I do blood work and everything is normal. Even my protein levels.

@@armaanpremjee146 oh you will need to supplement b12, omega 3 algae, and replace normal salt with iodised salt.

good job sean! I hope you keep going that way, I'm very proud of you👏

Sean You didnt save shit. The animals that you would have eaten where still killed and someone else bought that meat.

That's terrible logic Adrian, it's about supply and demand.. The less demand for meat, the less animals will be killed. It's really as simple as that.

or more waste !!!

Yay keep it up!!

How long have you been vegan

@@Fernando-jy6gq I eat about 6-8 eggs a day for protein.

Me too, My body was bad when I was eating meat and carnivore diet including dairy. I switched to vegan and increased beans and peas for muscle building and it works. It’s been 4 months and I started to see changes, it’s definitely possible to build muscle on vegan diet. Everyone has their choice and hope everyone progresses in life.

***** I think he is offering an unusual side to being vegan which allows au to have big gains. But of course, what you say is valid. Nevertheless, it's great because he addresses the bodybuilding community.

I cured myself of cancer 40 years ago with vegan diet. I am now 72 and in great health. I still get comments about how fit i look. I rarely eat meat and no dairy. I know i do not need meat

@@herbbowler2461 wow, can you explain more, I want to atherosclerosis.

@@Chris-kr7gg The most common cause of arteriosclerosis is a lack of vitamin C. Without enough C we don't make or metabolize cologne which is an elastic protein. Cologne allows connective tissue stretch and rebound without damage. Without enough vitamin C and cologne the arteries are damaged from stretching with every heartbeat. As a result of the bodies attempt to heal the damage there is scar tissue. LDL sticks to that scar tissue and builds up. This is hardening and narrowing of the arteries. Eat your fruits and veggies

@@herbbowler2461 what about reversing it ?

Do you think veganism does not pollute the environment? 😂

Are you still vegan

Um, most East Asians are certainly not vegan.

Anthony Walker They do eat much less meat than we do (USA) but yeah, not vegan for sure.

Anthony Walker They surely eat almost every animal under the sun but the percentage of their diet, weight wise or calorie wise made up of meat is very low. No meat eating daily, at most once a week.

Yeah I have to disagree here. I've been to many asian countries and while here in the US we eat mainly beef, chicken and pork for meat, they eat many many different kinds of animals. They eat a lot of seafood too. In the Philippines pork is a daily staple. Maybe they eat less meat, but a lonng way from vegetarians and especially vegan!

DL_000 #chinastudy

Colonel Crush Jon Venus, Brian turner!!

rofl :D ..meats ARE the proteins ... just the opposite, plants are full of chemicals (oxalates, goitrogens, phytotoxins..) which inhibit nutrient & mineral absorption from any foods .. you can get really seriously sick (without supplementation)by eating only plant based diet...

please explain why the longest living population of scientifically studied people in the modern world are VEGAN then???

pitikuss You should eat whatever is the lowest in the food web, and that is producers which are basically plants. Animals and their products are high in the food web so they are polluted

pitikuss You should eat whatever is the lowest in the food web, and that is producers which are basically plants. Animals and their products are high in the food web so they are polluted

Geez Strangepete, I have seen the same comment from you VERBATIM on several different videos. I guess YT allows you to spam the same comment over and over, but really man, I know it's easier to do that, but how about some ACTUAL comments from you other than copy and pasting over and over.

ClickToPreview Yeah I know, I took the time to write that pretty long comment and I found like 10 vegan videos and copy pasted it to them hoping more people would read my sentiment that way :) Sorry for the annoyance.

ClickToPreview Cool user name!

hmmm maybe there's a correlation between caring for yourself and for animals?? nah, that just makes too much sense

That's a win of a comment! :-)

Does your diet include grains pulses legumes.

Lauren Vingilis Loved the quote , sounds really inspiring and makes for a good other reason to make me even more inclined towards a vegan lifestyle.

Lauren Vingilis Vegans can still eat sugar, refined and processed carbs, alcohol, nicotine, high fructose corn syrup...so veganism by itself doesn't do much to remove poisons at all.

Lions run away "shamefully"? lol I've seen lions take down buffalo and giraffes. Elephants and hippos? They are just significantly larger animals regardless of their diets. What an odd comparison to make.

Hey run away because they're smart enough not to get trampled or torn to shreds. What would YOU do if a hippo was chasing you

Your comment has no logic. Elephant makes proteins and fats from vegetables, lion eats others who make protein from vegetables. There is no connection between size or whatever. Different animals, different species, different adaptations. Looks like you can find logical connection between an airplane and a worm...

+R Emuna except V gains is counter productive. We have to add more love, help and vegies to this world, not criticism, shame and fight. Those lasts are typical of carnists.

aattitude Dreaming is free, don't stop yours man ;)

+aattitude Ya, he's a bit douchy, and thats fairly off putting to alot of people. Now go look at Jon Venus who has a completely different approach, infact he's the guy that inspired me to make the change from just vegitirian that I had been doing. I mean he's just so much nicer and non condensending, plus he's got a body that really shows his body building, gains ok he looks like he's in a good shape but he's not impressive looking either.

+AtlantisArch But... by saying that... aren't you criticizing vegan gains? His videos are well researched and he mainly attacks people who are selling bullshit fitness supplements or programs so its not like he is a bad person. He made me go vegan.

George Georgeman Criticism is a way to strengthen the target. Basic rebound effect. Just ignore what you want to fight and build a better alternative to attrack people in it rather than following the other way. (and yeah, guys making video criticising VGain are indeed making him stronger. "whatever good or bad things are people telling about you, the most important is that they are speaking about you")

Seems like it was the other way around. Still an improvement

so is your mom

Well, I'm convinced by all vegan arguments, but cancer is a very complicated and difficult subjet. We shouldn't be so positive on this point, I think... Vegan diet avoid animal suffering, and it is worthwhile.

cufflink44 It isn't impossible but it is much harder. If you eat a cup of lentils you may get 15 grams of bio-available protein versus a serving of chicken with about 35-40 grams of bio-available protein (both dependent upon how it is cooked). This means to get 0.8 grams per pound of weight you will have to consume more food as a vegan to get the protein (Ie: 160 g protein for 200 pound person roughly). It takes more food combining to get proper amino acids and high quality supplements. If you think about it you would have to eat 10 cups of lentils or kidney beans a day for that protein versus 4-5 servings of chicken (not well balanced but a decent analogy). A source if you are interested veganbodybuilding.com One issue I have with the supplements is if I have a Vega Sport Performance at 25 grams of protein then if I have 2 a day it is 50 grams but there are only 23 servings in the container. So you get about 11 days of protein for $45 so about $100 a month if you do one scoop on your off day. However, in the whey supplements you get 40 servings or more and about 20-30 grams on average of whey isolate for post workout. You can make one scoop post workout last a bit over a month and one scoop on off days. More than likely your food sources will be higher in protein if you do whey (also there is correlation though to kidney stress and high protein). Point is that is is easier and cheaper to hit that 160 gram of protein mark. To live that same person only needs about 65 grams a day but to build muscle you require more. Neither of these scenarios considered pre-workout supplements and BCAs which add another $80 a month roughly...but for a vegan it adds $100-$120 a month because the pre-workout supplements are in smaller servings per container typically. But if you are a vegan and don't mind $200 a month in supplements for vegan supplements and enjoy cooking then you can easily achieve a 16-18 inch arm naturally. With a lot of work you might get to 20 inches. I never seen a vegan yet with over 20 inch arms that was a vegan all the way. I am a vegan and I am in the 16-18 inch range but looking to get to 20 since I just recovered from a back injury and just hit the gym again 2 months ago from a 1 year break with nothing but interval cardio training and light resistant training. Even with my injury I can out lift many of my meat eating friends. Mind have you though I was a pescatarian before I had my back injury and was at 20 inch arms. I couldn't walk for 6 months and lost over 40 pounds of muscle in the year. I did the interval training for about a year but never picked up weights until 2 months ago but now I am at the same weight on lifting (bench press, barbell curl, etc) as I used to be when I ate fish but the gains are not like they use to be now that I am vegan. However, even though I am smaller now I do feel healthier.

cufflink44 try feeding your dog on it before you try it on yourself

+Vegans Are Monkeys so what.

+Vegans Are Monkeys so what.

***** That's a fact. What's facing human kind is the consecuence of being concious of our desires and unconcious of other's well being, including other humans. The guy on the video is ok, he's trying to make the vegan thing attractive to masses, but we all know that real changes happend out of ideas, of principles, not a cool trend.

***** I care about all animals but I don;t care about you

+Felipe Montoya Get over it.

Tayler Ralph On what? why should I? why shouldn't you get ON it?

+Felipe Montoya Whether we make it about us or not, it's still a contributing factor of people not eating meat. It doesn't matter what the reasoning may be; pollution purposes, a healthier lifestyle, or for the benefit of the animals, it doesn't matter. All that matters is that people are contributing towards this effort.

in that Case You are Fool, My Sir !

Jesse Kim roids

*whew*. doesn't matter I dont do bodybuilding lol

Creatine is steroids so as long as ur not taking that you're good

christian kim you trolling? If not, read some research articles

Not sure if u got ur awnser but no steroids

+Fennec Probably shifting back and forward between plant-based (vegan) and vegetarian.

Noticed that to. What does he mean?

+Jesus Hitler I thought animal based foods of any kind where bad. Does not eating meat make you a more healthy eater?

+Fennec I wonder if he meant "not only plant-based, but mostly vegan," referring more to the rest of the vegan ethic.

+Jesus Hitler Fish can be really high in cholesterol, sometimes more so than red meat. And the protien from fish still makes our blood acidic. TLDR: Fish isn't that healthy.

A significant segment of our ancestors lived well into their elderly years. You need to stop using average life expectancy statistics to bolster the vegan argument. Once 15, the AVERAGE life expectancy of Paleo man was 54. And that was without the benefit of modern medicine and knowledge of hygiene.

Primal Vegan Many of the centenarians are/were omnivorous...

***** ALL of them are/were omnivores. What are you trying to say?

Primal Vegan ? I'm saying that the consumption of meat is of no detriment to our health, the centenarians have proven it. If we have a balanced diet free from products produced by intensive, industrial, antibiotic-filled methods, i don't see why it should be harmful to us.

***** I agree with you... I'm not sure why you addressed me with your comment.

THANK YOU! People are so duped into believing today's pyramid typical American diet. Your stomach delivers cholesterol and fats straight to you heart. We stick to healthy grass fed cows butter/beef, mct/coconut/cod/avocado oils + non-rancid olive oil.

and he looks more like a chubby guy than a bodybuilder to me

***** No you are wrong. Your body only makes about 85% of what you need and eating more only eases the tax of making it for itself. Please lay off the koolaide and giving broken "facts"

***** "Mother Nature doesn't leave it up to humans to get whatever they need from diet alone." Have you ever heard of Vitamin C? EFAs? EAAs? Minerals? All of those come from diet alone. The human body can't produce them. Whoever wrote that sentence should be fired, because it's entirely untrue. Also, since the body has the ability to regulate cholesterol, does dietary cholesterol even matter? I mean, if it can increase or decrease cholesterol production to compensate for a deficiency or surplus, why doesn't everyone have perfect cholesterol numbers?

JJ J

Dude, there are several professional body builders who are pure vegans and quite successful but they know what they're doing. It seems your friends need some mentoring.

1too3fore can you gimme some names? Plus, are they Insuline, HGH and Testosterone supplementation Free?

Frank Duse try greatveganathletes dot com for a list of some names...

+1too3fore thank you. Seen the page: I'll go with the first pages as an example. Baboumian: strongman of modest level, never qualified for any major strongman competition, steroid user. Jim Morris: I met the guy, sweet human being, good tesults in his senior co petition class, uses steroids. Carl Lewis: legendary, but when he was active and built his name he was not even vegetarian, no contest. So far two athletes who are not and never were top level being Vegan, and one that was not vegan when he was at the top. Mac Danzig was top level before he retired, but not being Vegan. The only top level that remained vegan during his top level period I see in the next pages, is Vlad Ixel. So far being vegan gave no real edge if that was the purpose, in fact if there was not "something else"involved in the training routine" results would have been even less that decent.

Frank Duse You should give this feedback to the owner of the web page.

Mckinley Walker, jr you wont regret it! 🖒

Well, you know what boys are like. It was probably a dare. But also, I firmly believe that our food is getting much less nutritious as our farms focus on volume, aesthetic beauty and 'McDonaldified' bland flavour over taste and (I believe therefore) nutrition, So maybe a vegan diet is starting to make more sense these days...

Just leave out the "meat" (and all animal products) and we're fine with all the rest. "Health conscious" includes better spiritual (and/or moral/ethical) health. Slaughterhouses have a place in that? No.

Extreme? Eating and drinking respecting living things, the environment, and our bodies can not be considered extreme. The question everyone should ask ets "Why I'm not Vegan?"

sylvain pistolet Veganism is not the healthiest choice for everyone, not even for most. That's a good reason not to be vegan.

"Is a bowl of sugar somehow more nutritious than a bowl of grass fed liver? Is pasta somehow good yet butter bad for a t2 diabetic?" YES!!!!! You haven't learned this yet??? It's like saying "some people can live well on a 3 dishes of feces per day, and some people need to eat actual food." It's not true. Animal proteins are TOXIC. If something is poisoning you, you don't keep eating it! What don't you understand? Besides, 1. nobody eats an entire bowl of sugar. And nobody said that consuming that much sugar is GOOD for you. But it's better than eating liver, PERIOD. 2. Diabetes is CURED by going Vegan. CURED. Not "remission", or "mitigated" or whatever term you want to call it when something is slightly better. CURED. "Some people can live quite well on a vegan diet, some get unwell" This is uninformed crap, perpetuated by people who want to justify continuing an unbelievably destructive and self-destructive activity solely because of the physical pleasure it gives them. The truth is that people who stop eating some items and don't know how to cover all their nutritional bases end up eating a ton of processed garbage and get sick. THAT'S NOT VEGANISM. Real Vegans eat a ton of healthy food and don't get sick from it. If they end up deficient in ANYTHING they just add that thing to their diet. This is all accomplished without resorting to animal substances. This is because when people are interested in Veganism for the right reasons, they take the time to study what they need from their food and why. Learn actual science to find out why the human body is NOT that of an omnivore and why animal proteins, fat and cholesterol is toxic to the human body. You can do this by studying (I would suggest an unbiased site like Wikipedia if you don't have access to medical studies and books) terms like herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, frugivore, proteins, amino acids, cholesterol, phytosterols, ptyalin, lyososmes, B12, Uricase, SCFAs, heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, obesity, osteoporosis, Crohn's disease, and any info here (especially "Section 2:): facebook.com/squeezeplay/posts/10201294713023049

Colin Wright Whole food diets cure people of disease all the time, both PB and omni. Quit the cherry-picked observations. No, sugar is not more nutritious than liver. And yes, butter is better than pasta for a Type II diabetic. These facts are quantifiable, nutrition content is quantifiable. Animal protein is NOT toxic... ~sigh~ It's no wonder people hate us so much. Veganism is an entire ideology and one can easily be a junk-food vegan as long as you avoid animal foods. This doesn't make veganism healthy. You don't need special term for it. A vegetarian eats only plants. That's pretty straight-forward. That doesn't necessarily equal good health.

Your name is "Primal Vegan" but why did you use that name? Do you believe that Veganism is somehow a fad or something you need to "follow" for health reasons? I really am wondering. You don't know anything about bio-chemistry, obviously, judging even by something as simple as the fact that you don't know that it's not "animal protein." It's "proteinS" with an s on the end. Animal proteins are absolutely toxic. No amount of you sighing is going to change that scientific fact. Do some research and learn what the anatomical differences between an herbivore, a carnivore, an omnivore, and a human being is. "Primal Vegan" MY ASS.

I never mentioned grammar. The fact is, if you don't know that it's proteinS with an s on the end, you have no understanding of bio-chemistry and therefore, your opinion on that subject is irrelevant. Study some actual science and then we'll talk.

Likewise, we spent the majority of our evolution in Africa. We are all fundamentally african in origin and therefore have a warm weather heritage. What foods are common in Africa? modern hunter gatherers and societies in Africa still survive off A lot of Tubers, Wild grains (When crops fail ,they are still widely used) Vegetables, fruits, and game.

joseph jacovino Hi Joseph, the harsher climate thing was your idea but you just contradicted it. My point was that before agriculture, people relied on animal fats and some protein for fuel as natural carbohydrates were not in abundance apart from some very short seasonal periods. The carbs that were available would have been treasured because they would not have been available all year round. If humans had to rely solely on carbohydrates from plants we would all be dead without food for a couple of days. I liked how you emphasised Vegetables and Wild grains etc, but game? how about Animal Flesh. What was your point again?

Again, i disagree here. I'm arguing that Carbs were a reliable source of energy in many climates. Granted they may not have been Cereal grains, but many wild foods are really exciting multi use foods, such as Sea kale. The key, in my opinion is that these groups did not rely on any one food, and would often move from resource to resource. Certain foods, such as Wild wheat, Acorns, Pulses seemed to be extremely reliable in the historical record, and started to be stockpiled in Paleolithic "Silos" in these early camp sites in the Middle east. One in theory is actually able to gather enough wild wheat by hand in several weeks to feed a family for a year, and this is today.

I can't disagree that people have always found nutrition in many varied forms but this does nothing to establish that these people that collected Acorns would have avoided animal products if presented with the opportunity. There is valuable nutrition in some animal products and to deny this is will full ignorance. But we are still free to choose what we eat, so I wish you well in whatever your choices are.

Yeah, i agree. Meat was Definitely on the menu, and one cannot contest this. I suppose i big beef with some Paleo authors is their over emphasis on meat consumption. Certainly some groups ate more meat than others. Meat would provide something that is generally rare in plants- heavy stores of fat. In a struggle for survival i feel our ancestors wouldn't have minded getting a little extra body fat.

Plants have a lower energy density than meat, so you simply have to eat a greater volume of food.

Do it the right way Manato by eating the right ratio of protien (Rice+beans) simple as that. 60-Million Mexicans in America couldn't be wrong...and they are growing strong (unfortunately).

Kimberly Snyder CN, is all lean muscle. My man grew up vegan and didn't loose strength, exact opposite. A couple months would mean you feel weak because of all the toxins leaving your body and seeping out to your bloodstream. You make it past the transition phase. NO substitutes, like pills or powders.

We're even because you baffle me; I wonder which branch of animal ag is your vested interest. Call me overly skeptical, but your claims of weakness from eating plant foods just don't ring true. There are plenty of calorie dense, protein rich non-animal foods like bananas and walnuts. Vegans can be extremely fit and strong if they work at it, same as anyone else, better in fact because their systems are free of dead, abused, slaughtered, innocents, thereby much cleaner in body and spirit.

***** well, i can understand the vegan mindset, trying to be spiritually clean and innocent. That was appealing to me too. Who doesn't want to be innocent right. That's why i tried it in the first place. And after it didn't work out the first time, i tried it again with the same results. So far my personal experience. I've been experimenting with nutrition for the last 7 years. I tried low carb high protein low fat, high carb high protein low fat, high carb low protein low fat. Transitionphase is always great but none of these were sustainable. Now i am on the ketogenic diet, the one diet i've never tried before because it did not appeal to me and it's said that it's unhealthy. But i've never felt so good for the past 10 years. Maybe you all got it wrong.

This is TEDx. Not the same thing at all.

I hesitated but you motivated me to upvote this talk. Thanks.

Technology, Entertainment, Design. TED. So thats what these lectures are. And i'm sorry you wasted 5 minutes of your precious time... I'm sure you could have been spending that time waiting.

Valentin Tihomirov No worries, I cancelled that out with a down-vote. ;-)

I was laughing a bit but then I remembered that it's TEDx it even says it's sponsored independently or something

How's things going ?

Because of health and ethics

Dumbass^

***** Don't speak to yourself like that!

***** Fear

1) Morality and compassion 2) Health 3) Trying the whole spectrum of diets

+Axl N With lots of cancer, heart disease and diabetes.

you're fucking ignorant and dumb bro. Protein is Protein and calories are calories. Tons of people get enough calories and protein and do just fine

+Josh Samuel Your belief that food is only macronutrients and calories show that you are the ignorant here.

There is NO such thing as low or no cholesterol meat !!! Lean meat might be low in fat, but a small 3 oz. serving of skinless roasted chicken contains between 70 mg and 80 mg of dietary cholesterol. That is around 25-28% of a daily limit. Competitive bodybuilders take steroids, it ain't the 6 piece and fish making them big.

geneva1999 Dude, you can literally eat a pound of skinless chicken breast and get 70 mg's of cholesterol. That's absolutely a low cholesterol meat.

Check a nutrition label, for your own sake!!!

geneva1999 I'm a bodybuilder and a nutritionist, I know. Now, I'm done giving you a free course on nutrition. So demonize meat, eat carbs only when there is a full moon while standing on your head. I could care less. Peace!

www.livestrong.com/article/424979-is-chicken-high-in-cholesterol/

So, even though he supposedly lost 35 pounds of muscle mass, according to you, he still gained in strength? How do you explain that?

he didn't gain strength ; even if you loose fat you lose strength,

je187u Did you watch the video?

well i quoted from it ... :)

lmao he lost all his gains man...damn shame...