Another Instagram Mom Promotes a Dangerous Diet for Kids 

‘It kills them slowly’ isn’t that what life is… dying slowly..

the unfortunate misspelling of "coconut" as "cocnut" on the nori recipe got a real giggle out of me

It sounds like somebody told her "you can do it, you can write a book, you ca do ANYTHING" and she took it to heart.

There's a great book called "catching fire: how cooking made us human" that details how we evolved since we began cooking food, particularly to benefit from cooked foods not only in terms of digesting it but also in terms of cognitive development, communication and socialization. I think some vegans want to claim that cooked foods are unnatural because then we can avoid the whole "cooking meat" debacle. Because admitting that meat isn't unnatural somehow contradicts veganism? As if we can't choose veganism for ethics without dramatic claims that eating anything other than bananas and figs will kill us? It's so annoying that this is what people think of when they hear veganism.

Regarding iodine, I would never ever rely on sea vegetables in general. The iodine content varies wildly depending on where these are harvested and good luck figuring out how much iodine are in your particular sheets of nori. On the flip side, you can overdose on iodine from sea vegetables. Iodized salt or supplements are just the simplest and easily measurable way to know you're meeting your needs

The volume thing really gets to me. She doesn’t even consider that most children do not WANT to eat so much food at one time they constantly feel like they have this horribly bloated tummy or running to the bathroom with diarrhea. You are training your child from the start to NOT trust their own body to tell themselves that they are full. They MUsT eat a huge quantity every time in order to live. So unhealthy!!!

One thing to remind yourself about older kids in strollers is that there are invisible physical issues. My 4 year old has low muscle tone and tires very easily. We wouldn't be able to go out for long periods of time without a stroller or wagon.

It is absolutely chilling knowing that there is going to be at least one child out there who's health and well-being will be negatively impacted by the decisions their impressionable parents made based off of false information they found on the Internet.

She has a PhD in self importance and lots of mommy and daddy participation prizes.

Ordered the book you recommended straight away. Twins arriving in 3-4 weeks 🤞. Also thanks for previous mentions of choline: have been taking it since trying to get pregnant thanks to you!:)

Always thankful to see you talking about this type of stuff. It’s so dangerous and infuriating it’s allowed to exist on social media imo. That type of lifestyle has literally killed children

Mad love and respect for you always keeping it real. These ppl need to be called out!

I would put her in the same category as flat earthers or people telling me reptilian aliens rule the world.

Nah, anyone who has only carried one pregnancy does not get to make grand pronouncements about how to make sure your own experience is as magical as hers. I was so comfortable and healthy with my first that I was allowed to go TWO WEEKS overdue. It didn’t phase me for a moment. My second pregnancy was the inverse; the first trimester left me feeling like I was going to crawl out of my own skin and I spent many nights considering if I wanted to terminate because I was so sick and miserable the whole time.

I love these kind of videos! 💙 I have directed a few misguided friends to your videos like these when I’ve seen them get too deep into IG accounts like hers.

It's terrifying how much we can put the human body through and end up with life threatening results later on in life.

Okay right off the back as someone who suffered TERRIBLY with sciatica and not being able to eat due to feeling FULL all the time while pregnant how is that due to my health from what I’m eating??? No, it was because i worked a kitchen job and was lifting heavy stuff and bending over hundreds of times in a shift and my shifts were 12hrs long.

I hate to say it, but this is the kind of diet that gets the anti-vegan people hating on us vegans. It is just not sound.

I'm starting to think that raw purists either suck at cooking or hate doing it and that's why they only recommend raw food.

Nature didn't even create oranges. Humans did. 😄 They're a cross between a pomelo and a mandarin.

Having the training contractions get super rhythmic in your 6th or 7th month is really scary, man I feel ya. My nurses all went "oh... damn... those are harsh, you sure they dont hurt? Thats bad, theyre not supposed to act up like that" and I was terrified.

On strollers. My kids are 4 and 7 months. We walk EVERYWHERE. I usually put the baby in the stroller on the way out and bring the carrier with me for when I need to use the stroller as a grocery transporter etc. or when the older one is EXHAUSTED and being able to wheel a sleeping 4 year old and carry the baby is a life saver. Would love to be able to go places in a car sometimes, but it doesn’t make sense where we live.

Baby shits are awful. But can you imagine raw vegan foodist baby shits. 🤢🤢🤢 So watery.

Love this video, thank you for always being real ✌🏼

Our favourite raw foodiest commenter here will have a field day with this one! Hi, my friend. 👋 Cooked food kills, etc.... poor delusional Swazy, etc... Killing the children with cooked food, etc...

The pendulum will swing to the other extreme soon and she’ll be on a animal-only diet of eggs, raw milk, and “orangic local blah blah” meat

love the new setup, also the mic sounds great!

I’m always confused by people who say cooking the food gets rid of the nutrients, but use a juicer. The juicer removes one of the most important parts of the fruit (fiber).

I would love a video about that plant-based babies and toddlers ebook and any other info on vegan parenting. Thanks!!

Saying strollers are wheelchairs for babies makes me really uncomfortable... Wheelchairs are stigmatized enough as it is. As you said, many adults struggle with back/ shoulder pain or may not be mobile themselves. If you have a load of groceries or a bag full of diapers and snacks, how are you going to carry a baby too? Smh lol

im not vegan.....but i didnt know their are vegan haters that dedicate their time throwing darts at ppl who changed their lives on this diet.

Carriers are what saved my sanity with three little ones. I couldn't take three little ones grocery shopping without being able to have one strapped to me. So I think it just depends on the individual family.

Animals in nature don't eat cooked foods. They also don't eat foods that are the product of selective breeding. If raw vegans wanted to be consistent; they would be out there foraging for food. Good luck trying to get enough calories just foraging. I think the only "natural" produce I have seen at a grocery store is dandelion greens and wild harvested mushrooms. The rest is the product of selective breeding. You should do reels of you trying new vegan foods. So we see your first reaction to them.

How much more does a baby move in a wrap compared to a stroller ??? A wrapped child still isn’t walking on it’s own ??????

So glad you made this video. I used to follow this woman, but unfollowed a while ago. It’s hard because I want to follow these people for salad ideas or other recipes but have to unfollow often because they just share a lot of crazy stuff. I remember when she told her daughter she’s silly for requesting avocado toast for breakfast that foods should follow a certain order and first you eat juicy fruits and salads and avocado toast comes later in that order. DELUSIONAL

Thanks for sharing. I have been a whole food ethical vegan for over 25 years. For several years I was eating 100% raw. I felt terrific and had lots of energy. However, I started adding some cooked food (sweet potatoes, beans) into my diet to put on more weight and to get more iron, and to have more options when travelling. I do not think a mostly fruit diet is healthy, but many humans do eat this way.Raw Christina is wonderful promoting eating more raw, and that does not equal that she is a perfect human, none of us are. However, I do believe that if humans would eat 50% raw plants every day, we would be much healthier.

Reels are ok but please, shorts on yt are super annoying :(

These people making health advice with zero credentials should be banned from social media. So that is, the majority of influencers😄

I always thoughts collards had to be stewed to be edible 🤣

I would avoid strollers just because it’s boring to be in a stroller if you can already walk, and it’s awkward when you can’t walk yet because you can not properly interact with the parent/adult pushing you along. It depends on the configuration if the stroller but especially if the baby faces forward, the adult won’t see their small expressions and where they turn their head and what they’re noticing. When you’re a baby and you’re being carried close to your parent’s head, the parent sees whatever direction you’re looking and is able to guess what you’re looking at, and they start to talk about it and explain it for you. You learn anything you can pick up from language at that point, but more importantly you learn about how humans can notice what other humans are paying attention to and respond accordingly. And when the adult talks about things that you found scary or startling, or unusual things that you weren’t sure what to think about, you’re learning about how to stay calm and also about how an experienced human responds to different situations and how they use their face and voice to mirror the emotions that you experience, or how they express the emotions that they experience themselves. A lot of important learning happens during times when many babies are in strollers and don’t necessarily have access to the parent’s immediate feedback on things like that. (And yeah, parents do that stuff for their babies when they’re not on any ‘outing’, but I’m thinking of everyday things like grocery shopping where you’re going out and encountering a lot of different things and people. I see babies in those situations a lot who don’t seem to be getting any feedback from the parents/adults with them.) Obviously people should do whatever they need to do, if you have to walk long distances to get groceries or you have back pain then I’m not going to complain that your baby is in a stroller. I just wanted to say that there are more reasons to not like strollers than just being overly paranoid that they won’t develop properly unless they walk everywhere.

"She fucking sucks!" .. I lost my marbles

How do these people get by with writing health and nutrition books without credentials ? Scary !

I'd like to see her try and eat a banana the way nature intended. They're mostly seeds.

I'd love to see reels of like quick meal ideas or exercise tips or just vlog-like what I ate todays or what I did todays or trying a new vegan food. You could also post reels on pregnancy tips for other expecting moms and vegan pregnancy tips also

Can we have a video of you reviewing Freelee’s recent video reviewing Abbey Sharp? I’m very curious to hear your thoughts! 😌

omg you talking about video replies on youtube woke something up in my brain LMAOO i miss annotations too, they were so colourful!

Holy shit she admitted to doing raspberry leaf during pregnancy?! Yeah no, delete her books. Lmao

The lack of editing and spellcheck in her books would drive me made.

Where can I post a review of her ebooks? I had a nightmare experience with her. She’s truly a terrible entrepreneur with horrific followup.

i think you should do a positive video again. please take a look at "sweet greens vegan"'s channel, she's such a dear and cooks wonderful meals. i think you would really enjoy her content. i think we can use some wholesome content for once! keep up the good work!

Glad you’re not on tik tok! Haven’t gotten myself on there and there are too many apps to keep up w. But now I will happily make sure to watch all your reels to help u make the bonus! Thanks for another great video.

The RU-vid algorithm sucks. This channel is proof of this 😅

Please make a video about the book! Starting food with my 5 month old and stressed about what that will look like in the future 😅

We’ve modified fruits so far from their natural occurring state, so no, the orange isn’t perfect. Although we should eat them, sure.

As someone with a sloth metabolism, I would LOVE it if cooked foods lost their ability to provide energy lollll

Thank you for your pregnancy videos, I’m loving them ❤️ currently almost up to a year TTC with 2 miscarriages :( But I still love watching these kinds of videos ❤️

Why do you guys care what she feeds her child. If she was feeding her McDonald nuggets half of you wouldn’t have anything to say. Everyone does the best they can, chill on the judgement!!!

I really followed her very hard for about a year, I was in her facebook group too. She is promoting something sooo unrealistic and tried to make us pay $1000s a month for this diet. Her daughter lives off lots of juices and smoothies. I have her books from like a raw vegan bundle I bought and the kid one was terrifying!!

Nature is alive. I don’t get how people are so uptight about insulting religions but have no problem with insulting other types of beliefs.

Nature didn’t “make orange perfectly”. Orange is a hybrid. People made it and then perfected it.

I sometime put my 3.5 year old in a stroller - if he is ill and I want to go for a walk and for him to get some fresh air; If I want to walk somewhere which is too far away and I know he will get tired. We’re in UK so you can walk places 😄 So no one judge even if you see an older kid in a stroller, you don’t know why he’s in there 😅

Fully thought you were going to stop at 'please don't feed your children' but then you finished the sentence!

Love the new office.

What I like about your criticism is your legitimate issues like liquid-rich diets for small tummies or breastfeeding as the only good nutrition for kids while tons of moms struggle without any explainable reason. Not to mention picky kids or neurodivergent kids that just won't eat many raw foods for only some foods. Good luck trying to feed them according to a head-heavy diet style.

Question: most raw vegans seem to be heavily focused on fruit/vegetables - obviously. What do they think about raw grains? I mean, flour is still raw, as are oat flakes or dried (sweet) corn. Not sure how you would use them without baking/cooking, but do they use / eat those?

One of her reels showed up on my timeline a couple of days ago actually. It pissed me off. Actually, what pissed me off was how many comments there were from other moms raving about raw for kids. In one of her replies she said that her child will “sometimes have cooked foods”. If you can’t be well informed enough to feed your child a nutritious. Vegan meal than just don’t.

Making women who have had difficult pregnancies that it was their fault because they didn't eat well enough reminds me of Freelee saying the same thing about a woman's miscarriage. SO SHITTY! "Go shit in the woods" LOL Anywho... thank you for all the hard work and research you put into your videos!

Hey! Thank you so much for posting this video… Can’t believe how much diet culture has impacted me and the way I feed my toddler. They promote a lot of no foods and it’s very limiting. Love to see what my toddler eats from you plus maybe a review on other popular vegan community like medical medium

Also not to mention for 12:30, we have made fruit and veg to fit us. bananas used to be 90% seeds, avocados were tiny and mostly stone. We genetically modified them so they are hardly perfect design.

Yay for koala trivia ♡

I think what this woman says about “food combining” is ridiculous, though I do think she’s wonderful, has wonderful recipes, and eats a beautiful and colorful and healthy diet, and you can trust she and her child eat enough vitamins and minerals because they have huge green juices and large salads with many greens, and they also eat seeds, plus her daughter sometimes eats cooked foods like quinoa and legumes. If someone manages to eat a lot of tahini and leafy greens and kelp noodles and chia seeds they can get a lot of calcium, and if they eat brazil nuts they can get a lot of selenium, but it’s a problem if their diet isn’t well planned.

What did they do about vitamin K before the shot was invented ? I'm curious, it's fascinating

"Shit in the woods" 🤣

19:57 … I don’t want to sound snarky, but I love the “cred bell pepper” in the recipe here 😂😂😂 (and BTW I used to be a proofreader, so I’m allowed to…)

Why hating on Raw and Radiant? Her daughter is extremely healthy, vibrant and active.

Oh dear, that "author" sounds like one of those anti-maskers saying "If we were intended to wear masks, we would have grown one / God would have given uns one" while walking around with shoes, glasses and nice warm winter coats. 🤦‍♀

I love these videos! These people that think raw is law is so frustrating! I hear it all the time how cooked food is poison!! Thank you for your video.

Love this video but also, I feel you on the Braxton Hicks super early. I'm on my fourth pregnancy and gosh these are the worst ever

Reminder about making a video reviewing the vegan nutrition for kid book 😉

My son is almost 5 and I still put him in the cart when we're at the grocery store. He's autistic and he will elope if I don't have him somewhat restrained.

If anyones looking for book recommendations for feeding babies and prenatal nutrition, read 'Beautiful Babies' by Kristen Michaelis.

Another question... do (raw)vegans get tested for B-streptococci during pregnancy? And if tested positive would they accept the treatment (antibotics)? Or does that go into the "no vaccines, no vitamin K" category? info: B-streptococci are very dangerous for newborns and they can get infected during birth if the mother has them. So where I live testing is standard and treatment is "highly recommended". They are not really a problem for the mother herself though so an 80-year-old woman wouldn't be recommended treatment because there is very low chance that she will give birth any time soon^^

Random but do you know what happened to miyoko's cheddar and pepperjack cheeses? they seem to have been discontinued but i can't figure out why or what happened.

I wouldn't have survived this diet...not only was I a really picky eater my portion were also half of that of other children. My brother and I shared meals for a looong time at restaurants because we simply couldn't eat that much. I still struggle finishing a restaurant dish on a regular basis so this "you can eat sooooo much" is really not appealing. X.x

And yet she looks SO MUCH HEALTHIER than you!

I would love a video with you further discussing The Plant-Based Baby and Toddler book

Her baby is happy and healthy, how about ya'll just mind your business! You keep feeing your kids McDonald's chicken nuggets and fries.

What brand of multivitamins do you use for your kids? I would love to know because I am trying to find some for my own.

Which editing software do you use/recommend?

I thought you were gonna mention how baby koalas eat... thank you for not going there. 😅🤢 Nature-- you nasty.

Just wanted to say that If cooking food reduced nutrients or what she calls energy, I'd be able to eat carbs like pizza without my insulin, but my diabetes says no. So I guess she's gonna have to do her research a little better

Stop discrimination against those with poor grammar who can't write and never finished junior highschool but are still published authors community!!!!!!

I also love how raw foodies are avoiding one of the biggest sources of nutrients in a plant based diet by not being able to eat legumes and pulses. Let's just avoid this huge source of protein, fiber, iron among others. Makes so much sense.

People talk out of fear and their own addiction to food. If you think a raw diet can be dangerous for kids you need to stop and think critically. We were born to eat raw. Raw is the purest food for humans. How do you think a cooked food can be better than raw. I mean it's common sense. What happens if you cook something? It dies. Cooked food is like a drug that's why people cannot stop eating. As for the protein, every single plant has protein. I don't even eat legumes or too much nuts. My diet is composed of fruits and vegetables and I am thriving. 10 years going strong. It's important for people to do experiment with their bodies because internet is full of opinions( what people think versus to what's actually correct)

@ 10:20 SHIT IN THE WOODS!!! IM DEAD!

You can eat fruits and vegetables but cooking food isn’t bad

Not on IG so this might be a poor idea for the shorts/reels (?) but maybe you could focus on harder to find/less abundant plant based nutrients in each short? Brief synopsis of their function or health issues that can arise from low levels & what foods to find them in, maybe with combinations for improved bioavailability? Could be a good counter to the plant based faddists' potentially dangerous info

I know this is from months ago but I just stumbled upon this video it annoyed the heck out of me. In the time of school shootings and going viral causes our kids to do dangerous dumb things you’re disturbed by this woman promoting healthy living?!?! I don’t believe a raw vegan diet is the end all be all for everyone and I completely understand people who don’t agree with what she is promoting. That’s simple don’t do it! Don’t follow her on IG or simply don’t keep up with her. It worked for her and I know plenty of other people who it also worked for. The fact that you are tearing her down and judging her is problematic for me when they’re are so many other things that pose a real threat to our children. Like I said this was from months ago so I really hope you got it together and moved onto something more important. Stay blessed.

Koala's also feed their babies 'pap'....learning this made me SICK

We are just a big human experiment.