Why Vegans Should Eat More Plant-Based 

Wrong title Why Vegans Should Eat More..WHOLE FOODS (Plant-Based is a given)

👍 Plant based for the environment, whole food plant based for health, vegan for the victims!

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I make my own whole plant based burgers (legumes+a bunch of spices) with no frying and my family, non-vegans too, love them. :- ) Whole Plant Based Food is my favorite!

The title should probably be changed to "Why Vegans Should Eat More Whole Foods," as we already eat a plant-based diet by definition, and the title you're using is guaranteed to confuse the non-vegans watching. Thanks for posting!

Yes!!! Humans are animals too! Vegans love animals…to spread the word the best you need to take care of yourself! You would ever feed a cow or pig or chicken junk food??? No! That’s abuse! Then why eat it yourself??? Stay healthy to be a good example for others thinking about being vegan and live longer to spread the word!

Comparing vegetarian and vegan with whole food plant based is not like for like, because vegetarian includes eggs which, you just said yourself, are the worst health-wise. For a fair comparison it should be vegan versus whole-food vegan.

Vegans have the best health and bmi among all Dietary groups.

I used to think vegetarians and vegans were weirdos. Really. I just didn't understand what they were all about. But my wife and I are big-time gardeners and grow all our own fruits and vegetables, so we somehow, slowly, moved away from eating much meat. Now, meat is just an occasional thing. The good news: we feel better, our doctor is very impressed with our health and we take no pharmaceutical drugs of any kind. I don't know a single person my age (mid sixties) who isn't taking three, four, five drugs every day for their maladies.

Vegans already eat plant exclusive diets. I think you meant Whole Food Plant Based. ✌️🍉

Thank you for the reminder! It's not a huge problem for me, but I know I can always do better. Munching on raw broccoli now.

I’m 62 and vegan for 7 years. I’m too old to be eating junk food . But I can understand that a lot of younger people who are vegan will probably be eating vegan junk food. But I look at it as the lesser of 2 evils. Vegan junk food is not the best for health but it will eliminate death from clogged arteries from animal fat and protein built up in the arteries over time. At least those who are eating vegan junk food aren’t harming animals. Also, whatever health problems emerge from eating vegan junk food, these problems are more easily corrected than having to have bypass, stents, etc. due to arteriosclerosis. I was a caregiver for 17 years to my elderly parents and grandmother all of whom suffered strokes and congestive heart failure. Clogged arteries are no joke.

I'm confused. How much more plant-based does it get than vegan❓

I must admit, I have a tendency to go to the pub as a British man and eat a vegan burger and chips with a side of cauliflower bites. It may seem healthy but those patty's have gone through an insane amount of processes

When I offer my coworkers help on switching to a Whole Foods plant based diet they act like I’m trying to poison them. No amount of good will, politeness and babying work because they’re so closed minded they automatically shut down when they consider a change. I don’t even like these people and I want them to be healthy 🤷‍♂️ I’ll just keep eating my overnight oats…

Just ate my bowl of hot cereal (whole rye berries, whole wheat berries, whole oats, walnuts, flaxseed, banana, and blueberries). Delicious!

You guys need to change the title. How can an already vegan eat more plant-based if being vegan means you eat nothing but plants.......sounds like you need to change from plant-based to whole-food plant-based.

should the title not read "Why Vegans Should Eat More Whole food" ?vegan can't help but eat plant-based...

OK......a little common sense reminder here!!

I don't eat chips, but I'm guilty of eating a lot of sugar and imitation meats. I can clearly see the difference in my energy and auto-immune diseases when I'm not around sugar for a while. It's so hard to quit 😪

Tattoo this on your forehead: Association is not causation!

'More Whole Foods' is what the title should be, it's a mistake.

Why is it claimed that eggs are harmful? What scientific studies does this claim refer to?

This is a really important topic and will help so many people focus in more on their nutrition. Thanks so much for covering this topic specifically!

Truth well put! Live it to stay away from hospitals and the prison nursing home!

It's the most ridiculous title I have ever seen. Vegans eat basically ony plants (and some artificial add ons). Also a burger, fries and crisps are made of plants.

Nice!... but why did you leave us hanging at the end?

Wonder read and Coke are often mentioned when discussing unhealthful vegan food, but I’d venture that impossible burgers, daiya pizzas, and vegetables oils are just as bad. I could be wrong.

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53 yr old Scotland wfpb here , 8 years , perfect health , Every day I count my blessings to have found dr Gregor & others. this is the secret to a very healthy life . Oh and no ‘safe & effective’ experimental jabs for me 🙏

Sweet potatoes, especially japanese and hawaiian sweet potatoes ARE vegan donuts.

The closest I get to processed vegan foods is probably HU dark chocolate hazelnut bars, cause they do add unrefined coconut sugar, its only 14g per bar so its not that bad, when I eat them it doesnt make me fall asleep, so its obviously not spiking insulin, in the past when I ate red meat, dairy, and eggs, pasture raised, grass finished whatever you need to know.... I noticed some common trends, red meat was spiking insulin and making me take a nap after eating it no matter how grass finished it was, also that kinda barky cough you get after eating red meat, I get that too, ALL dairy, no matter how pure, gives me the sniffles unless its a very small amount like in coffee, which makes sense, as for pasture raised organic eggs, I actually dont notice much, but when I eat anything less than pasture raised eggs it definitely feels bad, like I cant run as far or exercise for as long, endurance issues, but as I said, pasture raised organic eggs, I wish more research can be done, cause I eat them so rarely out of fear of them still being eggs, like an egg is an egg right? but I s2g as a skinny person whos been underweight their whole life, pasture raised eggs were helping me gain weight without increasing my body fat percentage, idk how or why but thats been my personal experience like theres something about pasture raised eggs that my body just agrees with, WHY CANT MORE RESEARCH BE DONE IM TIRED OF NOT KNOWING THE FULL TRUTH, imo eggs arent cruel and when people talk about survival many years ago before we had the tools to hunt animals during famines, tubers/starches/berries/leafy greens ABSOLUTELY yes, but honestly, eggs are something you would find and eat in nature as well, why cant somebody just do the study so I can know for sure.... Keep us all conflicted right? Its hard for me to overlook that my body responds well to something but im not going to swear by it unless science proves it.... This sh*t pisses me off bro

"healthy animal foods"? lol they just never get it

indeed, lets stop the bread and flour(bread) use also. there is so many better whole grains to make food from.

So vegans should eat negative amounts of meat.

LOL!, I love that line... "junk is a food group".

theere needs to be a video on what "prossessing" makes food bad. like what if i dry some strawberries, or boil vrocolly instead of eating it raw or fry something? what about satain, wich is gluten thats stemed and fried? some of these prossessed foods contain stuff that looks fine and natral like TVP or like some bean burgers. what is it in the impossible burger that makes it bad? the ingredents themselves dont look harmfull

Inflation means 100% is no longer good enough.

I'm eating a frozen forks over knives WFPB meal on my lunch break! I'm vegan and I try to eat lots of whole foods, but chocolate is my weakness.

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There are nice informatons; But you talk about loose of weight. Maybe people don't eat enough proteins and they loose lean mass so it's not good. And remember, when you loose weight, it improves all biology markers ;)

Excellent information in this video! Thank you dr. Greger for this excellent video. One thing though, I think the title maybe should be "Why Vegans Should eat More Whole Food".

Maybe the term "Whole Food Plant-Based", which can be confused with meaning that some animal products are allowed, should be simplified to "Whole food vegan" or "Whole plant food" way of eating

The first. 17 seconds along give me such pause!! I've sent this video to everyone I know.

The title confused me. Every vegan is on a plant based diet. I think you meant Vegans should eat more whole foods. And i agree.

Can you do a video on the paleoanthropology of human plant diets? What kind of wild grasses and tree limbs did we eat?

For the algorithm

great video worth a rewatch

Thank you

Vegans eat plants only diet, not plant based lol

Always a great pod cast ...just making my poka bowl ...loaded with plant based foods and tofu

Problem is “plants” people still think of lettuce. How would someone survive

Someone needs to warn Sophia about eggs so she can come down from that psychedelic disaster she created. ❤️

Two raw eggs a day keeps the Vegan away

the real problem in Oxford studies (and aslo women adventist in truth) Is high prevalence underweight incidence in vegan especially vegan women. Being underweight, aslo if consume only "healthy whole plant food" Is a GIANT risk factor not only for fractures but aslo neurologic, cardiovascolar diseases, cancer mortality and all cause mortality. Indian vegetarians are anyway healthier than indian omnivorous both that stay in India that migrate in western countries

What if I'm already 100% plant based? Is it possible to reach 120% plant based?

Great video

Congratulations on one million dollars. People want the whole truth!

How about animal based Collagen. Do collagen supplements increase levels in the body ?

Reducing Heme, Methionine, Neu5Gc, AGEs and inflammatory compounds in meat may mean eating vegan processed food still extends lifespan. (n=1 anecdote warning) My mom is 90 & has been vegetarian since the Carter Administration, snacking mostly on peanut butter and crackers all day, and subway sandwiches. She's been smoking cigarettes since the Eisenhower administration, and yet still doing great. Both her parents ate lots of meat, didn't smoke, and died in their 60s.

Is it okay to remove the yolk from an egg and eat it? Are dairy products unhealthy?

If vegans really want to reduce animal cruelty, rather than just trying to shame people, they should set an example by proving that veganism is super healthy. That means, not just being vegan, but being whole food vegan. Instead off picking on others, they should pick on themselves. Then the statistics would speak for themselves. Even if people don’t really care about animals or the planet, most people do care about their own health, and the health of their children.

Every one of my vegetarian and vegan friends has the worse diet. They consume more processed sugary products than my omnivore friend. The bad thing is they still think its better than eating meat product. They stuff themselves with pasta and bread in every meal.

trying to bulk with whole foods plants based is hard. i can’t only eat so much lentils , rice , and avocado!

Not enough protein in plants….animal foods better

Too many carbs!

The Blue Zones do eat animal protein (even if many “experts” want us to believe they are mainly vegan) and they live a very long and healthy life. I don’t manage to copy the photos from the official website, of the amount of animal protein of each blue zone in here, but this is a summary of how much animal protein, on average each Blue Zone eats. Nicoya 31% Okinawa 2% Sardinia 31% Loma linda 16% IKaria 11% Any thoughts?

So *eegz* is bad?

Unless epidemiological studies can show a significant difference (in the range of 30% change or greater), and that this change is repeatable with subsequent studies on different groups of people, they aren't worth the paper they are written on. What about the research showing plant sterols imitate cholesterol (which is why they reduce it) but don't carry out the same function in the body which can actually cause a heart attack? LDL cholesterol seals up blood clots very effectively. If plant sterols get involved that cap goes from being strong to guaranteeing its going to fail, causing cardiac arrest.

I was a whole grain, plant based eater for 15 years. I avoided refined sugar and saturated fat. 2,000 calories per day. I became pre-diabetic and stage 2 hypertensive in my early fifties. I went to see a new doctor and she said to switch to a meat diet for six months. If this didn't work she'd have to put me on meds. I've eaten nothing but meat for 7 months, now. 2,000 calories per day. I weigh 20 pounds less. Beef, bison, fish, sausage, bacon, salami, pork........My blood pressure is now 126/82 most times. ALL of my blood numbers are within healthy normal range now. The doctor said to keep doing whatever I'm doing. My vitamin D was a little, just a little low. Please explain.

Humans originally ate only fruit. Look it up.

Avoid Legumes, the Lectins will not be destroyed while cooking.

“May” but actually doesn’t

Missing a noun at the end of the title? And do vegans eat anything else but plant-based [noun]? Junk vegan food is still plant-based.

Animal based* you mean

*Animal based* you mean

Eggs are unhealthy? LOL #PlantBasedBias

What is it with all your scaremongering? Our grandparents and grand grand parents ate what they wanted, meat, eggs, butter, milk, lard and of course vegetables, too, and became 90+ years old. I think the main problem is the excessive carbohydrate consumption especially the consumption of simple sugars like glucose, sucrose and corn syrup etc. Another problem might be the use of antibiotics, pesticides, vitamins and minerals which was much less a hundred years ago.

Vegans should eat more meat if they care about there health.

There are now thousands of carnivore dieters in the comment sections of nutritional videos extolling the miraculous health improvements they've experienced by kicking plants out of the diet. Conversely, there are thousands of ex-vegans reporting that when they went vegan, their health improved for a little while, but the deficiencies inherent in veganism finally caught up with them and their health took a giant dump.

I can't find a good NF video on ginseng, anybody got any advice? Genseng... yay or nay?? Thanks!