This thread upset me a little... enough for me to actually post, apparently 
As someone who has a very hard time eating much of anything, I really wish I could live on fruit and rice alone. I'm 36, and, yes, I'm physically young for my age, but I'm also too skinny. I try to eat healthy, but eating during the day makes me sick more often than not.
I'm a former vegetarian who has a nut allergy and a rare eating disorder. Now, I'm not allergic to peanuts (they're not nuts, they're legumes), but most of the time, peanuts are processed in factories with tree nuts, so I can't have them. When I was a veggie, I was grey and frail, which had nothing to do with the vegetarianism, but everything to do with a lack of protein. As a person with the kind of allergy I have (let alone the weird eating disorder), vegetarianism is a verrrrrry bad idea. Now, I've learned that when I am craving meat, it's probably because I'm deficient in iron or protein, so I have spinach or steak. Spinach is good for the iron, but not so much the protein.
The point is, until you talk to your doctor, and then possibly a nutritionist, no "diet" is safe unless you're actually balancing it and finding out what the unique YOU needs. This guy, who is now banned, has no authority on veganism, therefore, no one should even be asking him questions for any kind of advice. Just my opinion, but it is what it's worth, and I think Brian37 is right: this guy was just trying to bring attention to himself.
As someone who has a very hard time eating much of anything, I really wish I could live on fruit and rice alone. I'm 36, and, yes, I'm physically young for my age, but I'm also too skinny. I try to eat healthy, but eating during the day makes me sick more often than not.
I'm a former vegetarian who has a nut allergy and a rare eating disorder. Now, I'm not allergic to peanuts (they're not nuts, they're legumes), but most of the time, peanuts are processed in factories with tree nuts, so I can't have them. When I was a veggie, I was grey and frail, which had nothing to do with the vegetarianism, but everything to do with a lack of protein. As a person with the kind of allergy I have (let alone the weird eating disorder), vegetarianism is a verrrrrry bad idea. Now, I've learned that when I am craving meat, it's probably because I'm deficient in iron or protein, so I have spinach or steak. Spinach is good for the iron, but not so much the protein.
The point is, until you talk to your doctor, and then possibly a nutritionist, no "diet" is safe unless you're actually balancing it and finding out what the unique YOU needs. This guy, who is now banned, has no authority on veganism, therefore, no one should even be asking him questions for any kind of advice. Just my opinion, but it is what it's worth, and I think Brian37 is right: this guy was just trying to bring attention to himself.
