Any Vegetarians/Vegans here?

[James2014]

I have never disagreed that SDA primarily promotes a vegetarian diet. Never the less as the study shows many SDA ists are vegan, and they have better health.

No it doesn't. You're misleading people by what you're saying. There are no objective studies anywhere that show that a vegan diet is healthier than a balanced omnivorous diet. There are plenty of studies, however, that prove what people in this thread have told you from their own personal experiences which is that the majority of Vegans are deficient in a number of important areas - iron deficiency, protein deficiency, etc.

You are removing all high quality protein on a Vegan diet!!

re processed food, if eat eating proceeded food is good, eg kills bacteria in meat and increase the available energy content of starchy foods, then why is it bad that vegans have to eat some processed food. If you think you could be healthy on an diet of unprocessed food, then you will run the risk of getting food poisoning from all the raw meat you will be eating.

Firstly, you can eat pasteurized raw meat safely. But honestly, most people don't want to eat raw meat. Cooking food doesn't make it processed. A processed food is a prepacked food with a number of ingredients that you didn't make yourself and is generally ready for immediate consumption.

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so the only thing you eat in these weeks of not eating processed food is raw meat, raw veg, fruit, milk and nuts. No bread or anything made from flour, no pasta, no vegetables which can't be eaten raw eg potatoes, no pulses which have to be cooked eg beans or lentils. is this the case? There is nothing wrong with eating processed food. Some processed food is good for health some bad. just like eating raw meat is generally bad.

Um no, I didn't say that. I said processed not uncooked.

1. Please provide a link to a study that shows vegans have a shorter life expectancy. The study I provided is widely regarded by nutritionists as the best study going. Give it a read. The evidence speaks for itself, and it is why the NHS and the ADS say that being vegans are healthy. If vegans are so deficient then why do the vegans in the study I adventist study live longer than meat eaters?

2. If a well planned vegan diet is protein deficient, and causes illness in people, then provide a study showing that this is the case

3. you do realise that all people do when they process food is to cook multiple ingredients to make a meal right? its not some type of magical process. Processed food can be unhealthy if too much fat, sugar or salt is added, but then so is food cooked at home. Fundamentally there is no difference between a processed food (eg a microwave pasta meal) and one you cooked at home. Processing food means exactly the same thing as cooking it.