One-Fifth of U.S. Beef Capacity Wiped Out by JBS Cyberattack
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There is no way to combine vegetable proteins to make them complete in sufficient quantiles to be healthy over an extended period of time - not to mention deficiencies in CLA and vitamin B12 among several others. Some of the most unhealthy people I have ever treated have been vegan women in their forties - especially if they were runners and from European ancestry. They had absolutely no muscle mass and their skeletal structure was like they were in their eighties. They were addicted to the running and would not stop until they ended up with compound fracturing of the legs or ankles. Their bones just shattered because of the wasting condition. The body of many vegans must cannibalize the muscles and bones just to meet daily metabolic requirements for survival. The sad part is that they really believe they are healthy and they can become quite militant when told otherwise. People that are vegans can be very frail and weak because of the lack of muscle mass. People that have ancestries from northern climates are not suited to be vegans.
These people that try to push vegan diets are full of crap. The elites won't be vegans - of this you can be sure.
Beans and rice give your body all the building blocks to build any complex protein you need.
I'm not arguing for veganism here, simply sharing facts.
There are also vegan body builders.
I am sure there are those out there that can navigate strict veganism - but that has not been my experience with vegans. The key is - proteins in sufficient quantity. Most strict vegans I have dealt with over the years find it almost impossible to meet their protein needs over the long haul by diet alone - especially if they are also into some kind of extreme exercise routine as with runners. They need supplementation to keep up with the demand. Very few people that I have treated make it past a 20 to 25 year practice with strict vegan diets without a very similar wasting of muscle and bone mass. Research shows that vegans are at higher risk for bone fractures than people that consume animal products and I can verify that claim by my own patients. They seem to be much more prone to severe shattering type of fractures than their non vegan counterparts - and at a much younger age.
Vegans must monitor the deficiencies known to come with the lack of animal products in the diet - and I mean good organic animal products. There can be several mineral deficiencies as well as things such as CLA and B12. Carnitine and taurine are two non essential amino acids that vegans can have deficient states because of a possible inability of the body to make adequate amounts or a lack of the precursor amino acids, such as cysteine, in order to make other non essential amino acids. They usually need supplementation. In my experience as a clinician, vegans that do consume some kind of good clean animal products occasionally do seem to fair better over the years.
Something to said for that.