She refused to believe that she was suffering from her raw vegan diet compounded by intense running because she thought it was healthy.
Yeah, that is probably just about the worst possible combination of diet and execise that anyone could do.
Probably a lot of vegans do it, though.
Wonder why strictly vegan men, especially when consuming raw plants, are often underweight and simpy?
Besides the increased estrogen uptake that you mention, I think that a vegan diet, due to its lack of nutrition, causes the body to break down proteins in the body to function properly. Over time, this leads to loss of muscle mass, yet all the carbs also contribute to accumulation of bodyfat. Hence, the "skinny fat" look, and the higher estrogen leads to the effeminate/simpy behavior.
So even though some lab has identified a possible beneficial nutrient of a particular plant, in practice how much of that nutrient contained in a plant is actually taken up by the human body?
That is a key issue that is entirely missed by most people -- especially vegans.
A few years ago, I read a paper from the University of Hawaii (cannot find it online anymore).
They stated that both beef and spinach have iron. However, the iron in spinach is the wrong kind for humans and not easily absorbed. Spinach has non-heme iron, whereas beef has heme iron.
The human body will absorb a certain amount of utilizable iron in 3 ounces of beef (less than 1/4 pound).
To get the same amount of iron from spinach, you would have to eat 10 cups.
That's just one example of how impractical a vegan diet is -- not to mention that the spinach also comes with a heaping helping of harmful anti-nutrients, which would likely prevent much absorption of the iron at all.
She refused to believe that she was suffering from her raw vegan diet compounded by intense running because she thought it was healthy.
Yeah, that is probably just about the worst possible combination of diet and execise that anyone could do.
Probably a lot of vegans do it, though.
Wonder why strictly vegan men, especially when consuming raw plants, are often underweight and simpy?
Besides the increased estrogen uptake that you mention, I think that a vegan diet, due to its lack of nutrition, causes the body to break down proteins in the body to function properly. Over time, this leads to loss of muscle mass, yet all the carbs also contribute to accumulation of bodyfat. Hence, the "skinny fat" look, and the higher estrogen leads to the effeminate/simpy behavior.
So even though some lab has identified a possible beneficial nutrient of a particular plant, in practice how much of that nutrient contained in a plant is actually taken up by the human body?
That is a key issue that is entirely missed by most people -- especially vegans.