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The Truth About Veganism 🌱🥦🍅

Veganism is often promoted as the ultimate lifestyle for health, the environment, and animal welfare. While its ideals are touted as noble, the reality is the exact opposite. Many who adopt a vegan diet find it difficult to maintain and eventually revert to eating animal products—and for good reasons.

The Health Risks of Vegan Diets
A vegan diet will leave you nutritionally deficient and feeling worse than before. Common health risks include:

Nutrient deficiencies:
-Vitamin B12: Critical for energy and nerve health, only found naturally in animal products. (I am not even going to talk about K2, Iodine, Selenium, D3, Taurine, Choline, Creatine, Carnitine, Carnosine, Calcium; I'll stop there as I am tired of typing)
- Iron: Plant-based iron is less bioavailable, leading to anemia.
- Omega-3 fatty acids: Essential for brain and heart health, lacking in most vegan diets.
- Zinc, calcium, and protein: Often insufficient without careful planning. And certainly not bio-available at all.

Gut health issues: A high-fibre diet can cause bloating, discomfort, and dysbiosis in some individuals.
- Loss of muscle mass: Plant proteins are less effective for building and maintaining muscle.
- Mental health challenges: Some report worsening depression and anxiety, possibly linked to deficiencies.

Vegans Revert to Eating Meat
Surveys suggest that up to 84% of vegans eventually return to eating animal products. That is almost all make the return to proper eating. Here’s why:
- Health concerns: Chronic fatigue, hormonal imbalances, and other issues often drive people back to animal products for better nutrition.
- Cravings: Many struggle to satisfy cravings for nutrient-dense animal foods like eggs, fish, and meat.
- Sustainability: Strict veganism is hard to maintain long-term without heavy supplementation and constant vigilance.

The Myth of "Healthy Veganism"
Many vegans rely on heavily processed foods marketed as “plant-based.” These include fake meats, vegan cheeses, and sugary snacks, which are often:
- Loaded with seed oils, refined carbs, and additives.
- Low in essential nutrients.
- A far cry from the “whole food” ideal.

This can lead to weight gain, inflammation, and metabolic issues—contrary to the health benefits veganism promises.

A Better Approach: Nutrient Density

Animal products provide the most bioavailable nutrients your body needs:
- Meat: A complete protein and fat source with heme iron, zinc, and more.
- Eggs: Nature’s second multivitamin, rich in B12, choline, and protein.
- Fish/Dairy is lesser quantities

Veganism and Environmental Myths

While veganism is touted as eco-friendly, the truth is not so much:
- Monocropping for soy, wheat, and corn destroys ecosystems and harms soil health.
- Many plant-based products require extensive processing, packaging, and shipping, leaving a significant footprint.
- Regenerative agriculture, which includes grazing animals, can restore soil health and sequester carbon.

The Bottom Line
Veganism may work for some in the short term, but for most if not, it’s neither sustainable nor healthy in the long run.