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Miley Cyrus, Mike Tyson, Bear Grylls, Jenna Ortega — these are just a few names in a long list of celebrities who have quit their plant-based diets.
While it’s easy to ignore the news as unimportant celebrity gossip (or use it as an excuse to make judgments), there’s something really important about these stories that often gets overlooked:
The reason they’re no longer vegan or plant-based.
Celebrities are just people, making decisions based on what feels right to them at the moment. And because they’re famous, we get a peek inside their vegan journey (and downfall).
This can be a good thing.
What celebrity ex-vegans can teach us about growing the plant-based movement
While a celebrity’s decision to stop eating plant-based may be highly publicized, it’s probably not unique.
Could it be that they just weren’t committed to the ethical side of veganism or the mission? Maybe.
But their level of commitment really doesn’t matter that much. Because the healthier vegans are and the better they feel eating plant-based foods, the stronger we are as a movement. And that, in turn, is better for the animals and the environment.
So if a celebrity stopped because they struggled with an issue — a deficiency, lack of calories, or difficulty adjusting, for example — it’s a good indicator that other people are having the same problem.
And that’s on us, the community. Not the celebrity (or anyone else).
Instead of dismissing those reasons or blaming the person, we’re better off as a community if we learn from them. We can discover new ways to address those issues. We can communicate and share appropriate resources and information that will keep others from having the same struggle, and tackle the problem head-on.
So let’s put this into action. What can we learn from some of the most widely publicized celebrity former vegans?
Miley Cyrus and her reported brain fog
Global superstar Miley Cyrus was long a vocal champion for the vegan movement. That is until September 2020, when the musician shared on The Joe Rogan Podcast that she had started eating fish.
“I was vegan for a very long time,” she said. “I’ve had to introduce fish and omegas into my life because my brain wasn’t functioning properly.”
What we can learn:
Brain fog or lack of clear thinking is a common complaint heard from vegans (or more often, former vegans).
And according to Krista Gast, a plant-based Registered Dietitian (RD), it’s for good reason:
“DHA and EPA omega-3 fatty acids are essential nutrients for any healthy brain. But they can be difficult to obtain through a whole food plant-based diet alone. Being deficient in DHA and EPA omega-3s can lead to all sorts of issues, from decreases in optimal brain function to nervous system regulation.
We find ALA omega-3s in plant foods like flaxseeds, walnuts, chia seeds, and hemp seeds, and many people believe that’s all we need. The challenge is that our body is inefficient at deriving DHA or EPA from ALA. Research suggests that only 1-10 percent of ALA is converted into “physiologically effective levels” of DHA or EPA.
That’s why I recommend vegans and those following a whole food plant-based diet regularly consume foods like seaweed, which naturally contains DHA and EPA, to get some of these essential fatty acids. And, to take an algae-based omega-3 supplement to make up for the rest.”
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Mike Tyson’s protein problem
Mike Tyson, heralded as one of the greatest heavyweight champions of all time, credits a plant-based diet for giving him “another opportunity” at life.
In 2013, he told Oprah: “I just felt like changing my life, doing something different. And so I became a vegan. Becoming a vegan, it gave me another opportunity to live a healthy life … High blood pressure, almost dying, arthritis and once I became a vegan all that stuff diminished.”
Tyson followed a plant-based diet for 10 years before giving it up in 2020. Like many others, he claims to have quit because he was no longer getting the results he was looking for.
“I stopped because of the training and because of what I wanted my body to look like and the strength that I wanted to possess,” he said, also on Rogan’s podcast.
What we can learn:
As much as those of us in the vegan community see athletes — even strength athletes — thriving on a plant-based diet, it’s still considered radical to get all of your protein and nutrients from plants.
And some studies indicate that extra care may be needed for vegan athletes.
For example, researchers have found that plant-based protein may not be as bioavailable as animal protein. While it’s not much, additional protein intake (in particular, lysine-rich foods) is often recommended for vegans, especially those with certain athletic goals.
RD Gast says that “while the US recommended daily allowance of protein is 0.8 grams per kilogram of body weight (.36 grams per pound), vegan athletes may require more protein to help repair muscle tissue.
A study published in the International Journal of Sports Nutrition concludes endurance athletes benefit most from 1.2 to 1.4 daily grams per kilogram of body weight. Meanwhile, strength athletes do best with 1.4 to 1.8 grams per kilogram.”
Another issue Tyson may have faced is simply not getting enough calories on his plant-based diet to support his desired physique.
For people who are interested in specific strength goals, one of the worst things we can do as a community is pretend these types of considerations don’t exist. Challenges exist with any diet, it’s just a matter of identifying them and teaching people how to optimize their diet for best results.
Why Jenna Ortega stopped being vegan
Jenna Ortega recently confirmed that she ditched her plant-based diet while filming the hit Netflix show, Wednesday.
Ortega cited difficulty with the types of food available in Romania, where the team was shooting.
What we can learn:
You don’t have to travel to Romania to hear people talk about how limiting a plant-based diet can feel. This, in turn, leaves many concerned about deficiencies.
So how do we combat this?
When asked about deficiencies on a plant-based diet, Gast notes that, “All diets — even an omnivorous diet — are subject to nutrient deficiencies.
Nutrient gaps may vary depending on the diet, but often lack of diversity of foods and consistency of optimal nutrient intake plays a significant role in deficiencies. Dietary supplements can be recommended for optimal nutrition, no matter if you’re plant-based or not.”
While the plant-based diet contains an abundance of nutrients, it’s important to acknowledge that depending on personal health, location, and food access, additional dietary supplements may play an important role in meeting your nutritional needs.
For plant-based eaters traveling or living in areas where food options may be limited, additional planning or care is likely needed – either to keep someone healthy or to help eliminate any lingering concerns or doubts about whether or not they are meeting their nutritional needs.
Some celebrities quit eating plant-based, but you don’t have to
A plant-based diet is the most powerful diet in the world — for your long-term health, for its positive impact on the climate, and for the wellness of animals.
Millions of healthy vegans are thriving all over the world. But no diet is perfect, and all diets can lead certain people to struggle.
Due to systemic challenges surrounding food, individual goals or health histories, and accessibility depending on location, it’s important to understand and address certain areas of your diet to ensure you thrive, long term.
For new plant-based eaters, that may include asking for advice and educating yourself, plus thoughtfully supplementing as needed.
Because oftentimes — whether you’re a celebrity or not — there’s an easy solution to whatever challenge you may face on a plant-based diet.
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when i hear those celebrities i get very very angry. 🤬🤬🤬
while it’s important to hear what people think, all those reasons are completely false, all those nutrients are easily found in a vegan diet and they are just repeating outdated false hearsay, that they could debunk with 1 quick internet search. what i gain from this info is that perhaps many many vegans don’t have deep roots or knowledge, but rather their flame is quickly put out by any number of different societal pressures and societal ignorance of animal suffering.
WHAT I HEAR IS THEY JUST DON’T CARE AT ALL, EVEN ENOUGH TO DO A QUICK INTERNET SEARCH.🔥🔥🔥
the main reason i’m vegan is i want to treat animals they way i would want to be treated.
Me too. But the health aspect is the stronger argument when dealing with people who don’t care about the suffering they cause. Sadly jumping on a celebrity fad for Veganism will only be a passing phase for most, exchanged for the next trendy thing. Celebrity is a shallow existence.
However, for those who genuinely care, but for whatever reason are struggling, they deserve support. If instead of the issue being Veganism but was say, somebody struggling to read, most people would show that person sympathy, and even help until they were proficient enough to enjoy books. They wouldn’t ridicule or castigate them as being a traitor or weak. In that sense we can only hope that the ‘fallen’ celebrities will soon be welcomed back into the Vegan community again.
The diet sill remains true in all of it’s claims. The problem is the hedonistic jet-setter culture. We should probably offer better support, so they are not left alone with the dominant culture eventually swamping them.
This is such a good article. Many ethical vegans are vegan for animals and don’t care about their health. But if we are healthy it’s a great form of activism as it sends a clear message out to those around us that living a plant-based diet is a good thing. It’s so much easier to be vegan these days with all the food options in the supermarkets, but that doesn’t mean that it’s healthy. Lots of education still to be done, and this article goes some way to covering it.
100% accurate!!👍
These celebrities did not stop their plant based diet because of a nutrient deficiency that they could not resolve on a PB diet. They stopped because they wanted to. The author even states that there’s an easy solution to whatever challenge one might face on a plant based diet. So why pander to them by validating their excuses?
Yeah, they wanted to because humans are omnivores.
It’s a tough one as being Vegan and being Vegan can be totally different. If you consume all the crappy lab and science meat or ready made Vegan shite let alone soya/soja which is a serious hormone disruptor (and also makes men grow boobs due to the heavy estrogen) you will have to put up with the consequences. Personally as a Vegan I was diagnosed with a great number of gallbladder polyps aswell as suffering with pre-diabetes. So I changed my lifestyle to not eating dried fruit (and I had a lot) and a few other things I had to wipe of my diet. I’m still Vegan but I have not used my dehydrator in 3 years or had any smoothies be it veg or fruit as it contributed to me being pre-diabetic. My teeth are better also. Fruit is very limited these days. I’m also the owner, Maker, creator of a organic, vegan skin care business. Be careful what you put onto your skin. Your skin is your biggest organ and transdermally you can do a lot of damage too. 🌻🐾👬🤗
Being a “vegan” as you say, where on earth did you get that erroneous info on soy?? Soy has phytoestrogen NOT hormonal estrogen that is found in another species like a cow. You ingest dairy and your ingesting the hormones & estrogen of a cow. Get your facts straight.
Really…..I eat so much tofu and have so much non-problematic estrogen I didnt even know I had already passed through menopause! It was truly a breeze…….sorry to boast, for those not so fortunate. Maybe I am technically off but that’s my take on my situation.
I dunno hey I’ve been eating and drinking soy for about a decade now and don’t have any man boobs nor am I pre-diabetic – sounds like a you problem maybe?
Soya won’t make “men grow boobs”. Stop with the anti science nonsense. Amazing how this crap gets thrown around be seemingly intelligent people.
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What you are saying about soy is not true. It doesn’t give men boobs and it doesn’t have oestrogen.
Imagine a star like Jenna Ortega not having catered the food she asks for in a millionaire production like Wedensday 😂 excuses excuses!
She’s not a star, she was practically unheard of before that awful movie, credit where credit’s due and she deserves no credit whatsoever, fake little nobody.
Who really cares about these people? I don’t!
Tbh I really wanted to go vegan and kept trying but tbh some vegan food is just not very nice especially the meat alternatives
Try Boca, Beyond, Impossible. Even my non-vegan family members love them.
If you really wanted to, you would. And when you want to you will. It has never been easier. The internet can give you a zillion recipes. Meat alternatives generally are not healthy and processed food should not be used for your main diet, though are fine occasionally. Forget looking to swap like for like and learn to cook, you will find a world of wholesome and really tasty food to be had. Every cuisine around the world has Vegan options, and that which isn’t can be improvised. And whatever you create will taste better than anything out of a packet, I promise you. Buying fresh and doing it yourself is tons cheaper than processed food and absolutely more nutritious. Maybe you could do a Vegan cookery course in your area? Or go and check out a local Vegan group. Give it another go, you’ll be really pleased when you succeed! Good luck.
They were never vegan in the first place. They were plant based. Jumping on the bandwagon.
Here’s the thing, I am often reminded of a movie about a plant based commune and one of the leaders gets seen at a restaurant having steak and eggs, and the person who see’s him is shocked and asks what he is doing, and he replies something to the effect, every once and a while I get a craving, I’m only human and I give in.
As much as I eat vegan for 98% of the food I ingest,I do occasionally have a pizza with cheese and I do put butter on food at a restaurant, and I will eat eggs, (from my local farmer) when I feel like it, and I don’t feel bad for the doing.
In the end if we all only ingested such a small amount we would still have a giant impact.
I think being vegan and being unhappy is counter productive and frankly bad for our health.
Blue zone studies have proven that wellness is rooted in 3 elements, diet exercise and community.
If eating vegan is causing stress then the health benefits are negated.
Being an occasional Vegan is still being an active and willing participant in horrific and totally unnecessary animal abuse. While acknowledging 98% Vegan is indeed a ‘huge impact’ the fact is, it is still 100% cruelty to the unfortunate individual victim who is picked out at that ‘local farm’ on 2% day! Eating Vegan as you assert cannot possibly of itself be a cause of stress, at worst one may have to ‘endure’ an occasional minuscule inconvenience. Though I would suggest that is actually an opportunity. Not to weaken and cave in to a pat of butter, nor to preach or belittle those at the table for whom it is customary 100% of the time, but simply to stand your ground as an example to others so they see there is a better way. And I certainly don’t know a single Vegan who is unhappy with this lifestyle choice!
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Don’t call Tyson Vegan.
Promoting Supplements as the go-to for all deficiencies makes us look like pill poppers to many non-vegans; a sure fire debate-looser…
If you replace all taboo foods in a standard American diet with vegan alternatives, then you are essentially no closer to health. If a vegan diet is better for the animals but not much better for the human’s health, then it is far easier to drop it.
I’d like to see a whole food, plant based lifestyle overtake “vegan”. People first and animals too.
Meat, fish, eggs, all dairy, oils of all sorts. If we just make equally unhealthy replacements, seems we are running in place.
Who knows what a Jenna Ortega does when she is 40 or 50 and all the thousands of paper cuts start catching up. It is a long and winding road.
While partly agreeing, and partly not understanding. Despite my 37 years being, “vegan”, always found the term itself gets peoples hackels up. Its actually an ugly sounding word just in itself even tho I promote it 100%. Decades ago I thought the “vegans” should take back the title vegetarian because that is what we are…….eggs, cheese, etc are not vegetables so I never understood how vegetarians could steal that title from us. Lol
Honestly I can’t believe you think analysing the celebs who drop out of veganism is a significant thing to be doing. and then deciding the ‘community’ is at fault.
Good grief
Wy don’t you focus on people who are longterm vegan instead to counter act the negativity put out by these people denouncing their veganism from enormous platforms?
Do I care what Mike tyson’s reasons are for no longer being vegan? Nope
Do I feel it is ‘our’ (vegans’) fault that he dtpped being vegan? Nope
I have been vegan for 33 years (34 in April) and I have raised three life vegan kids who are now 15, 19 and 19. I breastfed them all, in spite of undermining comments from health visitors etc and we’ve never had a day’s ‘brain fog’ between us.
So please just consider that celebrities are not necessarily the people most committed to the cause and also that we are not responsible for their lapses.
Veganism was REALLY a challenge when I became vegan overnight and if someone in 2023 turns away from veganism then I would suggest that it was a lack of commitment and notany failing in us, or a vegan lifestyle/
Wjy not ‘fight’ back in a ore positive style instead of taking this on ourselves and blaming ourselves???
I absolutely take your point, but sadly the way things are nowadays with ‘celebrity culture’ being such a driving force, however ridiculous those on a higher plane know it to be, this is still a worthwhile editorial. Anything that opens discussion and gives cause for thought, and hence maybe inspire greater conviction, has got to be a good thing, however exasperating. The fact is that these ‘celebs’ have millions of ‘followers’. To offer understanding and solutions could claw some back from wavering and in turn influence their ‘disciples’! Which can only help the planet and rid this earth of at least some of its wanton cruelty and greed.
They were never vegan in the first place. They just follow the money.
Hi. I’m a 60 years old male and I’ve been Plant based for more than 20 years, having stopped eating fish since I was 12 (when I realised that fishing is hunting). I don’t know if I’m doing the right thing but I take the following Vegan supplements:
1) Multivitamin & Mineral. 2) Vitamin D3. 3) Omega 3, 6 & 9. 4) B12.
5) Magnesium. In no way I think my diet is a problem or a hazard to my body.
The best thing is that I do not feel guilty of abusing defenceless animals which I happen to love more than people. Stef
100% agree!!
Going vegan in Romania is super easy. As a catholic nation, they observe strict vegan diets prior to religious holidays. When ordering in a restaurant, simply ask for ‘da poste’ recommendations. There’s no shame or argument, your food will be strict vegan.
Jemina, you did a nice job making clear possible concerns of former vegans. It does not necessitate blaming anyone rather recognizing that the community of vegans could align even more to support others in this journey and to convey information in an array of spaces.
This points also to a serious problem with nutrition advice from the health sector. It is rare to find a nutritionist who will advocate for let alone be knowledgeable about plant based diets. If a wealthy celebrity can’t get the advice, it will be hard for everyday people. As the movement is nonetheless growing, perhaps it’s time for the health industry to take vegans seriously and stop thinking it’s just a fad or extremist.
There are way too many vested interests in the animal abuse industries for that to happen!
Really, they are nothing but media-hungry celebrities.
Must admit, my first thought was that as Veganism (sadly) became rather a trendy thing to adopt, is it any wonder that vacuous ‘celebrities’ would swiftly move on to the next equally short lived fad. As a Vegan of over 35 years standing, I have learned that humans do things or don’t do things for all sorts of reasons/justifications. It is just such a pity that what passes for celebrity nowadays is the only avenue for guidance or information that most young people are exposed to because their entire life revolves around looking at their phone.
I really enjoyed reading this article, thank you. It was really refreshing to read something from someone with a strong view point looking at an issue from someone else’s. Your call for others to do the same is very timely. I also thought it was interesting & informative. Cheers.
Very good piece. Arming readers with information in response to each celebrity-communicated message is a very effective approach. Acknowledging the challenges some feel in going/staying animal-free is an area in which the movement can greatly improve.
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This was refreshing to read. The vegan community has a tendency to attack people looking to discuss nuances around a plant-based diet, but things like these are certainly important to consider!
Thank you for this article. I’m always so happy when celebrities promote veganism. I have been a successful vegan for 37 years. I have a son age 27 vegan since birth. Thankfully we are both quite healthy and fit. We also travel and yes it cam be challenging but never challenging enough to quit.
Maybe setting up a “buddy system” for new vegans can help? People never believe how old I am, I attribute much to my diet.
A very balanced article. Definitely one of the best pieces I’ve read on this website in a long while.
This is such a positively written piece about something that could easily be focused on as a problem. You are quite right to take this as a learning opportunity to support other people struggling with maintaining a healthy vegan diet. Thank you Jemima
I love how you have first of all allowed space for people to share what isn’t working without any judgement of them. It’s that “you’re not alone “ openness. Then I love how you open it up to a community for support around certain issues, allowing for a supported and supportive response. It’s that real growth that comes through collaboration, communication, cooperation, compassion … all those lovely words and the main point Darwin was making about how species not just survive but thrive. Thank you for opening up room for support. My little family isn’t plant based yet but we are slowly introducing easy and enjoyable plant based meals. Thank you.
I take a couple of flaxseed oil pills each day to be sure I get my omega 3
I take a couple of flaxseed oil pills each day to be sure I get my omega 3
The best I’ve found is a company called Cytoplan. Not an entirely Vegan company, and certainly not the cheapest but 100% well worth it. They also have buy two get one free regularly, so that’s when I stock up. They do plenty of fantastic Vegan options though, and are owned and run by proper nutritionists, who are available to discuss and advise. And they don’t try and talk you into buying products you don’t need or want – genuine integrity!! Due to personal problems I had self neglected for a long time and was burned out. I was beyond low on D and B.12, and probably heaps of other things too, all my own fault. So now I buy the aforementioned, as well as Magnesium, Omega’s, COQ10 among others. Even though I’m still not regular taking them every single day, I cannot recommend Cytoplan highly enough, they literally saved my life. I will never ever buy any other brand now. Were it not for them I would not be here now, I had given up on life. The energy and emotional boost I got from their products brought me back from the brink. Incidentally, I was recommended to Cytoplan, who I’d never heard of before, by a friend who had stage 4 breast cancer and was sent home to die by doctors, but she cured herself with a diet and a nutritionist who recommended Cytoplan to her. My friend sticks to this rigid diet and several years on her blood tests now have fewer cancer markers than somebody who has never had cancer. Which makes the hospital doctors, who told her to get her affairs in order quickly because time was running out, very hostile and angry. Only one doctor said he agreed with everything she’d done, ‘but only in this room’. The politics of conventional medicine means even the decent ones are scared to speak ot. Until they do, it seems doctors prefer patients to die than find alternatives…
So….I’m sorry but if you become a Vegan the over ridding reason is supposed to be about the animals foremost !!and the planet taking on the whole lifestyle change…eg meaning also not wearing any animal products like leather.. and many more.
NOT just the diet..which over all is often never talked about by these “celebrities” that only charge their diet for a bit for whatever reason/s that suite them at the time.
If who ever wants to do this fine but they cannot call themselves VEGAN and should just call themselves Plant Based! Too much focus is about what these celebrities eat and not the whole lifestyle/picture which veganism is about not a short lived dietary change! It shows a lack of understanding and education about what is truely involved by being a Vegan.
Where are the celebrities? A bunch of talent challenged has beens are outed as fake, hardly surprising, look who they are, barely a brain cell between them, who cares what they do or don’t, they’re nobodies, hardly likely to influence anyone decent or smart enough to know that evolved intelligent people do not eat animals, this bunch are neither of these things, it’s just another thing they’ve failed at. Third rate losers all of them
I just wish we would stop calling people VEGAN who are just following a plant based DIET. That is what is damaging to the movement. It really frustrates me that the two words are used interchangeable when they are vastly different. A person following a plant based diet will walk into a McD or KFC and happily order the new plant based options, any vegan I know who is vegan for the animals wouldn’t step foot inside one of those establishments. Stop promoting celebrities who follow a plant based as vegans please 🙏
You are giving false information.
One, plant based proteins cannot possibly be harder to digest, as it’s our species specific diet as frugivores. Cooking ruins food. No way in hell is animal protein – cooked, coagulated & congealed, dead & lacking electrical capacity of angstroms – more bioavailable than plant foods.
The ONLY way that is possible is if a person’s microbiome is compromised. Putrefactive fermentative digestion is not what our body is primarily designed for;
We CAN do it but…
Second,
Miley cyrus brain fog – beans and grains. Too many. Too much cooked comfort food.
“Vegan” isn’t healthy.
Thirdly,
Mike tyson – just ignorant, and if he wants to be bigger, it’s coz he has unrealistic expectations and desires. Pathetic excuse for stopping being vegan.
No varied balanced diet needs supplementation with anything but ferments, mushrooms, seaweed & herbs.
“Gast says ”
Who cares? She’s ignorant. Neeeext.
You’re either with us, the true walking frugivore “vegans” who don’t eat plant based for the animals, we eat plant based for optimal health as our species specific diet, according to the structure of the whole body ( physiogomy), and live vegan for the animals;
Or
You are against us, creating disharmony in the community giving mixed messages, messages of codependency and self sacrifice.
If you’re made of flesh, eat flesh. If your brain is mostly saturated fat, it’s by far the fattiest organ in the body, roughly 60% fat, eat saturated animal fat. The best source of HEALTHY sat-fat is from HEALTHY beeves, period. NO FOOD ON EARTH gets close to the overall nutritional profile of beef, grass-fed, TRULY pastured beef. Sorry, fish-fans, it can’t compete either, head to head. I have the numbers if you choose to ‘go there’.
Also, I have FAAAAAAAR more respect for vegans who don’t eat meat because they disapprove of the death of an animal than vegans that can’t at least admit NO fruit, vegetable, or manmade, FAKE food, is as impressive as beef, nutritionally. It’s truly the same silliness as trying to debate a dull-minded adult that actually believes a mammal of any sort can change genders! The co-mingling of issues is how food nazis’ keep the TRUTH from being disseminated and become insanely rich as they laugh all the way to the bank. Heck, I don’t agree with a lot of the content on this site, but I still enjoy it and could care less if they’re making gobs of money, or barely a dime, but these folks have MONITIEZED an eating style.
When carnivore, Paleo, Keto, lo-cal, vegan, vegetarian, etc., etc, aficionados tell you you’re wrong, and they’re right and get ANGRY, and or worse, NASTY if you don’t agree with them someone is getting VERY rich off of this, or that, ‘movement’ they feel like they’re part of. We all want to be part of a tribe that makes us FEEEEEEEEL goo about ourselves! Sadly, I literally read a comment here that stated:
“when i hear those celebrities i get very very angry”.
WHOA! Slow down Nellie, why get ‘angry’ over someone’s PERSONAL dietary choices, especially attention-starved celebrities? I love Tyson, yet loathe Miley Cyprus, but can’t even imagine putting anything other than a smirk on my face when they share ANYTHING with the public about food!
All I know PERSONALLY is my ride performance, backpacking/hiking endurance, working stamina, and memory quite literally went through the roof while after-meal crases basically VANISHED when I went to a mostly beef, dark meat chicken, and fatty pork cuts diet. I still LOVE asparagus, broccoli, tomatoes, and ESPECIALLY avocado as they thankfully don’t trigger any reactions FOR ME PERSONALLY. And my challenges with sleep, joint pain, and inflammation (the TRULY silent killer) basically vanished too. And, I still LOVE a really good apple, grapefruit, and ESPECIALLY an ORANGE from time to time.
Jesus told the apostles that the two most important commandments were to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind” and to “love your neighbor as yourself”. My motto is simply this: “love the Lord of the Holy Bible and love ALL people. If you can figure those two things out EVERYTHING will work out.” So, getting ourselves worked up over the personal choices of others is such a terrible mindset.
I guess my message is to be NICE! Stay in your lane and fix yourself before you try to fix other people THAT DIDN’T REQUEST YOUR INPUT! May you accept His Blessings for YOUR life, and be happy for the gains of your fellow man.
Peace, y’all!
Being vegan is one thing, holding to vegan is another.
It is not easy yet for a vegan to get along with the society, let the temptation of consuming the old addictive stuff called meat and dairy.
Since people don’t like to admit their weaknesses, they tend to create excuses for their inability to hold on to struct disciplined lines.
Being vegan requires strong personality and strong self-control. Not everyone has that.
Alpeni