padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
It's essentially an eating disorder.
bollocks. just utter garbage, really. I was vegan for 10+ years & suffered no ill effects, physical or mental. in fact at various points while I was vegan I; ran cross-country & played other sports competitively, did serious weight training, trained martial arts 4-5 times a week, did construction jobs requiring heavy manual labor day after day, etc. the only supplement I ever took was B-12 tablets.
it is not based "primarily on vegetables". that is a gross mischaracterization; legumes, nuts & nut butters, seeds, grains, fruit, etc. further, as w/any category of food, it is dependent on what vegetables (& legumes, nuts, etc.) one what eats. of course being vegan doesn't guarantee health - there are plenty of junk food vegans, just like anything. but if you do it right it is certainly feasible.
I'm sorry for your troubles w/hypothyroidism etc. but I reckon all your bitterness is badly misplaced. I have to chuckle at "eating disorder" tho.
Do Americans eat only high saturated fat red meat?
no, they also eat tons of shitty refined carbohydrates. and all kinds of junk food fill with high-fructose corn syrup & ungodly amounts of sodium & so on. which are certainly worse than the red meat, tho that's not helping any either.
just out of curiosity - & given that you cited him like 5 times - your only source is this Ray Peat bloke? oh & a scientific study from 1991?
The world's oldest man until his death at 113 few weeks ago Tomoji Tanabe insisted on drinking a glass of milk a day.
yes, clearly this is an effective argument in favor of milk. yunno, my great-uncle who lived to be 94 smoked 2 packs a day for 60 years. clearly we should all start smoking.