40 Commonly Misunderstood ‘Healthy’ Foods That Are Actually The Opposite, According To People In This Online Thread

This is outdated information, I'm afraid. When I was vegan, I got yearly checkups and blood work because I tend to have vitamin D deficiency (not related to vegan diet), and all blood values were extremely healthy, as well as being in the best physical condition of my life. There are elite athletes who are vegan. Every diet can be unhealthy if it's not balanced, including meat-based diets. That said, I don't really care what people eat, and they should choose what's best for them.

You need protein not necessarily meat protein.

I think a lot of this is also the idea that you need protein (which you do). As I understand it, protein from meat is considered a complete protein, all the protein you need can be found in meat. HOWEVER, you can also get a complete protein by mixing and matching different plant sources that have different kinds of proteins. I don't remember the specifics cause it's been a while since I looked into it, but when I was a vegetarian that's the argument a lot of people made, that they were concerned I wouldn't get enough protein if I cut out meat.

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I’m vegetarian since birth and I’ve not yet had a problem. I had milk and milk products so I guess that’s where most of the stuff you get from meat comes from. Not too sure though

You do not need meat in your diet. If you were taught that you were taught wrong.

There are non meat ways to get what meat gives you.

I don’t blame you - I blame the food industry! Fwiw I’ve been eating a plant-based diet for years and the only supplements I have to take are B12 and D(that’s more a product of where I live - lots of cold, grey days make it hard to get enough sunlight to prevent deficiency). I’m not opposed to people choosing to eat animal products. I’m healthier than I’ve ever been, but I don’t live on fries and Oreos lol!

Then don't claim things that aren't true. Civilizations across millenia have subsisted on plant-based diets and those societies tend to live much longer, healthier lives.

Tell that to Carl Lewis: 9 Olympic medals on a vegan diet. Also, it's every person's responsibility to educate themselves beyond what primary school teaches. I know you can do it!

If you're still relying on things you learned in primary school, you're kind of an idiot tbh.

You don't need meat, you need protein. Just remember that the cow you're eating for dinner was an herbivore. Where did all the protein in the steak come from if not vegetables? I'm not a vegetarian, but I know I don't NEED meat.

Was that bovine university?

Not true in the slightest.

There are specific nutients which can be obtained only from animal source. But it does not need to be meat. Basically the more you cut out from your diet the more you need to know how to get all nutients and have balanced food.

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You can eat a healthy diet without meat or animal products. But you have to do it extremely precise to not get deficits. And that's expensive too, to do it right. Most people wanting to be vegan are not considering how much they should pay attention to what they eat to get a full variety of nutrition.

Nope. I can get everything I need except the b12 from plant based foods. And anyone who grizzles about vegan and supplements needs to look at their own medicine cabinet first.

You need to make up for the proteins missed by red meat, and if you’re a female of reproductive age, you need to make sure you’re getting iron and magnesium. Beans and corn together produce the same proteins and plenty of iron rich veggies. That said. I take a multivitamin and eat red meat once or twice a month. Also, pescatarian, but same principle applies.

It's possible to get everything in a vegan diet, but not very easy. We evolved to eat at least some meat. Our teeth, our digestive tract, everything about us is designed for an omnivore diet.

While we are omnivores as a species, we are NEITHER carnivores or vegetarian; with a taste for both sides. Some people are happiest with rabbit (I love rabbits incidentally) but I tried it once. And couldn’t take it. I’m way on the carnivorous side, I’ll eat colleague’s meat; he can have my okra.’ But most of this fake meats and cheeses just no. Nope. No, nope, no and no.

Hi i know not many people will see this but I noticed that lots of ppl who were just sharing what they know got downvoted, even if they weren’t being rude-please dont downvote unless someone’s being toxic, it could get ppl banned :)

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Yes! Our bodies need specific amino acids that we cannot make or acquire from plant and grain sources!

and you are right ! We need B12 vitamin to survive, a vitamin who's found EXCLUSIVELY in meat and animal byproducts like milk... And as we can't synthetize it as of now, the supplements are extracted....... from meat

Unhealthy, vegan, delicious. Now I want some damn Oreos.

So I deserve a down vote for telling y'all news that people need to know if they are trying to live a particular way? Hope you never find yourself unable to process animal based protein for five years the way I did. But if you do, I hope you do eat plenty of McDonald's ff in USA

that's not relevant to the point on the OP.

True, but irrelevant to the point that they are not necessarily healthy simply because they're neither processed nor meat.