At this time I cannot believe that a vegan diet made her so sick. But like others have said there are vegan diets and there are vegan diets. I have been a vegan for the most part of 20 years. I believe that a little good meat is healthy during the winter. Eat with the seasons. And meat doesnt mean feedlot junk either, that isnt even food.

As for soy, I believe in miso as a very healthy food, other than that I cant think of a reason to eat more soy. Maybe all the soy she ate was genetically modified soy (GMO). That would certainly make someone sick.
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As an Orthodox Christian, I am a conscientious vegan for roughly 40% of the year. All our fasting seasons require us to eat a vegan diet. So, I have a lot of experience trying to feed myself healthily on a vegan diet for extensive periods of time (and I think I do an okay job at it, too). That said, even with my Real Food nutrition background and the help of B-12 and iron supplements, I still find that on a vegan diet I’m mildly anemic, easily aggravated, and that I slip easily into depression if I’m not careful. Different people have different metabolic types, and mine does not agree with even the most carefully planned and nutrient dense vegan diet I can muster.

Furthermore, I really feel that we have to ask WHY in the entire history of the human race there has never been ONE documented vegan society. Even societies that are mostly vegan most of the year will put their women (and sometimes men) on fertility diets rich in animal fats, organ meats, and seafood in order to help them get pregnant, carry a healthy baby to term, and nurse that baby for a year or two. We have to ask ourselves WHY, and we have to prepared to deal with the answers when they come.

You can’t judge a proper vegan diet if you haven’t tried it. Kristen – I don’t think it is fair for you to say “It really is true that our bodies can not be sustained for very long on a strictly vegan diet.” That is a very poor statement that has no scientific proof. The fact that there are no vegan societies does not correlate with that idea. Just because we CAN eat something does not mean it is good for us. Not to mention 1) societies thousands of years ago did not eat NEARLY as much meat as we do. 2) Meat today does not even resemble what it was thousands of years ago. I don’t care if you are buying free-range or whatever helps you sleep at night. It is still a form of mass production to accommodate this country’s infatuation with meat and dairy.

It doesn’t escape me that we are very fortunate to be living in a day in age where we can scrutinize nutrition, study it, and have the option of where we buy our food. But I have to ask you, have you read the China Study? Doesn’t that have any effect on your desire to consume animal protein?

PS: Please do not take any of this to be hostile, it is not my intent. I am biased obviously because I don’t see any health benefits to meat and dairy, and can’t grapple with the way animals are exploited today, regardless if they are raised “sustainably” or not. I always enjoy reading the other side, but my main point of this is to say that right off the bat, I’m already put off by this woman’s history of being vegan because she really doesn’t seem to know much about health in the first place. However, I do plan on reading the book just to see what she has to say and see if my first impression is correct.