The whole low saturated fat m,ovement was incorrect from the start It is based on the fraudulent and tainted Seven Countries Study conducted by a misguided fanatical nut named Ancel Keys who DELIBERATELY OMITTED data from nations available at the time that CONTRADICTED his FALSE views.

Please look into this.

Actually the food that holds the tiltle of most nutrient dense is grass fed RED MEAT.

And also saturated fat and cholesterol do NOT clog arteries. This is NOT how atherosclerosis works and you obviously do not know this fact.

Jackie is not knowledgeable of the 18 clinical dietary intervention trials to date in which NONE found saturate dfat to increase CHD mortality or incidence

She also is ver unfamiliar with all the cholesterol - lowering trials which been repeatedly shown to be complete failures for lowering CHD mortality or incidence Look up LRC-CPPT, A to Z trial , J-LIT , ENHANCE.

Or she could read Anthony Colpo’s book and see the 1,400 references to randomized clinical trials..

These girls have high metabolism because they eat the nutrient rich foods. When you eat well, you are well. It is exhausting to hear people complain about how fat they are. Then they turn around and eat a pile of bad food. Stop eating garbage! You are fat because you eat processed, fatty, sugar laden, hormone injected foods and WAY TOO MUCH of it! The stomach is the size of your fist. Think about that next time you want to shovel down a large pizza or eat a 16 oz steak. We have an obese and overweight society because of what people eat, not because they were born fat.

People need to take pride in their health and the way they look. However they choose to get there is their own decision.

My philosophy is to find what works for you, follow that plan exactly, then keep doing it forever. If you want to eat vegan, that’s fine by me.

But what is not acceptable to me are the militant radical vegans like the authors of this book who choose to go around thrashing a meat-eating diet just because they disagree with it personally.

Regardless of what I think about veganism, I would never stand in the way of someone who wanted to eat that way if they want. It’s their choice about their diet, so who am I to stand in their way?

Again, CONGRATULATIONS on your success and I wish you continued luck keeping your weight off and continuing to improve your health for the rest of your life.

I at one time hit 200 pounds. I now eat a lot of wonderful food often. . .more than I ever have. . .and maintain a healthy weight of 135-140 (I’m 5′10″) that I arrived at naturally.

My boyfriend, who was once an avid fan of the carnivorous diet and who used to try to challenge me, witnessed the benefits I was gaining and stopped eating meat and continues to be in awe with how healthy he feels. He raves about how he used to always feel tired and never does anymore.

I guess it just goes to show you can’t really judge until you’ve been there. . .

The research supporting eating one’s veggies in high quantities is impressive and, anecdotally, I have never felt better.

Also, I am a mother of 3. When my 6-month-old was 4.5 months old, I was asked to help a friend rate some scales by having my weight and body fat measured on three of the scales and then by going to a hydrostatic testing place. My body fat was 18% (16% is considered elite athlete level for a woman). I thought that was incredible considering that my post-partum exercise routine has been limited to chasing my children (of which I’ve had three in four years). It is the lowest it has been in my life and I can only attribute it to the fact that I eat a TON of fruits and vegetables every day.

My children eat about 90% vegan (I don’t limit them at all at parties, for example) and are very healthy. I worried about things like bone density, anemia, etc. as any fastidious mother would, so I had my daughter fully checked out at her 4-year visit to the doc. Guess what? Despite the fact that she had no meat and almost no dairy, she was not anemic, has great bone density relative to her peers and has a total cholesterol of 130. She is at about the 30th percentile for weight, which concerned me a bit, but the pediatrician said to expect her overall percentile to go down as American children become more and more obese. On top of that, she is happy, energetic and learning to read.

Sometimes I splurge and have ice cream or cheese, but I never feel as great when I do.

Anyway, I know it is anecdotal, but I just wanted to put it out there.

If you really think that being vegan is un-healthy or hard you are very much mistaken. That is what I thought. I became vegan because my wife and I were worried about out daughter who had become vegan. We believed all the misinformation. The more she learned the more I became convinced that I was eating crap and needed to give veganism a serious go for myself. It seemed hard for the first couple of months, but it was not long before I started feeling MUCH better and really enjoying myself.