The Shape of Me to Come

08/16/2025

This ridiculousness has to stop. Ues, our brains are made up of quite bit of cholesterol. But the brain does NOT run on cholesterol. While it does need some, it does not take up cholesterol from the blood. We have no need to ingest dietary cholesterol. Our livers make all we need.

08/15/2025

Copied this comment from Plant Powered Punk. (Again FB won't let me tag). On the post from the other day. My experience is my 3 kids. They were all raised whole food plant based. They were all tall, athletic, strong, smart and had very few health issues outside of some normal viruses. They didn't have constipation. No chronic stomach pains etc.

Now that 2 of them are adults and they eat dairy and quite a bit of added oils, they have some issues. If being raised eating WFPB was unhealthy, they shouldn't have survived childhood or at the very least they should have been sickly and weak. But they weren't. Only after the introduction of dairy and oils did their issues start. (Even with my youngest)

"Your theory dies the moment you meet a single healthy vegan child.

This fixation on animal products as the gold standard of bioavailability is nothing but a tired myth propped up by agribusiness propaganda and nutritional inertia. If meat, dairy, and eggs were truly the optimal foods for humans, we wouldn’t see omnivores suffering from rampant deficiencies, skyrocketing heart disease rates, and digestive misery. Yet here we are – with iron-deficient meat-eaters popping supplements while pretending plants are the problem.

Heme iron absorbs well? Great – it also comes with oxidative stress and increased cancer risk, while plant-based iron (paired with vitamin C) delivers the same benefits without the collateral damage.

Animal protein is "complete"? So are quinoa, tofu, and lentils – except they don’t spike IGF-1 levels or accelerate kidney strain like excess meat consumption does.

Fish for omega-3s? Enjoy your mercury-laden, microplastic-infested "health food," while plant-based sources like flax, chia, and algae provide cleaner DHA without the toxic baggage.

And let’s not forget the absurdity of pretending dairy is essential when 68% of the global population is lactose intolerant – nature’s way of telling us cow’s milk is for calves, not humans. Or do we still believe dairy – a fluid designed to grow a 300-pound calf into a 2,000-pound cow – is some magical elixir for children?

The reality? Every nutrient in animal products exists in plants – often with fewer health risks and zero ethical compromise. The only thing "bioavailable" in this argument is industry-funded bias, dressed up as nutritional wisdom. Kids don’t need corpses to thrive – they need well-planned meals, not outdated dogma."

08/15/2025

Um vegans (said in a nasally (because of constant congestion from inflammatory foods), whiney voice) stop calling your food meat or milk or cheese because it doesn't contain any of those.

Touche

NOT bread
NOT cake
NOT pancakes
NOT mug cake
NOT popcorn

First off, why are you trying to make animals taste and look like plant foods? And second, how many true obligate carnivores, lions and eagles etc make butter or milk a cow or bake a cake??? Let's face it, you are NOT a carnivore.

08/14/2025

Link in the comments.

Going vegan may cut cancer risk by 24%.

A groundbreaking eight-year study following nearly 80,000 adults has found that avoiding meat may significantly reduce the risk of developing cancer. Published as part of the Adventist Health Study, the research revealed that vegans saw an impressive 24% lower overall risk compared to meat-eaters, while vegetarians had a 12% reduction.

The benefits were even greater for certain cancers. Risk of colorectal cancer was 21% lower among plant-based eaters, stomach cancer risk dropped by 45%, and lymphoproliferative cancers by 25%. Lower rates of breast and prostate cancer were also observed.

Researchers believe the difference may come down to the high fiber, antioxidant, and phytochemical content of plant-based diets, along with the absence of processed and red meats, which are linked to higher cancer risk. Lower average body weight among vegetarians and vegans may also play a role.

One strength of the study is its focus on the Adventist population, which includes a large proportion of people who already follow vegetarian or vegan diets for religious or lifestyle reasons. This allowed scientists to compare substantial plant-based groups with meat-eaters while controlling for other lifestyle habits like smoking and alcohol use, which are typically lower in this community. Even with these adjustments, the link between a meat-free diet and reduced cancer risk remained strong.

While diet is only one part of the cancer puzzle – with exercise, alcohol use, smoking, and genetics also important – this study adds to growing evidence that shifting toward a plant-based diet can be a powerful step toward protecting long-term health.

Read the study:
Fraser, Gary E et al., “Longitudinal Associations Between Vegetarian Dietary Habits and Site-Specific Cancers in the Adventist Health Study-2 North American Cohort.” The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, August 2025.

08/14/2025

Shared from Paul D Floyd (FB won't let me tag)

MMM… freedom, right?
Freedom to rot from the inside out. 🍔🍟🥓
This isn’t ‘choice’—it’s corporate conditioning.
They’ve tricked you into thinking self-destruction is patriotic.
Meanwhile, your arteries are waving the white flag.
Go vegan. Live free. Live clean.

Sources:
• WHO: Processed meats = Group 1 carcinogen
• Circulation, 2021: Animal-based diets linked to higher mortality
• Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn: Reversed heart disease with plants
• Dr. Neal Barnard: Reversed Type 2 diabetes with plants


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08/13/2025

And they just keep on lying. Telling people eating a vegan and/or plant diet is a danger to kids is a lie. It puts fear into parents trying to feed their kids a healthy diet. You may need to pay a little closer attention to certain things. But I don't see groups like this calling out parents feeding their kids fast food daily, sometimes multiple times a day. Link in comments. Feel free to call them out on their lies.

08/13/2025

Shared from The Hopeful Herbivore

I was forced to eat meat as a kid. I hated it. There were a couple I liked ok, but most was disgusting. My mom didn't know better and thought meat was required for health. My oldest refused meat and eggs and, while she had liked cheese to start, she was refusing cheese. I had to completely relearn all the things I thought were healthy.

1) Of course vegans raise vegan kids. All (good) parents guide diet choices for their kids, which is why even omni kids don't get to eat cake for breakfast and ice cream for dinner.
And our choices aren't just about health, but instilling our ethics.
2) We never have to lie about, or passively never bring up, where their food comes from.

08/12/2025

Sharing from Kev Ramon (FB isn't bringing up his page to tag). These are absolutely great points. While I don't think we have to eat everything in it's raw state, we should be eating far more fruits and veggies, and some raw. Meat and junk foods are crowding out all the healthy foods. Fruit used to be my kids dessert. Not because I was some mean mom. They loved fruit. And they still do to this day. What makes it hard is the price. It is so expensive. But its still cheaper than meat. Especially when you add in the adverse health costs of eating it.

"From the beginning of creation, it's estimated that over 5 billion different species havw inhabited the earth.

Humans are the only species to cook.

Humans are the only species to not eat things in their raw, natural state.

Humans are the only species who eats 10, 50, 100 and more things at a time.

Humans are the only species to not eat from nature.

Humans are the only species with thousands of hospitals

Humans are the only species with 1.6 billion suffering non alcoholic fatty liver disease

Humans are the only species with 2.3 billion overweight and obese

Humans are the only species with 1.5 billion suffering chronic liver disease

Humans are the only species with 19.7 million dying from heart disease every year

Humans are the only species with 9.7 million dying from cancer every year

Humans are the only species with 800 million suffering from diabetes every year

Humans are the only species having limbs amputated by the millions.

Seizures, aneurysms, heart attacks, strokes, dimentia, arthritis, parkinsons, ms, liver diseases, the list is endless.

All because they don't want to eat things in its raw, natural state."

08/12/2025

Shared from The Hopeful Herbivore

We're going to start pointing these out like the mainstream media loves to.

"First responders found the boy to be thin, showing signs of dehydration, and in cardiac arrest.

The boy appeared malnourished, with “clearly visible” ribs, swollen joints and “very poor limb development,” according to court documents. He also had several missing and broken teeth."

Reality?
"Vegan parents" don't starve their kids. "Meat-eating parents" don't starve their kids.
Sh*tty, abusive, and/or mentally ill parents starve their children - and a higher proportion of abuse and starvation happens in meat-eating homes, yet weirdly, the headlines never mention their diet 🤔

08/11/2025

Never had uti's before and now carnivore for 3 years and has them constantly? Girl, it's your diet. E Coli and salmonella. Not good.

08/11/2025

From the Plantstrong by Engine 2 page. Link to the interview in the comments.

The carnivore clowns would have you believe she should be d e a d. But she's thriving!!

One year ago, Nancy Wells nearly lost her life to a “Widowmaker” heart attack during a marathon.

What happened next? A radical transformation.

She went from terrified and disoriented in a hospital bed to sleeping better, feeling stronger, losing weight, and taking back her life — one plant-based meal at a time.

During her recovery, she committed to the PLANTSTRONG Meal Plan — and it became the foundation for a lifestyle she now loves.

Her journey is a wake-up call — and a powerful reminder that healing is possible 🌱

08/10/2025

The push around protein is exhausting. Read this article and at the bottom is a video. I haven't watched it yet, but I will in a while.

https://www.drmcdougall.com/education/nutrition/why-we-dont-focus-on-protein/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMEo3xjbGNrAwSjJGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeIrS7sPZmXlEWVW_cBsWFRK-TeVGZHQikZKHR1S0lzQ_pblSv4QVjxQUV5R0_aem_EHRiVuI78ryMRRnyf14bCQ

Read the latest on serious health-related issues and what you can do about them. Hear success stories from people who were helped by the McDougall Program.