“…almost killed me“:
Her public profile hinged on her vegan identity, yet her choices were damaging her body. Often she felt so weak, she had to work on her laptop computer from bed. Taking one yoga class would leave her drained for the whole day.
Younger’s turning point came in June 2014, exactly a year after she founded her blog, when she confided in a friend about her lack of menstruation — a condition medically known as amenorrhea — for at least six months.
The pal, who had also suffered from orthorexia, recommended she introduce fish into her diet. Soon afterward, Younger forced herself to eat a small portion of wild salmon — and, within a week, her period was restored.
“It showed me how my body was dying to get back on track,” she says, adding that she instantly started to feel more energetic.
A dietician confirmed that fish and eggs would boost her poor nutrient levels. Refusing to lie to her fans, Younger announced on her blog that same month that she was “transitioning away from veganism.”
That’s when all hell broke loose. Her site crashed within two minutes and 1,000 followers instantly ditched her. Worse, she received anonymous death threats from hard-core vegans claiming she condoned the slaughter of animals and that neither she nor her family had the right to live.
Vegans can be such nice people.
Yes, but vegans get to die with a sense of superiority!
A vegan walked into a bar. I know this because they told everyone within 30 seconds.
This picture’s been going around for a while:
I’m a Vegan
No one is ever “just” a vegetarian.
For what it’s worth, I’ve known several vegans, and they’ve all been nice people. And from what I can tell healthy, although the men always have that haggard, weakling look that almost all vegetarian men I’ve encountered seem to have. Women seem to “wear” vegetarianism better than men.
Yeah, I know one vegan – who is perfectly healthy, because she’s serious about nutrition, rather than being some faddist who doesn’t know how to eat enough of the right vegetable proteins and such.
Meh, I just eat whatever my body tells me it wants. If I get a sudden craving for shrimp, I go have a Po’Boy. Occasionally eggs are back on the menu. I just trust that my body knows what it needs, and has associated the satiation of those needs with certain foods containing what it’s looking for, communicating those needs through cravings.
This is Texas, though, so red meat is always on the menu.
I’ve never considered vegetarianism to be particularly noble, as it relegates plants to a lesser definition of “life”. We’re just as related to the flora as we are the fauna (though way, way, way back), and all of the life of this planet deserves respect and nurturing. Plants are just a part of the complex web changing non-life into life.
Embrace your inner omnivorousness, and eat accordingly.
She didn’t merely become a non-vegan. She became a heretic, an apostate.
Hence the reaction from her former co-religionists.
The trick in life is to identify cults like that before you get involved. Events like this one are educational.
Vegetarianism isn’t always a cult. Sometimes it’s just a nine-year-old going through a “phase.”
It’s possible to be a vegan and be healthy. It’s just hard. You have to be careful to get balanced protein intake, enough fats, etc.
Me, I’m an omnivore and proud of it.
Of course the gal got death threats from hardcore vegans. She’s made of *meat* for cripes sake. On the other hand, she is also a type of primate, which is to say,an animal. And you aren’t supposed to kill animals. So it’s a bit of a Mexican standoff, I guess.