Today we examine the claims of vegan critic, Denise Minger, self-proclaimed debunker of T. Collin Cambell’s “The China Study”. On a RawBrahs video (“Raw Vegan Diet Warning,” linked below) Denise lists a host of major health problems she experienced while following a raw vegan diet several years ago including hair loss, tooth decay, muscle loss, and vitamin deficiencies. To this day Denise asserts in public talks that vegans and vegetarians can not maintain good health for more than a short amount of time as our health will eventually decline until we add meat back into our diets.
Rather than deficiencies inherent to a vegan diet, we propose that the true cause of her symptoms is starvation – an extreme form of malnutrition – which happens to have the very SAME symptoms she experienced. In a nutshell, Denise wasn’t getting enough calories for proper health, which highlights a very important point: be sure you eat enough food on a raw vegan diet! Plant foods are typically not as calorically dense as animal products, so you will need to eat more food than what you were used to eating in the past.
It’s unfortunate that Denise fell ill while experimenting with a raw vegan diet. It’s even more unfortunate that she misidentified the cause of her symptoms. Starvation can happen, if one is not careful, on any diet. But to blame a vegan diet as the cause of her symptoms, as we discuss, is baseless and is just indulging in fear mongering.
https://happyhealthyvegan.org/
Damage To Body By Starvation: http://www.livestrong.com/article/486663-damage-to-body-by-starvation/
Raw Vegan Diet Warning from Denise Minger & RahBrahs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft_SqZuvhME
Denise’s Website: http://rawfoodsos.com
