[extropy-chat] what is the upside / advantage of meat ?

[pjmanney]

When it comes to nutrition, it has been my experience that everyone is different.  I was vegan for many years and even with supplements and food combining, they were the sickliest years of my life.  As soon as I started eating meat (not coincidently during my first pregnancy, when anemia was a big problem), I got healthier. When I tried to go vegan again, I got sicker.  Go figure.  I've stayed (relatively) healthy with my occasional organic lean beef and regular organic chicken and wild fish.  My body just works better with higher levels of high-quality protein.  In Ensel's words, 'I am stronger and more powerful.'  Can't say it's a scientific approach based on my sample of one, but it has worked for me.  I apologize for the un-PCness of it, but keeping this body running sometimes seems like a full time job and I do whatever it takes.  I can't afford the guilt.  I'm assuming it's not so hard for others!

Maybe in my next life/next body I'll get a better model -- the disgustingly healthy, ectomorphic vegan athlete -- if I get to choose, that is...

Natasha would be the list expert, but I've also spent many years among competitive body builders and there isn't a vegan among them that I know personally.  When dietary intake is what will make or break a winner, they all go for meat.  Lean protein = new lean muscle.

PJ

>> I too, know some beefy, strong lifelong pure vegetarians so it is >>certainly possible (look at the population of India).
>
>I would pick a random meat eater to be my linebacker over a random
>vegan ...