{"id":47153,"date":"2019-04-03T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=47153"},"modified":"2019-03-02T17:02:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T22:02:57","slug":"qotd-veganism-has-its-drawbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/04\/03\/qotd-veganism-has-its-drawbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Veganism has its drawbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evangelical vegans will tell you that following a purely \u2018plant-based\u2019 diet is not only morally commendable, it\u2019s also much better for your health. But if my experience is anything to go by, the opposite is true.<\/p>\n

I felt absolutely fine for the first few days. I didn\u2019t miss meat at all, certainly not in terms of taste or flavour. The only thing I really felt an absence of was eggs. Since I embarked on my mammoth weight-loss project, eggs have become a dietary staple for me: nothing fills me up as well or gives me quite as much long-lasting energy as an egg.<\/p>\n

I also found I had to eat larger portions to feel full \u2014 and I felt hungry again after a shorter period of time. But even that didn\u2019t bother me, since what I was eating was so wholesome.<\/p>\n

No, the real issue became apparent after the third or fourth day. Not to put too fine a point on it: wind.<\/p>\n

My stomach was, quite literally, in ferment. All those legumes and pulses and generalised vegetable matter appeared to have turned into a giant internal compost heap. It wasn\u2019t too bad in the mornings; but by early afternoon I was like a cow who had overdosed on clover.<\/p>\n

At first, I palmed the outcome off on our three dogs. But after a while the problem became so severe that even they could not be expected to account for the frequency and potency of aromas emerging from my lower digestive tract.<\/p>\n

One of the key arguments of vegans against livestock farming is the harm animals cause to the planet through the amount of methane they produce; if my experience was anything to go by, a vegan human is capable of producing just as much, if not more. I was a one-woman global warming hazard.<\/p>\n

My children, of course, thought it was hilarious. But from my point of view, it was not only unpleasant and occasionally embarrassing, it was also incredibly uncomfortable. I felt bloated, soggy and sluggish, and began to dread meal times.<\/p>\n

Following the advice of the nutritionist, I took to soaking nuts, oats and seeds overnight. But it made no difference. If anything, the problem began to get worse. The more healthy vegan food I put into my body, the worse my stomach problems became.<\/p>\n

As for the much-vaunted \u2018vegan glow\u2019, no sign. Instead, my skin felt dry and dehydrated, and there was a distinctly greyish tinge to my complexion. But still, I persisted.<\/p>\n

Sarah Vine, “Going vegan sent me off my trolley! Exhausted, irritable and don’t even start of the tummy troubles – SARAH VINE’s bid to join the health revolution left her VERY green around the gills”, Daily Mail<\/em><\/a>, 2019-02-22.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Evangelical vegans will tell you that following a purely \u2018plant-based\u2019 diet is not only morally commendable, it\u2019s also much better for your health. But if my experience is anything to go by, the opposite is true. I felt absolutely fine for the first few days. I didn\u2019t miss meat at all, certainly not in terms […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,74,66,57,41],"tags":[240,150,443,1033],"class_list":["post-47153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-food","category-health-science","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-globalwarming","tag-obesity","tag-pollution","tag-unintendedconsequences"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-cgx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47154,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47153\/revisions\/47154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}