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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1107: How Going Vegan Can Make You Fat & Sick

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.811.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sal, Adam and Justin discuss the benefits and pitfalls of veganism.

  • Is the vegan diet causing malnutrition in advanced nations? (3:50)
  • The history and origins of the vegan diet. (5:55)
  • The importance of NOT subscribing to a particular diet. (8:21)
  • Things to consider before going vegan. (11:13)
  • Who benefits from this influx of vegan propaganda? (16:15)
  • What’s BEST for the environment is what is BEST for ourselves. (21:37)
  • The health benefits of veganism. (25:15)
  • How these diets are popular due to the agricultural revolution. (30:40)
  • Why Mind Pump is focused on the 98%. (32:50)
  • How diets can become religious in nature. (37:15)
  • The unintended consequences of scare tactics by environmentalists. (42:00)
  • Do NOT push your agenda on everyone else + the importance of checking your ego at the door. (47:57)

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0:00.0

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.

0:06.0

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0:09.0

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.0

Alright, in this episode of Mind Pump, oh boy, we get a little controversial.

0:18.0

Hey, hey. There's a lot of information and heat going around in regards to veganism, eating a vegan diet.

0:27.0

It's been politicized, which is crazy. This is the first time I've ever seen a diet actually become political.

0:35.0

The arguments for going vegan are it's better for your health, and now the big one, it's better for the environment.

0:42.0

So we dive into the vegan diet and how, in many cases, it can actually make you sick and fat.

0:51.0

Now, we aren't anti-vegan, but we do think that for some people, it's not the right way to go, but we give our reasons for it.

0:59.0

We talk about how the environmental impact is it actually better for the environment.

1:05.0

We talk about who may be behind the agenda of pushing this kind of new trend.

1:10.0

Is there money behind it? We talk about the cancer risks that might be associated with meat, or maybe associated with veganism.

1:18.0

Veganism, we talk about obesity and obesity rates and how going vegan may actually increase those rates in some people.

1:25.0

And then we talk about the nutrients, some of the nutrients that you might need to supplement with if you go vegan.

1:31.0

So we think you're going to love this episode. Again, it's really controversial.

1:34.0

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1:46.0

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1:53.0

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1:58.0

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2:14.0

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2:25.0

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2:33.0

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