What I Discovered When I Went Vegan for 30 Days

Re:What I Discovered When I Went Vegan for 30 Days by jodrellblank on Monday April 18, 2011 @01:13AM (#2458049)

That's annoyingly normal - he went vegan, feels great and thinks everyone should try it for a week, now drinking milk and eating meat makes him feel ill.

He doesn't explore though; could he be feeling better simply from eating less? Or more? Or more greens, or more of a particular nutrient? Or less of one specific thing he doesn't digest well? Or does the change in diet make him sleep differently and that's why he feels better? Is it just the act of change itself that does it?

And does he now feel bad about eating animal products and that makes him respond badly? In the comments he refuses to test it and isn't interested in finding out. Does raw animal produce do the same? Unpasteurised milk, raw meat or fish? What about goat or sheep milk? Or byproducts?

I am of course interested in the mysterious weight which lifted from him such as the "annoyance of getting out of a chair", but all sorts of strange practices practitioners claim unverifiable things like that.

Does anybody like this measure anything quantitatively?

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Re:What I Discovered When I Went Vegan for 30 Days by tzs on Monday April 18, 2011 @05:26AM (#2458480)

I suspect most of his effects were psychological. He expected going vegan to have wonderful effects, so it did.

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Re:What I Discovered When I Went Vegan for 30 Days by vlod on Monday April 18, 2011 @01:21AM (#2458071)

A lot of the feeling bad/sick is psychological. (Well for me at least). Being a veggie (15 years+), if i eat meat inadvertently (happens rarely) I get an automatic gag reflex.

>"annoyance of getting out of a chair" yeah.. i don't know about that..

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Re:What I Discovered When I Went Vegan for 30 Days by alwillis on Monday April 18, 2011 @02:49AM (#2458237)

There’s something to be said about noticing that things are different after making a change, like going vegan.

I’ve been vegan for nearly 12 years, but I’ll never forget experiencing all of the same feelings the author described.

And when friends go vegan for some period of time, even a little as a week, they report the same sorts of things.

Until the iPhone app with the required hardware attachment is available that provides realtime nutritional and well-being analytics, people reporting that they feel better when they don’t eat meat and dairy products is going to have to suffice for now.

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