Ontopic Health Thread: post your AIDS, diseases and infekshunz here.

im pretty sure you could eat all the plants until your stomach burst and not get fat. Maybe potatoes would be the exception, or beets.
 
oddly, you'd get all your vitamins and minerals too (except b12 i guess), the biggest thing youd have trouble keeping up with would be calories
 
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From what I've read it's more than just plants, it's limiting processed foods even if they are plant-based. So beer... limited... hamburger buns... limited...
I think a plant based diet is fine, few minerals that are hard to get from plant-based diet: iron, zinc, magnesium, calcium. Few vitamins. Look at this article, they hit the high points. On the B-12, anybody who drinks much or has peripheral nerve disorders in their family line should consider the methyl (methylcobalamin) form vs. the kind(cyanocobalamin) found in virtually all supplements and erroneously checked for in common blood tests. Your liver needs to process regular B-12 into the methyl form to rebuild nerves correctly and that appears to be where many folks with peripheral nerve disorders are being fucked by their bodies. Live isn't doing the processing. So.... the methyl form hops over that issue. Dr's. in Europe are about 20 years ahead of Americans on this. BOT - and vegans could consider the methyl B-12 if they are going to supplement for it. Fly mentioned LifeExtension company earlier - once again, LE was at the front, pushing the methyl B-12 20 years before anybody else was selling it in the US. *Sublingual B-12 is not the methyl form in most brands.
Sorry I went long.
 
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