The Vegan Solution: Why The Vegan Diet Often Fails and How to Fix It by Matt Stone


The Vegan Solution: Why The Vegan Diet Often Fails and How to Fix It
Title : The Vegan Solution: Why The Vegan Diet Often Fails and How to Fix It
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ISBN : 1484089456
ISBN-10 : 9781484089453
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 136
Publication : First published April 10, 2013

“If you had told me 2 years ago that such a small change in my diet would yield such a big difference in my health, I would have laughed right in your face!” ~Chris Randall; Vegan In The Vegan Why the Vegan Diet Often Fails and How to Fix It, prolific author Matt Stone shares his pioneering research on the role of metabolic rate in health as applied to a vegan diet. In the book you’ll learn about “The Frigid Fourteen” – fourteen metabolism-lowering mistakes that are frequently being committed in the vegan world. These simple, misguided mistakes are commonplace and extremely detrimental to the metabolic rate and all of the body’s systems affected by it. Yet they are all simple to fix, returning the body back to proper function, oftentimes while remaining completely vegan. Popular Youtube vlogger Chris Randall, who lost 150 pounds and rid himself of many chronic health issues and has had a sensational return to health with a vegan diet, also chimes in with his personal experience and advice after applying many of Stone’s methods. Randall has spent many months as a personal client of Stone’s, and has seen his body temperature return to normal, his strength and sex drive is soaring like never before, and he is getting progressively leaner and healthier eating in excess of 4,000 calories daily – far more than he was eating prior. In the book you’ll find out how you, vegan or not, can apply the same methods and achieve similar results – all with changes so minor it will seem far-fetched that it could actually yield such dramatic changes. The common negatives you hear about a vegan diet – losing muscle mass and strength, hair loss, horrendous digestion, tooth decay, freezing cold hands and feet, frequent urination, insomnia, dry skin, loss of menstruation and sex drive, and more are things most assume to be a consequence of avoiding animal products. Stone and Randall propose otherwise and aim for “fixing” your vegan diet instead of rushing you down to the local steakhouse. Whether you are thinking about trying out a vegan diet or have been at it for many years, this book is the manual for how you can properly meet your physiological needs, avoid the ravages of a poorly-designed vegetarian diet, and thrive. In an endless sea of pseudo-scientific and cultish vegetarian literature and propaganda, The Vegan Solution offers up real, sound, simple advice based on the scientific reality of our human needs and biological function. It’s a must-read for anyone attempting to follow a vegan diet.

The Vegan Solution: Why The Vegan Diet Often Fails and How to Fix It Reviews

  • David Agranoff

    So lets get something out of the way. I've been strictly vegan since January 31st 1993. I became vegan for ethical reasons both environmental and animal rights. I didn't give a ding-dong about health reasons for the first two years. Still I more worried about cookies than health. The majority of my time as a vegan I have had a sweet tooth, but for me that doesn't me fruit. That means cookies, cake and such. I am not a potato chip vegan, but far from pure of diet. Balanced, Yin and Yang. The majority of vegans I know are like me.

    For the record I don't eat a vegan diet. I have never eaten a vegan diet. For twenty years I have been vegan. That is how I live, that includes eating but a big difference between how Stone and I think.

    I have known hundreds of long term vegans, and only have known two who I believe actually failed at veganism. This book is kinda of a picture for those rare people, but the majority of vegans I know will roll their eyes and call Bullshit on this book. I'm getting ahead of myself.

    The book starts with a disclaimer where the author admits that he has no medical training infact in all the stuff about the author I see no sign that he is a MD or ND. Infact I see nothing but a self trained nutritionist and honestly when he is mocking people who have those degrees it makes me scratch my head. I know plenty of doctors don't know anything about nutrition, but I am not sure this guy does either. Alot of the sources listed in the back of the book are Wikipedia.

    I have been very critical of Raw fooders, but If it is an issue of trusting this self-published author or Gabirel Cousins (a doctor running a successful raw foods retreat) I think I'll listen to Cousins.

    This book starts right away with a literally STUPID introduction that undermines the professed mission of the book. Mocking the people your book is aimed at and belittling them is a pretty silly way to start. If I want to convince someone of a point of view starting by mocking and belittling is the single worst way. It also makes me think Stone is not a smart person. If the book was not a gift, I would have quit right there.

    He also says "would it kill you to eat a piece of cheese? It's not immoral,or harmful to your spirit quest." Besides how insulting this is, to those of us who believe in Animal rights, eating cheese is very immoral. If Matt Stone was subjected to rape,torture and slavery to make dairy products for other people then he might feel differently. As a serious vegan we live with the curse of empathy, we don't want others to suffer for our benefit. Matt Stone however even states that if eating Babies (he must mean human babies since humans eat non-human babies like lambs all the time) helped with heart disease he would report it.

    I admit I don't like his attitude, but if you are writing a book on this topic, attitude is a deal-breaker. That said I read on. Because the book was a gift.

    P.16 is where Stone starts making all kinds generalizations. He assumes long term vegans will develop long term health problems. I know hundreds of vegans, I only know of a small handful, infact I can only think of two that I know who developed diet related problems. He also assumes that all vegans will escalate their diet to higher levels of purity. That escalation actually can lead to actual starvation, because people eating these ultra pure diets can lead to problems.

    I admit this is a problem, but a Raw fooder community problem not a problem with Veganism. I live in Portland, we excel in Vegan junk food. Tens of thousands of vegans who are not starved for calories. We have a vegan BBQ cart that sells battered deep fried sandwich cookies. So when Stone implies that vegans have a problem with dietary purity I laugh. Wrong dude. Raw fooder problem.

    Again on page 19 he assumes that you will have health problems on a vegan diet, but as I read his book I thought he should have written about a raw diet, not a vegan diet.

    The chapter that starts on p.21 with "Not doing so hot on a vegan diet?" When I read that I thought. Actually I am doing well can I quit reading? on page 25 he lists thirty symptoms of what he calls starvation. Things that he thinks might be a problem vegans experience. my problem with this 30 item list is everyone probably feels one or two of those things. But i don't feel that list is anything I relate too.

    I understand that some get caught up in getting specific about getting certain nutrients. Again I think this is a raw fooder problem. I don't think about diet purity, if pop tarts are vegan I'll eat them.

    There is a whole chapter called Vegan mistakes, most of them I find to be total crap.

    not consuming enough calories -Raw food problem. For real - vegan cookies, Vegan cheese pizza, tofurky sausage three examples I ate in the last two days.

    Being over puritanical. - Ethics I deserve firmness. Health not so much. I don't totally disagree, but again I know plenty vegans who eat junk food. He talks several times about vegans avoiding sodium. In 20 years of hanging out with hundreds of vegans I have never known a vegan who did that. Not once.

    Consuming to many watery foods.- Again only raw fooders I have known to be the ones who eat 30 bananas in a day, or a 12 pound melon sitting. I can see that is a problem but not a vegan problem.

    Drinking too much water - Ok that is insane. I have never heard of anyone being over-hydrated. on page 44 Stone admits that he has "not formally seen this documented anywhere I am aware of." Not even wikipedia?

    He co-writes a few sections with a vegan, who has not been alive as long as I've been vegan, so I am not sure how valuable his opinion comes off. I think some one who has been vegan for a long time. Matt Stone randomly calls Dr. Joel Fuhrman a dick, but it is Stone that comes off as know it all jerk with very substance to back it up. He writes checks his ideas can't cash.

    Not fan, my friend Ryan Love bought me this book. I see why he liked it. Why he thought he thought it was valuable. He made alot of the mistakes listed in this book. He had major food issues. I saw those as Raw food issues, and not vegan issues. The Advice in this book could been valuable to Raw fooders. The word vegan didn't need to be involved. In my opinion.

  • Jerilyn

    Motivational!

    Loved the playfulness tossed in, the transformation pictures were a great addition! Thanks for sharing your story and what you have learned along the way!

  • Tara

    I didn't really like this book. It seems crazy. Maybe it would be helpful for some, who are struggling with health issues, but for me it just sounded nuts. Next....