[Hillary's Folly]

figure it out for yourself based on how you feel

So true. This is why I quit eating meat. I couldn't stand the way it made me feel, laying in my stomach causing all sorts of gastric distress. After I quit I put on quite a few pounds, what with all the bread and pasta, but I soon figured out how to manage that as well and have been feeling light and great ever since.

[sarasota]

And, get this, I have normal bone density and a perfect blood profile for someone my age who's been on a lacto-veg diet for some 26 years. Some even say I don't look my age.

[Eva]

It has been proven that vegan diets cause a deficit some essential elements (I can't remember which ones), sufficient enough to cause irrational mood swings in 80% of the people who follow vegetarian diets. This was published in some legitimate health magazine article that was posted here on Free Republic.