Vege Island

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I am a junior in high school and a track athlete. I want to become faster and eat a vegetarian diet. The problem is I have never did a diet like this and want to know how do you go about starting a vegan diet. Do you start gradually eliminating things that are not in [...]

I was looking in the obituaries and I noticed one of my friends from high school died. I later found out the cause of death was veganism. I had heard where a vegan diet could reduce your life expectancy, but I never really thought it was that severe until now. I used to invite him [...]

Is a raw vegan diet healthful over a long period of time, especially with diabetes and high blood pressure? I am trying to switch to a raw vegan diet, but my dietitian insists it is not healthful. Has anybody here tried it long-term, or know anybody who has? I’m wanting to lose a lot of [...]

This girl was put on a strict vegan diet, and ended up with a degenerative bone disease that left her with the spine of an 80 year old:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk…
I understand the philosophy of veganism, and I am interested, BUT people do come first. How could this girl’s diet have been structured safely and still be [...]