#This isn't to say NEVER eat vegetable oil and only eat animal fats

[housemousecooking]

If you're hungry all the time and feel like you constantly want to eat consider switching your Vegetable oils out for Lard and Tallow.

This isn't like a fad diet advice or anything. It's just studies are showing that the linoleic acid in vegetable/canola/soy oils can be converted into endocannabinoids in our bodies. Which is what makes weed give you the munchies. Too much Linoleic acid can also cause inflammation. The standard American diet contains 14 to 25 times more omega-6 fatty acids than omega-3 fatty acids, with most of the omega-6 coming from LA.

[solarpunkvegan]

Unfortunately, it needs to be said because of the news I keep seeing.

Kidney stones are not caused by eating a plant-based diet. Eating animal products will not prevent you from getting kidney stones either.

" Studies suggest that excessive animal protein consumption poses a risk of kidney stone formation, likely due to the acid load provided by the high content of sulfur-containing amino acids in animal protein, as I explored in my video on preventing kidney stones with diet. But what about treating kidney stones? Most stones are calcium oxalate–formed like rock candy when the urine becomes supersaturated–so doctors just assumed if they’re made out of calcium, we just have to tell people to reduce their calcium intake. So that was like the dietary gospel for kidney stone sufferers until this study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, pitting the two diets against one another—low calcium versus low animal protein and salt. And it was the restriction of animal protein and salt that provided greater protection: cutting the risk of having another kidney stone within five years in half.

What about cutting down on oxalates, which are concentrated in certain vegetables? A recent study found there was no increased risk of stone formation with higher vegetable intake. In fact, greater dietary intake of whole plant foods, fruits, and vegetables were each associated with a reduced risk independent of other known risk factors for kidney stones–meaning one may get additional benefits bulking up on plant foods, in addition to just restricting animal foods.

The reason a reduction in animal protein helps is not only because it reduces the production of acids within the body. A reduction in animal protein should also limit the excretion of urate–uric acid crystals that can act as a seed to form calcium stones, or can create entire stones themselves. Uric acid stones are the second most common kidney stones after calcium. There are two ways to reduce uric acid levels in the urine: a reduction in animal protein ingestion, or drugs. And removing all meat can remove 93% of uric acid crystallization risk. Here’s the risk of crystals forming eating the standard Western diet for five days. And then, switching to a vegetarian diet leads to a 93% drop in risk within days.

To minimize uric acid crystallization, the goal is to get the urine pH up to ideally as high as 6.8, so a number of alkalinizing chemicals have been developed. But we can naturally alkalize our urine up to the recommended 6.8 using purely dietary means; namely, by removing all meat, which takes someone eating the standard Western diet up from an acid 5.95 right up to the target of 6.8 eating a vegetarian diet. You can inexpensively test your own diet with a little bathroom chemistry, for not all plant foods are alkalinizing and not all animal foods are equally acidifying.

A so-called LAKE score was developed, a Load of Acid to Kidney score, which takes into account both the acid load of foods and their typical serving sizes, and can be used to help people modify their diet for the prevention of both uric acid and calcium kidney stones and other diseases. This is what they found. The single most acid-producing food was fish, like tuna. Then pork, then poultry, then cheese, though milk and other dairy only rate down here; then comes beef. Eggs are actually more acidic than beef, but people tend to eat less eggs at a sitting, so they come in here. Some grains can be a little acid-forming, such as bread, rice; but not pasta, interestingly. Beans are significantly alkaline-forming, but not as much as fruits, and vegetables, the most alkaline-forming of all foods.

And the most important things we can do diet-wise are to drink 10 to 12 cups of water a day, and reduce animal protein, reduce salt, eat more vegetables, and [be] more vegetarian. " - (video)

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A whole foods plant-based diet is the only diet clinically proven to prevent the top 15 killers in the US, arrest some of those, and reverse some as well. It's been shown to reverse heart disease and type 2 diabetes. It can improve mood, help with digestion, clear up your skin, sometimes get rid of allergies, and more. But it's NOT magic. Every person needs an individualized plant-based diet. High carb low fat doesn't work for everyone, and eating entirely raw is NOT ideal. While it's healthier in general to cut out added oil, some people need more fat than others and oil might be the easiest way to do that. Processed foods aren't ideal but they're not the end of the world either.

Just because a plant-based diet is amazing, (which it is), doesn't mean you'll NEVER get sick again or that if you do it's because of your diet. Sometimes you just get sick, it happens. People get sick on an omnivore diet too and they don't blame THAT diet for every illness. Often, even when it IS the fault of the diet like heart disease, they blame something else anyway like genetics. (As they say, genetics loads the gun, diet pills the trigger).

However, it might still be your diet that's at fault, but that doesn't mean it's because your diet is plant-based, just that the version you do isn't the right one for you. Not all plant-based diets are created equal and everyone needs to be adjusting their diet for their individual needs. Everyone is different. There is no one size fits all plant-based diet, just guidelines based on rigorous research.

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Blaming a plant-based diet for kidney stones is ridiculous. If 1 in 10 people get them, then it stands to reason most of those people are not plant-based since being plant-based is in the minority.

If you get sick on an omni diet, no one blames the diet. But if you get sick on a plant-based diet, then it must be the diets fault. This is illogical. We get sick, it's a fact of life. A whole foods plant-based diet is the ideal diet for the average modern human, but it's not magic.