50 Shades of Greens

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DESCRIPTION: Since both coronary heart disease and impotence can be reversed with a healthy diet, sexual dysfunction can be used as a motivator to change poor lifestyle habits.

This is the second of a 3-part video series on sexual health. If you missed it, check out my last video Survival of the Firmest: Erectile Dysfunction and Death (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/50-shades-of-greens), and stay tuned for the next video, Pistachio Nuts for Erectile Dysfunction (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/pistachio-nuts-for-erectile-dysfunction).<br />
More on preventing sexual dysfunction in women in the first place in: Cholesterol and Female Sexual Dysfunction (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cholesterol-and-female-sexual-dysfunction/).

A similar Mediterranean diet failed to help fibromyalgia in the short term (see Fibromyalgia vs. Mostly Raw & Mostly Vegetarian Diets, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fibromyalgia-vs-mostly-raw-mostly-vegetarian-diets/), but diets that were even more plant-based were found to be beneficial: Fibromyalgia vs. Vegetarian & Raw Vegan Diets (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fibromyalgia-vs-vegetarian-raw-vegan-diets/).

Other benefits of fiber may include improved bowel function (Bristol Stool Scale, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/bristol-stool-scale/) and frequency (Prunes vs. Metamucil vs. Vegan Diet, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/prunes-vs-metamucil-vs-vegan-diet/), lower colorectal cancer risk (Stool Size Matters, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/stool-size-matters/), lower breast cancer risk (Relieving Yourself of Excess Estrogen, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/relieving-yourself-of-excess-estrogen/ and Fiber vs. Breast Cancer, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fiber-vs-breast-cancer/), lower blood pressure (Whole Grains May Work as Well as Drugs, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/whole-grains-may-work-as-well-as-drugs/), lower blood cholesterol (How Fiber Lowers Cholesterol, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-fiber-lowers-cholesterol/), weight loss (Beans and the Second Meal Effect, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/beans-and-the-second-meal-effect/) and a longer lifespan (What Women Should Eat to Live Longer, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-women-should-eat-to-live-longer/).

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30 Risposte a “50 Shades of Greens”

  1. I am confused a bit on the best way to combat atherosclerosis. Common sense would tell me that a vegan diet is best, but honestly – it is very difficult to have a vegan diet if you go out to eat at all. Plus, I am uncertain if decreasing animal fat is as good as eliminating it, or if upping plant-based elements is better. I like the idea of being completely vegan, but it is very hard and then there is the B-12 dilemma that seems to indicate that eating meat is natural.

  2. That's my question too, does the marginal improvement come more from adding more plant based elements and cutting down on animal-based, or eliminating animal-based elements altogether? Reading and watching videos I find as Dr. Gregor is good at pointing out a lot of ambiguity in the studies and what they mean. The logical thing to think is that a vegan diet is the best … but that any improvement or move in that direction is good. Also, vegan is hard to integrate into normal lifestyle.

  3. I've been mostly vegan for about 2 months now, and it is not easy at all. There is virtually nothing in restaurants that is vegan … and I live in Bay Area, CA. There may be one token dish in some restaurants, but they are usually awful, and expensive as well. I am not talking about hype or feelings, I don't buy any of it, we are still finding out stuff, so no one can claim to know in certainty – when they do I stop listening. The best source I've found is salad bars & Whole Foods.

  4. B-12 is a dilemma is that it tends to indicate that it is natural for people to eat at least some meat. I appreciate your answer and enthusiasm, but I want to get past the hype to the data.

    And the condescending "do more homework" is really off-putting, I have been reading a lot about this … and again, vegan is NOT easy. These are not easy questions or questions that can be answered by feelings. When you say it is easy you are looking back, and that is pretty smug and inconsiderate.

  5. I don't consider fries an option. You do not know what kind of oil they are fried in and frying in general not good. Chipotles is great – I do about once a week, but I cannot exist on Chipotles. Asian Chow Fun or vegetables once or twice a week too. I don't care for trail mix, and nuts are not that great. I try to juice vegetables, and like that, but have not really made a strong habit from it yet. I try to minimize bread, and maximize live fresh food. No, not easy to completely change diet

  6. A lot of what I hear is people looking for validation or stroked for being able to change their habits. It gets annoying, like a newly converted to a religion. Look at the progressive or the knowledge on this and one can intuit that we are nowhere near being able to claim anyone knows the truth. I avoid fried. Also, so not like soy much which is what most vegetarians restaurants around here serve, fake soy meat. Do not want to eat many nuts, or too many beans. I run out of stuff I like.

  7. B 12 in not a dilemma. It is not produced by animals or their products. If that is your source it is probably because they are supplemented it themselves. We need such a small amount and some vegans have no need of supplementation because they have such good gut flora or something they actually are producing their own. I went vegan overnight because of ethics and have never looked back. Not for everyone I know. But there is much support out there. You can do it.

  8. I simply mean that we get our B12 from animal sources, meaning that most if not all human beings have eaten meat as a regular staple of their diets almost forever. To me that is a dilemma … not in the sense that I do not know which side I prefer to be on, but in the sense that being vegan is paradoxically somewhat unnatural. I would prefer to be vegan, but I am not a absolutist type of person, I see an informed balance that does not yet really exist, but also do not like the meat industry

  9. Nope, we've started to get B12 from meat not too long ago, around 200 000 to 500 000 years ago. Before that we used to get it the way gorillas do today, by eating termintes, insects bugs, either voluntarily or without seeing them, under a leaf. I used to think like you, but now I know all primates eat insects, ALL! and insects are very high in B12.

  10. When we started to eat B12 from meat is theoretical conjecture. I know there is a lot to the story of B12, but the bottom line is that today's human beings need B12 supplementation, and according to what I've read, like with many vitamins just staying above the minimum dose is not adequate. The other thing is that since this is important for your brain, why play around with it just to think you're smart?

  11. B12 is made by bacteria, then is concentrated by insects and animals (esp. ruminants).

    An otherwise good vegan diet has near 0, even incl. contaminated vegetables. If you suggest otherwise, give a source. A good one.
    Many if not most meat diets are also under-supplied with it – you need to include specific foods like liver or kidneys. (insects? mollusks?)

    B12 is also one of the vitamins that can be given in a large dose, for instance, weekly, maybe even monthly.

  12. Is there any proof that GMO soy (or in fact anything) is harmful for consumption?
    (Not market practices, not cross-contamination – both of which are questionable and subject to change.)

  13. People actually do manufacture B 12 in the gut. It is too low in our intestine though for us to make use of it. I am suggesting some 80/10/10 raw vegans have such good systems that they seem to actually be able to utilize what they are manufacturing and maybe the right diet is the key.

  14. We used to be exposed constantly to B 12 in the water we drank and sitting on the plants etc. Since chlorine in the water and depletion of the soil B 12 is harder to come by. So it's not that a vegan diet isn't natural, we just have to make up for damage done to the earth.

  15. Supposedly we cannot absorb the form produced by our intestinal bacteria, because it's produced in the colon, while B12 is absorbed elsewhere (ileum?) by the intrinsic factor.

    nature.com/nature/journal/v283/n5749/abs/283781a0.html

  16. The question remains how many of these B12-producing bacteria are there in the ileum and whether they produce enough B12. Significant amount does not automatically mean "enough".

  17. Me and my wife use to struggle to find places to eat but after 3 years of veganism we can go to any steak house or restaurant and eat just fine. And usually cheaper than if we were eating meat. B12 is not a reason to not go vegan, it's an excuse. For those who are still making excuses quit being the victims of our society and start being the leaders. Go Vegan!!!

  18. "does it matter why?" just don't think about it. what? too late. oh no! i lost it. i'm sorry, baby. it's not you, it's me. we'll try again tomorrow. good night, baby. i love you too… is she asleep yet? whoo-hoo! back to WoW!

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