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“Vegans are too weak and are too low energy to train with me.” The man who said these words is Ido Portal, an amazingly talented individual who has mastered the art of movement. But why would he say such a thing? This is what I want to address today. The reason why I say “end the debate” is because it’s become more about identities and emotion than anything scientific or knowledge based.

Stop the Fight Between Diet Types

As you can see in the video below, Ido said these words during a Skype call with a guy who follows the 80/10/10 diet. Clearly he’s not seen Frank Medrano.

It’s comments like these, including emotionally charged judgments from the vegan crowd, that create conflict between people who represent different diet types. The reality is, every vegan or vegetarian was probably once a meat eater, and through their journey started cutting it out. And likewise, a meat eater could have once been a vegan or vegetarian and felt it wasn’t for them. Or that meat eater could be on their own journey of shifting their diet. The same could be said for the vegan or vegetarian who may also one day switch.

The reason we fight about diet types is because we identify with them and thus become emotionally invested. Someone says something and we lump ourselves into that crowd and immediately take it as a personal attack.

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Children at Mokita kindergarten in Frankfurt will be taught the nutritional, environmental, and ethical benefits of consuming a plant-based diet.

Frankfurt-based Mokita kindergarten will become the first vegan school in Germany when it opens in August. According to its mission statement, the school’s goal is to “provide a sustainable, full-fledged, vegetarian nutritional concept that empowers children to eat healthily and responsibly with regard to animals, fellow human beings, and the environment.” The school’s 40 children will be closely monitored by professionals to assure they are receiving all necessary nutrients. Local politicians have publicly opposed the concept of an all-vegan school on the basis that they believe children will be malnourished if they do not consume animal products. “If parents were to send their kids to a kindergarten which only provided fast food, that would be just as dangerous for them as a vegan diet,” Free Democrats party member Stefan von Wangenheim said. Data collected about the children at Mokita will be used to demonstrate that consuming a plant-based diet is safe for people of all ages. In 2015, California-based MUSE elementary school—founded by director James Cameron’s wife/vegan activist Suzy Amis Cameron—became the first all-vegan school in the United States.

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I’m going to allow the interview to do the talking on this man’s incredible story, but in the meantime, I’m going to say a few things about health. And note, this isn’t meant to be a scientific rundown, but instead a look at our own life experiences for a moment and to reflect.

Have you ever thought about the fact that our baseline for measurement as to what ‘healthy’ is may be totally out of whack? Think for a moment. Let’s say we believed vitality looked like the average human today. When we go to study those humans, what they eat, what blood pressure is like, how organs function and so forth, it is all based on the baseline understanding we generated from the testing of those average bodies.