Vegan diet and children

[Guest guest]

Here is the authors contact info for the vegan diet article. I already

sent her a letter explaining our position. See below.

 

Center Director

lallen

Phone: (530) 752-5276

Fax: (530) 752-5271

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

213 SURGE IV

DAVIS, CA, 95616

 

Thanks,

 

Jerrod Sessler

ASA / NASCAR Driver

Sessler Motorsports Marketing

206.387.7090

www.jerrodsessler.com

www.hope4health.org

 

" most of us live beyond need "

 

LETTER TO THE AUTHOR LINDSAY ALLEN of USDA:

 

Lindsay,

I recently read your article on the dangers of vegan diets for children.

I wanted to provide some comments based on life experience we have had

in our family. This home grown research has also be cooberated by

100,000's of people across the world and I will provide several

excellent reference sources for you to review.

 

The first issue I feel that needs to be addressed is that I understand

you work for a government agency and thus may be coerced or even strong

armed into providing information that even you may not agree with.

Given the structure of our governmental system, which overall does a

great job, this sort of thing often happens. The fact that your quotes

and statements are so audacious, I tend to think you actually believe

the findings you support. I also know that the National Cattleman's

Beef Association supported the study. I would be interested to see the

contract that they signed agreeing to this study. I would guess they

mandated that the test could not include a head-to-head study that

pitted the meat industry against a primarily raw food regiment.

 

You indicate that a vegan diet is dangerous to children. This is an

empty and misleading statement because you do not support it with all

the other diet and lifestyles that these people are choosing. You

simply say vegan, which in fact is a very broad statement. A vegan that

eats primarily raw is radically different than one that is primarily

raw. There is an unlimited stream of data to support this fact. Sort

of like saying engines that run xyz oil did perform as well as all the

other oils tested. The part you left out was that all the other oils

tested were designed for uses other than engine lubrication! I wonder

what funny faces you would get from those 544 African children when you

started calling them vegan. They don't even know what a vegan is.

 

Your entire article and study seems to be based on the assumption that a

vegan diet is defined by the following statement (taken from your

article), " The 544 children studied had been raised on diets chiefly

consisting of starchy, low-nutrition corn and bean staples lacking these

micronutrients. " I think you would struggle to find very many vegans

that would agree this is their definition of a vegan diet. It is

missing the real nutritional content foods like raw, fresh fruits and

vegetables.

 

I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer over 5 years ago after a 29 year

long life of eating the standard American diet including cooked food,

fast food, dinners out, deep fried foods, etc. My family now boasts 2

children that have never spent a single day of their lives sick, we are

due with our third child in May, my wife is free of severe IBS and I am

healed of cancer without the use of orthodox medical treatments.

 

We attribute this to a simple equation. Our overall health lies in a

simple equation. The equation includes a clear understanding of all the

toxins that go into our body and the level of nutrition we include in

our diet and lifestyle to overcome these toxins. You ability to stay

ahead of this broad sweeping curve will undoubtedly foretell your

health, quality of life and longevity. In his book, Eat To Live, Dr.

Joel Fuhrman indicates this very simply for his readers. He uses H =

N/C where H = health, N = nutritional content, C = calories. (see pages

7 & 39) In simple terms, if the foods we eat are low in caloric counts,

high in nutrition, then they will promote good health. And, of course

the converse is also true.

 

Dr. T. Colin Campbell at Cornell University is well know as one of the

world leaders in the study of health and nutrition. He has more data on

the relationship between diet and disease than anyone on the planet. He

has recently released an expanded version of a book that would really

enlighten your approach to making recommendations regarding peoples

diets. The book is titled, " The China Study. "

 

In summary, my request is that you do the following:

A) Release a retraction of the inclusion of the use of " Vegan Diet " in

your article and title it something more appropriate such as, " Already

malnourished and starving children seemed to perform slightly better

when given additional calories in the form of meat products. "

B) Initiate the study again to include a head-to-head study using the

same approach but create another group that eats a truly vegan diet.

Or, just read Dr. Campbell's book or even Dr. Pottengers cat study from

over 1/2 a century ago.

 

The best,

 

Jerrod Sessler

ASA / NASCAR Driver

Sessler Motorsports Marketing

206.387.7090

www.jerrodsessler.com

www.hope4health.org

 

" most of us live beyond need "

[Guest guest]

Hi Jerrod,

In your letter, you said, " A vegan that eats primarily raw is

radically different than one that is primarily raw. "

I think you meant to say, " A vegan that eats primarily raw is

radically different than one that is primarily cooked. "

From what you said in your letter, not having read the article,

their " vegan " diet did not come even close to meeting the U.S.

Government's food pyramid diet recommendation. Adding meat still

would not meet the pyramid without there being also some fresh raw

fruits, vegetables, and nuts.

 

Ron Koenig