Somos lo que comemos: Un experimento con gemelos

It is a good idea to promote Plant Based Diet. But what is promoted in this series is a lot of processed vegan food that is still not a healthy option. Processed vegan meat substitute, or cheese. Plant Based Diet to be healthy has to be whole, not processed, full of vegetables, fruits, grains, pulses. No oil!

And why all the Americans companies have to immidiatelly go global? Take over the world? Can't you guys just stay local and let other communities in the world just stay healthy. Why they have to buy processed cashew nuts if they can just eat them raw? Why producing a processed vegan sausage? People who do not want to eat animal products do not want to eat sausages. Simple food like grains, pulses, vegetables take very little time to prepare. We should be going back to nature, to simplicity. Instead we exploiting now cashew farms because we need to produce tons of fake cheese? Vegan means eating fresh, minimal processed food. Vegan eating vegan cookies, and oily stews with fake meat is still not healthy.

Hi, I'm vegan by the way.

Throughout the 4 episodes, several times vegan diet is refered as the one with less proteins, or the one with limited protein sources. The few ready vegan meals they showed us looked tiny and like a side dish not a whole meal.

But, there are so many sources of proteins for vegan diet? All kind of beans, lentils, tofu, tempeh, seitan, whole grain pasta, nuts, just from top of my head.

When I first went vegan, for two months I was using nutrition calculator to make sure I get enough proteins (I was also working out a lot back then). It was easy. Everyone could do it.

I feel like people from the study didn't give enough resources like this to the vegan twins. Teaching them how much they should actually eat a day and what are their protein options.

At the beginning they also say that vegan diet lack some nutritions like B12 and iron. And yeah OK, but in the real world we vegans just get our supplements for these, so it's not like we don't have access to that. I wonder if vegan twins got their supplements.

Anyway, good documentary. I learnt a lot. I loved the side stories like the one about that fancy New York restaurant or the chicken farmer.

Happy veganuary 2024!

There is a lot of fear lingering and very old information in this series. What made it interesting was how the twins were doing, unfortunately there was very little in the series about the twins. Vegan or carnivor, eat what you want. But do not tout the very best of veganism/food in comparison to the very worst of carnivore/food. There is a lot of difference between high quality meat and the garbage we are offered at the store, just as there is with the fruits/veggies at the store.

Bottom line, eat the best food you can get your hands on, get out and walk, get extra sugar and overly processed food out of your diet, get some fresh air...these simple, non-expensive changes will do wonders.

If you came way thinking this was biased, you're not as open and more insecure about your dietary choices than you think. Information was presented very clearly and really adds further evidence to what we already know. The China Study has been out for some time. The Mediterranean diets and traditional Japanese diets all point in the same direction, next to no meat and dairy in moderation. These people live longer and healthier without health care systems to subsidise them. The information has been there for a long time, and many viewers of this documentary/study through their ratings still choose to ignore the science until it's says what they seemingly want it to say.

I object to the presentation of this series. It says, it's about the experiment. But it's not. Except for episode 1, there is hardly anything about the participants. It's about how bad the food industry is, and how bad meat is for you. I agree absolutely that the meat industry is very bad. The word alone tells you that. But it's the skewed info on the series I don't like. Just say it upfront. We want to convince you, that veganism is best. You should not eat meat. We will show you a lot of bad things about the food industry, in order to make you change to vegan. That is the point of the series.