You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment

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!

I initially started watching this series because of the identical twins and how they were going to eat for the next 8 weeks. What I didn't expect is a mulit-episode infomercial on why you should eat plant-based foods. Look, I get it. Meat bad, plants good. Don't label a show as an experiment on identical twins when it's really a promotional video for a plant-based lifestyle. You're making it sound like anyone who eats meat should feel guilty about every aspect of the environment, social issues, health issues, etc. That's just not the case across the board. The twins we're the best part of this show, and I am very disappointed it wasn't more about them. By episode 3, the twins are hardly in it.

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.

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.

I agree with a lot of the reviews, specifically the ones who mentioned the shows being pro vegan. What did the mayor of NYC have to do with this study? Nothing. The whole sexual thing and checking the heat of peoples genitals was just SO out there and really didn't need to be in the shows. The education about the cow/pig/chicken farming was interesting. I don't eat those things but was still interesting. I've also never seen salmon like what they showed in the shows, that was the nastiest piece of fish I've ever seen. I'd like to have known more about their blood test results, I don't think we ever know what their good cholesterol # was. I wanted to know if their iron levels changed, that kind of info. Did their blood pressure change much, and other vitamin levels. All the men seemed pretty fit too, should have had chubby guys since it would be nice to see if the vegan diet helped the guys.