{"id":27575,"date":"2026-02-24T20:29:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T01:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/?p=27575"},"modified":"2026-02-24T23:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:14:23","slug":"healthy-veganism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/healthy-veganism\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthy veganism"},"content":{"rendered":"

A complete oxymoron, ain’t no such thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Alexandra Jamieson, 50, built a life around being vegan. She literally wrote multiple books on the subject \u2014Living Vegan for Dummies\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Vegan Cooking for Dummies\u00a0<\/em>, among them \u2014 and cocreated the 2004 film\u00a0Super Size Me<\/em>, which documented what happened when her ex-husband, Morgan Spurlock, ate McDonald\u2019s for 30 days straight (spoiler: It wasn\u2019t good).<\/p>\n

Jamieson says she stumbled on veganism in her mid-20s. She was working at a corporate job and started having health issues, including frequent migraines. Doctors suggested pain medication, but she opted to see what she calls a \u201chippie doctor,\u201d who asked Jamieson about her diet. \u201cIt was mostly junk food,\u201d she admits. Her doctor recommended cutting out all animal products, sugar and gluten, and within a week, she felt better.<\/p>\n

Jamieson went all in, even going to culinary school and becoming a vegan chef. But things started to change after having her son. She started feeling tired, \u201cwhich, as a mom to a young kid, is really hard to pry apart,\u201d she says. Some days, she could barely get off the couch.<\/p>\n

And then the dreams about hamburgers started. \u201cAnd that was very disturbing,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

A doctor\u2019s visit revealed that Jamieson was severely anemic. Despite being a trained chef and doing everything \u201cwithin the vegan framework\u201d to make sure she was getting enough vitamins and minerals \u2014 \u201cI’d written books about it. I knew what you were supposed to do,\u201d she says \u2014 including cooking with cast iron pots and even getting intravenous iron infusions, it wasn\u2019t enough. \u201cI was like, this is crazy. This is not sustainable. And this is not how humans are supposed to stay healthy,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

So, after 10 years of being a vegan, Jamieson\u2019s red meat dreams became a reality: She bit into a burger. \u201cIt was delicious,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was like heaven. My body was like, Oh my God, thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As well it might be. There’s a reason, after all, why we humans have incisors, canines, and<\/em> molars in our mouths: we’re not herbivores, but omnivores<\/span>. Deal<\/em> with it, shitlib pussies.<\/p>\n

Glenn piles on thusly<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Helen was a vegetarian before her heart attack, after which she said \u201cscrew it, I\u2019m eating meat.\u201d I took her to Morton\u2019s in Nashville for her first steak and her reaction was simillar. I remember her saying \u201cwhat the hell was I thinking?\u201d after her first bite.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Heh. Indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A complete oxymoron, ain’t no such thing. Alexandra Jamieson, 50, built a life around being vegan. She literally wrote multiple books on the subject \u2014Living Vegan for Dummies\u00a0and\u00a0Vegan Cooking for Dummies\u00a0, among them \u2014 and cocreated the 2004 film\u00a0Super Size Me, which documented what happened…<\/p>\n

Would you like to know more? Healthy veganism<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bacon","wpcat-10-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27577,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27575\/revisions\/27577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}