Angelina Jolie Says Being Vegan Nearly Killed Her

Angelina Jolie says that her extreme vegan diet nearly killed her. She gave eating red meat in an effort to be healthier, but said that it actually resulted in malnourishment. “I joke that a big juicy steak is my beauty secret. But seriously,I love red meat. I was a vegan for a long time, and it nearly killed me. I found I was not getting enough nutrition." Her partner Brad Pitt is rumored to be a strict vegetarian and the meat debate has been a big one in her house. "Brad hates seeing the children eating meat and he’s annoyed with how much red meat Angelina has," a source told the Daily Mail last year. Jolie doesn't specify the time frame she was vegan, but anyone who has followed her on the red carpet will recall her skeleton thin period. The 35-year-old brunette beauty also admits she enjoys seeing her hands “grow older” as it is a sign of how much she has grown up and matured as a mother to six children - Maddox, nine, Pax, six, Zahara, five, Shiloh, four, and two-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne - whom she raises with Pitt. “Happiness is when I look down at my hands and they are washing a baby. I can sort of see my hands grow older and I love it.”

Comments

[happy herbivore]

It is much easier to eat healthy on a vegan diet than an omnivorous one which is loaded with saturated fat and linked to diseases like cancer and debilitating conditions like asthma and Alzheimer's. Angelina clearly went about it wrong and considering how much money she has, why didn't she hire a chef or nutritionist to inform her first? or ask her partner who walks around hollywood with one of the sexiest, healthiest bodies on a strict vegetarian diet?

I'm also inclined to think this is a lie since for years she's said things like "I enjoy rats" remarking about how she lived on them while living in third world countries.

In any event, all diets need to be balanced - you need to eat a combination of fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes to be healthy. Eating what the earth has created for you is healthy, far more healthy than animal products full of hormones, cholesterol and fat.

and eating meat, particularly red meat as a so-called "humanitarian" is laughable. The single best thing you can do for humanity is to go vegan -- the grain that goes to feed cattle could instead feed those starving people she is trying to bring awareness to. An acre of land can produce 20,000 lbs of potatoes or a measly 165 lbs of meat! If all the world went veg, there would be no world hunger. Think about that, Angie.

Sounds to me like Angelina is to blame a vegan diet for her overriding selfish desire to eat animals and I'm not buying it

[HobokenKK]

Gotta agree with Happy Herbivore. So called 'humanitarian'.. okay, whatever Angelina. She should watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9qdPbmQZb0&feature=player_embedded

[fabiana]

I also think she is lying a bit and really think that she couldn't handle it. She has proven her self control skills are lacking, so she really just couldn't handle it and to make herself feel better, said it made her sick.

[Ashley]

A vegan diet doesn't kill people, and certainly is less harmful than a diet loaded with carcinogenic, cholesterol-ridden food. This is a dangerous message for Jolie to fling around carelessly. She's entitled to her opinion, but claiming that it was a vegan diet that nearly "killed" her and not a misinformed celebrity is as ignorant as it gets.

I once approved of this woman, but now I see she's nothing more than a tool and that she would rather stuff herself full of red meat than read a book on how to properly plan a vegan diet. A vegan diet may not be for every single body, but it's quite extreme to claim that it is a deadly force in the face of a clinically proven recipe for death: the modern American omnivorous diet.

[Kathleen2north@hotmail.com]

What is worse is that's she's giving the crud to the children.

[les]

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