Sei ciò che mangi: gemelli a confronto

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.

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.

By the end of the 4 episodes, I was quite confused about the results and the ins and outs of what they ate, how they cooked the food themselves, how they trained, and the differences in the results. It started off really interesting with presenting the study and all its different components and what they could find out. Sadly, by the end they just focused on convincing people to go vegan. The context of the food industry etc especially the bacteria in some meat was quite interesting, but again it was quite heavily biased towards veganism, not showing one drawback of a full plant based diet and it felt like they were trying to do 2 things in one - the actual study and a documentary about the bad meat industry.

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!

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.