A Plant-based Diet Changed My Life | Pat McAuley | TEDxBabsonCollege
A Plant-based Diet Changed My Life | Pat McAuley | TEDxBabsonCollege
NOTE FROM TED: While some viewers may find the nutrition advice provided in this talk to be helpful, please do not look to this talk for medical advice. We’ve flagged this talk, which was filmed at a TEDx event, because it appears to fall outside TEDx’s content guidelines. This talk contains strong assertions about a specific diet that lack sufficient scientific evidence for general prescription. TEDx events are independently organized by volunteers. The guidelines we give TEDx organizers are described in more detail here: http://storage.ted.com/tedx/manuals/tedx_content_guidelines.pdf
Pat McAuley describes the impact that food has on his life and why he is an advocate of the health and environmental benefits of plant-based living. Pat McAuley is a Boston-based serial entrepreneur, author, speaker, and startup consultant for ethical/plant-based companies. He has started and successfully run companies in the tech space and food and beverage industries and has extensive experience building brands from scratch. After a plant-based diet changed his life, Pat shifted his focus to building and supporting businesses in the plant-based space. He is now an outspoken advocate of the health and environmental benefits of plant-based living. Pat is the host of the popular Eat Green Make Green Podcast and is currently working on opening one of the nation’s first fully plant-based beer halls, Rewild. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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Fact check this video…..
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Someone link a recipe for that breakfast veggie smoothie!
Man I wished you did more actual “on the farm” research and less research from your office building for your segment on cattle. If you visited a farm you would realize that the majority of them do no raise animals like that and that their well being and comfort are a huge part of why farmers work such long hours. It is exceptionally demoralizing to work so hard and so long for someone on social media to falsely extoll how cruel it is simply because they do not want to ask questions themselves or dig further into things other than someone else’s article. I get it, meat based diets aren’t for everyone but please do your research from valid sources before launching into tirades on how cruel animal lives are in some select areas. A beef cow for example, the ones raised for their meat production, have their calves stay with them for many months, sometimes almost a full year, before being weaned. Thank you for your viewpoints expressed, however for me the blatant lack of research into a significant portion of your segment sadly makes me second guess every either statement and finding you pushed.
Thank you
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It’s horrible how we treat animals to consume them.
Howell Cove
TEDx How can you say there is no evidence to support the recommendation of a plant based diet, when there is overwhelming science based evidence everywhere, even supported by international organisations such as the WHO?
Judah Village
Pains around my heart out the fear of God and death me, and I immediately went vegan. I’m less than a month in, but feel too good physically to go back. I feel better physically than I have in years!
I wonder what blood type he is…
And to think now there’s drs on YouTube saying plants are trying to kill youb
Where is the study about fish (causing cancer). I am having trouble giving that up. I will research this also. Been “trying” to be more whole food plant based for a couple years. Recently listening to doctors that promote this lifestyle. I am ready to commit. Thanks!
Rodriguez Betty Thompson Jennifer Perez Gary
I could have done without the virtue signaling at the end. That’s why vegan diets are looked down upon as so pathetic…those who push it make emotional statements.
It’s almost one year since I went plant based and this includes no oil,salt,sugar.
To say that my life and brain took a complete 360, would be an understatement. Only vegans can relate.💯💯
mmmmm beans
I want to change my diet to be vegan but I do not know how to cook with just veggies.
wonder why lions arent vegan too…
I really love this talk. Good job!
now a days… wt
. . . a great testimony . . .
Howe Rest
I don’t know, I hear that people get off plants and eat meat based. They feel so much better. I think it could depend on each individual person. Personally, I’ve been going off of meat slowly over the last few years and now can hardly eat any of it. But I do like Greek yogurt with no sugars added, and lots of probiotics.
Wish more people felt this way xxxm👍❤️💋🌈🍒
Plant based for a month now
Don’t see a difference
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I love how Pat highlights the environmental impact of our food choices. LyfeFuel aligns with those values, supporting both health and planet.
People are getting life changing benefits with carnivore diets also. Its all the processed food, sugar, bad oils, chemicals etc. that are the problem. So if you’re doing a plant-based diet just make sure you’re checking the ingredients.
It breaks my heart how animals are slaughtered.
Allen Michael Lee Eric Smith Deborah
amazing story… !!
I was a vegetarian for 21 years. Mostly vegan. Started eating animal products again a couple of weeks ago. No way! My body hurts more than it has in decades!! I was literally hobbling around the house today like I was 100 years old.
Starting again tomorrow. I had my two week rendezvous, and I am not a fan. I fell for the jargon of needing more protein in my 50s due to hormones. So I just thought why not try animal products? No no no no don’t do this! My body is so mad at me.🤦🏻♀️
I was plant based whole my life, and was constantly ill every winter. Now I switched to animal based diet and feel a lot better. My depresion and arthritis have gone, and I do not get cold so easy.
If we only know something because the WHO tells us the. We are in trouble!
It’s fascinating to hear testimonies from both strictly plant-based and strictly meat based advocates. Both of these groups claim to have the same benefits from those diets. (Which I believe based on strong experiential and anecdotal examples) these two groups should have more conversations with each other. Is the common denominator the elimination of perhaps processed foods?
12:05 wow. Considering giving up meat and this really hit me.
Our creator God made no mistake when he gave mankind the proper healthy diet, even somen animals are vegetarian. God even said for the animals food, the green herb for meat.
Genesis chpt.1.vrs 29 to mankind and vrs 30 to the animals .
Why are vegetarians so religious?
A very meaningful speech that we should all listen to. Buddhism also believes this principle that when eating meat you are exposed to all aspects of the animal including fear and anxiety to name just a couple.
Quite the misinforming and misleading presentation.I found his logic to be sad.I’m depressing and not factually bound.
Why don’t all of fish and birds of prey and animals Have cancer joint pain and aggressively depressive?
Your profound awkaing is better explained by a psychosocial developmental stage transition and maturation of brain axons.
Emotional dribble sorry.
Ah yes, the vegetarian lifestyle—nature’s way of saying, ‘Hey, maybe don’t eat that cow, try this weird-looking bean instead.’ Truly, a noble pursuit of health, ethics, and the inexplicable urge to tell everyone at the party that you don’t eat meat. But let’s get serious here, folks—because a well-balanced vegetarian diet can provide all the necessary nutrients if you avoid the common pitfalls, like subsisting entirely on bread, cheese, and sadness.
Now, before the protein police show up, let’s run through some vegetarian powerhouses: lentils? Absolute units. Chickpeas? Mighty warriors. Tofu? Well, it exists. And let’s not forget the Omega-3 struggle—because while fish are off the table, you can still get those brain-boosting fats from flaxseeds, walnuts, and the sheer willpower required to sit through Thanksgiving dinner with your family.
In conclusion, a vegetarian diet can be healthy, ethical, and even delicious—assuming you don’t fall into the trap of replacing meat with processed junk food. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go read a 14-paragraph essay in the replies from a guy named Greg who insists humans are ‘designed to eat raw elk meat’ because of his ‘ancestral instincts.’
Went plant based a year ago and never felt better.
I am 40 y.o. and had been enjoying veganism for 9.5 years.
The part about energy levels resonated with me. Switching to plant-based, especially with help from LyfeFuel, has made a big difference.
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