(#12) Bill Clinton
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Saturday Night Live got a lot of mileage out of President Bill Clinton's love of fast food. However, the jokes became a lot less funny in 2010 when the former president woke up one morning feeling run-down. Clinton went to the hospital that same day and needed emergency heart surgery. Clinton previously had quadruple-bypass surgery in 2004 and needed a new set of stents inserted.
The emergency surgery was a wake-up call for Clinton, who wanted to not only see his daughter Chelsea get married, but also be around for his future grandchildren. He opted to try out a vegan diet and subsequently lost 30 pounds. He said:
I just decided that I was the high-risk person, and I didn't want to fool with this anymore. And I wanted to live to be a grandfather. So I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival.
(#3) Bellamy Young
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Bellamy Young has been a vegan since college. The Scandal actress contends that the change in diet helped with her cystic acne and energy level. Young used to have issues with digesting food before she switched over to a plant-based diet. Young ties the moment she went vegan to a chicken entree she was served in college. She explains:
It came to me in a very strange way. I was at college, it was sophomore year and I got the baked breast of chicken and they sort of plated it weird. As I lowered it down to my tray, it looked exactly like my mom’s little furry yippy dog when she’d roll over and want you to rub her tummy. That was it for me.
(#8) Ellen Pompeo
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Ellen Pompeo has played famed surgeon Dr. Meredith Grey on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy since 2005. In 2018, it was her own doctor who inspired the actress to adopt a vegan diet in order to help prevent breast cancer. During a routine health check, Dr. Kristi Funk told Pompeo about her book Breasts: The Owner's Manual. The read inspired the actress to become vegan and to also turn her husband and three children onto a plant-based diet.
The dietary change turned out to be an easier transition than she originally expected. Pompeo explains:
It’s super fun. I don’t think it’s tricky at all - it’s actually easier because meat you have to cook it before it goes bad. Grains and lentils and rice and beans, everything’s in the pantry already. You just have to get vegetables, but vegetables stay good for a week - and I think we all feel better.
(#11) Zac Efron
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Zac Efron sees his imperfections, even if the rest of the world does not. In order to keep his matinee idol looks and chiseled abs, Efron decided to experiment with a plant-based diet. The result of the dietary transition has been life-changing for the leading man:
Just like everyone else, I wake up, look in the mirror, and I see the imperfections and the bags under my eyes, and think, "Oh, man, is this really the best I've ever looked? I'm getting older? What the heck?" Recently what I've started doing is searching for the cure inside that's causing the symptoms of what I'm getting on the outside. Getting more sleep has really taken away the bags under my eyes, so I don't need to worry about it as much. There are other lifestyle changes - I've been experimenting with eating purely vegan. That's completely changed the way that my body works, and the way that I metabolize food, the way it turns into energy, the way that I sleep. It's been brilliant. It’s been great for my exercise, and great for my routine.
(#5) Russell Brand
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Russell Brand and then-wife Katy Perry announced in 2011 that they switched to a vegan diet after watching the documentary Forks Over Knives. The comedian/actor left the vegan lifestyle after a few years but made a return in 2019. The Brit has been a vegetarian since the age of 14.
He tweeted, "I've been baking like a maniac ever since. And I'm vegan now (again). #StandUpToCancer #GBBO @BritishBakeOff."
(#9) A Doctor Told will.i.am He Had High Blood Pressure And Cholesterol
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Rapper will.i.am decided in late 2017 that it was time to drop all animal products from his diet. The Black Eyed Peas singer credits a trip to the doctor's office for his switch to a vegan diet. The musician said that he initially went to the doctor because he had a cough that would not go away. During the visit, the doctor told him that he had high cholesterol.
He knew that the life of a traveling musician contributed to his poor diet. After going vegan, the singer went from 210 pounds to 188 pounds. He credits his doctor with helping him and saving the lives of his friend and others:
I talk to my doctor all the time, he helped save my best friend’s life. Taboo in the Black Eyed Peas had testicular cancer which he fought and beat, he helped Lance Armstrong, and he helped keep Steve Jobs alive for as long as he could.
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There are many types of vegetarianism, such as the freestyle (it’s Ok to break the rules once in a while) and the ascetic (no eggs, no milk, no butter, no cheese). There are several reasons for VEGETARIANISM: 1. Religious claims or vegetarian expressions of loyalty to religious denominations, ascetic forms of which are most common; 2. Purely for bodybuilding, weight loss, exercise, and so on, this is mostly freestyle. 3. For the mercy of the heart, one can not bear the animal because of their own appetite and was killed.
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