Woody Harrelson is a totally crunchy hippie. He loves his tofu, he loves his solar panels, he loves surfing and Hawaii. It’s just the way he’s built, and I for one love it. Woody seems like a sweetheart (to me, at least, maybe not to the paparazzi). I get the feeling that Woody couldn’t be anything other than a crunchy hippie. It’s in his DNA or something. So it came a slight surprise to me to read Woody’s recent comments about why he turned vegan in his twenties. It wasn’t about hippie credibility or animal rights – the man just wanted to clear up his skin!
WOODY Harrelson didn’t become vegan just to protect animals — there was some vanity involved.
The star tells Maxim that he gave up dairy foods to help clear up his skin. “I was about 24 years old, and I had tons of acne,” he told the magazine. “I met some random girl on a bus who told me to quit dairy and all those symptoms would go away three days later.”
Harrelson added, “By God, she was right.”
[From Page Six]
I love that he took random advice from random girl on a bus. I totally believe that. As far as veganism clearing up a person’s skin, I’ve actually heard that before. I’ve never really seen it in practice though – most of the vegans I’ve known in my life don’t have great skin. Although, to be fair to veganism, I think the bad skin might have had more to do with all of the “I’m too high to wash my face” nonsense. That being said, I’ve known a lot of vegetarians who have had great skin, so maybe there’s something there.
It may have cleared up his acne, but it didn’t clear up his fug.
Sorry, but I have never liked this man for some reason.
I remember Woody wearing a beautiful white suit made of hemp fiber, another of his related interests.
Easy to lead a vegan life that is a simple preference, cool for Woody.
I like Woody
I wish i could have a care free life like that! Oh my do i wish i could. I would also like to be a vegan but I love a good hamburger every now & again.
I’m a vegetarian and when I cut out meat products my body totally changed. I’m much leaner now than when I indulged in cheeseburgers, I lost like 15 pounds and went down 2 sizes in my jeans. I never had good skin in my teens but now people compliment me all the time on a “glowing” complexion. I’m just not sure if that’s growing past adolescent acne or if its the veggies… Either way, I’ve really experienced a lot of good change since switching off meat and I would recommend it to anyone interested 🙂
If these are recent pics, he looks really yummy now.
Doesn’t matter why you give up animal products, you eventually see many reasons to do so.
Birdie, Could you please give me some examples of your day to day diet? Im am very interested. What do you eat dairy since your just a vegetarian? Do you miss meat?
I am addicted to skim milk and bloody beefsteak.
I wear a size 4 and have lovely skin….
I was a vegetarian for 20 years and never had a great complexion. I stopped eating tofu and soy products, and started eating meat and dairy again this year after finding out I had major health problems (namely hypothyroidism).
I now have a much healthier attitude towards food, and I’m feeling much much better. Before considering becoming a vegetarian, have a look at the Weston Price Foundation website.
I’m a lacto-ovo vegetarian. I’m also a lard-@rse but with decent skin, which I didn’t have in my teens when i still ate meat. Although I have creases/winkles since my teens, they’ve not increased hugely in my 30s, even though I’m bad at moisturising. But, in all fairness, I avoid the sun generally so it all helps.
I don’t particularly like Woody as a person, but I like watching him on screen. When it comes to comedy he constantly steals the show (Will & Grace, Ed TV especially)
Dude,
Its easy. very very easy. Many many books and cookbooks available, but my vegan wife does most the cooking, I’m still a fast food junkie and even then it is easy.
The issue with dairy is that humans do not produce the enzymes to break dairy down properly.
Yeah I miss meat sometimes (left over turkey sandwiches after thanks giving!) but there are so many “faux meat” options now. The one think i still indulge with cheese is pizza but that’s about it (sandwiches i use soy cheeses (most still have some dairy enzymes)) Pure Vegan cheeses or “rella” suck IMO.
I went Veg when I realized that if the food on my plate became much less appetizing when I could recognize what it was (cooked fish with heads still on, pig roasts). I realized that I was not being honest with myself as to where my food was really coming from. Additionally the conditions, resources used and pollution caused by factory livestock farms is completely insane.
When I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis is when i made the full change. When i dropped all dairy I dropped 30 lbs in about 5 or 6 weeks. I juice everyday (standard is carrot, apple, celery, parsely, ginger and spiked with blueberry or pomegrante juice… its insanely good)
Soy Milk is fantastic esp for cereals. And the protein fear is mostly that just fear. soy milk and yogurt have lots, bean and rice burritos, tofu dishes (tofu is mostly tasteless, it is simply protein, texture and takes on the flavor of what ever you cook it with). Boca burgers, Garden burgers, tofurkey slices..
It is a lifestyle change and i would walk into it gradually, but I think you’ll be pleasantly suprised how much better you feel over all and your energy levels skyrocket.
Bottom line, food choices are easy. Going full Vegan can be rough, at times, when going to some restaurants.
I don’t begrudge anyone who eats meat. That’s your choice. We have 5 y.o twins that have been raised veg and have talked a lot about it. We say “These are the rules of eating in the house, outside the house you need to learn to make your own choices.”
sorry for the ramble, don’t mean to intrude or preach, just trying to be helpful.
Cheers!
@ dude
Honestly, I became a vegetarian quite gradually. I phased out red meat first because its really not very good for the body or for the environment. Next came chicken, and turkey, all the birds. The hardest for me to give up was fish, because I loved sushi so so so much! It was a personal choice based on health and environmental concerns. A simple google search can educate you on the methane (green house gas) produced by a beef farm, not to mention a million other environmental reasons to go veggie… It’s truly astonishing! I never ate pork. Did you know pigs have the mental capacity of 3 year olds?! I had an uncle who kept a pig named Porky and I always loved that pig, and it loved me back 🙂 eating pork seemed as gross to me as eating a pet dog.
When I stopped eating meat, I noticed I had much more energy. Not to be gross but my bowl movements became much more regular, and I began to literally just drop weight – without changing my exercise routine (which isn’t much of a routine, I really just walking to and from work and a pilates class on saturdays)…
Anyway now my diet consisted of a lot of fruit and vegetables. Fruit juice isn’t the same as fresh fruit. I don’t drink milk, but I will eat cheese. I’ve tried to go vegan but cheese is so good, and it doesn’t hurt the animals on dairy farms so I buy organic and try not to eat too much. I don’t drink cows milk. My grandmother’s pediatrician when she was a little girl is still alive (she’s in her 110s!!!) and she used to swear her good health was because she never drank cows milk! Anyway, I love soy milk. I’m proud to say that’s an obsession I’ve passed on to others – my boyfriend gets angry when coffee shops don’t carry soy! To make up for protein, which the body needs, I eat a lot of nuts, beans and soy products including tofu. Some people (like my boyfriend) hate tofu. He thinks the texture is gross, but you can really get used to it, and it picks up whatever flavor you cook it in so you can make it taste like anything.
Here’s a vegetarian food pyramid from the mayo clinic:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/medical/IM02769
One of my favorite meals is stir-fry veggies with tofu and sobu noodles. yummmmy!
There is tons of literature, cook books, etc. for vegetarians and vegans. If you are interested it’s definatly a lifestyle I would recommend.
I’ve been a lacto ovo vegetarian for about two years. Before hand I had been trying and failing to lose the last 10-15 pounds of weight that I had put on since high school for over a year. The vegetarian lifestyle change has made all the difference for me. Not only do I feel happier that no being had to be exterminated in order for me to eat, but I’m also getting much more creative and concientious about my food choices every week, month, year etc. I would really reccomend it to anybody willing to make a healthy commitment to themselves and the earth!
I’m vegan and I have perfectly clear skin. Before I went vegan I had the occasional hormonal breakout, as most women do…
Also, I’m never “too high to wash my face.” The stereotype that vegans are all stoner hippies couldn’t be more far from the mark.
I have to say – I am vegan, and not to toot my own horn, but I have great skin. People compliment me all the time, and I really believe it has to do with not consuming dairy & the hormones of other animals.
Also, people who eat meat love to say that “all the vegans” they know have crappy skin. Uhhh, like meat eaters know “so many” vegans. We’re only 2% of the population, so I doubt you know a lot. All the vegan *I* know have beautiful skin!
I think people have to decide for themselves what is right for them. I tried the vegetarian lifestyle for a while and it just didn’t work for me. My mother is a vegetarian, and she’s perfectly happy. So, we go to lunch and I have the burger and she has the veggie plate. No problems.
I’m sure there are different dietary changes we can make that will affect how we feel and look; that only makes sense. But it’s not like the ONLY way to have clear skin is to cut out meat and dairy. Other things come into play such as genetic, drinking lots of water, etc.
Besides, if I gave up dairy it’d mean no more ice cream. And life without ice cream is not a life worth living…
been vegan for a few years hardcore veg my whole life. no meats no problems! my skin is always soft(says my boyfriend) and i cant remember the last time i broke out
xoxo
I realise this isn’t exactly in the veggie spirit of the article, but my skin cleared up tremendously when I went on Atkins for 6 months. I dropped cow’s milk for soy milk but I was still eating cheese, cream and obviously meat and fish.
However, I was doing it properly,(not just bacon and eggs all the time,) it actually makes you eat a surprising amount of veggies, more than I ever had done before!
All I can say is: Thank God for Morning Star! My boyfriend was vegan for 4 years and he’s now vegetarian. When I first tried cooking for him it was quite a challenge, but now a days it’s so EASY, all you have to do is go down to the local grocery store they have so many vegetarian substitutes. And it all tastes really good. The only thing I don’t like about eating vegetarian is there tends to be higher sodium in those Boca Burger, Morning Star products but if you are careful about it then it’s not really an issue.
Woody likes to eat his own sperm, and that may be responsible for clearing up his skin too. He is also hung.
Why is it that in the first picture he reminds me of that ever famous Sasquatch sighting photo?
I rock the paleo diet and my skin has never been better, nor have I ever felt healthier.
I am a vegetarian and my skin isnt so great. Skin has more to do with hormones than what you put in it. My health, weight and everything else has been better since a vegetarian but not my skin.
I’m with Kim. When I was vegan (now lacto-ovo) and now, my skin didn’t change at all. That is, except when I finally started thyroid meds (go dessicated thyroid!)
Also, just because you have a broken thyroid, it doesn’t mean you have to start eating meat all the time. I became lacto-ovo to increase my B12 (which my thyroid affected). It’s all about fixing the thyroid IMO.
I’m astounded so many people here are still fans of soy. Soy is goitrogenic – meaning, it suppresses thyroid function.
http://www.westonaprice.org/soy/darkside.html
In Asia, where soy has been consumed for thousands of years, most soy is consumed in a fermented form and is used as a condiment or flavoring, not as a meat replacement because it is an incomplete protein.
I don’t know about being a hippie being in his DNA, after all where I’m from his father is famous for murdering a local judge in the parking lot of his building in broad day light because he was hired by some drug dealers who the judge was prosecuting.
I might be one of the few who actually gained weight after turning veggie (lacto-ovo). But then I was 15 at the time and pretty skinny to start with, so I saw the weight gain as a good thing. I was 25 before my skin really began to clear up, my vegetarianism didn’t seem to help or hurt at all. Also, I spent nearly 2 years almost vegan (less than a serving of dairy/eggs per week), and it did nothing for my skin.
Well considering it’s the dairy that’s hypothesized to cause acne, then veganism would be the more logical choice – not vegetarianism.
And yes – there’s something there!
http://www.godairyfree.org/Personal-Stories/Personal-Stories/On-Veganism-and-Acne.html
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