Fraud and posturing pure and simple. Of that neither more nor less accuse Rawvana, a very famous raw vegan youtuber who has a large legion of followers (1,3 million on Instagram and more than 2 million on YouTube) precisely because of his eating style and who even sells nutritional programs. The problem? Who has been caught in the Stories of a friend eating fish. The scandal is served.
What is raw veganism?
El raw veganism It is a type of diet based on the intake of raw foods and always of vegetable origin. All the dishes that are consumed following this diet therefore exclude any element of animal origin (hence the veganism) while avoiding that the food has been subjected to cooking. It should not be confused with raw food, in which everything is also consumed without cooking, but it should not necessarily not come from animals (for example, they do eat carpaccio or drink raw milk).
People who follow a raw vegan diet usually eat vegetables and fruits, nuts, cereals and sprouted legumes or seaweed, among other examples. The idea behind this style of ingestion is that the superior cooking to a certain degree they deactivate enzymes, destroy some vitamins and modify other nutrients, which is why many times we do not take full advantage of what a food offers. At the same time, one is against the consumption of everything that comes from animals out of respect for them and for nature.
Caught eating eggs and fish
Rawvana is the nickname of Yovana Mendoza, a youtuber who has become famous precisely for promoting this type of food in her videos and Instagram posts. Such is its impact that Rawvana currently has a whole empire in which there is no shortage of food plans (low payment, of course), books and applications for the mobile phone. She also has a blog where she posts free recipes, so people can replicate them and get ideas, as well as exercise videos.
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With such a profile and staunch defense of raw veganism, you can imagine that the last thing we expected was to see Rawvana eating a fish dish... something that was not in the plans this time either. celebrities 2.0, of course. Apparently the youtuber shared lunch with several friends and one of them recorded an Instagram Stories in which she shows where she is and who she is with. In said video, Rawvana is then seen, who quickly realizes that she could see her plate and tries to cover it up (without any success). You can see it below:
In a matter of nothing the video went viral and it spread like wildfire on the internet, denouncing the great lie of this youtuber. Rawvana was missing for several days after the scandal until she decided to post a new video on her channel giving explanations and apologizing to his followers. Apparently, the influencer is including eggs and fish in her diet, as she explains, by medical prescription, since she had two years without her period coming down (It is what is called amenorrhea) and when the pertinent tests were carried out, he found that he had a significant lack of vitamins and a significant hormonal imbalance.
For this reason, on the recommendation of his doctor, he decided to incorporate these foods of animal origin into his diet, in addition to starting to consume cooked food again. Why didn't he confess it to his followers then? According to the youtuber, because "I needed time for myself [...] to heal myself" and to see how her body had changed with this decision and then share it with her audience. Only, of course, a Stories crossed her path and messed everything up.
The curious thing is that, as indicate en Women's Health Mag, instead of losing audience, his apology video has multiplied by ten its usual audience, although it is also due, of course, to the scandal set up and the reproductions of all the curious who, as a result of all this, have ended up looking for its channel - we include ourselves in the bag.
The comments towards the youtuber, yes, are much less kind, with quite a few reviews of her followers who do not believe anything in the explanations given and question that she has been selling a lifestyle that she herself admits has made her sick. On YouTube there are currently numerous videos in which other people are dedicated to analyzing Rawvana's apology video, giving their opinion why they believe that he is lying -is the general feeling- or giving his vision of this great controversy.
Rawvana probably felt fear of losing followers (and money) if she recognized that she had changed the type of diet that made her famous, for which she decided to continue pretending a lifestyle that she did not lead in one more example of the times of p that we live and how little we can believe what we see on social networks and many influencers today.
We will see how Rawvana is saved from this. If she can do it.