Liam Hemsworth gave his “Hunger Games” co-star, Woody Harrelson, credit for inspiring him to start researching veganism. “After all the information I gathered about the mistreatment of animals, I couldn’t continue to eat meat,” Hemsworth told Men’s Journal in 2015. While a nutritionist had previously encouraged the actor to increase his red meat consumption, Hemsworth said that following this advice seemed to make him feel more poorly than before, providing him with further confirmation that he was making the right move by going vegan. In 2016, the dietary decision also earned him the title of PETA’s sexiest male vegetarian celebrity.
But while giving up meat initially improved the way he felt, in 2020, Hemsworth told Men’s Health that he had to give his eating habits another major overhaul after he got a kidney stone. As he explained, his veganism was to blame. “My particular kidney stone was a calcium-oxalate kidney stone. It forms from having too much oxalate in your diet,” he said. “Oxalates are really high in a lot of vegetables, specifically spinach, almonds, beetroot, potatoes.” In addition to having to reevaluate his views on eating meat, Hemsworth had to undergo surgery to have the kidney stone removed. “It was one of the most painful weeks of my life,” he said.
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In response to Hemsworth’s revelation, The Beet pointed out that he apparently could have simply changed which veggies he was consuming instead of reintroducing meat to his diet.
