Yeah, many vegans still eat lots of fried or fatty foods and lots of fruit. Avacados are so fatty. Fruit, whilst good in moderation and obviously containing some beneficial vitamins etc still contains a ton of sugar. You may as well eat a pack of candy if your substitute is a fruit binge. You body doesn't know that full bag of grapes isn't candy. It just knows it's getting sugar. Fructose. It's deceiving and a common pitfall/trap people fall into. Quite understandably. If you juice a pack of grapes or oranges and drink it you'll experience a massive sugar rush. I've made the same mistake myself in the past before learning of it.
Tried a raw diet a few years back. Didn't fully cut out meat but massively reduced it. The results were really clear on the side of improvment. Skin was fresh and everyone commented on how well I was looking, asking what I was doing. I found most of the info in vids similar to those above but one in particular stood out. It was a professor from the US that ran a raw retreat of some kind. I forget the name of it. He gave a lecture and provided multiple accounts of people that would come there, turn to a raw diet slowly but surely and turn round all sorts of medical issues with science to back it up. They would often ween off their meds. Diabetics, blood pressure, some cancer cases, the list was pretty long. None were encouraged to come off their meds prematurely (if at all) but as they were tested daily they saw the science pushing for it as their ailments were clearing up. I'll see if I can find the video and add it to the thread.