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Guy selling a book sounds like bullshit. A 2017 study finds "no evidence that following a vegetarian diet, semi-vegetarian diet or a pesco-vegetarian diet has a

Guy selling a book sounds like bullshit. A 2017 study finds "no evidence that following a vegetarian diet, semi-vegetarian diet or a pesco-vegetarian diet has an independent protective effect on all-cause mortality." N = 267,180 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28040519/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28040519/ Broadly speaking, a vegan diet is a diet of deficiencies. (Meta-analysis from oxford) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2018.1437024 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2018.1... And probably harmful for brain health. http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/vegan-diets-and-the-brain/?utm_content=buffer85659 http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/vegan-diets-and-the-brain/?utm_...

baxtr 8y ago
Are you confounding vegan and vegetarian? Also, the study didn’t control for any of the other variables of his diet for example low sugar intake. You can eat as much vegetables as you like, if you eat a lot of sugar, your diet is still unhealthy. Even if the paper holds for vegan there is still a difference in living longer and living health. That’s why I stated the health span, too. I really recommend reading the book. Its evidence is based not only on large cohort studies like this one, but also on other sources like centennial studies, biochemical pathways etc. It is probably the best source for understanding what food does with our bodies as of today.
- exolymph 8y ago
  *conflating
  - baxtr 8y ago
    you're right... thanks. Can't edit no more though
greglindahl 8y ago
The only thing worse than the pro-vegan whataboutism that you replied to is anti-vegan propaganda like your last link. Sheesh. And the Oxford study has a whole lot of "due to poverty" evidence. "This recommendation is bad because it does't work in Kenya in areas of subsistence farming, where the diet is already kinda shitty" -- really?
- Schumer 8y ago
  Thank you. Finally a skeptic who doesn't have an agenda.

baxtr 8y ago

Are you confounding vegan and vegetarian? Also, the study didn’t control for any of the other variables of his diet for example low sugar intake. You can eat as much vegetables as you like, if you eat a lot of sugar, your diet is still unhealthy. Even if the paper holds for vegan there is still a difference in living longer and living health. That’s why I stated the health span, too. I really recommend reading the book. Its evidence is based not only on large cohort studies like this one, but also on other sources like centennial studies, biochemical pathways etc. It is probably the best source for understanding what food does with our bodies as of today.

exolymph 8y ago
*conflating
- baxtr 8y ago
  you're right... thanks. Can't edit no more though

greglindahl 8y ago

The only thing worse than the pro-vegan whataboutism that you replied to is anti-vegan propaganda like your last link. Sheesh. And the Oxford study has a whole lot of "due to poverty" evidence. "This recommendation is bad because it does't work in Kenya in areas of subsistence farming, where the diet is already kinda shitty" -- really?

Schumer 8y ago
Thank you. Finally a skeptic who doesn't have an agenda.