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Plant based by itself doesn’t mean much either.

• cies 7y ago
  What do you mean? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant-based_diet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant-based_diet And a person "being vegan" clearly means something too. Just "vegan diet" and "vegan food" are, well, I'd call 'm short cuts. They're needlessly unspecific or even a little contradictory. Like saying "I eat vegetarian": I understand what one tries to say, but it is not entirely correct usage of language.
  • Ididntdothis 7y ago
    My point is that to make any connection between plant based diet and health you need to be more specific. You can eat balanced meals with fresh vegetables and good ingredients or you can eat pretzels or potato chips the whole day and drink soda. Both are plant based but the outcome will probably be different.
    • cies 7y ago
      Exactly, and that's where the term "whole food plant based" comes to rescue. There a serious list of MDs backing this group of diets based on strong evidence.
  • silicon2401 7y ago
    'Correct' language is determined by usage. If something is commonly used by a group of language speakers, that is the correct usage within that language. If you want to be really pedantic you can say that it forms a particular dialect, just as teenagers in school and presenters at an academic conference may both speak very different but equally correct forms of English within their dialects