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But taken together (I believe the statement should be written with commas instead of periods) that sentence fully answers your question - what is eating correct

But taken together (I believe the statement should be written with commas instead of periods) that sentence fully answers your question - what is eating correctly? mostly plants, minimally processed. If you do that, you'll have no trouble managing proportions.

watwut 4y ago
It would be super easy to create malnutrition of some sort with this advice (anemia for instance). You might not even end up managing proportions - it is fairly easy to end up hungry and then binge on bread, nuts, dried fruits or whatever else if the diet don't contain what you need. The right composition of plants does matter great deal.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
  Why would you get anemia by following that advice?
  - watwut 4y ago
    Cause you need to eat specific plants to NOT get anemia over time. If your choice of plants is pepper, carrots, cucumber, tomatoes, salad, potatoes, you get no iron. You can eat plants and get enough iron (eat beans, also easy with meat), but it happens to be one condition I know about that most random dietary advice easily leads to.
    - 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
      Meat has iron. They don't say to be vegan, they say to eat mostly plants.
      - watwut 4y ago
        If all you follow is eat "mostly plants, minimally processed" you are unlikely to eat enough meat to get enough iron. Especially if you are a woman. For the record, you can get enough iron with vegan diet too, but you need to set up food that way. My issue is not with specific vegan/vegetarian/meat diet. My issue is with "all you need to know is this thing" kind of slogans a out diet, that are not true. You need to know more and you need to take into account a lot more too.
        2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
        TIL about iron. Women are recommended 18mg of iron a day which equals 27oz of red meat. Pregnant women are recommended to have 27mg of iron, which requires a whopping 40oz of red meat. That sounds ridiculous- is anybody reaching these numbers naturally?

watwut 4y ago

It would be super easy to create malnutrition of some sort with this advice (anemia for instance). You might not even end up managing proportions - it is fairly easy to end up hungry and then binge on bread, nuts, dried fruits or whatever else if the diet don't contain what you need. The right composition of plants does matter great deal.

2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
Why would you get anemia by following that advice?
- watwut 4y ago
  Cause you need to eat specific plants to NOT get anemia over time. If your choice of plants is pepper, carrots, cucumber, tomatoes, salad, potatoes, you get no iron. You can eat plants and get enough iron (eat beans, also easy with meat), but it happens to be one condition I know about that most random dietary advice easily leads to.
  - 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
    Meat has iron. They don't say to be vegan, they say to eat mostly plants.
    - watwut 4y ago
      If all you follow is eat "mostly plants, minimally processed" you are unlikely to eat enough meat to get enough iron. Especially if you are a woman. For the record, you can get enough iron with vegan diet too, but you need to set up food that way. My issue is not with specific vegan/vegetarian/meat diet. My issue is with "all you need to know is this thing" kind of slogans a out diet, that are not true. You need to know more and you need to take into account a lot more too.
      - 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
        TIL about iron. Women are recommended 18mg of iron a day which equals 27oz of red meat. Pregnant women are recommended to have 27mg of iron, which requires a whopping 40oz of red meat. That sounds ridiculous- is anybody reaching these numbers naturally?