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If you have a bad diet and you remove a significant source of protein and other nutrients from it, how is it a better diet?

• ben_w 4y ago
  I believe the name for what you're doing there is "begging the question". Vegan diets generally have protein and other nutrients.
  • waihtis 4y ago
    to my original point: > why I should exchange a well-functioning animal-based diet into a vegan one where I need to supplement by default to fulfill human needs applies also in the protein domain, seeing how vegan protein sources lack or have minimal concentrations of some essential amino acids, for instance
    • ben_w 4y ago
      That issue basically only happens if you eat exactly one plant, not if you eat at least two, because different plants miss different amino acids and most protein rich plants have most amino acids and the differences overlap nicely. This is so easy you're probably doing it already even as a meat eater: Mexican chilli with rice? Beans and rice compensate for each other's weaknesses. Peanut butter on bread? Peanuts and wheat cover each other. There are some things that are technically complete by themselves, but mycoprotein (Quorn) which I think is complete, isn't available for purchase everywhere. Conversely if you do single-foodsource-diet with meat, you can also get problems, most famously protein poisoning and scurvy.