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> 6-8 ounces per day is less than the average American consumes (average daily American consumes ~12 ounces/day), but I also don't think that you'd call the ave
by lelanthran 3y ago
> 6-8 ounces per day is less than the average American consumes (average daily American consumes ~12 ounces/day), but I also don't think that you'd call the average American diet a "healthy" omnivore diet. The study diet would come out to 180ish lbs per year, which is more than 3x the global average.
I think "less than the average American consumes" is a more accurate indication of an omnivorous diet than "3x the global average", because the global average is filled with malnourished populations.
Even when looking at the 5 ounce average for European diets, that's still including a lot of impoverished countries.
A healthy diet, on definition alone, is not going to be found in impoverished countries.
- MostlyStable 3y agoI don't feel like I have to try and restrict my meat consumption consciously at all, and I eat about 80 lbs a year, which is less than half of what was in this diet. I very much doubt that someone who was trying to come up with a "healthy" omnivorous diet in a vacuum would include 6-8 ounces of meat per day. Neither the American nor global averages were meant to be examples of what "should" be eaten, they were merely reference points. Even the USDA recommends less than 6 ounces per day, and if I had to guess, their recommendations are, if anything, on the high side. And of course, all of this is ignoring that this study is hopelessly confounded with caloric differences between the two diets.