| Dark_Lord_2008 said: Paleo and Ketone diets that limit carbohydrates have been more successful for weight loss, provide adequate protein intakes and meet mineral and vitamin requirements. Vegetarian/Vegan diets lack calories and fail to meet mineral, vitamin and protein requirements. There is too much sugar in fruit and eating too much fruit is not good for health. Bread, rice, pasta, potatoes and starch carbohydrates are well known for making people overweight and contributing towards the obesity epidemic. Vegetarian/Vegan diet is a political decision based on being an environmentalists wanting to save animals by not eating animals. There are no health benefits from following a Vegan/Vegetarian diet due to the lack of protein, deficiencies in minerals/vitamins. |
This paleo narrative has been wildly debunked. There is no support for the idea that vegan diets fail to meet nutrient requirements, and in fact large population studies suggest that vegans are statistically the least likely to be deficient. The sugar in fruit is paired up with ample fibre and protein that slows the absorption of the sugar, and doesn't statistically contribute to weight gain. Fruit is the number one type of food correlated to health and long life in large population studies (beans are leafy greens vie for the second and third spots). The more fruit one eats, the lower one's risk of death from all-cause morality goes, and the less likely one is to suffer chronic disease. The more fruit one eats, the less likely one is to be obese, statistically. I'm not talking about a short-term diet, I'm talking about population studies that follow people for decades, even generations. Don't take my word for it, take the word of the World Health Organization: http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/fruit/en/index2.html
And didn't you just say that vegan diets are calorie deficient, and now you're saying eating carbohyrdrate foods leads to obesity, which is it?
Vegans on average have the same blood levels of protein as omnivores in most studies (and those studies that find a difference, tend to find *higher* blood levels of protein in vegans). Your claims are patently untrue. http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/protein.php
Additionally, your statement assumes high consumption of protein is good. It's not. Most people consume twice as much protein as is optimal for health. Paleo people often consume as much as three times what is ideal for human health, so that's going in the wrong direction. Paleo people are obsessed with avoiding phytates because they fear they have an anti-nutrient effect on iron and zinc, and yet consuming vitamin C deactives the anti-nutrient effect of phytates while leaving their wonderful anti-cancer properties in-tact. However, high levels of protein have an anti-nutrient effect in the body far worse than phytates ever could. Paleo "science" regularly fails peer review (if it's even submitted to peer review in the first place), so be careful of what you read from paleo sources.
