| Flilix said: How did this thread get do much replies? Anyways, the best thing you can do for your health is eating a only a little bit of meat (max 500g per week, including fish and eggs). For enviormental reasons etc, becoming vegan is of course the best thing. However, that could possibly cause some health problems. |
Anything can cause health problems. Being vegan can cause health problems if you mostly eat processed foods (Oreo cookies are vegan, for example). Being an omnivore definitely causes health problems, since eating animal products is (for example) correlated and/or absolutely proven to relate to 14 of the top 15 causes of mortality in North America.
What health problems are you thinking of? Statistically being vegan causes the fewest health problems. Vegans are the only group that average in the ideal weight range. Vegans get the most nutrients per calorie on average, and have fewer nutrient deficiencies in studies. The Adventist health studies compare healthy populations (adventists tend to treat their bodies like temples and be active and avoid a lot of processed food), and the adventist vegans are healthier than the adventist vegetarians (which themselves are healthier than the adventist omnivores).
People obsess over vegans getting enough vitamin B12, yet huge numbers of omnivores also don't get enough vitamin B12. And most omnivores are fibre deficient, and dietary fibre is probably the single-most important nutrient, and vegans are the only group that get anywhere close to enough fibre in their diet.
