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last92 said: To be honest, there's no one right and healthy way of eating. Vegans that do not know anything about nutrition may have serious health problems (in fact, this has happened already) while other vegans that pay attention to their nutrients requirements do not. Similarly, people eating too much meat while completely ignoring vitamins and minerals may have serious problems, but eating meat is not bad per se. There are a lot of examples of countries with very high life expectancy where meat is consumed regularly. It all depends on what other things you eat together with your meat. Vegans stating that meat is bad period just don't know shit about nutrition. However, it is important to eat healthy meat...unfortunately, many people just eat junk meat from animals raised in awful conditions. |
Not eating meat isn't just about nutrition. The populations who eat the most meat have the most cancer, the most diabetes, the most stroke, the most heart disease, the most neurological disorders, the most sexual dysfunction, etc. The populations who eat the most plants tend to have the fewest instances of all of the above.
The average North American vegan is deficient in three essential nutrients. That sounds bad until you realize that the average North American omnivore is deficient in seven essential nutrients.
What's optimal for nutrition is to eat foods that have high levels of nutrition per calorie. Animal foods tend to rate extremely low on this scale. Presuming the same number of calories, eating a wide variety of animal products in your diet will mean less nutrition in total and less nutrition variety than eating a wide variety of whole plant foods.
And then there's the microbiome. Eating even small amounts of meat reduces the diversity of your gut bacteria, and we're learning more every month about why that's a bad thing.
