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Re:A Milk Startup Takes on 300M Cows by simonsarris on Sunday July 08, 2018 @09:01PM (#17487239)
Guy selling a book sounds like bullshit. A 2017 study finds "no evidence that following a vegetarian diet, semi-vegetarian diet or a pesco-vegetarian diet has an independent protective effect on all-cause mortality."

N = 267,180

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28040519/

Broadly speaking, a vegan diet is a diet of deficiencies. (Meta-analysis from oxford)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2018.1...

And probably harmful for brain health.

http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/vegan-diets-and-the-brain/?utm_...

Re:A Milk Startup Takes on 300M Cows by baxtr on Monday July 09, 2018 @02:42AM (#17488382)
Are you confounding vegan and vegetarian?

Also, the study didn’t control for any of the other variables of his diet for example low sugar intake. You can eat as much vegetables as you like, if you eat a lot of sugar, your diet is still unhealthy.

Even if the paper holds for vegan there is still a difference in living longer and living health. That’s why I stated the health span, too.

I really recommend reading the book. Its evidence is based not only on large cohort studies like this one, but also on other sources like centennial studies, biochemical pathways etc. It is probably the best source for understanding what food does with our bodies as of today.

Re:A Milk Startup Takes on 300M Cows by exolymph on Monday July 09, 2018 @05:11AM (#17488921)
*conflating
Re:A Milk Startup Takes on 300M Cows by baxtr on Monday July 09, 2018 @05:50AM (#17489079)
you're right... thanks. Can't edit no more though
Re:A Milk Startup Takes on 300M Cows by greglindahl on Sunday July 08, 2018 @09:52PM (#17487437)
The only thing worse than the pro-vegan whataboutism that you replied to is anti-vegan propaganda like your last link. Sheesh.

And the Oxford study has a whole lot of "due to poverty" evidence. "This recommendation is bad because it does't work in Kenya in areas of subsistence farming, where the diet is already kinda shitty" -- really?