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Re:Meat consumption and risk of 25 conditions: outcome-wide ... by nvilcins on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @09:09AM (#26328450)
Most of the vegetarians/vegans I know have a pretty shitty diet - lots of highly processed grains (bread, pasta, and other fillers), sweets, desserts, sugary drinks (and other "regular" products with added sugars), and otherwise not too diverse of a diet.

Don't know if that's a representative sample of vegetarian/vegan population, but it's not unlikely the case. Hence, the link between the veg* diet and cancer is not hard to imagine.

The main issue with (a lot of) these research papers, other than having bad data to begin with, is the lack of control for other parameters: what exactly do those surveyed meat-eaters and vegetarians eat, and what their lifestyle choices are (e.g., vegetarians are generally more health-conscious, so they often exercise, don't smoke/drink as much, etc.).

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Re:Meat consumption and risk of 25 conditions: outcome-wide ... by tasty_freeze on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:31AM (#26329631)
> Most of the vegetarians/vegans I know have a pretty shitty diet

In my observations (I'm in the US) this statement is true of the majority of the population, including omnivores. 2/3 of the US didn't become overweight (1/3 obese) by being mindful of their diets.

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Re:Meat consumption and risk of 25 conditions: outcome-wide ... by kranner on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:16AM (#26329381)
> Don't know if that's a representative sample of vegetarian/vegan population, but it's not unlikely the case.

There are a lot of vegetarians in India on traditional diets that don't include highly processed foods with added sugar. I think it's safe to say that most Indians eat vegetarian food most of the time. Meat is just something most people in India can't afford everyday.

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Re:Meat consumption and risk of 25 conditions: outcome-wide ... by vlod on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @04:39PM (#26334998)
I think it's worth understanding why someone is a 'veggie'.

For me it was for standard 'moral' reasons and so eating junk food is still acceptable.

Eventually I picked up the health reasons angle (and discarded all the junk food) and moving to mostly a plant based diet (mostly vegan).

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