Vegan nonsense
Mar. 30th, 2019 12:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anniethebruceWas watching a video by a vegan YouTuber I've recently subscribed to, and he claims that a whole food vegan diet is the most healthy possible diet.
Ok, fine, could be. What's the study? It's one thing I like about him, he cites his sources, and goes to the actual original sources in scientific and medical journals and whatnot. So I was expecting something interesting on the specific claim that it reduces the risk of coronary artery disease.
What did I get?
A study that looked at people already having issues, comparing people not on a whole food vegan diet to people who are. Just those two groups.
Was the first group vegans eating a lot of processed food? Omnivores? Carnivores? Vegetarians? Fruitarians? A mix of some or all of the above? No clue. I don't know if the referenced study went into this, but the video I was watching did not and it's sort of completely relevant so I'd be surprised someone who seems to know their way around scientific papers would miss that.
This, at best, establishes that under some circumstances, people can improve their health by switching from what they are currently eating to a whole food vegan diet. It does not establish the general case superiority of the latter. I just skipped the rest of the video.
Ok, fine, could be. What's the study? It's one thing I like about him, he cites his sources, and goes to the actual original sources in scientific and medical journals and whatnot. So I was expecting something interesting on the specific claim that it reduces the risk of coronary artery disease.
What did I get?
A study that looked at people already having issues, comparing people not on a whole food vegan diet to people who are. Just those two groups.
Was the first group vegans eating a lot of processed food? Omnivores? Carnivores? Vegetarians? Fruitarians? A mix of some or all of the above? No clue. I don't know if the referenced study went into this, but the video I was watching did not and it's sort of completely relevant so I'd be surprised someone who seems to know their way around scientific papers would miss that.
This, at best, establishes that under some circumstances, people can improve their health by switching from what they are currently eating to a whole food vegan diet. It does not establish the general case superiority of the latter. I just skipped the rest of the video.
