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re: Study: Vegetarians Less Healthy than Meat Eaters
Posted on 4/1/14 at 11:59 am to JOJO Hammer
Posted on 4/1/14 at 11:59 am to JOJO Hammer
These results make me very happy, but they feel like an April Fool's joke. Or some sort of mass population control conspiracy orchestrated by the WHO.
"Eat lots of meat and cheese, less fruits and vegetables, smoke around your kids for their sake, and start consuming alcohol."
Regardless, I shall oblige them (minus the smoking)
"Eat lots of meat and cheese, less fruits and vegetables, smoke around your kids for their sake, and start consuming alcohol."
Regardless, I shall oblige them (minus the smoking)
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Posted on 4/1/14 at 12:01 pm to Peazey
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If God had meant for us to be vegetarians, He wouldn't have made beef so delicious.
Great bumper sticker: if God didn't mean us to eat animals, then why'd he make them out of meat?
Posted on 4/1/14 at 12:03 pm to Peazey
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Really I think that all you have to do is look at our teeth. What does the structure suggest as our natural diet?
by that logic, all you have to do is look at men's breasts and you'll realize they were meant to breastfeed.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 12:06 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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I'm not aware of any vegetarians there.
There is one, in particular. Seems to be a nice person.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 12:08 pm to McLemore
I don't think that's an accurate analogy at all. Under normal conditions, do men's breasts lactate?
ETA: I think using structure of teeth to determine diet is a pretty widely spread method in the scientific community for determining diet of animals both living and extinct. I'm sure you know better though.
ETA: I think using structure of teeth to determine diet is a pretty widely spread method in the scientific community for determining diet of animals both living and extinct. I'm sure you know better though.
This post was edited on 4/1/14 at 12:11 pm
Posted on 4/1/14 at 12:10 pm to JOJO Hammer
I don't know about studies, but good sense tends to lead me to the conclusion that BALANCE and portion control are a much more factual reason for health than eating no meat or arse loads of meat and maybe a little BS portion of pathetic greens if that even.
IOW, I find vegan diets to be just as unhealthy as the carnivorous rampage that goes on most places in this country and the poor vegetable becomes the red headed stepchild on the plate, if it even makes an appearance at all.
IOW, I find vegan diets to be just as unhealthy as the carnivorous rampage that goes on most places in this country and the poor vegetable becomes the red headed stepchild on the plate, if it even makes an appearance at all.
This post was edited on 4/1/14 at 12:18 pm
Posted on 4/1/14 at 12:16 pm to JOJO Hammer
This makes sense. Humans need protein. Meat contains protein. Humans were meant to eat meat.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 12:21 pm to RollTide1987
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This makes sense. Humans need protein. Meat contains protein. Humans were meant to eat meat.
True, but similarly humans need fruits and vegetables for proper nutrition, and look at the pathetic attention it gets most places you eat compared to the fixation on protein. It's not even close to being balanced.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 12:27 pm to JOJO Hammer
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Astonishingly the only subset section of information was that children exposed to tobacco smoke have a statistically significant 22 percent reduction in lung cancer in later life.
Well shite. Guess I'm good to go. I'd rather take my chances though, the 3 rounds of pneumonia before 10 sucked. The funny thing is, as soon as I moved out, those frickers quit smoking
Posted on 4/1/14 at 1:42 pm to Mike da Tigah
Gotta have me some peas, butter beans and broccoli.
But no way am I giving up beef, pork and venison.
But no way am I giving up beef, pork and venison.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 1:54 pm to JOJO Hammer
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Potential limitations of our results are due to the fact that the
survey was based on cross-sectional data. Therefore, no statements
can be made whether the poorer health in vegetarians in our study
is caused by their dietary habit or if they consume this form of diet
due to their poorer health status. We cannot state whether a causal
relationship exists, but describe ascertained associations.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 2:01 pm to JOJO Hammer
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This is not the first time counter-intuitive research
let's see, we have been eating meat for hundreds of thousands of years. Eating meat also helped our brains evolve to the point that modern humans have. So I don't see how it is counter-intuitive.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 2:19 pm to Peazey
"Eating red meat won't kill you. Now eating some green meat that will kill you." - Chris Rock
Posted on 4/1/14 at 2:19 pm to JOJO Hammer
If any of you cared to read the abstract, which was not linked in the article you posted, you would find this "study" was strictly interviews with people and their reported "perceived" health. Their actual medical history was not analyzed. The study also reported a low number of vegetarians in the study....343 out of 15,000. The study did find the the subjects with the best perceived health were on a Mediterranean diet which generally consists of eating some meat but mostly fruits and veggies.
The author of the study states the limitations of the study can not determine if being vegetarian is unhealthy. Only that further study is needed.
Abstract
The author of the study states the limitations of the study can not determine if being vegetarian is unhealthy. Only that further study is needed.
Abstract
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