Didn’t the founder of Vegetarian Times magazine call a press conference a number of years ago to announce that he was giving up vegetarianism and that he enjoyed eating meat?
As they say, correlation is not causation. But I remember Bill Walton’s very brief career punctuated by a series of unending broken bones and other injuries. Walton was a vegan or vegetarian and swore off meat and dairy products. One doctor who examined x-rays of Walton’s often broken foot said it clearly looked to him like a case of insufficient calcium. Of course, many people will state that Walton might just have been an injury-prone athlete who would have had the same problems if he had eaten meat and dairy products. We may never know about the effects of a vegan vs. an omnivorous diet, but I do know what happened to Walton.
Well? Sure. Optimally? No.
Also, talking to two vegetarians and one “almost-vegetarian” about whether vegetarianism or veganism is healthy is about like predicting the winner of the presidential election based on polling three zip codes in Berkeley.
I recall that the once-great basketball player Bill “the Mountain Man” Walton was a vegetarian. After early success, he broke his foot. Itnever healed very well, and some experts blamed the vegetarianism.