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Eat meat and get a heart attack.
Don’t eat meat and have a stroke.
Decisions, decisions.
This vegan and non-vegan discussion is worthless.
Unless you divide this up and note folks who eat purely beef-products (no pork), or note folks who are primarily turkey/chicken folks, or note folks who eat meat three times a day but also eat seven helpings of fruit/vegetables throughout the day....these discussions go nowhere.
My grandfather lived to be 100 years old, consuming a fair amount of fatty pork throughout his life, but also drank a bottle of cherry liquor throughout each week. Added to his passion items...apple pie, apple sauce, and apple pudding.
Everything has their disadvantages (and everybody is going to die anyway).
It’s probably the ones that use these terms to explain their eating disorder. You don’t hear about the anorexic girl any more, she’s a vegan now.
Humans are omnivores. Eat meat and vegetables. Known fact. Do what nature intended and you’ll be ok.
Follow fads, be sick.
It figures.
Read somewhere vegans have little wee wees...
This is by a vegan doctor who has some great information that Vegans need to know.
I"m not a vegan. God clearly blessed meat for our consumption.
Their strokes probably occur as they head to the organic fruit and vegetable section, incensed passing the meat and dairy displays. I do know a couple vegans who quietly go about their business without a massive chip on their shoulders. I even try to include a couple dishes they can eat when I cook for church functions. And they’re grateful for the consideration. But those types seem to be the exception.
They may have claimed it was healthier, but really it is about a moral equivalence of humans and lower animals.
It may not be the veganism itself, it’s the physical stress involved in telling everybody on earth that they’re vegan. Exhausting!
They have a high risk of a lot ou f things due to the bioavailability problems with plants. Not to mention, epigenetic change potential related to carb processing.
My solution: steak and bacon.
Everyone on the planet could go vegan. But there will be one stubborn little group who won’t. And the veganocracy will go after them. I wonder if anyone can guess who the stubborn little group will be?
There are two main types of stroke: ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and hemorrhagic, due to bleeding.
The mechanisms that produce them can be very different - clotting or plaque for ischemic, blood vessel weakening or high blood pressure for hemorrhagic. Clot-dissolving/blood thinning treatment for ischemic stroke is contra-indicated for hemorrhagic stroke.
They report the breakout across the total population of the study, but not for the vegetarians.
About a third of the strokes, across everyone in the study, were hemorrhagic, but even that might be skewed from the population at large, if the large sample of vegetarians (1/3 of participants, vs. ~5% of the general population) were very different from the meat eaters.
The terms, Vegan and Vegetarian, are far too generic.
I am an holistic nutritionist (not a registered dietician, which is required to follow allopathic medical protocol) with about thirty years of direct experience with most dietary approaches.
It is no more meaningful than lumping all carnivorous diets together as “meat eaters.”
It is possible, although difficult, to eat healthily long term as a vegan. Many do not do so, preferring convenience.
It is equally possible to eat healthily as predominantly (but not exclusively) a meat eater; it is also possible to eat very unhealthily.