Posted on 02/23/2024 6:07:46 PM PST by Libloather
Plant-based diets are often seen as healthier alternatives to eating meat and dairy - with around one in five adopting the diet for health reasons.
The way of eating, which has risen in popularity by at least a third since 2017, can involve anything from ditching meat, to going fully vegan, without eggs, milk or cheese.
However, these foods could be loaded with sodium, which could raise blood pressure, packed with obesity-causing saturated fat, and stripped of bone-building calcium, a major analysis suggests.
Researchers evaluated more than 700 plant-based foods sold in supermarkets, including burgers, sausages, milk, cheese, and yogurt, as well as vegan staples lie beans and tofu.
They found that just half a cup of tofu contained 2,000 milligrams of sodium, nearly an entire day's worth, according to US guidelines.
Additionally, trendy coconut milks were loaded with saturated fat, more than six times that of other milk alternatives.
And over 90 percent of cheeses analyzed were not fortified with calcium, which is essential for growth and maintaining bone health.
'We found some products are so high in salt or saturated fat, we’d struggle to call them "healthy,"' the researchers wrote for The Conversation.
However, the study was performed in Australia - and nutritional content may vary slightly in the US, where roughly one in 100 people claim to be vegan.
In 2022, the team visited two of each of the four major supermarkets in Melbourne and collected nutrition info for plant-based meats, milks, cheeses, and yogurts.
In total, they looked at 704 products. These included 236 meat substitutes, 169 legumes, 50 baked beans, 157 non-dairy milks, 52 cheese substitutes, and 40 dairy-free yogurts.
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Sounds like French fries 🍟
You don’t see too many fat vegans, though.
This article is full of BS science.
Saturated fat doesn’t cause obesity
Dairy free yogurt isn’t yogurt.
Sodium in one’s body is regulated via aldosterone.
Avoid man made garbage.
Move, eat, sleep, and pray/meditate.
Nor fat AIDS patients.
I know plenty fat vegetarians. I don’t know any vegans.
Pasta with a side of pasta will get you fat.
If only there was some way to process large amounts of vegetation to produce something with lots of calcium in it. /s
The entire article is a stream of consciousness diatribe full of half truths and sketchy assertions in the first place, and then complains about too much salt in the ersatz.
Salt is vital for the human organism. The studies linking high blood pressure in the 1970s and later have been looked at with a lot of skepticism today. High blood pressure is bad stuff, but is correlated with both race and other factors, not related to sodium intake. Especially in hot weather, electrolytes will help avoid heat exhaustion or heat stroke.
Vegetarianism just isn’t healthy, especially for children. They need animal protein to grow big and strong, and develop a healthy immune system to ward off illness.
Utter and COMPLETE BULL$HIT. They 're still "preaching" the OLD paradigm info-wise.
Here's the TRUTH From Dr. Ken berry, M.D.
Carnivore Diet will do this to Your Labs [Carnivore Diet Results]- 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqLsPIPvAkg
(only 6.92 years left)
not according to the bible which tells us we have at a bare minumum 1007 more years left- and likely even more if the Lord tarries-
What scriptures do you draw 1007 minimum from?
There will be a 7 year tribulation, and 1000 year reign of Christ- so at a very minimum, there will be 1007 years left for this earth, likely a lot longer unless Christ returns now. After the 1000 years, a new heaven and new earth will be created.
https://bible.org/seriespage/4-millennial-kingdom-and-eternal-state
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