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Originally Posted by RagsToRiches  Veganism is terrible for your health. Unless you have serious moral or health reasons why you'd follow this diet - I would personally recommend strongly against it. |
How can it be terrible for one's health but still be ok to follow for health reasons?
What is your proof? I am going to have to respectfully disagree with your opinion on this.
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Obviously it is much more healthy than your average joe eating big mac and fries every weekend (as many studies will testify), but compare it to a good diet of quality meat, fish, dairy etc and you will find vegans come up limp.
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The only "good diet" of meat, fish, and dairy is one with little or none. The top causes of non-accidental death in the US are things like heart disease, stroke, and cancer. Guess what meat and dairy are strongly linked to?
Understand that the vast majority of meat available is produced on high-density farms ("factory farms"). In addition to just the animal flesh, you're getting an ample dose of pathogens, antibiotics, drug residues, BGH, steroids, pesticide residues, and other toxins. Fish comes with doses of PCBs, mercury, and pharmaceutical drug residues. The higher up on the food chain one eats, the more concentrated environmental contaminants are -- so given the choice between a plant-based diet and eating the animals which eat the plants, it seems logical the plant-based one is better.