Any Vegetarians/Vegans here?

[Jacob(smooth)]

Just when I was thinking we were having an interesting and informed debate .

Hush, enrico. We were talking about you, not to you.

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Why then does a vegan diet improve health in diabetic patients to a greater extent than a Mediterranean diet(which was varied and not vitamin deficient), as the following study shows?

A couple things on that. First, most people are not diabetic patients. The search for an optimal diet for all is not likely to benefit very much from studying diabetics in my opinion.

Second, humans have some natural resistance to toxins. It's not clear that moderate eat-meating, if it involves intaking some toxins, will affect a person's health or longevity negatively.

I personally suspect that vegetarianism IS healthier than meat-eating. However, the difference in health risks and longevity between moderate meat-eaters and vegetarians is unlikely to be very much-- certainly not strong enough to make a compelling reason for meat-eaters to give up the food they enjoy.

An interesting point too. We know that people who are raised on farms, where they get to eat dirt, play with pesticides etc, are less prone to allergies. A body needs to be exposed to negative stimuli or it cannot develop the ability to deal with such things.

I wonder if there is an issue with veganism from that point of view....