[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by Villages PL

The author of The China Study, who studied nutrition nearly all of his life, referred to veganism as "a plant based diet". I never heard the phrase "plant only" diet before this thread.



I doubt that very many people will take the time to calculate whether or not they are getting 50% of their calories from plants. Non-starchy plants are very low in calories. MyPlate, which is used as an acceptable example, has 3/4 of the plate devoted to vegetables and grains(1/2 vegetables plus 1/4 grains). 1/4 of the plate is reserved for "lean protein" but the calories are allowed to go as high as 49%? That doesn't seem to make sense. Where did you get the information "50% of calories from vegetables"?


What's wrong with calling it what it is, a "omnivore diet"?


Notice that nothing was said about preventing cancer and cancer is the second leading cause of death. The vegan diet, as presented by Dr. Colin Campbell, includes a cancer prevention strategy as well as a prevention strategy for all the other degenerative diseases.

Unfortunately, in today's world people are changing the meaning of words in order to suit their purposes. The word based in this context does not mean that a diet is entirely of plants. Jazz based music may contain elements of classical.

Petroleum based products have other substances mixed in.

It doesn't matter what the author of The China Study says. The words are plain English. A plant based diet means that most of the food in the diet comes from plants. It doesn't mean a vegan diet which is a plant only diet.