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Originally Posted by graciegirl
It is my belief that eating a plant based diet is not as good for you as eating mostly fruits and vegetables along with small portions of meat or fish or poultry and eating dairy products. grains and other carbohydrates moderately.
This article has some interesting points;
Why Vegetarianism is Bad for Your Health | MediBlog |
That's an interesting article but I'm surprised no one has questioned it. For the time being let's just take the second paragraph and see if there is truth in it.
It states that, "The human brain
likely would never have evolved into it's current form without the ingestion of meat." Maybe that's true and maybe not, there's no way we will ever know for sure. The big question is this: Now that our brain has evolved into its current form, what does meat have to maintain it that plants don't? In other words, what nutrients are unique to meat that plants don't have? Nothing that I know of except B12 and we can get that from a supplement.