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Current Plant Based Diets Do Not Contain Sufficient Variety
Little to No Variety in Modern Food Plants
The reality is that the world today depends on a variety of only 150 food plants. Twenty of these account for 90% of our food. And, of these twenty, only three account for half! What are the Big Three? Rice, corn, and wheat – difficult to digest, grain based carbs that ninety percent of the people who ever lived never even ate! Considering that there are between 30,000-80,000 edible plants in the world and that traditional cultures such as the American Indian regularly consumed about 1,100 of these, it seems virtually impossible that a “plant based diet” of today would contain enough variety to ensure health. Surely, a modern “plant based diet” could only lead to nutritional deficiencies and ill health in the long run given these statistics. Despite the American Indian’s consumption of a wide variety of nutritious food plants from soil that was arguably much richer and more fertile than the monocrop farms of today, guess what? They still ate meat! What about the hunter-gatherers? They sampled between 3,000 and 5,000 plants and still consumed animal foods as well.
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http://alaskaveg.org/NutritionNugget...nt_Nov2010.pdf |
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Current Plant Based Diets Do Not Contain Sufficient Variety
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Maybe Darwin's theory of natural selection is at work here. Man, when possible, appears to be choosing a diet with animal protein over a vegan existence. Good for Darwin. He got it right.
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http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...inin-died-out/
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Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?
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Not only is this funny, it's also a head scratcher. Kinda like the chicken and the egg. Would animals eat vegan crackers?
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And Beefsteak tomatoes? Or Kidney beans? Or Chick peas? Or Elephant garlic?
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Absolutely! As you mentioned, we must have variety. And remember -- man cannot live by bread alone.
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man can live by plants alone!
No need to slaughter 7,000 animals in your lifetime |
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The other thing to note s that our ancestors did not have fresh fruits and vegetables year round. They really only had then for a few weeks, maybe a few months of the year. When the plants ripened on the vine, they were eaten. In most parts of the world, that was only weeks and months. Meat was available year round. It wasn't until about 300 years ago that we discovered ways of preserving fruits and vegetables.
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New studies and new thoughts from valid source; Your Diet and Heart Disease: Rethinking Butter, Beef and Bacon
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Gracie, U try to google articles to justify your bad choice of food.
Who are U really fooling?
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Certainly not you.
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