berrytas
berrytas t1_je3m1il wrote
Reply to Vegan diets benefit health, but only if they're healthy. Study found a healthy vegan diet was linked to lower risk of heart disease, cancer and premature death, compared with non-vegan diets. N=125,000 by MistWeaver80
search 'healthy user bias' - that's all this is. epidemiology is very weak evidence of anything
berrytas t1_j52omf5 wrote
Reply to comment by KorewaRise in Inside an insect farm: Are mealworms a sustainable meat alternative? by vpuetf
you're so brainwashed, it's insane. meat is the most nutrient-dense food on the planet and is no more climate-harsh than vegetables will become if they replace those fields. humans have prized meat for 100,000s of years, but because its been trendy for 5 years, now you'll eat roaches. makes sense.
berrytas t1_je5aiy0 wrote
Reply to comment by NightsOvercast in Vegan diets benefit health, but only if they're healthy. Study found a healthy vegan diet was linked to lower risk of heart disease, cancer and premature death, compared with non-vegan diets. N=125,000 by MistWeaver80
vegans are more likely to be 'rule followers' and engage in other lifestyle behaviors that are considered healthy (e.g., more walks, exercise, less processed foods, generally taking care of oneself). their positive health outcomes may or may not be related to their diet.
it has been shown repeatedly that you cannot control for these confounding lifestyle factors - hence why epidemiology should be step 1, and then you use randomized controlled trials to actually test for only changes in diet (which is obviously very hard to do at any sort of scale over any long time horizon - can't really lock people away for decades).
additionally, comparing a vegan diet consisting of whole, fresh foods to the standard american diet isn't really telling. anything is better than that!