Because you were already asking yourself that question. Maybe subconsciously you were looking for an excuse to change your diet, given what you just relayed concerning your nutritional travels through life it's highly possible. If you think it will work for you then go ahead, no one is trying to stop you least of all me. My argument has to do specifically with the veracity of overarching nutritional health benefit claims for specific diets, nothing more nothing less.No we are not far more alike, each of us is genetically different though some groups are genetically "similar" withing those groups.You're talking about the human body, individually complex, one of the most complex systems we know of. How nutrition affects us individually is connected to not only genetics but also age and lifestyle. In nutrition what's good for the goose is not always what's good for the gander.Let me add to the above.
How do you know how a diet change will affect your blood pressure, cholesterol etc if you don't try it and compare all your health markers both before and after?
If enough people did try the change and presented their actual lab work results and that all of them saw a reduction of all the markers we look for at what point is it enough evidence for you?
An all plant based diet would be wonderful for some but potentially detrimental to others. Basically what has been discovered to be mostly true is: nutritional balance, moderation, portions and exercise. If anyone truly wishes to try an all plant based diet then be my guest but don't tout it as a panacea because some documentary that was put together in such a way to make that specific case said so.
We are all far more alike than we are different.
If we all thought like you then why bother treating any illness or disease because if we're all so different it would be impossible right?
And give me some real life examples of a plant based diet being detrimental to health.
Think about it we eat animals that eat nothing but plants. What does an animal do to the plant matter that is so magical that we mere humans beings can't just eat the plants?
I didn't say medical science was bad, I said food (nutritional) science is heavily flawed. You're looking for black and white, either or, it doesn't exist in this realm of science so giving specifics would be as useless as trying to prove an all plant based diet would benefit all.
Read what I'm saying not what you think I'm saying.
I never look for black or white.
Like I said I have been a meat eater my whole life. I've been an amateur student of nutrition for years. I've tweaked and changed my diet almost constantly for 20 years.
I am an exercise nut and I look for what a change in diet does to my performance. Right now I currently have a couple hundred dollars of free range poultry and grass fed beef as well as some venison in my freezer. I'm not looking for any way to confirm an existing vegan lifestyle since I currently don't follow one.,
But even though I am in good shape and at a healthy weight I have to take blood pressure meds and statins.
I wrote it off to genetics since my mother was half African American and we know that hypertension and high cholesterol are common in Blacks, right?
What if we're not right?
WHat if I can stop taking meds if I change my diet?
I have read books by more than one Dr who has presented decades of clinical evidence that a whole food plant based diet has helped hundreds of patients halt and even reverse coronary artery disease. Ive heard the testimony of elite athletes who say they perform better on a whole food plant based diet.
So when is it confirmation bias in my case as you claim it is?
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