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The dangers of ultra-processed plant-based foods have been highlighted in a recent Lancet study, indicating that these products could increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality, offsetting the health benefits typically associated with a plant-based diet.
Although plant-based diets have been shown to have various health benefits, the study suggests that ultra-processed plant-based foods may be just as unhealthy as non-plant-based ultra-processed foods.
On the other hand, there are concerns about nutritional deficiencies in plant-based diets and potential risks such as haemorrhagic stroke. So, it is difficult to conclude that plant-based diets, even without ultra-processed foods, are indeed a healthy choice.
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Plant-Based Diets – Yay or Nay?
The following is the article ‘Pitfalls of plant-based diets’ published by the Gold Report on 24 August 2024.
Dangers of ultra-processed plant-based foods
A recent Lancet study found that ultra-processed plant-based foods are dangerous to one’s health. These products, plant-based versions of animal products prepared as substitutes for the real thing, include, as Epoch Times writer Ellen Wan wrote, “vegan sausages, nuggets, and burgers, as well as plant-based beverages such as soy and plant milks and sugary drinks. Snacks and candies made from processed plant ingredients are increasingly prevalent.” These products, the study found, “can be detrimental to health and increase the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality,” the very things a plant-based diet is claimed to decrease.
Growing market, nonetheless
Wan cites the Plant-Based Food Association, which explains that consumption of plant-based foods has increased since covid hit; more consumers are paying attention to their health and believe they are improving it by “prioritising a plant-based diet.”
The graphic below (which she did not include), from the Plant-Based Food Association, shows the market value of plant-based foods in 2022.
Ultra-processed foods’ harms offset health benefits
Wan states that studies show plant-based foods have significant health benefits. Plant-based diets that encourage eating plant foods with minimal or no meat, fish, eggs or dairy products can help people “lower cholesterol and blood pressure, manage weight, reduce the risk of CVD and diabetes, and decrease the mortality risk from ischemic heart disease.”
Yet, the Lancet study, Wan explains, shows that ultra-processed plant-based foods are just as unhealthy as non-plant-based ultra-processed foods and appear to erase any positive benefits a plant-based diet may have.
“While ultra-processed foods are often marketed as healthy foods, this large study shows that plant-based ultra-processed foods do not seem to have protective health effects and are linked to poor health outcomes,” Eszter Vamos, co-author of the study and a member of the School of Public Health at Imperial College London, said in a statement.
This is because ultra-processed foods contain not only high levels of salt, fat, and sugar but also various additives.
Instead, readers are advised to consider the degree of processing when making plant-based food choices.
Fernanda Rauber, the study’s lead author and a researcher at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, said in the statement: “Despite being plant-based, these foods can contribute to risk factors such as dyslipidaemia and hypertension due to their composition and processing methods. Food additives and industrial contaminants present in these foods can cause oxidative stress and inflammation, further aggravating the risks.
“Therefore, our results support the shift towards plant-based food choices that consider the degree of processing to improve cardiovascular health outcomes.”
Wan also cited a 2021 study published in the Journal of Nutrition that came to the same conclusion as Vamos:
A 2021 study published in the Journal of Nutrition indicated that not all vegetarian diets are healthy. Vegetarians who consume excessive amounts of ultra-processed foods, such as plant-based meat and dairy substitutes, may experience the same health issues as meat-eaters.
Nutritional deficiencies
Other articles about plant-based diets warn of nutritional deficiencies since plants do not have some of the nutrients present in animal foods, such as vitamins D, B12, calcium, zinc, and more. Here are a few of the articles:
- Plant-Based Diet Gaps Putting Health At Risk | HSIS
- Animal Protein vs. Plant Based Diets: What is Best for Longevity? – Gene Food
- The dangerous side effects of plant-based diet that no one told you about
- Heart of the Matter: Plant-Based Diets Lead to High Homocysteine, Low Sulfur and Marginal B12 Status – The Weston A. Price Foundation
Less CVD, more haemorrhagic stroke
What Wan neglected to mention in her article, however, are the conclusions that Clem and Barthel come to – that plant-based diets have mixed and uncertain results, as they wrote:
Recently published research has identified other potential risks of a plant-based diet which deserve further study … it is prudent for those on a plant-based diet to ensure sufficient intake of calcium and vitamin D-containing foods. Careful attention to intake of fortified foods, such as plant-based milks [those that Wan referred to above, as being ultra-processed and unhealthy], may be helpful.
According to another recent study published in the British Medical Journal, haemorrhagic stroke was cited as a risk for vegetarians and vegans. This study compared the rates of stroke between meat eaters, pescatarians and vegetarians, and found a statistically significant increase in haemorrhagic stroke in vegetarians compared to meat eaters … Although the study was informative, these results of increased stroke risk have not been corroborated by further studies. This same study found that vegetarians, including vegans, had lower rates of myocardial infarction, ischemic heart disease, obesity, high cholesterol, hypertension and diabetes. (Emphases added.)
It is, therefore, hard to conclude that plant-based diets, even without ultra-processed foods, are indeed a healthy choice.
Carnivores can reduce CVD risk, too
Fortunately, all is not lost. The Japanese diet, which Wan wrote about at the end of her article, reduces cardiovascular disease risk and extends life without having to give up animal protein or eating ultra-processed vegan versions of the real thing.
5 Food Categories of Japanese Diet
- Grains, such as rice, bread, and noodles
- Vegetables, such as green vegetables, mushrooms, potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams and seaweed
- Fish, meat and protein, including eggs and organic soy products [which should be fermented to remove phytic acid]
- Dairy, such as milk, butter and cheese
- Fruits, such as oranges, apples, persimmons, pears, grapes and peaches
The food categories are listed in order of the recommended daily servings, totalling 2,000 to 2,400 calories. The guidelines also recommend drinking plenty of water or tea and limiting the consumption of processed snacks, sweets, and sugar-sweetened beverages.
Some food for thought!
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Not enough details. We need examples of the daily food intake of those deficient vegans and vegetarians, as well as any supplements they are taking.
People following meat-centered or meat-inclusive diets also have deficiencies and illnesses, so we need info on their food intakes over time as well.
Also, those 5 food categories of the Japanese diet should include a sixth, namely SALT. Their salt intake is excessive and is associated with certain health conditions which Japanese in general tend to come down with.
The devil’s in the details.
most vegans are healthier than most omnivores. but processsed
foods are eaten by most humans, period.
Bill Gates partners with Pentagon Fake BUTTER from paraffin wax
(Petroleum) and GMO INSECT’S
* Paraffin wax is a soft colorless solid derived from petroleum, coal, or oil shale that consists of a mixture of hydrocarbon molecules containing between 20 and 40 carbon atoms.
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Yummy, (petroleum) vegans’ mouths must be watering.
https://expose-news.com/2024/07/13/gates-and-fake-butter-from-co2/
Savor calls them “zero carbon fats” and “carbon neutral fats.” They don’t get the irony.
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My vegan mouth is not watering. Too many ASSumptions here.
I consume no fake butter, I have no need to. If I need a fat it is
raw coconut butter. Cows milk was made for baby cows, not for humans.
Our baby milk was from our human mother. We are no longer babies.
https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=245542
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These rights that you not understanding food food needs to be fed dad did 60 yea why ever you pull chemicals on the food it’ll simply at that
ALL PROCESSED FOODS ARE UNHEALTHY. They are quick and tasty, the excite the palate, which is why humans eat them. They make humans sicker and sicker.
Yes, many omnivores consume processed foods. Yes, many vegans
consume processed foods, but still, vegans consume more vegetables and fruits than other humans do.
Many Americans consume beyond burgers made with GMO soy,
whether they are vegan or not.
THIS whole food ethical vegan for over 25 years disses processed
foods. I have thrived on just healthy plants for many years. I have watched many I know be sick during that time. Flesh and blood, dairy, and eggs are not essential for the human animal. But many believe otherwise.
Not all of any group are the same.
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