No, it isn't the opposite. The "low-fat" group still was allowed to eat 30% of their calories from fat, down a whopping 5% from the baseline diet they were already eating. While carbohydrate intake in that assignment was slashed 75%. This might have been billed “a study to compare a really big change from baseline diet to a really small change from baseline diet.”
It proves almost nothing.
You tried vegetarianism? Sounds like you tried pastatarianism. You were a junk food veggie, it's pretty clear. Because you're not blaming the " 'healthy' veggies", you're blaming the bread, pasta and sugar. You should eliminate empty calories no matter the diet you follow.
As for phytoestrogen, there is NO science backing up your claims of man tits. Matter of fact, the only studies done so far show phytoestrogens have protecting qualities for regarding cancer.
From Wiki: Evidence is accruing that phytoestrogens may have protective action against diverse health disorders, such as prostate, breast, bowel, and other cancers, cardiovascular disease, brain function disorders and osteoporosis,[1][6][7][8]
I wouldn't call much of what you said an "educated guess."
The only reason the low-fat diet prevailed was because it was lower calorie. This was a junk food low fat diet vs junk food low carb diet.
That's really an outdated way to do things. A song or artist could be categorized across multiple genres. What about collaborations? What about "Walk this Way" with Aerosmith and Run DMC? Do I make multiple copies if I sort folders by artist/genre etc?
The file system is terrible for organizing music. My music is sorted into folders, too, but it lacks. The music player has to make up for the short comings.
The alternative to eating meat is not drowning yourself in empty carbs. You *could* try eating far more vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes. Those are the foods healthy populations mainly eat, with very little meat. I do find it odd that you're willing to do so much to save energy except learning how to make some meatless dishes for most meals, though.
Is that we don't need to be eating meat. We don't need to raise billions of animals for slaughter, we shouldn't be subsidizing meat production and we pollute the planet terribly trying to raise so much meat. Further, almost half the water we use is to raise meat.
All these people that say "well I get my meat from a local guy I trust" is a poor argument. It takes far more land and resource to raise meat organically and humanely. It's ultimately impractical. Google "The Myth of Sustainable Meat". Further, would you ever let someone kill you just because they were really nice to you and fed you well? I know there's a joke coming in the comments, but no, you wouldn't. Why should we kill these animals?
A lot of arguments here are trying to frame vegetarians and vegans as either arrogant, inconsistent or hypocrites. You know, we're not some political party or religious group. Some join the ALF, but most of us are just trying to do as little harm as possible while on this planet. That's a noble goal. We're not going to be perfect at it. I'm not a perfect husband, father, son or brother, either. But damnit I try every day.
Further, you are all guilty of the same. We all love our dogs and cats and can't bare to see them hurt, yet we love eating pigs, which are more intelligent than both. We love the earth but not if it means less hot wings. And meat eaters start arguments with vegans at equal rates. People are irrational *no matter* their leanings, big surprise.
Plants don't have brains. Their reaction to pain isn't any more evolved than their turning towards the sun.
As for a spider crawling up a kid's back...most people don't know their spiders well enough to know which are harmful and which are not. People, and especially our kids, are still more important to us vegan/vegetarians than that damn spider. Hardly speaks to the kind of vegan or vegetarian someone is.
Sounds more like resignation to their circumstances than consent.
We also have jaws that move side to side to chew plants, are incapable of eating most raw meat and don't have razor canines like true hunters. Being a healthy vegan isn't more work than being a meat eater. Raising meat takes many, many times the resources than it does to grow crops. If you're living in a part of the world that is importing food, than you're not just importing veggies. You're importing everything.
You have absolutely, positively nothing to back this up. Why your score is 5 right now is beyond me.
You need to familiarize yourself with his vast charitable work.
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