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by jefflombardjr 2511 days ago
> You are not made to eat plants

This is completely false, please stop. We're omnivores:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/12/23/how-humans-evo...

McArdle, John. "Humans are Omnivores". Vegetarian Resource Group. Retrieved 6 October 2013.

Robert E. C. Wildman; Denis M. Medeiros (2000). Advanced Human Nutrition. CRC Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-0849385667. Retrieved 6 October 2013.

Robert Mari Womack (2010). The Anthropology of Health and Healing. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 243. ISBN 978-0759110441. Retrieved 6 October 2013.

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OK, let me rephrase - we are not made to eat plants completely or even dominantly. pH of our acid barrier is consistent with this among other thing.

BTW, Vegetarian Resource Group doesn't sound like conflict of interest at all... :S

Anyway, no amount of authority will beat my personal experience. I ate plants, a lot, for decades. Now I don't that much (only some vegetables and nuts). I feel and look much better in previous decade (so not placebo). Period for me. YMMV.