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by cies 2337 days ago
Seriously? She names a study on 555 Kenyan school kids and draws really farfetched conclusions.

Here's a study on 8000 UKers that shows the opposite, controlling for lots of factors:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1790799/

She only shows the small study and self-derives a conclusion, while ignoring the big study... Hmmm.

Also see "the adventist studies" which were the first or a long string of studies showing the general health benefits of a plant based diet over an omni diet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventist_Health_Studies

Bonus, the China Studies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Study