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• Rather than being confused by her assumption, I might now suggest to her that rats or humans eating lesser amounts of animal protein and more plant-based foods might have not only more energy, but also lower odds of developing obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, kidney disease, liver disease, brain disease, and prostate, breast, ...
• Who is providing funding to whom, and who is really generating the information you read online? There are enormous financial interests involved in the food industry. In fact, the food industry is arguably the most powerful industry on the planet.
• Unfortunately, the biggest food conglomerates by far are animal-agriculture and processed-food businesses.
• Men with low-grade prostate cancer can actually lower their levels of PSA (prostate-specific antigen, the blood biomarker used to follow prostate cancer progression) with diet and lifestyle alone.17 This same research demonstrated that a whole-food, plant-based diet might control genetic expression, turning off the bad cancer genes and turning on t...
• In a separate series of headline-making studies, researchers found that gut bacteria play a key role in turning a nutrient in red meat, L-carnitine, into a heart-disease promoter referred to as TMAO.24 It is yet another way that chronic animal-food consumption promotes heart disease. Vegans and vegetarians participating in the study didn’t have the...