I think a WFPB vegan diet will ultimately prove to be the healthiest. Various lines of evidence point towards this and some smaller studies have demonstrated incredible results. Time will tell.
Based. I’m vegan, but I’ve been continuously trying to convince my parents to eat less meat and adopt a more plant based lifestyle to improve their health markers. For them, giving up all animal products is a non-starter, so I’m trying to steer them towards some of the other diets you have listed here. Thanks!
My stance is that because we can be healthy and thrive without exploiting or abusing animals there is absolutely no reason other than pleasure to eat animal products. I believe that all the diets you mentioned are healthy in spite of eating animal products because of being heavy on the plants, which mitigate the damage that animal products cause. Thank you for being honest about the reality of things.
If someone set out to create the most healthy human diet, I bet it would be all plants with some supplements, though. I don't see how adding any animal product could beat it or even be equal. Possibly close, but still not equal. I know, it doesn't really matter, except ethically and environmentally.
That's just wrong. Environment is not a valid argument for going vegan. It is absolutely not harming the environment if you eat animal products once per year. There is only ONE valid argument for Veganism: Animal ethics.
what about the amount of water used to grow crops that are way higher than that of an animal? or the widespread of chemicals such as glyphosate that pretty much poison the land to grow plants?
Water intensive plants are a valid concern. Glyposate, however, is not. If glyposate was poisoning the soil, nothing would grow in it. There's a reason farmers have to apply herbicide every year. Bacteria in soil degrades it.
I'm not an expert on the environmental aspect, but what I do know is that we have to grow ten times more crops to feed the animals before we can "harvest" them than we have to grow to eat the plants directly. Eating plants directly means significantly less crops over all which means less land, less chemicals and less water.
No one diet has been proven to be the healthiest. That would have been a pretty clear-cut and dry way to say it. The way you said it leaves it open for question, well what is the number one healthiest diet? There isn't one. But since you didn't define Health, as far as I'm concerned a well-planned vegan diet is the healthiest. Because I'm including not just physical health and not just the individual but beyond. For example it's probably much healthier to work in plant agriculture than a slaughterhouse. It's probably much healthier to be contiguous with your ethics and not consume body parts, organs and secretions needlessly. And ultimately I think you've even said that we've seen a stepwise increase in risk with the more animals you eat. So it's easy to infer that the less animals you eat the healthier it is for you as an individual physiologically, mentally, and beyond. No other way of eating can say it's healthy for every reason. It's severely lacking to separate physical health from other aspects of health and life. That's why lifestyle medicine has six pillars. It's not just nutrition. As a mental health counselor for 15 years post grad it was important to consider all aspects of the individual's life, not just their diet.
Plants are absolutely the healthiest food. You didn't even take into consideration how eating animals spreads deadly pathogens and zoonotic diseases that kill millions of people. That's not healthy at all. Moderation kills. Please be consistent
There are many battles to be fought, what about homeless starving children? What about human trafficking and domestic violence, do we have to fight for and mention every situation to be making a valid argument about anything or do we have to pick the thing we can be most effective at and fight for that one thing? Let's work together, you fight for what you can be most effective at, and I'll fight for what I can be most effective at, we need everyone, fighting.
Life forms eat other life forms, herbivores eat living plants, carnivores eat living creatures, omnivores eat both of those. I don’t know how vegans don’t understand this
Eating animals creates the most violent jobs, the most atrocious and unnatural circumstances for animals that are forced into existence only to live a life of hell in concentrated animal feeding operations that are toxic to surrounding communities of which there are over 200,000 in the US alone, and it results in deforestation, desertification, aquatic dead zones, species Extinction, antibiotic resistant bacteria, deadly pathogens, zoonotic diseases, and increase your risk for chronic disease and all cause mortality. Plants don't do this that's why plants are healthier in every which way you look at it. Plants don't have eyeballs, mothers, and bleeding hearts. Do you think cutting your grass is the same as slitting your dog's throat or your child's throat?
Vegans understand that. But they also understand that the fact that something is happening in nature doesn't justify us doing it. Think rape, infanticide, etc.
@@yellowpersonThis keyboard nurds usually become dietitian "experts" but a chicken would rather kill him than he will catch it . If it's female , he maybe has a chance .
Damn... How are you not popular??? Your videos are very interesting and informative 😅😅
I agree
I think a WFPB vegan diet will ultimately prove to be the healthiest. Various lines of evidence point towards this and some smaller studies have demonstrated incredible results. Time will tell.
Even so, the differences are marginal
Based. I’m vegan, but I’ve been continuously trying to convince my parents to eat less meat and adopt a more plant based lifestyle to improve their health markers. For them, giving up all animal products is a non-starter, so I’m trying to steer them towards some of the other diets you have listed here. Thanks!
My stance is that because we can be healthy and thrive without exploiting or abusing animals there is absolutely no reason other than pleasure to eat animal products. I believe that all the diets you mentioned are healthy in spite of eating animal products because of being heavy on the plants, which mitigate the damage that animal products cause. Thank you for being honest about the reality of things.
This is why I love your work and I have tremendous respect for you. You truly are one of a kind who strictly seeks the truth. Much respect Doc
I’d say there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that it’s the healthiest imo
If someone set out to create the most healthy human diet, I bet it would be all plants with some supplements, though. I don't see how adding any animal product could beat it or even be equal. Possibly close, but still not equal. I know, it doesn't really matter, except ethically and environmentally.
That's just wrong. Environment is not a valid argument for going vegan. It is absolutely not harming the environment if you eat animal products once per year. There is only ONE valid argument for Veganism: Animal ethics.
I agreed it’s probably a argument for 80-90% but 100% is for ethics
Yeah.
BS, flat earther BS
Yeah. A cannibalistic diet is probably the most environmentally friendly diet.
what about the amount of water used to grow crops that are way higher than that of an animal?
or the widespread of chemicals such as glyphosate that pretty much poison the land to grow plants?
Water intensive plants are a valid concern. Glyposate, however, is not. If glyposate was poisoning the soil, nothing would grow in it. There's a reason farmers have to apply herbicide every year. Bacteria in soil degrades it.
I'm not an expert on the environmental aspect, but what I do know is that we have to grow ten times more crops to feed the animals before we can "harvest" them than we have to grow to eat the plants directly. Eating plants directly means significantly less crops over all which means less land, less chemicals and less water.
The animals have to eat those plants
That's right. If 100% plant based is healthful 80% plant based is also healthful. All the way is for the animals.
Well said
Absolutely based.
Thank you!
No one diet has been proven to be the healthiest. That would have been a pretty clear-cut and dry way to say it. The way you said it leaves it open for question, well what is the number one healthiest diet? There isn't one. But since you didn't define Health, as far as I'm concerned a well-planned vegan diet is the healthiest. Because I'm including not just physical health and not just the individual but beyond. For example it's probably much healthier to work in plant agriculture than a slaughterhouse. It's probably much healthier to be contiguous with your ethics and not consume body parts, organs and secretions needlessly. And ultimately I think you've even said that we've seen a stepwise increase in risk with the more animals you eat. So it's easy to infer that the less animals you eat the healthier it is for you as an individual physiologically, mentally, and beyond. No other way of eating can say it's healthy for every reason. It's severely lacking to separate physical health from other aspects of health and life. That's why lifestyle medicine has six pillars. It's not just nutrition. As a mental health counselor for 15 years post grad it was important to consider all aspects of the individual's life, not just their diet.
Plants are absolutely the healthiest food. You didn't even take into consideration how eating animals spreads deadly pathogens and zoonotic diseases that kill millions of people. That's not healthy at all. Moderation kills. Please be consistent
The many valid reasons you say to focus on, those all contribute to health. Vegan is the only one that does this. Therefore it is the healthiest.
I like this video 🙂
The manly voice must win everyone over 😂
Ad hominem because you have no counter-argument
Are ethical vegans as concerned about unborn babies?
Sentient ones
Crazy isn't it. All about protecting the defenseless until it's their own kind. It is mind boggling
There are many battles to be fought, what about homeless starving children? What about human trafficking and domestic violence, do we have to fight for and mention every situation to be making a valid argument about anything or do we have to pick the thing we can be most effective at and fight for that one thing? Let's work together, you fight for what you can be most effective at, and I'll fight for what I can be most effective at, we need everyone, fighting.
Life forms eat other life forms, herbivores eat living plants, carnivores eat living creatures, omnivores eat both of those. I don’t know how vegans don’t understand this
Plants are not sentient. I don't know how animal eaters don't understand this.
Eating animals creates the most violent jobs, the most atrocious and unnatural circumstances for animals that are forced into existence only to live a life of hell in concentrated animal feeding operations that are toxic to surrounding communities of which there are over 200,000 in the US alone, and it results in deforestation, desertification, aquatic dead zones, species Extinction, antibiotic resistant bacteria, deadly pathogens, zoonotic diseases, and increase your risk for chronic disease and all cause mortality. Plants don't do this that's why plants are healthier in every which way you look at it. Plants don't have eyeballs, mothers, and bleeding hearts. Do you think cutting your grass is the same as slitting your dog's throat or your child's throat?
Vegans understand that. But they also understand that the fact that something is happening in nature doesn't justify us doing it. Think rape, infanticide, etc.
Heres a reason not to, meat is delicious, id kill a chicken right in front of me for some wings
"Here's a reason not to, human is delicious, I'd kill you right in front of me for some steak" -dahmer
so would you kill a human right in front of you for some arms?
I actually heard from cannibals that human meat is delicious. So does that mean we should now kill humans for meat?
@@yellowpersonhumans are not delicious
@@yellowpersonThis keyboard nurds usually become dietitian "experts" but a chicken would rather kill him than he will catch it . If it's female , he maybe has a chance .