This is how much longer you could live if you eat less meat, more plants
This is how much longer you could live if you eat less meat, more plants
Living longer is not the flex I care about. Focus on quality of life and better health.
Eating plant-based wont affect your quality of life as there are many great recipes for you to try out.
There's scientific evidence that shows eating plant-based decrease your risk for chronic diseases. So its not just living 6-10 years longer.
Being allergic to many many vegetal protein source makes it hard to get good vegan meals.
Sesame seeds and tahini is used as seasoning in all the good Eastern meals i know, and nuts/peanuts consist of most of the "long lasting" snacks i know of.
Focusing on the limited remaining vegan proteins makes for a very homogeneous diet that turns out is bad for the gut biome.
I'll support anyone who wants to eat vegan, but I won't do it myself... I do reduce meat as much as my health allows.
I'm not trying to be a downer here, but a lot of those recipes are just "use dairy-free milk/yogurt/butter" instead of the dairy version. There's nothing inherently vegan about those recipes.
Imo, the non dairy versions are all worse than the dairy versions, and some (like vegan butter) are actually less healthy than the dairy version. Much like how beyond meat isn't healthier (or cheaper) than beef (though is much better to the planet), dairy free alternatives just aren't all that great.
Over the last year, I've worked my way to about 50% of my meals being vegetarian or vegan (mostly vegetarian), but I'm largely unimpressed by vegan/vegetarian recipes that rely on 1:1 replacements for non-vegan products.
So... Still a plant-based diet.
I suspect living longer implies higher quality.
7.1 per cent of Canadians were vegetarian
Huh. That's higher than I would've guessed. I've gone ovo-lacto vegetarian myself, not strictly but habitually. It's pretty good. Disappointed to learn that it will not mean that I live for three hundred years.
7.1 percent
I'm so glad people are finally catching up to this. When I stopped eating meat 25ish years ago it was sometimes difficult to find a meal at a restaurant. And if they did have one, they had one.
TL;DR
The study, published last year in Nature Food, found that replacing half their red and processed meat would increase people's life expectancy an average of nine months
That is only about 1% of the average live expactancy which is less than I thought.
That title is ideological indoctrination pushing fanaticism.