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Eat Your Meat! KRIS GUNNAR IS A MAN ON A MISSION – and that mission is to correct and refute the misinformation about proper nutrition that circulates and confuses us! A nutrition blogger and main man behind the Nutrition Authority website, Gunnar recently published an article in Business Insider to address what he sees as the unhealthy downside of a vegan diet. Gunnar’s top concerns are: Nutrient Deficiency: Because humans are omnivores we do best when we eat both plants and animals. Certain nutrients can be gotten only from plants and some only from animals. A vegan diet makes it very hard to get these important animal-based nutrients. This list of nutrients that cannot be found in plants is long and includes essential amino acids (important for bone health), B12 (important for brain functioning), and carsosine (protective against degenerative processes). Lack of Scientific Evidence to Support a Vegan Diet: Gunnar points out that there are no controlled clinical trials that support the idea that a vegan diet is good for humans. In fact, one randomized trial – the gold standard for scientific research – found that the Atkins Diet (high fat, low-carb) was superior to the near-vegan Ornish Diet (low-fat) on nearly all health indicators including blood pressure, HDL cholesterol and triglycerides. So while vegan diets may be appropriate for some, Gunnar recommends that we not be too militant about the vegan diet – he recommends that we eat natural, unprocessed lean meats to get essential proteins, healthy fats, vitamins and minerals.
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