The non-red meat dieters weren't just avoiding red meat; they also ate way more fruits, vegetables, eggs, cheese, and
soy than the meat eaters.
While the diet of the vegans in this study was not optimal, so was the diet of the meat eater, and there is no reason to assume that vegans consumed less «healthy» food or more «unhealthy processed»
food than the meat eaters.
Most dietitians are concerned only about vitamin B12, and although vegans do not suffer from its deficiency more
often than meat eaters, yet they are encouraged to use vitamin B12 supplementation.
Studies done to compare bone density in meat eaters and vegetarians, found that vegetarians had greater bone
densities than meat eaters, even though the quantity of bone calcium was lower in the vegetarians.
In North America, the Seventh Day Adventist study shows that «vegans» have lower mortality
risk than meat eaters so how dangerously low in sulphur can their diets possibly be?
When you're eating a diet full of antinutrient foods like grains and legumes and suffering from numerous nutrient deficiencies, which is almost unavoidable on the vegetarian diet, how people postulate that vegetarians live
longer than meat eaters is beyond me.
Vegans are
thinner than meat eaters, because no whole plant food is related to weight gain, including nuts (and high carb grains and legumes).
Many people falsely believe that vegans and vegetarians are more likely to be deficient in B - 12
than meat eaters, but that is not the case.
Vegan participants in research studies are often more likely to engage in vigorous physical activity, and less likely to consume alcohol,
than meat eaters or other types of vegetarians.
Lierre Keith, in her brilliant book, The Vegetarian Myth, says that census records prove that vegetarians do not live longer
than meat eaters, no matter what research says.
Other studies have shown that vegetarians live 7 years longer
than meat eaters, and vegans live longer than vegetarians.