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Vegan diets are known to help people lose weight. However, they also offer an array of additional health benefits.
More and more people are eating vegan meals – and part of the reason is it’s seen as healthier. Is it really better for you? In the first of a new vegan series on BBC Future and BBC Good Food, Jessica Brown looks at the evidence.
In the last three years alone, there’s been a 600% increase in people identifying as vegans in the U.S.—but there are still so many many myths and misconceptions about the vegan diet.
Experts warn that it may have an outsize role in causing obesity and diabetes—thus increasing the risk of chronic illnesses such as heart disease.
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The history of the debate over the health effects of sugar has gone on far longer than you might imagine. It is littered with erroneous statements and conclusions because even the supposed authorities had no true understanding of what they were talking about.
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.
The pandemic is making the case not only for a different food system but for a radically different diet as well.