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Behind on my vegan blogging
23 Jul 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: vegetarians
News for @Greens @NZGreens @Greenpeace
26 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of regulation, health economics Tags: Anti-Science left, food snobs, GMOs, vaccines, vegetarians
Vegans are snobs that quit sooner than vegetarians
20 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: food snobs, vegans, vegetarians
The harsh truth about vegetarianism
09 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory Tags: food snobs, vagans, vegetarians
If Meat Eaters Acted Like Vegans
20 May 2016 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: vegans, vegetarians
HT: Whale Oil
Facts about People Who Enjoy Eating Tasty Animals (PEETA)
10 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, health economics Tags: economics of physiology, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, vagans, vegetarians
Why wasn’t this study about health and the vegetarian lifestyle reported?
13 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, health economics Tags: antiscience left, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, vegans, vegetarians
As one of a great many who enjoy eating tasty animals, I’m surprised this story about how the vegetarian lifestyle is less healthy wasn’t widely reported:
According to the study, those who abstain from meat are “less healthy (in terms of cancer, allergies, and mental health disorders), have a lower quality of life, and also require more medical treatment.”
Vegetarians were twice as likely to have atopy (allergies), a 50 percent increase in cancer and a 50 percent increase in heart attacks. They also drank less alcohol.
This is not the first time counter-intuitive research has shown the negative effects of consuming a meat-free diet.
In 2010 the WHO published a study where 30,604 people were followed for an average of 8.7 years on their fruit and vegetable consumption. Those who consumed the recommended 5 pieces of fruit and vegetables a day did not have less cancer nor enjoyed better health. They were even forced to conclude the opposite.
“A very small inverse association between intake of total fruits and vegetables and cancer risk was observed in this study.”
This study even concluded that a “..growing body of epidemiological, clinical and experimental evidence suggesting that regular cheese intake may reduce the risk of cardiovascular outcomes.”
Why are vegetarians special?
27 Mar 2015 6 Comments
in health economics Tags: diabetes, vegetarians
People bow down and genuflect in their presence. I am diabetic, but I still have to explain every time I turn down a cake or something that the sugar rush is a bit too much.
People still think I should eat the cake at the work morning tea despite the fact I tell them every time we have a morning tea that I can’t eat cakes because I’m diabetic. Few, if any, listen to my suggestions of putting on more fruit at work morning teas. An important part of controlling diabetes is maintaining dietary vigilance.
I am not diabetic by choice. Vegetarians are vegetarians by choice. They get far more respect than I do for having to turn away food offered in good cheer.
What annoys me is people apologise to vegetarians when they are offered the meat. People are far less deferential to diabetics were they offer them sweet foods we would love to eat but for a chronic debilitating illness.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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