Carroll wrote:dlb wrote:Why so hostile?
Donna
I'm frustrated reading about how a 95% diet is fine and then when great results aren't seen well of course it's because they aren't 100%... this is not being honest with people, imo.
The hypothesis that if the data doesn't back up improved life among vegans/vegetarians/healthy dieters then they must not be eating healthy diet is dangerous one. It would be unscientific to extrapolate like that.
It is possible that most vegans/vegetarians may not be following healthy diet, in that case we should say that we don't have good data on efficacy of healthy diet as not many people follow it. Well, that may even bring a bigger question i.e. If we didn't have many people who ate healthy diet and hence didn't have data to back up the assertions, how do we then know what is healthy diet and whether it will produce desired results(optimal health, long life etc)?