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GlennR wrote:Denise was pretty even handed in her analysis and more pro for the book than anti.
colonyofcells wrote:It is probably no secret that Dr Greger is pro vegan so that obviously will influence his interpretation of studies and there is a strong temptation to overstate the benefits of a unrefined vegan diet. Virginia Messina used to recommend Dr Greger as one of the few vegan doctors who do not overstate the benefits of a vegan diet and I do not know if Virginia Messina still recommends Dr Greger. The new book of Virginia Messina : Even Vegans Die seems to be her answer to Dr Greger's How Not To Die. Another problem is Dr Greger relies on reductionist studies so it is easy to find reductionist studies that are against the position of Dr Greger.
I do not have the patience of Denise Minger to read many studies but I am familiar with the Adventist Health Study 2 and I am aware of how pro vegans use this study to overstate the benefits of a vegan diet and an unrefined vegan diet. Dr Greger also sometimes mentions the pritikin diet and dr dean ornish diet which are not vegan diets altho the dr dean ornish diet is nearly vegan and I often just pretend the dr dean ornish diet is vegan to avoid being too wordy.
Denise Minger has her own biases. She is personally allergic to soy so I would guess it influences her interpretations of soy studies. Recommending grass fed livestock is not practical due to environmental problems like lack of land, water shortage and global warming. Grass fed livestock has the same problem of bioaccumulating pollution and radiation. All animal products are loaded with calories and have 0 fiber so they are obviously not health food. I do not know if Denise Minger still believes that her diet somehow miraculously protects her from her personal overconsumption of polluted wild seafood (has both pollution and radiation and the mainstream only allows 2-3 servings per week). Some experts also predict most sealife will be gone in just a few decades due to overconsumption and global warming, so it is not practical to recommend seafood. Currently, the best argument for going vegan is environmental and global warming so the politicians conveniently banned environmental concerns in the 2015 diet guide for americans.
Jeff the Chef wrote:GlennR wrote:Denise was pretty even handed in her analysis and more pro for the book than anti.
If she gave an even handed analysis, that would maybe be a first.
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