New Position Paper on Vegetarian Diets
Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Vegetarian Diets has been released!
It states:
It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that appropriately planned vegetarian, including vegan, diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. These diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, adolescence, older adulthood, and for athletes. Plant-based diets are more environmentally sustainable than diets rich in animal products because they use fewer natural resources and are associated with much less environmental damage.
The paper contains a review of all the nutrients of concern for vegetarians and a summary of the research on the health and environmental benefits.
As of this writing, a free PDF was downloadable at the links to the paper above and below.
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Reference
1. Melina V, Craig W, Levin S. Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Vegetarian Diets. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2016 Dec;116(12):1970-1980. • link
March 8th, 2017 at 9:52 pm
Dude, look at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature21674.html (not real relevant to this post but to veganism).
“In contrast, no meat was detected in the diet of Neanderthals from El Sidrón cave, Spain, and dietary components of mushrooms, pine nuts, and moss reflected forest gathering.”
Vegan neanderthals. I had no idea. I used to think they went extinct because their bodies needed so much meat that when wild animals were scarce they starved faster than we did.