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Originally Posted by thebigfert
Because... the whole point of the movie, from what I've heard, isn't about weight loss or body composition, but on total health... People who consume little to no meat live longer, don't get heart disease, have lower cancer rates, and are just generally more healthy... A very small part of this probably has something to do with vegetarians and vegans having far, far less cases of obesity than meat eaters, but it is mostly because the human body isn't built to process the large amounts of meat that people try to cram into our bodies. For example, true carnivores have mechanisms in their bodies to deal with the high amounts of cholesterol in a meat based diet. Humans, however, weren't designed to eat a mostly plant based diet, so when we consume high amounts of cholesterol, it builds up in our arteries, and the complications go on from there...
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Many of these studies and fad diets have the same thing in common. If you eat less calories you will live longer. Atkins diet helped a lot of people because if you severely limit carbohydrates, it's pretty tough to overeat. Just as if you avoid all animal products and fill up on a ton of veggies, you'll probably have a tough time eating too many calories.
And all these fads try and manipulate data to make it seem like their particular fad is causing this. But it still boils down to the fact that these fad diets are about tricking you into lowering your calorie consumption. That in and of itself is the most important thing someone can do. Not some shitty pseudoscience claiming all these little things cause all our ailments. If people enjoy the diet and can follow through on it, then I'm all for it.
I think the film does offer good advice. We should be eating less animal products and more veggies. Our diets have gotten a bit out of whack. But it also mixes in a lot of pseudoscience and misrepresents the China Study to scare people into it.
It makes broad sweeping judgements on things that have many variables. Saying "we started eating more meat and thus we started seeing more diseases" is as open ended as saying "we started using home computers and thus we started seeing more diseases". There are a lot of factors in play for why the country has become unhealthy.