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What are the benefits of a whole food and plant based diet?

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Dr. Thomas Namey answered

Specializes in Rheumatology

Not as healthy!: As a professor of nutrition and md, i see many nutritional deficiencies in vegetarians, particularly vegans. Plant based diets eschew the protein efficiency of animal based protein. Also, many mineral in animal sources are more concentrated. I believe being a vegetarian is a sociaal statment. Humans have never been vegetarians until recently!

Answered 1/25/2015

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