Vegan and Plant-Based Diets Worsen Brain Health

As might be expected, the source quoted in the article is someone who has worked as a lobbyist for meat and eggs. They seem to be especially active lately.

While true that organ meat is especially high in choline, even many meat eaters avoid it. For vegetarians, eggs have over double the amount of choline you'll get from steak. Two a day is all you need.

If you ate nothing else all day, you could achieve the recommended daily intake of choline with about a pound of tofu, but chocolate, cauliflower, broccoli, bok choy, spinach, nuts, and seeds are also high in it. Anyone who eats a variety of fresh foods will likely be fine.

I eat meat but jeez, the study’s author is incredibly motivated to be biased:

“She has, however, consulted for and advised: The Meat Advisory Panel, Marlow Foods (Quorn), the Health Supplement Information Service and the British Egg Information Service, amongst others.”

I was just looking at this yesterday: there was a study where 75% of plant-based protein powders tested positive for lead, whereas animal-based protein powders performed much better. I think a lot of vegans drink soy and pea protein powders to get enough protein in their diet. And powders labeled "organic" did even worse on top of that. I think it would be interesting to do a study looking at vegans and exposure to heavy metals like lead/cadmium.

Here it is: https://www.cleanlabelproject.org/protein-powder/

'But bro, where do you get your choline?'

These anti-vegan and anti-vegetarian pieces always have clear ties to the meat and dairy industries.

Anyway, this rebuttal is spot on: https://medium.com/@Kahn642/the-choline-vegan-crisis-a-pseud...

I seem to recall an article many years ago about with the advent of fire, humans were able to cook meat which allowed their brains to develop better which made us more intelligent. I can see that correlation with decreased use of meat causing something like that to happen.

That title is entirely contrarian to seemingly endless current research.

One interesting documentary, which pretty scientifically goes into the pros and cons of plant-based nutrient sourcing, is the following.

https://gamechangersmovie.com/the-film/#

It's also interesting to watch lobbyists for the beef industry stupefyingly try contradicting scientists, as if their propaganda is some sort of truth, rather than agenda.

Enlightening stuff, we thought.