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I believe in balance, so please try to keep in mind that this was a targeted study of Seventh Day Adventists by a Seventh Day Adventist university research group. IOW, the results were not completely randomized and should not be viewed in absolutist terms.
Eating local organic is the way to go....knowing your farmers, if at all possible, is a plus. Much less pesticide residue on organic veggies and fruits.
looks like being a vegetarian is good for your health
Looks like another BS study to me.
If you believe that the researchers who were 7DA, didn't have a serious conflict of interest in determining the healthyness of a 7DA diet and the promotion of that diet, then I have a message for you from Monsanto about how great Roundup is.
Second. The raw numbers in that study actually showed that non-vegetarians had a lower mortality rate than vegetarians. Granted it was for all purposes statistically irrelevant. You can quickly see this for yourself by looking at the numbers and dividing the deaths in each group by the years and multiplying by 1000. They only arrived at their conclusions after they run them through some statistical voodoo where a bunch of guessing and assumptions are made. Welcome to statistics.
Third. That same research group has had every study they have done, all with the purpose of promoting 7DA, blown out of the water by independent research. This one is clearly no different after a cursory glance.
If you wanna be a vegetarian thats great, by all means go do it. Most people would be better off on a vegetarian diet simply because they would be eating better foods. Don't wave around misguided studies like this to prove your point though. It only makes it harder for serious people to take you seriously.
Eating local organic is the way to go....knowing your farmers, if at all possible, is a plus. Much less pesticide residue on organic veggies and fruits.
Absolutely correct and I agree. But I would argue that local is the only real way to go. Way too much fiddeling with the term "organic" by the USDA. I would go local and take a trip out to a few farms on a day off and see for yourself what they are doing. If they are selling at a local farmers market they should have no problem taking a few mins to promote their product at the farm.
Yeah don't judge quality by whether or not it's organic. Organic farmers ARE allowed to use pesticides, and still call their foods organic. Organic farmers are also allowed to grow and sell genetically-modified foods, and still call their foods organic. Some of the pesticides they use are just as unsafe for Fluffy and Joe Junior as the stuff Monsanto pushes, and the growers still use face masks and gloves to dispense it.
You can't even ensure that the foods you grow in your own back yard are going to be devoid of unhealthy qualities, unless you have soil testing done every 6 months to check for any contaminants your neighbors might have dumped into THEIR back yards, that the rain might have rinsed into YOUR yard's soil.
You can't even ensure that the foods you grow in your own back yard are going to be devoid of unhealthy qualities, unless you have soil testing done every 6 months to check for any contaminants your neighbors might have dumped into THEIR back yards, that the rain might have rinsed into YOUR yard's soil.
Unless your closest neighbors are a few miles away....
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