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For various reasons, from health concerns to animal welfare and climate change, increasing numbers of people are opting for a plant-based diet.🌱
The question is, are plant only diets good for you in the long-term? @Oxford_NDPH explores...🧵⬇
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The question is, are plant only diets good for you in the long-term? @Oxford_NDPH explores...🧵⬇
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CORONARY HEART DISEASE | Research from @Oxford_NDPH has found strong evidence that vegetarian and vegan diets have a protective effect against coronary heart disease (CHD). đź©ş
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STROKE | Evidence on stroke risk remains inconclusive.
Research shows those who have a meat-free diet have a 20% higher risk of stroke than meat eaters. It is not known why, but one factor may be that low LDL cholesterol increases the risk. ⬇ 🧵[3/10]
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Research shows those who have a meat-free diet have a 20% higher risk of stroke than meat eaters. It is not known why, but one factor may be that low LDL cholesterol increases the risk. ⬇ 🧵[3/10]
ndph.ox.ac.uk/news/vegetaria…
Most people know that factory farming involves many horrors. But it's hard to remain concerned about things that are out of sight. So here’s an intermittent thread on how humanity is committing a terrible atrocity, which we should urgently try to end. (Warning: difficult content)
86% of pigs in the UK are killed by being lowered in cages into gas chambers, which is clearly highly distressing and painful, as in these videos from Australia:
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Read philiplymbery.com/gas-killing-is… for more info
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Read philiplymbery.com/gas-killing-is… for more info
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17,000,000 minks are being killed in Denmark (probably gassed), as the industry poses a coronavirus risk.
Obviously they would have been killed anyway, for fur. Thankfully, the industry is coming to an end in the Netherlands and Poland (3/n)
Obviously they would have been killed anyway, for fur. Thankfully, the industry is coming to an end in the Netherlands and Poland (3/n)
I should explain what was the reasoning behind eating the meat RAW: after years of subjectively seeing meat consumption as “unnatural”, I believed that the taste of it, uncooked and unseasoned, or the mere smell of it, would make me INSTANTLY GAG.
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What happened next is that I found myself blissfully eating the whole thing as I let my INSTINCT lead rather than my mind.
And just like that my instinct TOOK OVER.
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And just like that my instinct TOOK OVER.
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I wasn’t disgusted, I enjoyed it as if I’d been starved from it for so long...because I had.
I didn’t throw it up, I didn’t get a stomach ache, I digested it perfectly instead.
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I didn’t throw it up, I didn’t get a stomach ache, I digested it perfectly instead.
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