{"id":3485,"date":"2020-01-14T19:49:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T23:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2020-01-14T19:49:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T23:49:44","slug":"diet-wars-why-well-still-take-personalized-over-veganuary-kara-fitzgerald-nd-naturopathic-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/14\/diet-wars-why-well-still-take-personalized-over-veganuary-kara-fitzgerald-nd-naturopathic-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Diet Wars \u2013 Why We\u2019ll Still Take Personalized Over Veganuary &#8211; Kara Fitzgerald ND Naturopathic Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It\u2019s true that most of the science indicates that, in general, avoiding\u00a0<i>high<\/i>\u00a0meat consumption, and especially processed meat such as bacon, hot dogs, and sausages, is associated with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/365\/bmj.l2110\">reduced risk for major diseases<\/a>\u00a0like type 2 diabetes, heart disease, cancer, even overall mortality. Not all studies agree on the benefits of an outright vegan diet, though \u2013 some (including a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/31250769-dietary-patterns-and-risk-of-cardiovascular-diseases-a-review-of-the-evidence\/?from_term=vegan+diet&amp;from_sort=date&amp;from_size=10&amp;from_page=4&amp;from_pos=10\">2019 review article<\/a>) found no risk difference between vegans and omnivores for total heart disease and all-cause mortality risk. A recent study, looking at a large cohort \u2013 the EPIC Oxford study \u2013 even found a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/366\/bmj.l4897\">higher incidence of stroke<\/a>\u00a0in vegans and vegetarians than meat eaters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drkarafitzgerald.com\/2020\/01\/10\/diet-wars-why-well-still-take-personalized-over-veganuary\/?mc_cid=8e3e989393&amp;mc_eid=f9da889352\">Diet Wars \u2013 Why We\u2019ll Still Take Personalized Over Veganuary &#8211; Kara Fitzgerald ND Naturopathic Doctor<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s true that most of the science indicates that, in general, avoiding\u00a0high\u00a0meat consumption, and especially processed meat such as bacon, hot dogs, and sausages, is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}