We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
because of something called observational epidemiology right because of the way we do science because of the way we do medical studies there persists this completely disconnected notion that for some reason plant-based diets are healthier for humans because of what's healthy user bias and unhealthy user bias
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we are being told that kale is good for us that beets are good for us that all plants are good for us the vegetables are great for us because of epidemiology studies that associate healthy behaviors with the consumption of vegetables and that is conflating two things you can't say whether it's the vegetables or the healthy behaviors that are causing the better outcomes i've talked about this many times in the past that it's called healthy user bias
if you look at the epidemiology regarding vegetables in human health or meat and human health there are disparate results across u.s western and eastern populations this makes me highly suspect there's something else going on
so I'm not terribly convinced by an observational study that says that if you eat more vegetables that's associated with Better Health outcome because those people are likely to do other good health behaviors