Saturday, November 14

THE HEALTHY EATING PYRAMID: EPIDEMIOLOGY SUPPORTS THE VEGAN DIET




John Livesey PhD, Scientific Officer, Department of Endocrinology, Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand

Scientific nutrition is becoming increasingly supportive of the vegan diet and this is most evident in what is arguably the most important popular book on human nutrition for decades. Eat, Drink and be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating, the controversial book written by Walter Willett, Chairman of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, is so important because it is based on recent discoveries in nutritional epidemiology rather than on laboratory experiments.

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