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From the page: --Religious vegetarians, she said, who abstain from animal foods as part of their faith but perhaps do not have an overall healthy lifestyle, had a high risk of heart disease in a study of Taiwanese females.

--Animal protein is nearly always associated with greater bone density, not less, especially in the elderly, she said. (She added that Campbell's association of animal protein with cancer may have been because he focused on casein, a milk protein. Other proteins may be different. "Whey is cancer protective," she said.)

--There is no support for the "acid load and osteoporosis" theory, she said.

--Vegetarians and vegans often have lower bone mineral density (BMD) and higher fracture rates than omnivores, she said.

--Our guts are just not the same as herbivores', she said, especially other primates: our colons shrank and we (mostly) lost the ability to get energy from fiber.

--Finally, she suggested asking vegans their opinion on bivalves (clams, oysters, etc., which have no central nervous system).

She recommended the site Let Them Eat Meat by a former veggie who looks at the ethical issues involved, as well as the British book Meat: A Benign Extravagance which she said explains that strawberries are more destructive to the environment than even factory-farmed meat.

Also mentioned was the book The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability, by yet another former vegetarian. And don't worry, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Paleo Diet comes out next year.

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