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Janice Stanger, Ph.D. has been happy and healthy on a plant-based diet since 2000. She is the author of The Perfect Formula Diet: How to Lose Weight and Get Healthy Now with Six Kinds of Whole Foods. She lives in San Diego with her daughter and kitties.
You can email Janice at janice@perfectformuladiet.com
Only plants can make omega-3 fatty acids. Animals(including people) can link the basic omega-3 units into longer chains, but only plants can manufacture omega-3s. When researchers reference "omega-3 fish oil" they are ignoring this very basic fact.
Similarly, only plants can make essential amino acids for proteins. As the base of the food chain, whole plant foods are the original source of virtually all our nutrients. The only exceptions are vitamins B12 (bacteria) and D (sun).
Healthy Librarian: You are 100% right Janice. Thanks for making the point. The researchers used fish oil in their study--but why not go to the source of omega-3 with green plants, flax, chia, or walnuts? And there's always algae-sourced Omega-3s in capsules.
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The reason this story is especially silly is that plants are the base of the food chain. If you eat animals, there are 2 to 16 pounds of plants hidden in every pound of meat, dairy, or eggs. After all, the animal muscle did not materialize out of nothing.
If you want to eat fewer plants, paradoxically the best way to accomplish this is to eat a diet that is ALL plants. Then you are sparing the many more plants that the farmed animals would have been fed.