#342: Are Vegan Diets Superior for Health?

Sigma Nutrition Radio

Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Alan and Danny discuss the nutritional science research on vegan diets and human health. Some of the concepts covered include: defining “plant-based” diets, examination of various intervention trials comparing diets, veganism across the lifestage, benefits of a vegan diet, nutrient considerations and lots more.
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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. You are listening to episode 342 of the podcast. And for those
0:18.1	you regular listeners, you will have no doubt noticed our new music. That is our brand new custom made music. So a big shout out to Noah and Steph who put that together and arranged it completely from scratch. And I may be biased, but I'm a big fan. And in this specific podcast episode, we're going to be doing one of our in-depth breakdowns of a specific
0:39.0	topic, which has been a recent type of episode that myself and Sigma Nutrition's research
0:45.4	communication officer Alan Flanagan have been doing recently. Many of you who regularly listen
0:50.8	have been very, very positive about those episodes and have found them
0:55.0	incredibly useful, which we are absolutely delighted by. And so we're going to continue doing
0:59.6	more of those. For those of you who perhaps haven't caught some of those, then you can check
1:04.4	out some of our previous episodes of this type where we covered diet and immunity, diet and inflammation, and diet and heart disease
1:14.6	risk. So go and check those out if you haven't done so. In this particular episode, myself and
1:20.7	Alan thought it would be useful to discuss the nutritional science around vegan diets, particularly as compared to other types of diets,
1:30.0	and some of the considerations from a nutritional perspective, as well as the health outcomes of
1:36.0	vegan diets and omnivorous diets.
1:39.4	And the reason for doing this is because for many of you who regularly listen, you will
1:44.0	know that
1:44.5	we've just completed a five-part discussion series on the ethics around veganism and
1:50.9	omnivorism.
1:51.8	And previously on the podcast, we discussed the environmental impact with Dr. Hannah Ritchie.
1:57.7	And we wanted to have a discussion that was completely separate from those,
2:01.0	because sometimes when people are very passionate about certain dietary choices, with good
2:07.0	valid reasons on both the ethics and environmental side, sometimes that can bleed over and
2:12.5	lead to misleading claims about the nutritional science or the health science that we have on these
2:20.4	different types of diets, or certainly maybe not a completely clear and coherent picture
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