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The Disclosure Podcast

Ep 27: Are Vegans 43% More Likely to Break Bones Compared to Meat Eaters?

The Disclosure Podcast

Ed Winters

Ethics, Politics, Whole Foods, Society & Culture, Education, Animals, Morality, Veganism, Philosophy, Vegan, Plant Based Diet

5.01.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

During the past couple of weeks there has been a media frenzy surrounding an EPIC-Oxford study that concluded that vegans have a higher risk of bone fractures. Headlines such as, "Meat-free diets linked with greater risk of breaking bones" and, "‘It is a worry’: The truth about veganism and bone health" littered news websites and flooded onto social media. Even Joe Rogan shared the study, as even though he has often criticised epidemiology that supports veganism, he clearly considers this to ...

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Thank you so much again for tuning in. Hello everyone and welcome to the next episode of the Disclosure Podcast.

0:57.0

I am your host Ed and I hope that you're all well and I hope that you've been well since I last uploaded a podcast and I hope they're all looking after yourselves.

1:06.0

In this week's episode I thought it would be a good idea, I suppose, to cover the recent study that came out from the epic Oxford cohort that was talking about how

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vegans have a what seems to be significantly higher risk of bone fractures including total fractures and hip fractures

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potentially most worrying of all and so I thought I would talk about the study some of the

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failings of the study but I also thought it would be interesting to talk

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about the wider media bias it was pretty obvious I suppose what was going on well obvious

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to us vegans what was going on last week when the study was published.

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I remember just being kind of shocked by the number of articles about this study.

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And if you haven't heard about the study study I'll give you a little rundown of what it was saying but basically there's a new study from the epic Oxford team

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which said that vegans, vegetarians and fish eaters all have a higher risk of bone fractures, the meat eaters,

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with vegans fairing the worst.

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There are a lot of sensational headlines that came out because of this and some of them you

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