As the push to get the population to embrace veganism continues unabated, evidence quietly accumulates that eating animal protein is beneficial and veganism is not all that it is cracked up to be. One of the best indicators of the healthiness of a particular diet is its effects on lifespan. Diet that is good for us should extend lifespan (ideally, both average and maximum), while diet that is not so good for us should result in shorter lifespan. Based on that criteria, it looks like meat-eaters have another reason to celebrate. As the study below demonstrates, meat-eaters are much more likely to reach the ripe old age of 100 than vegans. Now, it used to be the case that vegan diets were significantly cheaper for the end-user, and one solid reason to consider vegan diets was the much lower impact they would have on a family’s budget. However, that is no longer the case as vegan diets became all the rage in recent years and now the price of a high-quality beef steak is actually lower than the price for the same amount of protein coming from “trendy” products such as, say, “BeyondMeat” or “Soylent Green”. I think the high amounts of phytoestrogens and PUFA in vegan diets are probably the main culprit behind the shorter expected lifespan in people consuming predominantly plant-based diets (excluding potatoes).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002916525007282?via%3Dihub
https://www.newsweek.com/vegetarian-diet-may-reduce-chance-living-100-centenarian-aging-11322453
“…People who don’t eat meat may be less likely than meat eaters to reach the age of 100, according to a recent study. But before you reconsider your plant-based diet, there’s more to these findings than meets the eye. The research tracked over 5,000 Chinese adults aged 80 and older who participated in the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, a nationally representative study that began in 1998. By 2018, those following diets that don’t contain meat were less likely to become centenarians compared with meat eaters.”
