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A vegan diet won't cure diabetes. It might replace half your pills.
A whole-food plant-based diet drops A1c by about 0.4 points on average, roughly half the effect of metformin. What the trials actually show, why it only works when it's whole foods and not vegan junk food, and the medication catch diabetics need to plan for before switching.
Your vegan diet has enough iron. Your coffee habit might be stealing it.
Non-heme iron from plants absorbs at 5-12%, against 14-18% for the heme iron in meat - which is why vegans need about 1.8 times the RDA. What closes the gap: pairing with vitamin C, keeping tea and coffee away from iron-focused meals, and where the iron actually is.
Can regenerative farming feed the world? It would take five Earths
Regenerative grazing beats a feedlot and does not scale to current diets. The land arithmetic, what controlled comparisons say about rotation, and how much soil carbon actually offsets.
Why would someone be vegan? The most common reason is the weakest one
Health is the reason people name most often, and it is the weakest of the three. What the prospective data says about why people switch, and what each argument is worth.
Where do vegans get calcium? Spinach is the trap
A cup of cooked spinach carries more calcium than a cup of milk and delivers almost none of it. Plant calcium sources ranked by absorption, and a day of eating that clears the RDA.
The cons of a vegan diet
Every version of this question treats planning as a defect of plant-based eating. Animal foods are planned too, at the feed mill, by someone else. What the evidence shows, and the five rules that settle it.
What is vegan leather made of? Mostly plastic, and still the better buy
The label tells you no animal died. It tells you nothing about what the material is, and the answer is usually plastic, including in the plant-based options.
What supplements do vegans need? B12, and then it depends
The honest shortlist is shorter than most vegan supplement guides suggest. One nutrient is non-negotiable, three need attention for specific reasons, and the rest depend on what is already on the plate.
When did veganism start? The word is 1944. The argument is much older.
The word is eighty years old. The argument behind it is more than two hundred. A precise account of when veganism started, and why the answer depends entirely on what is being asked.