Vegan diets support healthy growth in children
A new study, including 1.2 million infants, found vegan diets support healthy growth in children.
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Dr. Justine Butler
Justine joined Viva! in 2005 after graduating from Bristol University with a PhD in molecular biology. After working as a campaigner, then researcher and writer, she is now Viva!’s head of research and her work focuses on animals, the environment and health. Justine’s scientific training helps her research and write both in-depth scientific reports, such as White Lies and the Meat Report, as well as easy-to-read factsheets and myth-busting articles for consumer magazines and updates on the latest research. Justine also recently wrote the Vegan for the Planet guide for Viva!’s Vegan Now campaign.
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A new study, including 1.2 million infants, found vegan diets support healthy growth in children.
More research suggests that red meat, especially processed meat, increases the risk of developing diabetes.
This study suggests that making healthier diet and lifestyle choices, including lowering or avoiding red meat, could prevent over a quarter of healthy years lost to illness and early death due to breast cancer worldwide.
New research confirms that plant-powered diets are your strongest defence against cancer.
How many women know how cow’s milk is produced and would they continue drinking it if they knew exactly what goes on behind the closed doors of modern dairy farms?
Tom Parker Bowles’s mockery of vegan meat reveals more about his resistance to ethical and environmental progress than about the food itself.
By choosing whole plant foods, shopping smartly, using bargains, and batch cooking simple meals, anyone can enjoy a varied, nourishing vegan diet on a budget.
Yet another Daily Mail headline spinning the science – lack of evidence of harm does not equal evidence of benefit!