Ward Nicholson wrote:

> Then
>when you compare clinical evidence of disease incidence of vegetarians/
>vegans (and maybe longevity, although I'm not sure about that) against
>omnivorous control groups, the omnivores do much worse.

>To begin with, the vegan
>paleo refutation falls into the logical trap of equating the SAD diet
>(i.e., the "omnivorous control" group in the clinical trials) with ANY/ALL
>omnivorous diets such as paleo.

The studies that compare vegetarians to people on the SAD also don't
control for things like vegetarians are much less likely to smoke or
consume alcohol. When all these things are controlled for then the
vegetarians come out worse.

Don.

Don.