Plant-based junk food is still junk food: “Plant-Based Diet Raises Heart Attack Risk”… wait until you see the study.
Maynard S. Clark
Be honest.
Due diligence is required before messaging on anything.
Again, the 'caveat' about 'the PETA diet' ("for the animals").
Is it ethical to guide others toward harming themselves?
Maynard
From: Jeff Nelson - VegSource <vegs...@substack.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Subject: “Plant-Based Diet Raises Heart Attack Risk”… wait until you see the study.
A headline circulating this week claims that a plant-based diet increases heart attack risk. Sounds alarming — until you read the actual study. What the researchers actually found is that ultra-processed foods increase heart disease risk — even when those foods are made from plants. In other words: Plant-based junk food is still junk food. The study looked at more than 60,000 people and found that diets high in ultra-processed plant foods (things like packaged snacks, refined foods, and many popular fake-meat products) were linked to higher cardiovascular risk. But diets centered on whole plant foods — fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes — showed the exact opposite pattern: lower heart-disease risk. Not exactly shocking. Oreos are technically vegan. That doesn’t make them health food. In fact, the study also noted that processed animal foods were even more strongly associated with cardiovascular disease than processed plant foods. The real takeaway isn’t “plant-based diets are dangerous.” It’s this: Highly processed diets — plant-based or animal-based — are bad for you. If your goal is health, follow the approach pioneered by physicians like Dr. John McDougall and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn: a diet centered on whole, minimally processed plant foods. If your goal is simply avoiding animal products but you don’t care much about your health, you can certainly live (and get heart attacks, strokes and cancer) on vegan junk food! But that’s a very different diet — and a very different outcome. You can read the article here:  COVID Intel - by William Makis (McGill Medicine)9 hours ago · 83 likes · 10 comments · William Makis — Jeff
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