/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6306379

>Let's back up and try again.

Let's take a look

>it's my choice to reaise my child on an unhealthy diet
>why's a vegan diet unhealthy?
>because it excludes foods. the optimum diet from a nutrition perspective is--

Maybe I'm reading that wrong, but it looks like "vegan diets are unhealthy because I don't personally believe they're the tip top best"

As for your weighing of the sources, that's what I meant by factoring in packages. B-vitamins aren't particularly hard to get through any diet, so I would argue that arguing about what source has more isn't really useful, but then if you want to compare cheese to spinach, the whole package of spinach and cheese is that spinach may prevent cancer and some chronic disease while the cheese can promote, among many things, certain cancers and heart disease.

We're probably not going to have a great discussion here about the difference between adding a few grams of any animal-sourced food into what would already be a balanced strict vegetarian diet, but there is evidence to suggest that the closer we get to 0% animal sourced foods, the greater we can expect our long term health to be, the Cornell China Study being a very famous and controversial example

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9860369

The short answer is "no." Cheese addicts will literally defend it to the death though.

>>6175499

>cheese is pretty staple as far as actual health benefits go.

How so? Cheese contributes more saturated fat to the american diet than any other food, and like any dairy product it's a hormone cocktail

>>6149734

> it also contains rather impressive quantities of vitamin A and D

They add that to the milk, though. That's like saying white rice contains impressive quantities of riboflavin and iron

>As a side effect, people who enjoy high quantities of dairy at a young age tend to grow taller

Then again, you have to weigh that against the increased cancer incidence

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11857417