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The fragile bones of the flexitarian
Information officers and governments propagate a diet that consists of as many plant-based products as possible. If all companies make high-quality plant-based products, and consumers know which nutrients they need, then that's fine. But if they don't, then the vegan food revolution won't make us any healthier. For example, osteoporosis could become an even bigger problem than it already is.
Study
The researchers had access to scans that told how the bone mass of the study participants changed during the study. Thanks to interviews, the researchers also had an idea of the diet of the study participants and assigned the study participants 3 different scores on the basis of this.
One score was the plant-based diet index [PDI]. It is higher if someone eats more vegetable products and less animal products.
A second score was the healthy plant-based diet index [hPDI]. This is higher if a diet contains more healthy plant foods, such as vegetables, nuts, fruit and other whole products.
A third score was the unhealthy plant-based diet index [uPDI]. This is higher if there are more unhealthy vegetable products in the diet, such as foods with a lot of refined carbohydrates and sweetened juices.
A first group [AL] was allowed to eat as much and whenever they wanted. This was the control group. The mice in the other 5 groups received 70 percent of the food consumed by the mice in the AL group. The mice in these 5 groups were thus exposed to caloric restriction.
Results
High scores on the unhealthy plant-based diet index [uPDI] increased the risk of osteoporosis.
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Declaration
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