Дневник Фруктомана

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Почему то многие критики растительной диеты сами не имеют соответствующего образования и в основном находятся в разряде "наблюдателей", "блоггеров" и прочих активистов.

Однако из этого числа выделятся Салли Фаллон, PhD, которая продвигает палеодиету. Она основала Фонд Вестона Прайса WAPF, продвигающим экологические животные продукты. Экологические - хорошо, а животные - плохо.
О Прайсе можно почитать в Википедии, это был американский дантист, который посетил много первобытных племен и записал свои наблюдения в книге "Питание и вырождение".

Не следует забывать, что Прайс был дантистом, но не диетологом, не ученым-физиологом и т.д. Поэтому делать выводы из его книги, критикуя веганство, неблагоразумно.

Разве может сравнится его работа с "Китайским исследованием" Т. Кэмпбелаа?. Кстати, вот его ответ на критику малограмотных мясоедов, связанных с Фондом Прайса:

Price's main book was published in the late 1930s—at least this is the book that is most commonly cited by WAPF. I bought the book, carefully read it and learned that the WAPF staff and associates substantially exaggerate, in my opinion, the importance of Price's observations and the importance of his book. Price was a dental surgeon who visited more than a dozen indigenous populations around the world and became quite impressed with the overall good health of these geographically isolated people when compared with their kin who had become exposed to commerce from other lands. He seemed to regard these native peoples as the nearest link to our own past. With background in dentistry, Price assessed their health mainly by dental caries incidence and facial structures, supplementing his observations with many photographs. Although he made certain inferences about health in general, he published no reliable empirical data to support this view.

In brief, Weston Price's suggestion that dental caries was associated with the introduction of commerce (probably including processed and sweetened food products) was quite convincing, not unlike similar reports of others. He also speculated about an 'X' factor in milk fat, supposedly suggesting health benefits for cow's milk, but no follow-up findings on this 'X' factor consistent with human health have since been reported. In no way did Price publish reliable data in this book that could be used to evaluate the relationship of food with overall health. He did speculate, however, with some evidence, on the loss of nutritional value of food at that time (1920s-1930s) as a result of soil depletion and overuse. Excepting his observations on an association of dental caries incidence with processed food, Price's study, in my opinion, is of limited scientific value

http://www.vegsource.com/articles2/c...a_response.htm

Прайс нигде не нашел чистых фруктоедов, а его "вырождение" связано с переходом племен на рафинированные продукты.

Да и в самой Википедии, английская версия котороя старается соблюдать объективность:

A 1981 editorial by William T. Jarvis published in Nutrition Today was more critical, identifying Price's work as a classic example of the "myth of the healthy savage," which holds that individuals who live in more technologically primitive conditions lead healthier lives than those who live in more modern societies. The review noted that Price's work was limited by a lack of quantitative analysis of the nutrition of the diets studied, and said he overlooked alternative explanations for his observations, such as malnutrition in primitive societies and overindulgence in the Western diet, rather than the diet itself, as a cause for poorer health. The review makes the assertion that Price had a preconceived positive notion about the health of primitive people, which led to data of questionable value and conclusions that ignored important problems known to afflict their societies, such as periodontal disease.[26]

Кстати, забавно, ведь Салли Фаллон пропагандирует диету, призванную держать людей в форме, но самой, похоже, не удается справиться с лишним весом.
Хорошая критика (смотреть с 2.40) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9OhUwrPob0