The ITV chat show hosted a segment on Tuesday morning's episode (June 14) to discuss the argument of whether a vegan diet is really the best option for our bodies and the planet. Jayne Buxton, author of The Great Plant-Based Con, appeared on the show to argue how diets that exclude animal foods can be damaging to your health. Tim Spector is professor of epidemiology at King’s College London , and the author of Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Food Is Wrong. Further reading: Cow’s milk was also richest in iodine, b12 and b2. There wasn’t much difference in calcium, which Givens puts down to plant-based milks being fortified. That means fruits, vegetables, pulses and nuts that are bought as whole as possible. And there are important scientific reasons why they are better for us. A lot of it comes down to the gut: we know that having a flourishing, diverse microbiome – the community of trillions of gut microbes in your lower intestine – is important for all aspects of health. Unprocessed foods contain two key ingredients that help support this. The more different plants you eat, the greater the variety of beneficial microorganisms in your gut you’ll be supporting

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It seems even when a vegan diet avoids the pitfalls of processed food, you can have too much of a good thing. As ever, balance and moderation in all things is key. The ethical argument for veganism The Great Plant-Based Con: Why eating a plants-only diet won't improve your health or save the planetAn excellent all-encompassing book on the subject, clearly the author has dedicated a lot of time on research. Quoted are some of the most esteemed books of the field, like The Big Fat Surprise, The Vegetarian Myth, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Gary Taubes' books and many more books and What do I mean by ultra-processed foods? These are the things that have undergone such extensive change that you wouldn’t be able to reproduce them at home. An easy way to identify them is from the extensive list of ingredients, many of which are unrecognisable; or from their aggressive marketing; or from their high fat, sugar and salt content. For the average person in the UK, 56% of their diet comes from these ultra-processed foods, which are known to damage people’s physical and mental health, and our environment. But what if the pervasive message that the plant-based diet will improve our health and save the planet is misleading – or even false? What if removing animal foods from our diet is a serious threat to human health, and a red herring in the fight against climate change.

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There have been several critiques of the WHO report on cancer (2015), which is responsible for the notion that eating processed meat causes cancer, including one from a member of the committee that produced the report, who felt that it was not evidence based. Bekieboyd explained: "Why do we call cows milk ‘ordinary milk’? Why did we choose a cow out of all animals to give hormones to make them produce milk for us all the time to drink. It’s not natural. It’s weird. No wonder people are embarrassed to ask for it." The first comes in the form of polyphenols: chemicals used naturally by plants as defences against pests. The second is fibre, which gives plants their structure. Microbes in the gut find both of these things delicious, feeding on them and in turn producing a range of important chemicals the body needs to stay healthy. Title: The Great Plant-Based Con: Why eating a plants-only diet won’t improve your health or save the planet.However, some people agreed with the diet author. @DaniJ94 wrote: "Finally someone on This Morning who speaks sense, I like her." @KatieMagnet added: "What a brilliant interview #ThisMorning Plant based con." Very little meat consumed in the UK comes from systems that deplete rainforests and generate large amounts of emissions. Imported meat from Brazil, for example, make up just one per cent of UK beef imports. If the high-level, global numbers for emissions are misleading, so are the various claims about the carbon cost per kilo of beef.