{"id":20566,"date":"2019-08-31T07:48:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T07:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=20566"},"modified":"2019-08-31T07:48:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T07:48:11","slug":"plant-based-diet-threat-to-brain-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/plant-based-diet-threat-to-brain-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-based diet a threat to brain health, lacks choline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Over the past several years there has been a rise in the popularity of plant-based diets and vegetarian eating regimes; however, scientists warn that the adoption of such a diet might increase the risk of brain malnourishment.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dr-emma-derbyshire-b425002a\/?originalSubdomain=uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Emma Derbyshire<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a contributor at Nutritional Insight, the main problem with plant-based diets is that they cannot adequately compensate for nutrients that are only found in animal products, mostly animal meat. <\/span><b>Dr. Derbyshire accentuated the importance of choline, a nutrient that is especially important in the fetal stages of development.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Choline is a nutrient produced by our livers; however, we make an insufficient quantity. This is why, animal products, including meat, are essential for the human diet, in order to get the necessary choline intake.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A plant-based diet and the climate crisis<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>One of the main reasons for people to decide to switch to a plant-based diet is their effort to help save our environment and reverse the effects of the climate crisis.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A recent example of a whole institution switching to a regiment focused less on meat is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/goldsmiths-helps-curb-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Goldsmiths<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, part of the University of London, which has banned all types of beef on its premises.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<b>These efforts are truly commendable; however, people should also take note of the consequences of switching to a meatless diet.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> According to research going back to 1998, the US Institute of Medicine has issued a formal recommendation, stating that the human organism needs between four hundred and five hundred milligrams of choline daily.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Institutions and families must recognize the need for nutrients predominantly abundant in animal products.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> While choline can be found in broccoli and beans, it is much more abundant in meat, dairy and eggs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past several years there has been a rise in the popularity of plant-based diets and vegetarian eating regimes; however, scientists warn that the adoption of such a diet might increase the risk of brain malnourishment.\u00a0 According to Dr. Emma Derbyshire, a contributor at Nutritional Insight, the main problem with plant-based diets is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}