The Great Plant-Based Con: A Vegan Diet Hurts Your Health & Won’t Save the Planet | Jayne Buxton (#568)

Jayne Buxton is an ambassador for the Real Food Campaign and the Public Health Collaboration.

In her twenty years as a published author she has written on a wide variety of subjects.

Jayne is the author of The Great Plant-Based Con: Why eating a plants-only diet won’t improve your health or save the planet.

↓ Watch the full conversation on YouTube ↓

In this episode, we discuss:

• The top nutrients missing from a plant-based diet
• Jayne advocates for real-food diets
• What are anti-nutrients?
• How the anti-meat propaganda started
• The Game Changers documentary exposed
• People in the Blue Zones aren’t eating a plant-based diet
• Epidemiological studies explained
• The eat real food message
• Can carnivore diets provide the essential nutrients?
• The therapeutic benefits of ketogenic diets
• The Great Plant-Based Con
• Debunking the saturated fat myth
• Does red meat cause cancer?
• Phytonutrients are higher in grass-fed meat
• The role of CO2 in regenerative agriculture
• Linoleic acid from seed oils creates toxicity in the body
• Soy foods can cause hormonal imbalances
• The problem with the food guidelines
• The trouble hiding in your plant-based foods
• The fear of carbon and methane
• The environmental impact of animal agriculture
• The carbon footprint of plants vs. animals
• Biodiversity in agriculture
• The methane myth
• To eat is to kill
• The truth about human life and mortality

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Jayne Buxton – The Great Plant-Based Con (book)
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Dietary Guidelines for Americans
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Dr. Fred Provenza – Nourishment (book)
The EatWell Guide
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Annals of Internal Medicine
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Weston A. Price Foundation
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White Oak Pastures
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