XPost: alt.food.vegan.science, talk.politics.animals, alt.animal   
   .ethics.vegetarian   
   From: systemX@clipityclop.com   
      
   Rudy Canoza wrote:   
   > SystemX wrote:   
   >> Dragonblaze wrote:   
   >>> Scientists have found that consuming vegetarian, meat-free diet leads   
   >>> to brain shrinkage.   
   >>   
   >> That is a lie.   
   >>   
   >> Q.Where in the ORIGINAL study does it come to that conclusion?   
   >   
   snipped BS (again)   
   >   
   > Conclusion: Low vitamin B12 status should be further investigated as a   
   > modifiable cause of brain atrophy and of likely subsequent cognitive   
   > impairment in the elderly.   
   >   
   >   
   > It isn't being vegetarian per se;   
      
   Well done, go to top of the class, now FOAD.   
      
   >it's being deficient in B12, something   
   > vegetarians *commonly* are unless they take supplements.   
      
   The study, bum-breath, was about the elderly, the elderly are *commonly*   
   deficient of B12, if they eat meat or not.   
      
   There was NO evidence of a link between vegetarian and brain waisting, NONE.   
      
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