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0 pointsjustin668y ago0 comments

> Your body has minimum protein (and types of protein, AKA essential aminos) and fat (and types of fat, essential fatty acids) requirements, or you will die. And that is not a clickbait headline.

Yeah it is. Well, it would be, if people ever talked about amino acids in headlines.

People die of malnutrition, but good luck finding a population where people dying because they missed out on a specific amino acid is even remotely commonplace. Seriously, to whom does that happen?

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hammock8y ago

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2007/05/21/opinion/21planck.html

Also, http://m.med-health.net/protein-deficiency-diseases.html

justin66OP8y ago

These are extraordinary examples that amount to clickbait.

hammock8y ago

In addition to the American vegan baby who died in 2004 that I linked above, here are some more extraordinary examples.

French vegan baby dead (2008) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/mar/29/vegans-trial-d...

Belgian vegan baby dead (2014) http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40274493

Italian vegan baby almost dies (2016) https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/4xkk3n/couple-lose-cu...

Another Italian vegan baby almost dies (2016) https://www.thelocal.it/20160629/two-year-old-in-serious-con...

Futhermore, malnutrition - divided into a)protein deficiency, which is the biggest component, and b)micronutrient deficiency - is globally the most important risk factor for illness and death. Over 19% of young children in India have a protein deficiency[1] and over 41% of young children in rural Nigeria[2]. It's obviously worse in undeveloped nations but check the dead babies above if you think it can't happen in the developed world too.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4005205/ [2]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10768411

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0 pointsjustin668y ago0 comments

> Your body has minimum protein (and types of protein, AKA essential aminos) and fat (and types of fat, essential fatty acids) requirements, or you will die. And that is not a clickbait headline.

Yeah it is. Well, it would be, if people ever talked about amino acids in headlines.

People die of malnutrition, but good luck finding a population where people dying because they missed out on a specific amino acid is even remotely commonplace. Seriously, to whom does that happen?

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hammock8y ago

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2007/05/21/opinion/21planck.html

Also, http://m.med-health.net/protein-deficiency-diseases.html

justin66OP8y ago

These are extraordinary examples that amount to clickbait.

hammock8y ago

In addition to the American vegan baby who died in 2004 that I linked above, here are some more extraordinary examples.

French vegan baby dead (2008) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/mar/29/vegans-trial-d...

Belgian vegan baby dead (2014) http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40274493

Italian vegan baby almost dies (2016) https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/4xkk3n/couple-lose-cu...

Another Italian vegan baby almost dies (2016) https://www.thelocal.it/20160629/two-year-old-in-serious-con...

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4005205/ [2]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10768411

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