Vegans carry less creatine in their muscles than meat eaters, and it has been measured by biopsy rather than assumed. The first of three short pieces: why the stores are lower, how big the effect of supplementing actually is, what dose the literature gives, and what the kidney question really amounts to.
It began with a leaflet: Ruth Harrison went to see the farms for herself, wrote Animal Machines in 1964, and within weeks the British government announced an inquiry. The Brambell report, the origin of the five freedoms, the link to Peter Singer, and the criticism the book faced.
We checked six claims from The Game Changers against published research: vegan athletes and performance, plant protein and muscle, the gladiators of Ephesus, what one meal does to blood and arteries, and the erection demo. What is supported, what is overstated, and where the film can be watched today.
Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation (1975) rests on Bentham’s question: can they suffer? The argument of the 1973 essay that grew into the book, the examples that have aged (cages, numbers, where the line of sentience falls), the rewritten 2023 edition, the two Turkish translations and the main criticism of the utilitarian view.
Yeast does not make B12; the B12 in nutritional yeast is added during production, and fortified and unfortified products share the same name. Which line to read on the label, how little “source of B12” can legally mean, how much a serving gives; plus light, gluten and gout.
World Vegetarian Day was started by the North American Vegetarian Society in 1977 and endorsed by the International Vegetarian Union in 1978. The 1975 Maine congress and its “Funeral for Famine”, the link to World Vegan Day on 1 November, and why “lacto-vegan” is not a real term.
179 years ago today, the Vegetarian Society was founded at a hydropathic clinic in Ramsgate, England. The day as told by the 1847 report, where the word “vegetarian” came from, why most members were working people, and why the eggs-and-dairy debate is as old as the word itself.
On World Heart Day, a new meta-analysis of 19 prospective studies: plant-based eating lowers cardiovascular risk, but only when the plants are whole grains, legumes, nuts and vegetables. A plant-based diet built on sugary drinks, refined grains and sweets raised the risk.
This is one of the few places where the evidence on vegan diets is genuinely uncomfortable. In the largest prospective study, vegans had more than twice the rate of hip fracture of meat eaters. But the same studies show where the difference comes from, and what closes it: supplementation and resistance training.
Public health gives two pieces of advice side by side: eat more plant foods, eat fewer ultra-processed foods. For a young vegan they collide, because fortified plant milks are classified as ultra-processed. A Swedish study of 235 young people measured the collision: among vegans, a median of 98 per cent of vitamin B12 and 91 per cent of vitamin D came from ultra-processed food. Yet those vegans ate the most fibre, the most unsaturated fat and the least saturated fat, with no difference in sugar, salt, calories or BMI. And when the researchers classified the same foods a second way, the difference between the diet groups disappeared altogether.
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