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JeffN wrote:Here are some statistics for you. Sadly, I do not think it is getting better, but worse.
When we look at healthy promoting behaviors, according to many large scale studies, only about 3% of Americans engage in the 5 healthy lifestyle behaviors said to be the most important (see Triage Your Health thread in my forum).
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Purdy wrote:Meats, dairy, sodas, oils, cut by half. Veggies and exercise doubled. Accomplish that in a nation over 10 years and you have veritable revolution in health.
ruupyet wrote:I am even more shocked at the way teens are eating. I thought this new generation would be so much more health conscious and I don't see that will my DD's friends. Most have chips and soda for lunch at school each day. If they are really hungry, they go for the cheese and pepperoni pizza. My DD has multiple vegetarian friends. Their diet is honestly worse than the ones that eat meat.
Purdy wrote:Clearly nearly all the "significant" progress that is going to be made in the American diet is going to have to come not from getting more people to become strict vegetarians or vegans.
At most over the next 20 years, that category might double to 6%...
Purdy wrote:On the other hand if we give acceptance and encouragement to perhaps 1 in 3 of the other 96%, then we could get that 32%...about 1 in 3.... to cut their 21 meals of sad food down to 14 or 10, substituting healthy meals for formerly poor choices.
Purdy wrote:That is where nearly ALL the progress will be made (if it is made).
Vegetarians and vegans must stop speaking in terms of 100% for those folks. If you have friends who eat poorly, suggest them changing 2 to 4 meals a week, and even in those meals, perhaps only cutting down, rather than eliminating all animal products.
If 2 SAD people cut their animal product intake by half, that is the same as 1 SAD person becoming fully vegan.
Rob wrote:In an attempt to validate this trend, I simply ran a search on an academic database for the word 'vegan'. The number of articles retrieved by year are as follows:
Year Articles
2000 567
2005 1,160
2008 2,089
Draw your own conclusions.
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