Eating too much meat is unhealthy, goes hand in hand with animal suffering and is fueling the climate crisis. Most people know that now. But there is habit and expediency on the one hand and persistent doubts on the other. Doesn’t an athletic person need animal protein? Do vegetarians not suffer from deficiency diseases? And plant-based products aren’t often an environmental problem either – just think soybeans and palm oil? The book “Ofter mal die Sau raus!” It eliminates these and many other biases—and that’s not the only strength of the 400-page work of nutrition expert Markus Keeler and specialty journalist Annette Sabersky.
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The length of the book may surprise you at first. Is there really a lot to say about eating a healthy plant-based diet? No – if you are simply looking for such a guide, you can limit yourself to the last two chapters. In it, Keller and Sabersky provide practical guidance on how much to eat, including the “A to Z” of foods with specific pointers. Dietitians treat vegetarian and vegan menus.
But the book offers much more than that. First, the authors refute the myths about plant nutrition. Instead, they show the real dangers that can accompany a poorly planned, vegan, but also meat-rich diet. Because although deficiencies of some nutrients in a vegetarian diet can be avoided, the negative health consequences of eating too much meat are not. Keeler and Sabersky’s tentative conclusion: “Yes, it’s true, eating only plant-based foods can be very beneficial for your health. But only if you use a wide variety of healthy foods and make your meals varied and varied.
Nutritionists explain what this could look like using different combinations of foods, from vegetables to grains to legumes. They explain what nutrients are present in certain amounts and what studies of health benefits have found. Since the authors first look at these questions starting with nutrients and look at their contents, and then look the other way around foods and their ingredients, there is some repetition that makes this part of the book seem a little long.
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