This subject freaks people out, vegetarians especially.
A huge part of identity for some people is based on the knowledge that they're living on a healthy plant-based diet. It turns out that said diet is less healthy than subsisting on bacon grease.
This causes cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance causes knee-jerk downvotes.
Citations? How about the study spelled out in the article?
You can have saturated fats on a plant diet: coconut and palm oil, for example. (These are even used in infant formula, incidentally).
There are animals that eat plants rather than other animals: they are called herbivores. Herbivores somehow develop muscles.
We can't eat exactly like herbivores. Herbivores eat grass and leaves in huge quantities and have the digestive system for it: they can get enough protein and overall calories that way.
Still, we can achieve a given number of calories and a desired fraction of them from protein and fat, using vegetable sources.
The reddit thread, you mean? Are we calling those articles now?
The vegetarian thing does not folow. Just because keto/atkins/paleo works, doesn't mean anything else works. Nothing is better than the low calorie diet.
It might be a good idea to link to the FAQ instead of the subreddit. It has an overview of the chemistry behind the diet -- for example, the use of urinalysis test strips.
A huge part of identity for some people is based on the knowledge that they're living on a healthy plant-based diet. It turns out that said diet is less healthy than subsisting on bacon grease.
This causes cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance causes knee-jerk downvotes.
Citations? How about the study spelled out in the article?