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30 días, 30 excusas

30 videos cortos que refutan las 30 excusas más comunes con las cuales la gente se opone al veganismo.

MAN

Cortometraje animado que resume la relación de los seres humanos con la naturaleza.

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Huevos

Huevos y colesterol

Las afirmaciones de la industria del huevo sobre la seguridad de los huevos fueron catalogadas por el Tribunal de Apelaciones de los EE. UU. como notoriamente falsas y engañosas.

Fuentes

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Huevos y diabetes

Tan solo un huevo por semana puede aumentar el riesgo de contraer diabetes, la causa principal de amputaciones de miembros inferiores, insuficiencia renal y nuevos casos de ceguera.

Fuentes

L. Radzevivcienė, R. Ostrauskas. Egg consumption and the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus: a case-control study. Public Health Nutr. 2012 15(8):1437 – 1441.

U. Ericson, E. Sonestedt, B. Gullberg, S. Hellstrand, G. Hindy, E. Wirfält, M. Orho-Melander. High intakes of protein and processed meat associate with increased incidence of type 2 diabetes. Br. J. Nutr. 2013 109(6):1143 – 1153.

Z. Shi, B. Yuan, C. Zhang, M. Zhou, G. Holmboe-Ottesen. Egg consumption and the risk of diabetes in adults, Jiangsu, China. Nutrition 2011 27(2):194 – 198.

L. Djoussé, A. Kamineni, T. L. Nelson, M. Carnethon, D. Mozaffarian, D. Siscovick, K. J. Mukamal. Egg consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes in older adults. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 2010 92(2):422 – 427

L. Djoussé, J. M. Gaziano. Egg consumption in relation to cardiovascular disease and mortality: the Physicians’ Health Study. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 2008 87(4):964 – 969.

L. Djoussé, J. M. Gaziano, J. E. Buring, I.-M. Lee. Egg consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes in men and women. Diabetes Care 2009 32(2):295 – 300.

Huevos y función arterial

Incluso estudios financiados por la American Egg Board muestran que nuestras arterias se benefician al no consumir huevos.

Fuentes

DL Katz, MA Evans, H Nawaz, VY Njike, W Chan, BP Comerford, ML Hoxley. Egg consumption and endothelial function: A randomized controlled crossover trial. Int J Cardiol .2005 99(1):65 – 70.

V Njike, Z Faridi, S Dutta, AL Gonzalez-Simon, DL Katz. Daily egg consumption in hyperlipidemic adults–effects on endothelial function and cardiovascular risk. Nutr J. 2010 9:28.

PN Hopkins. Effects of dietery cholesterol on serum cholesterol: a meta-analysis and review. Am J Clin Nutr. 1992 55(6):1060-70.

SC Lucan. Egg on their faces (probably not in their necks); the yolk of the tenuous cholesterol-to-plaque conclusion. Atherosclerosis. 2013 227(1):182- 183.

JH O’Keefe Jr, L Cordain, WH Harris, RM Moe, R Vogel. Optimal Low-Density Lipoprotein Is 50 to 70 mg/dl: Lower Is Better and Physiologically Normal. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2004 43(11):2142-2146.

D Steinberg. Thematic review series: The pathogenesis of atherosclerosis: An interpretive history of the cholesterol controversy, part III: Mechanistically defining the role of hyperlipidemia. J Lipid Res. 2005 46(10):2037-2051.

JD Spence, DJA Jenkins, J Davignon. Egg yolk consumption, smoking and carotid plaque: Reply to letters to the Editor by Sean Lucan and T Dylan Olver et al. Atherosclerosis. 2013 227(1):189 – 191.

Huevos y publicidad engañosa

El Dept. de Agricultura de EE. UU. advirtió que, decir que los huevos son sanos, podría violar las reglas contra la publicidad falsa y engañosa.

Fuentes

Todos los documentos fueron conseguidos a través del Freedom of Information Act, una ley federal de libertad de información que requiere, a pedido, la divulgación total o parcial de información y documentos controlados por el gobierno de Estados Unidos.

Lácteos

Lácteos y cáncer

La relación de los lácteos con el cáncer de próstata y la explicación de uno de los motivos por los cuales conviene obtener el calcio de fuentes vegetales.

Fuentes

Aune D, Navarro Rosenblatt DA, Chan DS, et al. Dairy products, calcium, and prostate cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies. Am J Clin Nutr. 2015;101(1):87-117.

Yang M, Kenfield SA, Van Blarigan EL, et al. Dairy intake after prostate cancer diagnosis in relation to disease-specific and total mortality. Int J Cancer. 2015;137(10):2462-2469.

Park SW, Kim JY, Kim YS, Lee SJ, Lee SD, Chung MK. A milk protein, casein, as a proliferation promoting factor in prostate cancer cells. World J Mens Health. 2014;32(2):76-82.

Nielsen TS, Höjer A, Gustavsson AM, Hansen-Møller J, Purup S. Proliferative effect of whey from cows’ milk varying in phyto-oestrogens in human breast and prostate cancer cells. J Dairy Res. 2012;79(2):143-149.

Melnik BC, John SM, Carrera-Bastos P, Cordain L. The impact of cow’s milk-mediated mTORC1-signaling in the initiation and progression of prostate cancer. Nutr Metab (Lond). 2012;9(1):74.

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Veettil SK, Ching SM, Lim KG, Saokaew S, Phisalprapa P, Chaiyakunapruk N. Effects of calcium on the incidence of recurrent colorectal adenomas: A systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis of randomized controlled trials. Medicine (Baltimore). 2017;96(32):e7661.

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Harrison S, Lennon R, Holly J, et al. Does milk intake promote prostate cancer initiation or progression via effects on insulin-like growth factors (IGFs)? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Cancer Causes Control. 2017;28(6):497-528.

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Lácteos y hormonas

Incluso sin contar las agregadas, la leche es un fluido naturalmente cargado de hormonas de crecimiento. Qué relación tiene esto con el cáncer, caracterizado por el crecimiento descontrolado de ciertas células?