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Debate Propositions & Examples
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Meta-Nutrition
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• All foods are definitionally health-promoting.
• Humans are naturally obligate omnivores.
• The optimal human diet is likely heavily artificial.
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Nutrition Science
• Non-hydrogenated vegetable oils are overwhelmingly healthy.
• BasedBee
• Pedro
• Saturated fat is overwhelmingly unhealthy, with few exceptions.​
• Brian Sanders
• Dietary cholesterol increases heart disease risk via LDL.
• Chocolate, despite its saturated fat, is generally healthy.​
• Non-churned, non-homogenized dairy is generally healthy.
• Fish, particularly fatty fish, is overwhelmingly healthy.
• Red meat and processed meat are overwhelmingly unhealthy.
• Preformed DHA seems prudent, but not required, for vegans.
• Soy products are overwhelmingly healthy, with few exceptions.
• Fructose doesn't uniquely cause fatty liver disease.
• Carbs do not uniquely cause fat accumulation or obesity.
• Excess sodium intake increases cardiovascular disease risk.
• Whole plant foods are overwhelmingly healthy.
• Fibre, whether whole or refined, is overwhelmingly healthy.
• TMAO is unlikely to be causative of heart disease.
• The omega-6/omega-3 ratio is unlikely to matter for health.
• Epidemiology generally provides good causal estimates.
• Highlander
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Dietary Patterns
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• Keto currently has limited unique clinical utility beyond epilepsy.
• There is little to no robust evidence that supports any raw diet.
• Vegan, pescatarian, and vegetarian diets are all similarly healthy.
• Plant-based diets do not appear to clinically reverse heart disease.
• Ancestral diets are likely to be suboptimal for long term health.
• Isaiah
• Olicsa
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Veganism
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• The rejection of veganism entails either absurdity or incoherence.
• As the object of moral value, sentience entails the least hilarity.
• Hunting odd-order predators is conditionally compatible with veganism.
• Farming and eating bivalves is compatible with veganism.
• Eating accidental roadkill is conditionally compatible with veganism.
• Eating discarded animal foods is conditionally compatible with veganism.
• Eating eggs is conditionally compatible with veganism.
• Cultured animal tissue is compatible with veganism.
• Crop-deaths are conditionally compatible with veganism.
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Non-Nutrition
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• ApoB-containing lipoproteins dose-dependently cause atherosclerosis.
• Regenerative animal agriculture is basically pseudoscience.
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