While it is true that certain dietary deficits take years to surface in actual somatic issues and probably as well that the majority of vegans is younger than the western average, neither is evidence that a vegan diet (especially a modern one) can't be sustainable & healthy for a whole lifetime.

Large fractions of the world's population don't eat diary products at all (like said before, lactose tolerance is rather the exception than the rule, globally), and others don't have access to meat/fish, at least regularly, can't keep certain animals or what not - do you consider all that unhealthy?

[–] dragnucs@social.touha.me 1 points 2 years ago

@Aarkon @Zerush I am not an expert in the domain but my area for lacking access to fish, has a high incidence of Goitre.

This is because of a clear lack of iodine and some minerals found in seafood. While most cope up with this, they do have thyroid issues.

I guess the same can be said for a lack of any other type of food.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Certainly are people in the third world without a regulary access to animal protein, but also there are normally a lessd lifespan as in the western world. Apart, there is a huge difference between not a regulary access to animal protein and never. Most of the people in these countries are also include insects and other recources in their diet, even in few occasions. This is just what a healthy diet include, which we don't have in the western world with meet for every day, which is also not a healthy and balanced diet, as I mencioned before (depending on the climatic conditions, and activity. A Inuit with -30ªC need more fat and animal products as the people in Africa with 40ºC, also a worker in a fundition more than a officinist)