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The Vegan RD
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The Vegan RD is a personal blog at theveganrd.com about health and culture. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Do Ex-Vegans’ Stories Make the Case Against Vegan Diets?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link The Vegan RD for dietitian-written nutrition writing on veganism, used to rebut claims about vegan diets, such as protein combining, and to respond to ex-vegan stories.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Do Ex-Vegans’ Stories Make the Case Against Vegan Diets?2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-11-23
What Hacker News says?
Ginny is pretty consistent about promoting good science and criticizing the bad. For example, in a blog post on "7 Ways to Encourage and Support New Vegans" ( http://www.theveganrd.com/2010/08/7-ways-to-encourage-and-su... ), she says: Be honest about nutrition. It’s pretty unlikely that a vegan diet is the only healthy way to eat and we will always get backed into a corner if we say that it is. Likewise, some nutri…
Comment linking /2010/08/7-ways-to-encourage-and-support-new-vegans.html
on “A Vegan No More”Submitted Do Ex-Vegans’ Stories Make the Case Against Vegan Diets? as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThere's a (somewhat) rebuttal to this here: http://www.theveganrd.com/2010/11/do-ex-vegans%E2%80%99-stor...
Comment linking /2010/11/do-ex-vegans%E2%80%99-stories-make-the-case-against-vegan-diets.html
on “A Vegan No More”Submitted Do Ex-Vegans’ Stories Make the Case Against Vegan Diets? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGinny Messina, who is a dietitian and actually has some qualifications to talk about this stuff, wrote a great response to this blog post - http://www.theveganrd.com/2010/11/do-ex-vegans%E2%80%99-stor...
Comment linking /2010/11/do-ex-vegans%E2%80%99-stories-make-the-case-against-vegan-diets.html
on “A Vegan No More”"Only then do you get the amino acid profile that humans need for complete protein (from veg foods) - so said that book." Your body actually maintains a reserve of amino acid and they do not need to be eaten in the same meal to be combined. article by a registered dietician: https://www.theveganrd.com/vegan-nutrition-101/vegan-nutriti... meta analysis: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VYIETAn9p2JdDompJkMUVO1_PSZ...
Comment linking /vegan-nutrition-101/vegan-nutrition-primers/plant-protein-a-vegan-nutrition-primer/
on “Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2015)”