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Most people lived most of their lives blissfully unaware of what Choline even was until August 29th, when the British Medical Journal published an article titled “Could We be overlooking a Potential Choline Crisis in the United Kingdom”, followed by an in house piece titled “Suggested move to a plant-based diet Risks worsening brain health nutrient deficiency”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u200bThe\u00a0article indicated that more and more people, in general, are low, if not deficient, in Choline and suggested, given that meat eggs and dairy are the most common sources of Choline, that the trend of moving to a plant-based diet may be increasing the risk for deficiency. There was also suggestion that Choline deficiency contributes to\u00a0\u200bpoor brain health, Neurological issues,\u00a0Cardiovascular disease, and\u00a0\u200bLiver disease.
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This inspired a surge of related media headlines from many major media outlets all over the world.
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\u200bThe thing is,\u00a0\u200bthe nutritionist and author of the above-mentioned article, consults and advises the British Egg Information Service, and sits on the meat advisory panel that commissioned her to write it.
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Also, this article wasn’t a \u200bscholarly or research article based on the review of reliable scientific research, clinical trials, clinical case studies, or meta-analyses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was an opinion piece, an article written about the personal thoughts, beliefs, feelings, or conclusions of the author. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This isn’t to say that \u200bCholine isn’t important. It is present in all the cell membranes of plants and animals, including in the brain, and it helps transport fats and other nutrients through cell membranes.
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\u200bThe tricky part is that an RDA hasn’t actually been set for Choline, due to insignificant data, but the AI is set at 425 mg per day for women, and 550 mg for men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For a list of plant-based (non-egg) sources of Choline, visit the blog link in the bio.
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BTW\u00a0rates of cardiovascular disease are the lowest in vegans compared to omnivores, non-alcoholic liver disease is inversely associated with a plant-based diet, and neurological conditions like dementia and Alzheimer’s are both associated with diets rich in animal products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Plant-based sources of Choline include beans, peas, soy milk, tofu, almonds cashews, ground flax seeds, hazelnuts, peanut butter sunflower seeds, asparagus, cauliflower, spinach, avocado, broccoli, red cabbage, bell peppers, baked potatoes, sweet potato, tomatoes, bananas, blueberries, dates, oranges, peaches, raspberries, blackberries, quinoa, rice, oatmeal, pasta, mustard, turmeric, and chocolate! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Most people lived most of their lives blissfully unaware of what Choline even was until August 29th, when the British Medical Journal published an article titled “Could We be overlooking a Potential Choline Crisis in the United Kingdom”, followed by an in house piece titled “Suggested move to a plant-based diet Risks worsening brain health nutrient deficiency”. \u200bThe\u00a0article indicated that more and more people, in general, are low, if not deficient, in Choline and suggested, given that meat eggs and dairy are the most common sources of Choline, that the trend of moving to a plant-based diet may be increasing the risk for deficiency. There was also suggestion that Choline deficiency contributes to\u00a0\u200bpoor brain health, Neurological issues,\u00a0Cardiovascular disease, and\u00a0\u200bLiver disease.\u200bThis inspired a surge of related media headlines from many major media outlets all over the world.\u200b\u200bThe thing is,\u00a0\u200bthe nutritionist and author of the above-mentioned article, consults and advises the British Egg Information Service, and sits on the meat advisory panel that commissioned her to write it.\u200bAlso, this article wasn’t a \u200bscholarly or research article based on the review of reliable scientific research, clinical trials, clinical case studies, or meta-analyses. It was an opinion piece, an article written about the personal thoughts, beliefs, feelings, or conclusions of the author. \u00a0 This isn’t to say that \u200bCholine isn’t important. It is present in all the cell membranes of plants and animals, including in the brain, and it helps transport fats and other nutrients through cell membranes.\u200b\u200bThe tricky part is that an RDA hasn’t actually been set for Choline, due to insignificant data, but the AI is set at 425 mg per day for women, and 550 mg for men. For a list of plant-based (non-egg) sources of Choline, visit the blog link in the bio.\u200bBTW\u00a0rates of cardiovascular disease are the lowest in vegans compared to omnivores, non-alcoholic liver disease is inversely associated with a plant-based diet, and neurological conditions like dementia and Alzheimer’s are both associated with diets rich in animal products. \u200b Plant-based sources of Choline include beans, peas, soy milk, tofu, almonds cashews, ground flax seeds, hazelnuts, peanut butter sunflower seeds, asparagus, cauliflower, spinach, avocado, broccoli, red cabbage, bell peppers, baked potatoes, sweet potato, tomatoes, bananas, blueberries, dates, oranges, peaches, raspberries, blackberries, quinoa, rice, oatmeal, pasta, mustard, turmeric, and chocolate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[374],"tags":[1414,1411,1412,1413,1247,1250,1416,1210,1249,781,984,1096,1415],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweetvegan.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweetvegan.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweetvegan.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweetvegan.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweetvegan.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sweetvegan.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73375,"href":"https:\/\/sweetvegan.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73372\/revisions\/73375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweetvegan.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweetvegan.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweetvegan.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweetvegan.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}