An average of seven years is consistent with the hypothesis that the problem is vitamin B12 deficiency. Our bodies store enough B12 that it takes anywhere from months to decades for symptoms of a severely deficient diet to become clear.
This is a pretty poor explanation for people stopping eating vegan. You could apply the same argument if the average time someone remained vegan were anywhere from 2 months to an entire lifetime.
Interesting point. Should there be a greater focus on advertising and promoting how to eat a healthy vegan diet? While I’m not sure how effective this would be, I’d like to see more people pressuring government health departments to advertise the health benefits of being vegan, as my brief reading on the topic indicates that, for the government at least, it would save them money in the long run as the public health burden would be lower.
I think that would be a good idea. Would it make sense to have Facebook ads and Google Video ads to promote NutritionFacts.org? We might want to link to a page that distills the information on the videos into a single video or webpage, as the site has a lot of videos!
Another idea could be to translate the videos or make transcriptions and translate those.
An average of seven years is consistent with the hypothesis that the problem is vitamin B12 deficiency. Our bodies store enough B12 that it takes anywhere from months to decades for symptoms of a severely deficient diet to become clear.
This is a pretty poor explanation for people stopping eating vegan. You could apply the same argument if the average time someone remained vegan were anywhere from 2 months to an entire lifetime.
Interesting point. Should there be a greater focus on advertising and promoting how to eat a healthy vegan diet? While I’m not sure how effective this would be, I’d like to see more people pressuring government health departments to advertise the health benefits of being vegan, as my brief reading on the topic indicates that, for the government at least, it would save them money in the long run as the public health burden would be lower.
I think that would be a good idea. Would it make sense to have Facebook ads and Google Video ads to promote NutritionFacts.org? We might want to link to a page that distills the information on the videos into a single video or webpage, as the site has a lot of videos!
Another idea could be to translate the videos or make transcriptions and translate those.
Agree with that. Far too many vegans ignore B12.