Medical Xpress reports findings of a new study of the adequacy of vegans’ diets.
In a new study of people with long-term vegan diets, most ate an adequate amount of total daily protein, but a significant proportion did not meet required levels of the amino acids lysine and leucine. Bi Xue Patricia Soh and colleagues at Massey University, New Zealand, present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS One.
Humans are natural omnivores, meat being a historic part of our diet whenever possible.