There is, however, a problem with the idea that consuming animal-based foods is a good way of becoming bigger. The people who eat the most animal protein have the most heart disease, cancer and diabetes. In the China Study, for example, animal protein consumption was associated with taller and heavierI people, but was also associated with higher levels of total and bad cholesterol.II Furthermore, body weight, associated with animal protein intake,I was associated with more cancerII–III and more coronary heart disease.II It seems that being bigger, and presumably better, comes with very high
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