Where can I find unbiased info about the effects of a vegan diet on your health?

All I've found so far was either from vegan sites or from people who hate vegans. Scientific texts would be best, but a good, neutral summary would help a lot, too.Where can I find unbiased info about the effects of a vegan diet on your health?
Here are some studies done by universities and the like (it was combined by the vegetarian resource group, but that does not mean the studies were biased, that just means that the veg. group linked to these studies in their research section).

http://www.thevegetariansite.com/diet_st鈥?/a>

There are quite a few studies done by the American Journal for Clinical Nutrition, and some are from the National Cancer Institute, and other health journals.



Probably the best study to examine, as it is detailed %26amp; comprehensive, is the China Study.

http://www.thechinastudy.com/

The person who conducted the studies was raised very heavily on animal products and was active in trying to make animals produce more protein or something. After his study, his views totally changed.



Here is a look at a food pyramid for vegans: http://www.foodguidepyramid.co.uk/food-p鈥?/a>

The site forgets to mention that nonvegans are just as susceptible to B12 deficiency; anyone can have a B12 deficiency if:

1.) Something is competing for your B12 (like parasites);

2.) Something is destroying your B12 (like cyanide in cigarettes); or

3.) Something is preventing the proper absorption of B12 (like inadequate production of intrinsic factor).

http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/vitam鈥?/a>

http://www.pamrotella.com/health/b12.htm鈥?/a>

As vegans, we should either take a supplement, or buy RedStar Nutritional Yeast %26amp; make cheezy things with it (or sprinkle it into your food/sandwiches). I take the latter route because I love food. =P



The Milk Documentary site has links to research about the effects of milk on our diet.

http://www.milkdocumentary.com/Site/Milk鈥?/a>

The documentary itself is a pretty informative piece of work.



http://www.notmilk.com/

(List of articles and studies from other organizations concerning dairy.)Where can I find unbiased info about the effects of a vegan diet on your health?
The most current peer reviewed research I've found is "The China Study" by T. Colin Campbell. You can also find academic books from 30 and 40 years ago that come to the same conclusions and are entirely based upon solid scientific research and are not reductionistic. Today, most research is reductionistic (looking at very narrrow scope of isolated vitamins for instance) commonly funded by the drug industry.



You can read reviews of the book at Amazon.com. You can also read parts of it for yourself through Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=FIRLLcL鈥?/a>



Look for videos of the author on the Internet.



The physicians Committe for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) headed by Neal Barnard also brings together solid scientific studies. http://www.pcrm.org/ Of course Dean Ornish has some work, and this is accepted by mainstream media.
We had people over for dinner and my wife made a dish with chicken in it one of the guests proceeded to pick out all the chicken and put it on his napkin . That infuriated my wife and the other guests , because the meal was chicken and he should not have taken other peoples share . When I asked why he did that he became arrogant and said " Because it is good for you . It was not so good for him when I accidentyly tipped his bowl into his lap .Where can I find unbiased info about the effects of a vegan diet on your health?
Try the American Dietetic Association, the Mayo Clinic, and the American Heart Association. They all have position papers about vegetarianism, at least.
I agree with Julia above.

The American Dietetic Association, Mayo Clinic, and the American Heart Association are sure not PETA.Where can I find unbiased info about the effects of a vegan diet on your health?
Good luck finding such a site. I doubt that one exists.
"Unbiased" may be a tall order, but there are a lot of testimonials from ex vegans describing how their diet severely hurt their health and how those effects were reversed after starting to eat animal products again. However it is anecdotal evidence.



However there are plenty of peer reviewed papers describing how paleolithic peoples ate (hint: It was a lot of meat and animal fat). I've also read a few papers describing the present human form as an adaptation to persistence hunting (i.e. run after your prey until it collapses. Humans are excellent endurance runners.). There are also plenty of papers describing the negative effects of agriculture and a plant based diet on humans (essentially humans got shorter, fatter and started getting cavities, diabetes and heart disease from eating grains).



A recent book I've read about (but have yet to read myself) is Lierre Keith's "The Vegetarian Myth". Google her and the book title. It describes the disasterous effects of her 20 year vegan diet and how agriculture is probably the worst thing for the planet.



While factory farming of meat is awful (it is inhumane and the quality of meat is poor due to feeding grain to animals meant to eat grass), a vegan diet is altogether unhealthy and unnatural.



Start with "beyond vegetarianism."



Good luck.
humans did NOT evolve from chimapnzees. The vegans have it all wrong.