Plants in general can contain more lead from soil whereas animals will filter it out before you consume their flesh, but the amounts they found were still well below what is recommended for other plant products such as fruit juice. After looking into it when I saw that study it kinda sucks how much lead is still in a lot of things. I'd be curious to see a bigger study comparing the lead found in people that use the plant-based powder or are vegetarian versus meat-eaters.

[–] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Oh yeah, I forgot about this. It's going to be tough to do anything about this with the current administration in office.

Also there's arsenic is lots of brown rice. I think the stuff from California or India is pretty safe.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There’s no reason to panic if you’ve been using any of the products we tested, or if you take protein supplements generally. Many of these powders are fine to have occasionally...

I found this quote hilarious, I don't know anyone who takes protein powder occasionally. They are either taking it mosts days out of the week or not at all in my experience.

[–] BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

I am one of that group. I only take it if I went to the gym and have a surplus in my daily calories. Doesn't happen more frequently than once per week. Overdoing protein supplements can mess up your body, too.

[–] The_v@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Lead arsenate was a very common pesticides for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_hydrogen_arsenate

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

you know...we can look back and make fun of the romans for using lead water pipes even though they knew lead caused all sorts of health problems.

then...to this day not only do we still have lead water pipes, we decided to spray it on all of our food.

it's a wonder we survived as a species at all tbh

[–] PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Wow! That's awful. Funny how DDT was seen as an "improvement."

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wait till you learn what happens when you eat animals

[–] loonsun@sh.itjust.works -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fairly certain it's not lead poisoning

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's shorter life, cardiac disease, and cancer.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Don't forget diabetes.

[–] sonofearth@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

That is if you eat big animals regularly instead of smaller ones.

Vegans simply ignore the fact that humans are omnivores. One needs enough physical activity as well to reduce the risks for everything that you mentioned.

I know people who ate a lot of meat and did not workout and died early. I know people who are vegetarians who didn't workout and died early as well. In both cases one might die earlier than the other. What matters is a balanced diet, physical activity and the rest of your lifestyle including sleep, sex life, stress and social life as well.

[–] reddifuge@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

You're exposed to far more lead and other heavy metals living near a road than with this. So no, not a measurable amount.

[–] El_Capitan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Reposting my comment from another thread about this so people stop spreading this bullshit around:

I have a Garden of Life powder so I did a little digging and the powder I have and the Garden of Life powder tested in this report are both NSF certified. I trust NSF way more than I trust CR when it comes to contaminant levels, NSF is trusted by multiple countries for their public health standards. Also the "level of concern" used by CR is not the max level of safe consumption, it's the minimum level to trigger a Prop 65 warning. Some agencies use 8.8 ug, the NSF used 10 ug, which are about ~15-20 times the 0.5 ug used by CR. This is also from one round of testing, NSF does yearly audits and re-tests products regularly to keep their NSF certification.

https://www.nsf.org/nutrition-wellness/product-and-ingredient-certification

That being said, it is healthier to get your protein from whole foods than from powders and most people wildly overestimate how much protein they actually need.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

most people wildly overestimate how much protein they actually need.

Amen to that. It's hilarious to watch the protein craze in action. I thought it might gradually die down decades ago, due to being able to find reliable information very easily. Instead it's gotten remarkably worse over time.