Comment by numbsafari

My takeaway from this was to consider not only the food product of choice, but the cooking method. It may be the cooking method is more important than the food choices themselves?

Perhaps, if you are a vegetarian that eats lots of fried, sauteed, or roasted vegetables (chasing umami), you might be no better off than a non-vegetarian who is consuming predominantly raw, steamed, or boiled animal products.

Anecdotally, this would correlate with the many obese or poorly nourished vegetarians I have known, despite their "healthy" diet.

In any event, we should all be eating more fiber.