Talk:Whole-food plant-based diet

message: I think we should consider removing this article.  It doesn't site any sources and appears to just host external links for people's websites.  An Article shouldn't have four external links and no sources.Disagreeableneutrino (talk) 06:23, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You need to add closing tags after your reference.  Take a look at Wikipedia:Footnotes for instructions. Disagreeableneutrino (talk) 09:19, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleting Article 

message: I removed a link to the "American Botanical Council" as that site is about herbal medicine, not whole food, and the Veganism and vegetarianism navbox because whole food is not necessarily vegetarian. Pais (talk) 17:55, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  What I removed and why 

message: It should be deleted or re-written to make the ambiguity of the term clear. The article is immediately problematic in the very first sentence. It defines whole foods and cites a paper that never actually attempts to define what a whole food is. The cited paper repeatedly uses the phrase "whole and unrefined food"; note the "and". The paper is cited as a justification for stating that whole foods are as unrefined as possible, but the paper continually represents "whole" and "unrefined" as separate qualities of a food without defining either one. The concept of "refinement" has a preexisting definition that can be considered, but "whole" does not. As this article is a titled "whole food", the lack of a credible definition of the term calls into question the validity of the entire article. This reference is the only scientific reference in the entire article, and it's usage as a justification for the given definition of whole food is questionable. The article should either be removed, or should make very clear that this concept of "whole food" is not a harmonized nor scientific concept.Mddesan (talk) 07:00, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Article is a Problem

message: This article was originally titled "whole food", it's now been changed to "whole-food plant-based diet". Both are problematic. A whole food is dictionary defined as "food that has been processed or refined as little as possible and is free from additives or other artificial substances." There is not much difference between this term and term natural food. I am willing to do some work on the natural food article and I think we should redirect "whole food" to natural food where I can mention the term whole food. I would also support redirecting "whole-food plant-based diet" to the main plant-based diet article. Psychologist Guy (talk) 15:53, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: "Whole food definition is - a natural food and especially an unprocessed one (such as a vegetable or fruit)." . Which is no different than the definition of natural food - "natural foods are often assumed to be foods that are not processed, or do not contain any food additives, or do not contain particular additives such as hormones, antibiotics, sweeteners, food colors, preservatives, or flavorings that were not originally in the food". I would support redirecting whole food into natural food. Psychologist Guy (talk) 15:55, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that 1) whole food should redirect to natural food and 2) mention of whole-food plant-based diet should redirect to plant-based diet. Zefr (talk) 16:05, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Problematic article