 In a review on vegetarian diets and public health published last year, they concluded that sufficient scientific evidence exists for public health policy to promote a plant-rich diet for health promotion. This does not need to wait for science to provide all the answers as to why and how. But this is certainly one reason. On average, 64 times more antioxidant power in plant foods than animal foods. But is this really a fair comparison? Included in the plant group were some things that were really just off the charts, like some exotic wild berries you could never actually find in a store that really skewed the chart upwards for the plant foods. I mean, people eat things like corn. They don't eat things like dried Norwegian corn flowers. So let's bring it down to earth. The average plant food does indeed have over 1,000 units of antioxidant power. But for comparison's sake, just to be fair to the animal foods, I'm going to choose the least healthy plant food I can think of. Good old American iceberg lettuce, which I think of as basically just water. It does not have 1,157 units of antioxidant power. It has 17. Still beats out fish, though, which averages 11. Even salmon? Seven. Chicken? Six. Iceberg lettuce is nearly three times more antioxidant than chicken. A hard-boiled egg? Two. Egg beaters, which is just the whites? Zero. Even Coca-Cola has four, the same amount found in cow's milk or yogurt, though soy milk only has about twice that. While plant foods average over 1,000, the best animal foods can do in the meat category is a serving of ox liver at 71. It beat out moose meat, reindeer steak, but still couldn't quite reach the antioxidant power of a Snickers bar. This is why we need to eat a plant-based diet. Because even if you've lived off of ox livers, the wild blueberry of the animal kingdom, one of the few animal foods that can beat out lettuce, you'd still never come close to your daily antioxidant needs. There is one animal product, however, that does kick some serious tush, topping 200. There are even some types of berries that didn't test that antioxidant rich. An animal product so healthy, I have to encourage everyone to consume it when you're a baby. That's the antioxidant content of human breast milk. During infancy, breast is best after infancy. Plants are preferred.