living as a vegetarian for 17 years, this makes me feel good, but not too good, as my country has literally been taken over by cold-blooded murderers:
Vegetarians Live Longer
The battle has long been waged, and will certainly continue in spite of this study. Are humans designed/evolved to eat everything and at risk of malnutrition as vegetarians? Or is vegetarianism the healthy and ethical choice? The most impressive data arises from a study of 1904 vegetarians over 21 years by the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsche Krebsforschungszentrum). The study's shocking results: vegetarian men reduced their risk of early death by 50%! Women vegetarians benefit from a 30% reduction in mortality.
Vegetarians Live Longer
The battle has long been waged, and will certainly continue in spite of this study. Are humans designed/evolved to eat everything and at risk of malnutrition as vegetarians? Or is vegetarianism the healthy and ethical choice? The most impressive data arises from a study of 1904 vegetarians over 21 years by the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsche Krebsforschungszentrum). The study's shocking results: vegetarian men reduced their risk of early death by 50%! Women vegetarians benefit from a 30% reduction in mortality.
posted by bluesclues at 12:22 PM
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yes, but smokers don't live longer
perhaps, but vegetarians do
p.s. if you're right, sounds like you are totally screwed!
yep. consider me screwed.
i don't think this is totally pro vegetarian article, by the way. it claims that there was no difference in health benefits in the vegan, vegetarian and the person who was only mostly vegetarian.
the article is closer to michael pollan's position than a true vegetarian's.
p.s. i haven't had any meat for three weeks now!
congrats on three weeks! i just heard a girl at work say "I don't do organic" and then some other girl said "You're gonna die" and then the first girl said, "At least I'll die happy."
hopefully that will be sooner rather than later.
of course, the vanity argument would work nicely in this scenario. one word to a woman that you can tell she doesn't eat healthy by the way her skin and eyes look - it will be all over. overnight vegetarian!
sorry ladies - its true.
these are stats, so it's hard to say. but a 50% reduction for death in men suggests that this is very pro vegetarian article. just because this particular study didn't find much difference between moderate vegetarians and vegans seems irrelevant. if you eat a lot of meat you die. if you eat no meat or very little you live.
regardless, anyone who knows how the meat industry works, and is aware that eating meat does more harm to the environment than driving a hummer, and enjoys or doesn't mind torture and murder, is a dick. and anyone who doesn't know these things is an ignorant fuck.
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