Vegetarians live longer (comment)

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Blank Please re-read this paragraph:

" The researchers, from College, Harvard School of Public Health,

Boston, Massachusetts, and National University of Singapore, Singapore, used

data from the Nurses' Health study of 85,168 females aged 34 to 59 years and

44,548 males aged 40 to 75. They were all on low carb diets; some on

animal-derived proteins and other on plant sourced proteins. Follow-ups occurred

with the women from 1980 through 2006, and with the men from 1986 through 2006.

None of the participants had heart disease, cancer, or diabetes at the start of

the study. "

IF In such a large-scale study from a homogenous research cohort, with closely

matching education and lifestyle, the results could be argued away so easily,

95% of the research reports we post here would be of little value.

Meat eating is an emotional issue for many people. Those who are vegetarian,

can get fanatical about it. Those who favor a meat based diet, on the other

hand, tend to get defensive and and try to justify their dietary habits with

rational (and more often, irrational) arguments.

Being 80-years-old, my time is valuable enough (to me) to eschew the futility of

arguments that generate much heat and little light, hence this will be my first

and last comment on the subject.

I will feel free though to post research reports in the future that I consider

as solid as this one.

Gach