Vegetarians ....

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This discussion made me think of two people I've know who were

vegetarians. The first is a raw foodist and has not been well

for the time I've known her, which seems to go along with what

so many on this list are saying.

However, another story comes to mind. For some years I worked

with elderly people trying to stay in their homes. The average

person I worked with was in their late 70's to 80's, fairly

deteriorated, on the standard American diet.

But I did have the opportunity to work with one 94-year-old

who only needed help because she had broken her hip...otherwise

she was " fit as a fiddle " . She had grown up on a typical farm,

but had decided at the age of four not to eat meat...and she

never did again. Her diet was quite different than the other

people I worked with because she ate whole foods, but she didn't

sprout or do anything like that.

That's 90 years of a vegetarian diet. And who knows how much

longer she lived? Not bad I'd say.

~^^V^^~