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> I believe vegetarians can be healthy. There's no need for belief, all over the world vegetarians live around a decade longer. There could be any number of co
by st34m 4y ago
> I believe vegetarians can be healthy.
There's no need for belief, all over the world vegetarians live around a decade longer. There could be any number of confounding factors of course but the burden of proof concerning health and diet is definitely on the pseudo-carnivores consuming their packaged flesh.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> There's no need for belief, all over the world vegetarians live around a decade longer. Controlling for wealth, total calories consumed, and a number of other known and suspected positive and negative contributors to longevity, quantity of meat eaten seems to end up positively correlated with longevity across the board. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8881926/#!po=26.8421 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8881926/#!po=26... The better conclusion might be that vegetarian is an elite affectation that is not as bad for you as the competing elite affectation of overeating.