There are a couple of reasons that "vegtarians" look healthy. First of all, to be a vegitarian, you have to be very serious about your diet. And the fact of the matter is that ANYBODY who watches their diet that close, whether they eat meat or not will usually be healthy. The difference is that meat eaters can attain that health without supplements, which should be a clue as to which is best right there. Second, those vegitarians who are healthy never let anybody forget it, so you are more likely to associate vegitarianism with health when you only see the successes. The final reason is that there is such a small percentage of vegitarians around that "meat eaters" are all lumped in together so for every heathy omnivore, you've got a dozen Michael Moores whose problem isn't that they eat meat, it's that they eat so much of it.
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