[lysol@whitehouse]

There have been many societies that had a plant-based diet. The curious fact is that they were nearly devoid of cardiovascular disease and were long lived, UNTIL the society changed to meat/fat eating. Funny you should bring up "brain damaged" as a result of one's diet. Have you heard of MAD COW DISEASE? BTW I have a child...beautiful, lean and healthy graduate student in environmental studies at Western Washington University. DAMN PROUD of her too. Suggest you try REDI-BURGER, a vegan food available online. With the right preparation, you may be surprised that becoming a vegan can be quite easy and your physician will marvel at the decrease in your blood pressure! Working out daily is a great adjunct to a vegan diet...watch that roll of belly fat disappear!

[Mad Dawgg]

"There have been many societies that had a plant-based diet."

vegetarian: Primitive word for "lousy hunter"

[tob2]

You sound too holy, pious and self-righteous about the whole thing.

[dennisw]

There have been many societies that had a plant-based diet.
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Probably true but they were not vegetarian. They ate a 90-95% vegetarian diet.

[Desdemona]

Ever have a bout of anemia? It's not fun. The fastest way to pump up the body's iron numbers, for ladies in child-bearing years, is a couple good steaks. Just cutting back on meat, really did nasty things to the system. Being lactose intollerant doesn't help either. Without meat and a little dairy, some people develop gastro-intestinal problems. Those aren't fun either.

Be vegan, vegitarian all you want. Some of the rest of us want no part of it. Cutting back on carbs is what helped me lose weight and regular exercise, not smoking, and a daily glass of wine does wonders for the heart.

I'm glad the writer saw the light. Now he has to taste my Italian chicken.

[lafroste]

your physician will marvel at the decrease in your blood pressure!

Oddly enough, eating the vegan way (for the most part) did not ease my hypertension. Only when I said the h5ll with this veggie routine, threw out the nutritional guidance from mainstream health advisors and brought on the meat, sausage, eggs, and cheese did my blood pressure, cholesterol, and triglycerides plummet dramatically. Did it ever occur to you that some people do better on a carnivorous diet than a herbiforous diet? probably not. You likely assume that everyone basically is the same with only minute variations. Your diet would kill me, so knock off your sanctimony.