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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Bill who wrote (96318)2/23/2005 2:29:14 AM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Nothing in your post contradicts Dr. Campbell's research. For some reason you don't seem to understand science in any way. You keep bringing things up that are totally irrelevant like you have a good point, but you have no point at all, and frankly I have better ways to spend my time.

I will try one last time, though--here goes. Yes, there are vegetarians in India, but not everyone is vegetarian. Some Indians are meat eaters, and many of the vegetarians eat butter (ghee) and or cheese (paneer). There is enormous poverty in India, so the life expectancy for many is reduced by poverty-related issues. Among the newly rich, a lot of them are adapting a more Western diet, and so they are starting to have more heart disease and cancer typical of that diet.

So your asserting that you have won the argument because Indians are vegetarians and their life expectancy isn't so good is totally irrelevant. Dr. Campbell's research showed that in counties of China where diets were plant-based (no dairy either), people had significantly reduced rates of heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, glaucoma, macular degeneration, etc.

I am sure that someone could do the same research in India and come to similar conclusions, that is, finding that in areas where the diet is vegetarian and no milk products are consumed, the rates of these diseases is much lower than in areas where meat and dairy are consumed.

But to assert that because you perceive India to be mostly vegetarian and the life expectancy is low, Dr. Campbell is wrong is just absurd on your part. I am not sure you will understand why, though.

I already said I must get weird late at night (writing in my freezing living room), and said I was sorry if I offended you with the implication of conspiracy theories. Do you actually read my posts before you accuse me of not responding to yours? Because this is getting a little tired. Perhaps we should discuss politics instead.
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