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To: Yousef who wrote (56295)	4/25/1999 10:14:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571204

Yousef, Do you know of any data that shows that "vegetarians" have either longer life spans or have lower cancer rates ?? I'm glad you asked. My wife is a nutritionist and I'm sure that she will be thrilled to delve into that issue. I will make a couple of comments now, however. 1. Since we went on an all raw, organic, vegetarian diet- I have lost 45 pounds and am back in nearly as good shape as I was 20 years ago. I'm running about 30 miles a week right now, and my 10K time is back under 38 minutes. 2. Most fruits and vegetables are heavily laden with pesticides, so buying fresh organic produce is critical. 3. Applying heat to food kills most of the nutritional value, and produces numerous carcinogens. I will get back to you after consulting with my wife. Scumbria

To: Yousef who wrote (56295)	4/25/1999 1:13:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571204

Re: "Do you know of any data that shows that "vegetarians" have either longer life spans or have lower cancer rates ??" There is a good body of evidence from the "Seventh Day Adventists", a Christian sect who are primarily vegetarians. If memory serves me, their cancer and heart disease rates are half the normal population. As for others comments about vegetarians not getting B12, there is also evidence that healthy intestinal flora generate B12, even in vegetarians. By healthy I mean a digestive system not accustom to Big Macs, fries, dingdongs, antibiotics etc. EP once a vegetarian but no longer.

To: Yousef who wrote (56295)	4/26/1999 1:06:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 1571204

Yousef, I found a good reference: In 1964, the heart specialist Dr. Paul Dudley White, renowned for his treatment of President Eisenhower's heart attack, went to visit the Hunzas of Kashmir, to see for himself whether the claims were true that these people lived to exceedingly old ages without any heart disease. He did blood pressure, blood cholesterol, and electrocardiogram studies, yet found not a trace of coronary heart disease, even in the 25 he studied who were over the age of 90. In his report, published the American Heart Journal, Dr White suggested a causative correlation between the Hunza's diet-style, which was almost pure vegetarian, and their astounding lack of heart disease. Scientists began to reason that if meat, eggs and dairy products were in fact the culprits they were becoming to appear, then it would expected that lacto-ovo vegetarians, who do not eat meat, would have lower heart anack rates and lower heart disease mortality than meat eaters. If this theory were correct, pure vegetarians, who consumed no eggs, dairy products, or meat, would have even lower rates. Numerous studies were undertaken to find out if this might be the case. One of the largest studies of this kind was conducted at Loma Linda University in California, and involved no less than 24,000 people. Reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, this study found that the heart disease mortality rates for lacto-ovo vegetarians to be one third that of meat-eaters. Pure vegetarians truly impressive figures-only one tenth the heart disease death rate of meat-eaters. Other studies verified these findings. Lacto-ovo vegetarians suffer much less heart disease than do meat-eaters. And pure vegetarians suffer much less than do lacto-ovo vegetarians. From "Diet For a New America" by John Robbins. Scumbria