scrapking said:
The problem with that is that sometimes the first sign of a health problem is death. Look at Kevin Smith (who's now considering going vegan in the wake of his massive heart attack). It's pretty difficult to course-correct if the first symptom is death. Other times the first symptom is cancer. Cholo-rectal cancers are amongst the cancers tightly correlated to eating animal products, but there are many more. Dietary changes do a better job of preventing disease than they do curing disease. |
Kevin Smith is a morbidly obese man who has been overweight and has a famously terrible diet of fried chicken, so that's a rather extreme example, not to mention both his parents have a history of similar heart problems and he still didn't believe his doctors when they told him he had a 100% blockage. I doubt there were no symptoms. He's lived his entire life in denial.
Regardless, his problem was through excess. To suggest every person who has meat in their diet is going to die of a heart attack is absurd. Maybe if meat is 90% of their diet or all they eat is fried foods.
