Being vegetarian and life duration.?!
Being vegetarian and life duration.?
I'm vegetarian, but I often hear from meat eaters about the food and life duration in countries. That being vegetarian is not healthy at all. In the countries where people consume animal products- meat, fish(in China, Japan,US, etc), length of life and health is much better than those people that are vegetarian(in India, for instance). I'm never going to stop being vegetarian, but the facts speak for themselves... What should I answer? Prove me wrong!!!
Answers:
Where are they getting this information from? I don't think that's true at all, and there's many confounding factors in something like that, like your diet, diseases you already have, genetic predisposition to certain diseases, etc.
People in India's length of life and health are dependent on things like access to clean drinking water, proper medical care, food that is not contaminated (be it animal or vegetable) and the diseases from these things. So yes, their quality and length of life might be lower than an Americans, but it is not from a vegetarian diet I would say.
So it's kind of like comparing apples to oranges. If all over India there was access to quality of life standards that Americans have and they still lived shorter lives, you could maybe start the basis of this argument, but they don't. There are factors there that have nothing to do with a vegetarian diet.