RE: Chronicle Letter to the Editor claiming vegetaria ns live shorter lives.

[Guest guest]

Hello Simone & other friends,

 

Gosh, Simone, it really seems to me that Mr. McGurrin is absolutely talking

out of his posterior. Plenty of studies done by the Seventh Day Adventists,

as well as the Oxford Vegetarian Study and the China Study indicate that

vegetarians live longer than their meat-eating friends. The work of the

Framingham Heart Study, which tracked generations of individuals and

documented that no person with a blood cholesterol level less than 150

suffered from a heart attack, further props up our claim since the average

blood cholesterol level of a vegan is around 125. If we're not dying of

heart attacks (which kill about half the U.S. population), what are we dying

of? Protein deficiency? Coupled with very solid studies done on the other

diseases of affluence - stroke, cancer, diabetes, etc. - it's absolutely

clear that McGurrin is absolutely out in left field.

 

In addition to Jack's list of athletes, there's Martina Navritalova (tennis

champ), Andreas Cahling (Mr. International Bodybuilder), Billie Jean King

(tennis champ). Nobel Prizes: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Alice Walker & George

Bernard Shaw won the Nobel Prize for literature; Albert Schweitzer won the

prize for his work as a missionary surgeon; Albert Einstein (who sang the

praises of the veggie diet) won the Nobel Prize for Physics;

These folks didn't win a Nobel Prize, but I think the general consensus is

that they added something to the collective good: Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. John

Harvey Kellogg, Pythagorus, Leonardo Di Vinci, P.B. Shelley, Leo Tolstoy,

etcetera.

 

Thanks, Simone, for alerting us to McGurrin's exercise in absurdity. Time to

write letters (letters - 200 words or shorter).

 

Cheers,

Alka

 

 

simone spearman [pohevol]

Monday, June 24, 2002 12:36 PM

 

[sFBAVeg] Chronicle " Letter to the Editor " claiming vegetarians

live " shorter lives. "

 

 

Does anyone know to what article Mr. McGurrin is referring? I searched the

Chronicle (and SFGate) archives and couldn't find anything about this study.

 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/22/ED

121623.DTL

 

 

QUESTIONS FOR VEGANS

 

Editor -- So, we now know that vegetarians live shorter lives than their

meat-eating friends. What I want to know is this: Has a vegetarian ever set

a world record in a track and field event? Has a vegetarian ever won a Nobel

prize?

 

MARTIN PETER McGURRIN

 

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