[Closed] Do vegetarians live longer than non-vegetarians?

Definetly maybe 😆

Do they taste better?

Ask Linda Macartney?

No, but they do turn to compost a lot quicker...

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Well we found out since X-mas that one of my friends who has been veggie, slim and fit for 20 years, is 46 years old has terminal cancer. So I have to say, in some cases NO.

I always come back to the "we don't get issued a best by date". I do get wound up at times by the "doing this/no doing that" will add 4 years to your life. On a statistical analysis of a population this could well be true. On a person to person case NO ONE can honestly say. We all know that certain things will increase your chances of dying "early" and other things may decrease your chances. The trouble is you don't have a bench mark for you to base your calculation on.

You pays your money and makes your choice. If being a veggie makes you feel better/happier I say do it. But don't make yourself miserable for an outcome that you have no real control over.

But don't make yourself miserable for an outcome that you have no real control over.

I think that's a very good point, whenever I see the latest "X gives you cancer" stories, I think that worrying about these things is probably more detrimental to your health than X (within reason of course, I'm aware there are plenty of things X could be that are unequivocally damaging but they're not normally what these stories are about)

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No they don't. With every meal being the boring green sh!t that real people only in small quantities to keep bowel movements regular they just tend to give up. A nice steak or chicken curry, or xmas dinner, keeps us normals going much longer.

Of course I'm just kidding and don't have a clue who lasts longer.

Been veggie a while now and I'm just about still alive. You can be veggie and eat crap or eat sensible proportions of good quality meat. So I'd say the answer is probably not necessarily.

It probably feels like longer.

Almost certainly but jeez they're miserable sanctimonious ****ers for all of it.

Just kidding of course but I don't fancy it. Statistically you'll also live longer if you give up cycling and just do all the training on a turbo.

Why is it if you go to an ordinary restaurant there's always a veggie option but if you go to a veggie restaurant there's no option?!

Because vegetarians are people that don't eat meat. Meat-eaters aren't people who don't eat vegetables (except maybe in Scotland). What do they teach you in schools these days ?

hels - Member
Because vegetarians are people that don't eat meat. Meat-eaters aren't people who don't eat vegetables (except maybe in Scotland). What do they teach you in schools these days

Nah mate! That's just called bad manners and forcing your opinions on others - which I thought veggies where at least against?!

Are people being forced to eat in vegetarian restaurants ?
This is outrageous.

(except maybe in Scotland)

I think you'll find that chips are a form of vegetable, albeit one fried in beef dripping.

Andy

(DOI - Glaswegian)

mudmonster - Member
You can be veggie and eat crap or eat sensible proportions of good quality meat.

last time i checked, vegetarians didnt eat meat. or are you a vegetarian who eats fish and chicken, because they dont count as meat 🙄

ive never eaten fish or meat, but the welsh doctor(deepest darkest wales in the 70's) said to my hippy parents, 'he will die by the time he is 3 if he doesnt eat meat'. i know a few of 90+ who are lifelong veggies. i think there are many other factors involved! are not some okinawan islanders the the ones with the longest life expectancy? lots of fish/rice/steamed veg and hardly any fat?

I assume they mean -when they say or that it then refers to a [seperate new person] healthy meat eater as the alternative is too much of a contradiction.
If a vegetarian restauraunt served meat it would stop being a vegetarian restauraunt so it is impossible to buy meat in a vegetarian restaurant.

[last time i checked, vegetarians didnt eat meat. or are you a vegetarian who eats fish and chicken, because they dont count as meat ]

Yes maybe could have worded that better.

Adolf Hitler was a teetotaler, a non-smoker, and mostly ate a vegetarian diet. He died aged 56.

Winston Churchill was a heavy drinking, cigar smoking, meat eater. He died aged 91.

Says it all really.

Plus churchill always looked a lot chirpier.
Every time I see Hitler he's just ranting about this or shouting about that. What he needed was a really good, heavy shit.

Then he'd have felt a lot better and not introduced the purest form of human evil the world has ever seen.