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"Dutch" <no@email.com> wrote in message news:108jg9r7ol4bp4b@news.supernews.com...
> "pearl" <tea@signguestbook.ie> wrote
> > "Terry Crawford" <tdcraw@rogers.com> wrote
> > > On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 23:21:18 GMT, "rick etter" <etterr@earthlink.net>
> > > wrote:
>
> [..]
> > > >> Eat meat, die young(er) and leave the world to the meek.
> > > >==================
> > > >Only problem is that isn't the case.  The longest lived people as a group in
> > > >the world are not vegans.  Kinda screws the whole vegan rant, doesnt it?
>
> > > Damn. OK, steak tonight with a nice big Cabernet Suauvignon. MMMmmmm.
> >
> > Actually, the people etter, our dietary wizardness, was referring to
> > are vegetarians.  That's right,- vegetarian Seventh-day Adventists.
>
> He's referring to the longest-lived race of people in the world, the
> Okinawans, who consume one to three servings of fish a day, along with soy,
> lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, some poultry and eggs, and almost no
> processed foods or alcohol.

A health-advice book has been recently published based on findings
from the centenarian study in Okinawa, where the average life
expectancy, 81.2 years, is the highest in the world.
http://hmiworld.org/past_issues/March_April_2002/living_100.html

.. not.  ..

A 12 year study of 34,000 Adventists undertaken by Loma Linda
University Health Center and published in their Archives of Internal
Medicine (July 9, 2001) revealed that Adventists who most closely
followed the recommended way of life had an average life expectancy
for men of 83.3 years and for women 85.7 years.  By comparison,
the Healthy Life Expectancy for top-ranking Japan was 72 years for
men and 77 years for women.
http://www.ktc.net/NoHypeHealth/dakoma.html

> > Longevity of the vegan sub-set wasn't studied seperately, afaIa, but
> > other epidemiological (study of populations) research shows that
> > vegans are less at risk of chronic disease than lacto-ovo vegetarians.
> > Kind of really screws the whole meatarian rant, doesn't it, eh etter?
>
> No rant, just a fact that dispels one of the myths of veganism.

Rotfl.