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enochhow is your new advocacy deal going?
siftbotHappy anniversary! Today marks year number 9 since you first became a Sifter and the community is better for having you. Thanks for your contributions!
Hanover_Phist says...eoe, thanks for the recommendation. I just finished watching Predestination and adored it. Good call. Truly a great time travel movie. Cheers!
I nominate Predestination as a contemporary, really good (and slightly fucked up) time-travel movie.
Yeah, it has Ethan Hawke, which might turn some off. But is very, very good.
One of the best movies I've seen in a while.
Watch it cold. Don't read anything about it.
eoe says...I hadn't, but really the science never surprises me. Either it says this sort of stuff, or not... but usually funded by the meat industry in the later case.
For some reason, in my 35 years of existence, I still have not read a single study saying that vegetables and fruit in any shape or form are bad for you. Funny that, huh?
Did you happen to see this recent study. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/11316316/Red-meat-triggers-toxic-immune-reaction-which-causes-cancer-scientists-find.html
eric3579Did you happen to see this recent study. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/11316316/Red-meat-triggers-toxic-immune-reaction-which-causes-cancer-scientists-find.html
oritteropoWell actually I quite agree with your comment here
It's not me who's attached to bacon (bleh!!!) and steaks, I just know that although eating bacon and deep fried mars bars will (probably) kill you, eating a good diet won't guarantee a long and healthy life either.
I knew this would happen.
Talking to you, too, @oritteropo:
I'm leaving it with just this, because people are attached to their bacon and steaks as tightly as they are tied to religion. Perhaps it's again apples to oranges, but I'm guessing a lot of you are the same folks who rant against religion and wonder why people are so stupid and don't look at logic and science, blah blah blah. This is the perfect time to look in the mirror and see a touch of what you're up against. [...]
But if you want to live a nice, long, healthy life where you don't die of a stroke, heart attack, or diabetes by the time you're 65, eat better.
There's a reason why the milk, sugar, meat and pharmaceutical companies pump out study after study about how it's totally fine to eat their shit. They spend so much money on it, it's ridiculous.
Cheers to your health, either way.
oritteropoIt's unfortunately quite easy to rebut.
Google "heart disease India" (or any other country with a large percentage of vegetarians).
The problem is more complicated than that single factor. I would personally recommend people eat less meat and more plants, but I can't accept that website's premise. Eating lots of sugar and refined grains for instance is quite bad for coronary health too (and very relevant to India's problems with the disease), and studies have also linked poor dental health with coronary heart disease.
This will undoubtedly stir up a flame war, because it touches upon one of the forbidden topics, but what the hell:
Although there is, indeed, not a vaccination for heart diseases, a plant-based diet, across the board, in studies since, like, the 70s have shown that it basically heart-disease proofs you, not to mention diabetes.
Here's a long 53 minute video that goes over the basics, but the entire webpage has a little under 2,000 videos with a bunch of stats, papers, meta-studies, etc.
In a lot of ways, heart disease is very preventable, and even reversible in some cases, if you stop eating so much damn meat.
But, as stated above, "not eating meat" or "don't tell me what I can and cannot eat!" is up there with religion as far as topics that people get super-defensive about.
It's up you, truly, to determine what's more important: health or food deliciousness. And some people, knowingly, choose food deliciousness. And bless them. You make your own choices.
But also bless them for our ridiculous health care costs.
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