I was thinking that good nutrition could be said to contribute to cancer, by allowing people to live longer–long enough to get cancer from a myriad of contributors. UV radiation, pesticides and herbicides, etc.

Mike
“…. That is the main purpose of eating. To get sugars to the cells so they have energy…”

You can live perfectly well on Keto with zero carb intake, so I would say that getting sugar to the cells is probably not all that healthy.

As I recall your body manufactures the tiny amount of sugar needed for sugar only metabolism cells

Steph Amson
“…Vegan is not necessarily healthy….”

To be honest the vast majority of Vegans I have known have been very UNhealthy… I am sure that there are healthy ones out there but they are AFAIK a minority

wardropper

A staple diet of Bread is what you would feed the Slaves who grew the grain that the ruling class made into beer to wash down their meats and such… the Egyptians drank their own Kool Aide and thats why even the rich ones were fat and sickly

Matt
“….I have yet to encounter evidence that NOT consuming animal products is harmful to your health, or degrades your quality of life, it’s quite the opposite actually…”

https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20030618/vegetarian-diet-b12-deficiency
They say
“….They found that 92% of the vegans they studied — those who ate the strictest vegetarian diet, which shuns all animal products, including milk and eggs — had vitamin B12 deficiency. But two in three people who followed a vegetarian diet that included milk and eggs as their only animal foods also were deficient. Only 5% of those who consumed meats had vitamin B12 deficiency….”

The fact that non meat eaters must take supplements to not get sick from from B12 issues indicate that its unnatural and unhealthy to TOTALLY exclude animal products.

Viridis
Considering that high ANIMAL fat diets do not cause heart disease but high sugar (and simple Carb) diets DO I think the issue with American , and western health, would mostly go away if people stopped eating masses of processed Maize and Sugar.

If everyone went Keto there would be zero obesity and almost zero type 2 diabetes…since the US has tons of open range that once fed bison it would probably even be viable in the USA, though probably not anywhere else

Cows milk is a perfectly fine food for most people of European origin, my Asian friend wont touch the stuff because , like many Asian folks, he is lactose intolerant.

“Mass produced” meat is not the same as pastured meat.

“Rough Riders” “Bare Backed Better” /waitwhat