A point missing from the headline:
While being vegetarian appeared to be protective overall, the scientists also found that those who follow a vegetarian diet had nearly double the risk of the most common type of cancer of the oesophagus, known as squamous cell carcinoma, compared with meat eaters. This may be due to vegetarians being deficient in key nutrients such as B vitamins, the team suggested.
So you can just choose what kind of cancer you want by altering your diet.
I feel like we’re just gonna end up back where we always do, with moderation being the best policy. Don’t eat too much of any one thing but eat some of everything.
I mean it says overall protective, so no, not just equal choice. Also seems quite easy to fix if it is only due to lack of B vitamins.
Brace yourselves for all the meat eaters suddenly getting extremely defensive…
Okay, but who wants to live a long life these days? Do you have any idea how many crises I would have to go through just for choosing a healthy lifestyle? No, gentlemen, I will not give up carbonara in exchange for more years of life.
Okay, but who wants to live a long life these days?
What a foolish question. You sound young.
I’m 50. I’ve had six heart attacks, a below knee amputation, and I’m on dialysis after my kidneys failed. Life is not easy, and yet I still wish it to go on. I am probably going to die within a decade, and I hate that. I should have 2-3 more, dammit.
Also the years you lose/gain don’t come from the end, they come from wherever you are now. If you’re 30 and start exercising you feel better and younger longer in addition to living longer, the inverse if you decide to start smoking.
Yeah, do you want to live long enough to find out if you’ll suffer from senile dementia?
Well, here’s the thing. Some people get dementia and others don’t. While I’d prefer not to get dementia, it seems foolish to commit suicide right now for fear that I might be one of the ones that get it.
No one is asking you to commit suicide, just to eat carbonara.
A fate worse that death! :)
I would love some al dente carbonara right now. Unfortunately I think I’m oversensitive to gluten and dairy proteins. I’ve been trying for a few years now and that’s the conclusion I somewhat have to draw. Which sucks balls.
Sounds like suicide out of fear of death.
Bad luck if you have ancestors who live reaching 100s, most likely will passed down.
People who die at 60 tend not to have very enjoyable 50’s.
I want to live a high quality life at least to 75, if not 80, and I’m guessing that will make it much more likely that I end up living to 90 or 100.
If you’re only consuming meat in carbonara you’re pretty much vegan to me.
You don’t know how much carbonara I can eat.
Quality over quantity, baby
