DAChampion
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Do you have any evidence that vegans live longer because of other lifestyle choices, or are you just making that assumption because it fits your narrative?
Everybody here but you (maybe even you?) has known this for several years.
It's pretty obvious that a lot of lifestyle decisions like veganism, paleo, Gwyneth Paltrow/GOOP worship, etc are more likely to appeal to upper-middle class yuppies.
Here's an article:
Vegan Demographics 2017 - USA, and the world - Vegan Bits
Vegans are more likely to be female, liberal, atheist. The article mentions an anti-correlation between age and income.
Then there's this article:
Do vegetarians live longer? Probably, but not because they're vegetarian
It’s important to acknowledge that in most studies vegetarians tend to be the “health-conscious” people, with overall healthier lifestyle patterns than the norm. For example, among the Sax Institute’s 45 and Up participants, vegetarians were less likely than non-vegetarians to report smoking, drinking excessively, insufficient physical activity and being overweight/obese. They were also less likely to report having heart or metabolic disease or cancer at the start of the study.
You also have the past several pages of Andrei79 telling you, multiple times, that the life expectancy difference disappears once cultural factors such as smoking are taken into account.
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But the most obvious way to demonstrate this is that vegetarians get the same health outcomes as vegans. Vegetarians consume eggs and dairy which are full-fledged animal products including cholesterol, saturated fatty acids, animal protein, retinol, iron, etc. All of the health arguments made against meat apply to eggs and dairy. If the differences in outcome were due to nutrition rather than culture, then vegetarians would not have better outcomes than other meat eaters.
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