That's incorrect. It's all about how much you eat, or how much you smoke.Cloppy wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2017 9:20 am Meat isn't as bad as smoking, you can be healthy even if you eat meat and while your risk of cancer or heart attack are higher you can still avoid that if you don't eat too much meat. The average life expectancy is still pretty high and most people are meat eaters.
Eating less meat is like smoking fewer cigarettes a day. You can not avoid cancer from eating meat by eating less meat any more than you can avoid cancer from cigarettes by smoking fewer. When you get cancer, it was one cigarette that did it, or one bite of meat, or one xray, etc.
Either way, your chances of getting cancer are lower if you smoke less or eat less meat, but you can still get cancer from one puff or one bite. It's all down to chance.
It's like if you roll dice, you have a chance to roll snake eyes. You could even do it on your first roll. You never know. Or you could roll a thousand times and never do it.
That's the thing about cancer, and what makes it so scary: it's very random.
Heart disease is different. That builds up over time. It's much easier to avoid heart disease. If you only eat meat once a month, and otherwise exercise and eat a healthy plant based diet, you probably won't get heart disease.
It's the difference between something that's very random, and something that's a more gradual buildup of damage.
Heart disease can even be reversed. Cancer is a totally different kind of thing.
Well, capitalism with a progressive taxes and a strong welfare system.