Is the vegetarian diet automatically the healthiest way to eat?

[@dan27music]

In his Blue Zone study, I believe Dan Buettner found that "While many folks in Loma Linda follow a vegan diet, some of them eat small amounts of meat and fish, like salmon. The ones who do include fish live longer than the vegans."

[@courag1]

Fish are not coming with a label of what toxins are in them. Mercury and radiation are now in the Pacific Ocean, whereas the Atlantic it is pollution from untreated waste and chemical waste and mercury. If the water is pristine such as trout caught from a mountain stream, I’d agree with you. People are very careless with waste and dump loads of things down the drain so treatment even deemed clean enough to go into the ocean does not change that China is a gross polluter. The currents take pollution from one place, in time, though diluted, everywhere. Any of the countries termed “3rd World” are also gross polluters and as their populations rise, the problem only gets worse. That the amount of fish caught is decreasing means we are taking more than the fish population can recover from, also it means that the fish are no longer healthy enough to reproduce. Does this sound “delicious”? If people cannot verify the quality of the fish, even if it is farm raised, do they know how ethical that farm is? I have to say if you have to eat it which is “I want it and won’t be careful as no one will tell me what to do,” attitude person, the longevity you think you are getting is not the primo pure fish people had in the past. People catch fish off Santa Monica pier which have tumors, and they go home and cook it anyway. When you eat out, you just do not know. My husband will eat salmon once a month at “Healthy Japan” and he likes it, but to me it tastes dead as I am vegan and it makes me want to throw up. I’ll stick with the plants, but I may look for the algae supplement.

[@davidsheriff9274]

Why does she say that canned tuna is processed? It's packed in water with some salt. That's it. Where is the processing?

[@TheDulcifer]

@@davidsheriff9274 I believe that "canning" is a form of "processing".

[@TheDulcifer]

All the Adventists I have known are "Vegetarians". . . not "Vegans".

[@zacharysherry2910]

Thank you comment gtp

[@keepingupwithdavis9691]

I love the message i wanted to change my diet from animal to plant based but i didn't know how to do it,now i know how how to replace with what.

[@ThomasHenn4]

Wonderful information

[@corbinhudson9902]

I am A Pestcatarian, I would like to go Vegetarian but i have a hard time giving up Fish.

[@LezlyBeetz]

Don't fall for the propaganda, eating meat is what eating bamboo is to panda's, you have a hard time giving up fish because it is the last source of B vitamins that these fascists have yet to take from you.

[@peterz53]

same here. Been pesco for over 10 years, twice a week. But eat plenty of beans too, daily. And nuts.

[@johnparson8250]

What about goat cheese? My uncles mother was a 7th day Adventist and had a herd of goats and made goat cheese and gave us kids, goat milk for our oatmeal.

[@jakobw135]

If you are OLDER (70's), is the harm- -benefit ratio similar to the one of your YOUNGER years?

[@Lordkezn]

I really want to become vegetarian but i have a really hard time giving up me

[@dannybarrera7637]

It is "better for the environment" if, and only if, vegtables and fruits and nuts and seeds are grown organically( preferably regenerative). Spraying paraquat and glyphosate and growing with other petrochemicals is not any better for the environment. Please don't perpetuate that all agriculture is good, it's not.