WHO Study: Diets Too High in Meat/Animal Products Are The Leading Cause of Many Cancers

[OsO]

good thread, good discussion

 

[Brown_Pride]

Like Mongolians and other people in harsh environments, they evolved to be that way. Most people don't have that genetic advantage. Same reason northern Europeans have near no lactose intolerance while large percentages of every other people on the planet do. Most of us haven't had to deal with selection pressures that altered our initial makeup from the lower-meat hunter-gatherer period of our history since our ancestors lived in farm-worthy environments.

To answer your question, though: http://www.cancermonthly.com/inp/view.asp?ID=228

does that mean we'll evolve to not get cancer from eating meat like them?

At this point with all the flavor of the month "leading causes of cancer" can we all just agree to eat, and behave in a balanced manner not taking in to much of anything? Seams that's the way to go no? (keep in mind both my sets of grandparents smoked 2+packs a day and not a single one of them had cancer...

 

[The Real]

does that mean we'll evolve to not get cancer from eating meat like them?

At this point with all the flavor of the month "leading causes of cancer" can we all just agree to eat, and behave in a balanced manner not taking in to much of anything? Seams that's the way to go no? (keep in mind both my sets of grandparents smoked 2+packs a day and not a single one of them had cancer...

I think I said this in an earlier post, but in order for natural selection to take place, people have to die before they can mate, or otherwise be rendered incapable of mating. Most of this cancer stuff makes people's lives significantly worse, but it still mostly happens at a point in life after those people have had kids, so the genes that are vulnerable to them keep getting passed down.

 

[acri1]

does that mean we'll evolve to not get cancer from eating meat like them?

At this point with all the flavor of the month "leading causes of cancer" can we all just agree to eat, and behave in a balanced manner not taking in to much of anything? Seams that's the way to go no? (keep in mind both my sets of grandparents smoked 2+packs a day and not a single one of them had cancer...

What I think a lot of people hate to admit (because it's depressing) is that a lot of how long you'll live comes down to pure luck.

My great grandma is 91 and still able to take care of herself. Her mother (my great great grandma) lived to 96 and her father lived to 91. My other great grandma is 88 and probably more energetic than I am. None of the people I mentioned are/were vegans or vegetarians, and according to what I've heard my great great grandma (who lived to be 96) smoked until she was retirement age and ate pork almost every day. I don't advocate doing all that (nor do I deny that it's bad for you) but very often it just comes down to the genetic lotto.

Some people can have all sorts of unhealthy habits and live to be 100, others can do everything right and still have a heart attack at 50. I'd simply say take reasonable efforts to be healthy, but understand that life's not fair and your ass still might die young.