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Originally Posted by myq
I wouldn't say that two is a lot. (Understanding of course that if those are the only vegans you're familiar with, then 2 out of 2 is technically a high percentage. But you know me and MC Mr. Napkins, so that should decrease it to 50% at most. Unless we're the ones you're calling fat. In which case, you're mean and I'm going out running.)
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Ha! No, you're skinny. I work with the two vegans I know. If I broadened this out to vegetarians, I went to college with a lot of vegetarians (liberal arts school) and many of them were also fat. But again, Wisconsin. My best friend from college is a vegetarian and she always jokes, "I can still eat chips and cake."
So yeah, I'm not disputing that Americans are unhealthy. I'm disputing that the solution is as simple as "remove animal products from your diet" as if that's any more of a magical weight loss cure than Adkins, or that California thing where you drink orange crap (can't remember what it's called). It's far more complex than that.
And as I said in the previous post, there are a lot of Asian/Pacific Islanders who are vegetarian not by choice but by financial circumstances, and they have similar problems with obesity and Type-2 diabetes in those areas. Because rice is the main thing they can afford to eat.
Balance, nutritional education, and moderation.