I like this quote...

[fallenrose]

"I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives." - Dean Ornish, MD

Comments

[kendokamel]

Come on! Cutting me open is FAR easier than asking me to *gasp* CHANGE my DIET!!!

[finding_helena]

It's easier to go in for a procedure, recover afterwards, and then take a pill every day. It's harder to change your diet drastically, especially if you really enjoy meat

[fallenrose]

*sigh* I'm sorry to say, but I hate when people are that close-minded. People assume that being vegetarian sucks and that it means sacrifices and eating bland boring shit. EATING VEGETARIAN ISN'T MISERABLE. In fact, eating healthier and therefore feeling healthier means LIFE IS MORE ENJOYABLE. Becoming vegetarian was one of the best things that ever happened to me for expanding my horizons and helping me to find new and delicious food. I have found so much more to enjoy in life by giving up meat. I'd rather be healthy through diet and exercise than take some pill to address some symptom, then have to take another pill for the side effects of the first pill, and so forth, and STILL be a tired, weak, walking heart-attack-waiting-to-happen.

[tleventer]

"I'd rather be healthy through diet and exercise than take some pill to address some symptom, then have to take another pill for the side effects of the first pill, and so forth, and STILL be a tired, weak, walking heart-attack-waiting-to-happen."

I have to argue with your statement only because I know plenty of people (family being some of them) that have changed their diets to include healthy whole foods INCLUDING meats that are nowhere near the "tired, weak, walking heart-attach-waiting-to-happen" that you describe. Thinking that all meat eaters are of that ilk ... isn't that as bad and as closed-minded as folks thinking vegetarian = bland?

[fallenrose]

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[solestria]

Word. Or eating a well-balanced diet at all, for that matter. Shouldn't that really be the default anyway?

[fallenrose]

One would hope! But alas, this is America, where bacon triple cheeseburgers are an inalienable right. ;)