[Dan.Linehan]

Originally Posted by Dharma

We will never find health and wellness if we, as a society, continue to blame food for our ills or our good fortune. The root of disease is underneath this smokescreen. It is easy to blame something outside ourselves (or even inside ourselves, ie. heredity) so we won't have to look at ourselves more closely.

In November 2005, National Geographic published a cover story that came to similar conclusions as I do in Healthy at 100. Titled "The Secrets of Living Longer," the article featured three contemporary groups of long-living people, all of whom turn out to eat a plant-based diet. At the conclusion of the issue, National Geographic summarized the "secrets of long life" in two words: "Go vegetarian."

- John Robbins


Seems pretty simple to me.