Anyone who tries can be just as satisfied with a vegetarian diet as an animal flesh diet. It's not easy, but easier than quitting smoking. You will live between 15 and 30 years longer.

Anyone who tries can be just as satisfied with a vegetarian diet as an animal flesh diet. It's not easy, but easier than quitting smoking. You will live between 15 and 30 years longer.

This is my opinion based on a long diligent study of the issue. However I do have some scientific proof...

Between the years 1989 and 1993 I was employed as a clerical worker at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston Massachusetts working for the Nurses Health Study which was being run by Dr. Walter Willett. If you don't know, this is a grand and wondrous study that surveys a great number of ex health workers, primarily nurses. This study asks them to keep meticulous records over long periods of time of everything they eat drink and do. It is the most comprehensive study of its kind. At this time Dr. Willett was very proud of some conclusions they were able to come to based on the large volumes of data. Dr. Willett would have meetings and explain these results to all of us because he was very proud of them and they were very interesting. The gist of his results clearly showed that everything about consuming animal fat and animal flesh was terribly negative in terms of heart disease cancer and many other health problems. On the other hand clearly everything in the results showed that getting one's protein vitamins and minerals from plant-based sources (other than hydrogenated vegetable oil which acted more like an animal fat) resulted in far better health results for the people surveyed. This result was issued publicly, but in it the Nurses Health Study never said explicitly that people should be vegetarians in order to be more healthy. 

Doctor Willett had a Christmas party one year and at that party I was able to talk to him privately and I asked him the following question “Doctor Willett based on the results of the Nurses Health Study is it fair to say that if anyone were to choose to eat a vegetarian diet assuming they are careful and meticulous about getting enough protein and other vitamins minerals that are available in plants, is it fair to say that that is healthier for really anyone compared to a meat-eating diet?” Dr. Willett thought about this question for a minute and said ‘yes in fact that is the case’. I then asked ‘why is that not the headline featured result of our studies in order to inform people that they would all be better off as vegetarians health-wise?’ Dr. Willett said that it was simply a public relations type decision because they felt that if the study told people they were better off being vegetarians that would seem such a daunting task and a disappointing result that they would give up entirely on paying attention to the advice being given from the study.