Does being vegan shorten your life?

Question

I just read something that said there was a study that vegans dont live as long as people like vegitarians...is this true? I'm vegan and i wanna live long but will it really shorten my life? i've felt so good and healthy...How could it shorten my life?

Answer 1

It might make you less healthy because you aren't getting the needed protein. I don't know if it shortens your life, but I wouldn't think so. Although i know that vegens and vegetarians have worse teeth or at least more plaque because meet puts out something naturally when you eat it that prevents plaque.

Answer 2

I've only heard good things about going vegan. You are supposed to live way longer than animal product eaters. I heard of one case where a man who had prostate cancer was put on a vegan diet, and the cancer "was undetectable" or disappeared. How can something that "cures" cancer shorten your life??

Answer 3

I think it actually makes you live longer. It's so healthy, I don't think it could shorten it, as long as you're getting all of your nutrients, which if you've studied up on how to go vegan the right way you probably are. :-)

Answer 4

Aaahh  yes.. the magic eight ball says yes indeed.. that must mean its true..

where is the research?

Answer 5

Statistically vegans live longer lives than omnivores.

Answer 6

actually it lenghtns it

Answer 7

Many vegan people are always stressed out more than they should be just from being aware of all of the suffering in this world.

A properly planned vegan diet is just as healthy as a properly planned diet with meat.

The other most important factor after that is to live life without letting anger and sorrow consume you if your aim is longevity.

Answer 8

Being vegan actually lengthens your life in my opinion.

Answer 9

That's just the dairy and meat producers running scared and hiring "researchers" to come to the conclusions they want them to reach.

As long as you're eating a balanced diet, being vegan is probably about as healthy as you can get.

Answer 10

Only the Vegans that eat poorly have a shorter life!  According to Earl Mindrell,

Dr Oz and Oprah... Vegans that eat a proper varied Vegan diet outlive meat eaters and Vegetarians!

Answer 11

Never heard that but I've heard the opposite.

Answer 12

Vegans live 6 to 10 years longer than meat eaters...FACT frmo peta!!

Answer 13

read diet for a new america by john robbins if you havent already. its an older book, late eighties i believe, but he explains in many ways how opting for a vegan diet is the healthiest option for yourself and the world.

however the comment about stress that was made i think is worth looking into though... although i would take knowledge over ignorance any day but thats just me!

Answer 14

No.  It's just that, in America, we have this diet of "everything but the kitchen sink"....and if you "exclude" ANYTHING that EVERYONE else is eating, you'll be malnurished.  That's called biased, low-level thinking.

Oldest person in 2006:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Pinhua

"how can people, still disregard facts in favor of what they WANT to be right..."

Because it would hinder there enjoyment of there lifestyle(i.e. meat in every meal).

"there have been studies to prove that vegans actually don't outlive their meat-eating counterparts"

Studies only prove to be profitable for the industries that finance them.

Answer 15

Here's a link from a man who said that his own experience with veganism was a bad one:

http://chetday.com/strictvegandiet.htm

What I really do not understand is... how can people, when faced with hard, concrete facts... still disregard those facts in favor of what they WANT to be right...

It's good you're actually asking for some evidence.

EDIT:

Actually there have been studies to prove that vegans actually don't outlive their meat-eating counterparts... the evidence shows that they live the same (the rest is just arrogance on the part of people who discount what they don't want to hear while praising what they believe to support their beliefs):

http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/pub...

The same bias that people apply to studies against veganism and vegetarianism can be also be applied toward the studies that are for veganism and vegetarianism....

Biased opinions that deny the facts from all points coming at them...

Answer 16

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