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Originally Posted by senior citizen
........they were extremely athletic types and followed vegan diets prior to the diagnosis.
I'm just saying there are no guarantees in life.
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Absolutely, there are no guarantees. Everyone is born with strengths and weaknesses. And we don't always know what they will be. Here are a couple of points I would like to make.
1) When someone says, "they were extremely athletic types", a red flag goes up. Being extremely athletic can raise cortisol levels and thus be damaging to the body, depending on the individual and how extreme they are.
2) They followed vegan diets: Not all vegan diets are the same. A vegan with a sweet tooth can consume large amounts of sugar. Some vegans might eat lots of baked goods made with white flour or lots of white potatoes. They might not get enough B12 or D3 etc.. They might consume too much sodium. You get the idea.
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Several of our friends passed from the non smoker lung cancer.
Never smoked a day in their lives. They had been treated for asthma and bronchitis and all were on inhalers. Finally after years of that, they were told they had stage four lung cancer.....and given chemo and radiation and died two years after treatment.
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Yes, that can happen. A neighbor of mine died from lung cancer and she never smoked. If I hadn't known her, I would have thought the same as you, that it doesn't matter what a person does. However, I found out that before moving to TV, she lived in a large city that had very thick smog. It was so thick, it would make her eyes burn.
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Again, these people did not favor junk foods to begin with; they were truly into a healthy lifestyle in every way possible.
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I met a neighbor of mine when I lived on E. Schwartz Blvd.. He told me he ate a lot of vegetables. And I believed him. When I joined the neighborhood group and got to know him better, I found that he mostly ate potatoes (Fried, baked and mashed). That's a lot of vegetables! But not the best ones for nutrition. So, be careful. We can be led astray.
Your post sounds like you are setting up excuses for yourself to eat whatever you like.