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Originally Posted by Villages PL
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.
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.
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.
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Not true to the last sentence. Mainly I was discussing chemicals and pharmaceuticals, etc. .............at least that is how I started out.......
one thing did lead to another.
The athletic types I mentioned were doctors and high powered corporate owners (engineers)........two of these men cycled all over Europe plus within the U.S.........they were extremely thin and were vegans.
They ate brown rice, veggies, no oil......seeds and nuts, natural stuff.
I doubt if they ate a lot of baked goods as their wives did not bake; if they did it would be some healthy bread.
I wasn't talking about me. I was talking about HEALTHY people who did everything RIGHT and still died of cancer. I do believe it was in their genetics. They were non smokers and from what I could tell, at our parties, etc. or dinner, non drinkers.
It's a complicated subject for sure.