The West's three biggest killers -- heart disease, cancer, and stroke -- are linked to excessive animal product consumption.
For many years, tobacco companies were able to maintain a strong pro-tobacco façade. Smoking focuses the mind. It's good for you (doctors smoke!). It's great for weight loss. It's sexy. It's cool. The tobacco industry spent big bucks to keep these ideas in the mind of the public for as long as it could.
And for many years after the lethal effects were universally known and undeniable, some of our nation's smartest and most successful businessmen continued to believe, because it was in their interest to believe, that "nicotine is not addictive." (Watch the seven most powerful tobacco executives of 1994 make exactly that statement, under oath, to Congress -- not even two decades ago.)
I was reminded of how far tobacco has fallen reading the New York Times magazine interview with perhaps the most successful screenplay writer in history, Joe Eszterhas, who has lost 80 percent of his larynx to tobacco, and has apologized for his glamorization of smoking in such films as Basic Instinct.
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9 comments:
You go Joe. Get the word out there. We have been lied to by the meat and dairy industry long enough. I have reversed my type 2 diabetes and also heart disease by adopting a vegan lifestyle. I am so much healthier and have dropped a considerable amount of weight too. It's not as hard as it sounds to change. As you stop using animal products you start to loose the desire for them and a short time later they are very unappealing. I would never have thought I could have done this but am very glad I did. I now live healthy and cruelty free.
Liberal crap.
4:49. What is wrong with you people. Everything to you is liberal crap. You need to wake the h--l up and look at things in front of you face. People like you would cut off your nose to spite your face. Just keep eating till you die jerk.
I did the Atkins Diet and lost 55Lbs in 3 months and according to my doctor never healthier.
Probably so, but it's easier to critize smokers than meat eaters.
Over eating is the main culprit, That and prescription drugs that people take for life.
7:49, for once, i'd like to see someone who disagrees with someone forgo this flacid argument. just once! this isn't about liberal or conservative; it's common sense .. oh, right, i'm putting the horse before the cart.
And well done, 7:34 ... best of luck to you.
I know someone that was on the Adkins diet. He was obese and lost over 100 lbs. Not long after his weight loss suffered a massive heart attack and he almost died.
I was on the Atkins diet and lost 155 pounds....my fat wife ran off with her new boyfriend.
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