eating a healthy vegan diet is a lot less likely to result in people becoming obese. The average diet of munching burgers, chicken and processed meats is more than likely going to cause people to put weight on because of the drugs, growth hormones and antibiotics the animals are fed in order to keep them free from disease and grow at unnatural rates. There is a lot of evidence that people on a healthy vegan diet can reverse diabetes and sometimes even cure it.
As for cancer I never said that vegans cant die from it but by eating a diet free from meat and dairy products in younger life you are less likely to suffer from it in later life. There is a book called the China study which gives evidence proving this.
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Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshipping.

Hubert Reeves