10 Reasons to go veggie 852

Yes, some humans eat meat, others don't. Chimpanzees haven't died out, suggesting their meat eating isn't doing them any harm.

150 then.

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OK, primates, pedant.

Have a search for scientific papers about the neanderthal diet, and show me a reputable one that suggests they were veggies. All the reputable research suggests they were prodigious carnivors.

That was the optimum lifespan, not the average. Even among those who survived infanthood, the average life expectancy was nowhere near 70. Homo sapiens had the capability to live that long then, just as we do now, but the fact was that in a much more hazardous environment, with frequent wars-intertribal battles, with the frequent potential of drought-famine, and without the medical facilities and knowledge we have today, chances are that something or someone would kill you well before you reached 70.

Of course is has something to do with diet. You are far more able to fight off infections etc if you have a half decent diet, even a "western" diet. Children die today because of the food they eat (or lack thereof), but not in the west.

And fish is known to be beneficial to health in many ways, in particular lowering the risk of heart disease and degenerative diseases, also arguably cancers.

Exactly - so things which cause diseases in later life are irrelevant from an evolutionary point of view. So we could easily have evolved for millenia on a diet which causes diseases at 50+. The main problem with the "western" diet is that it causes life threatening illnesses typically in mid-old age (50+).

-- Andy