Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Friday, June 10, 2005
Viva las vegans
It was a billboard on a crosstown Manhattan bus that got me thinking. The rolling PSA said something like this: “1 in 500 Americans have AIDS. Only 1 in 250 know.” Instantly, my mind responded: 1 in 2 Americans will die of heart disease. And this: Every seven seconds, an American dies of cancer.
From there, the list grew to:
* Every 25 seconds an American has a heart attack
* Every 45 seconds, and American dies from a heart attack
* Risk of death by heart attack for average American male: 50%
* Risk of death by heart attack for average vegan: 4%
* Rise in blood cholesterol level from consuming one egg per day: 12%
* Associated rise in heart attack risk from consuming one egg per day: 24%
* $135 billion per year spent treating cardiovascular disease
* $70 billion per year spent treating cancer
* 40% of all cancers are diet related
* Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop said in 1988, “Eight out of the ten leading causes of death in America are what you are eating.”
There’s a self-induced health holocaust/mass suicide going on that dwarfs any other health crisis in America...and the fallout isn’t only affecting our bodies, it’s destroying our planet, funneling ever-more taxpayer dollars to multi-national corporations, and hijacking our humanity.
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