In regards to eating meat

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Right! I agree with what you said, but I think it was a bit off point.

So you just never know what's going on behind the scenes. To assume that this man's 'healthy' diet and lifestyle failed him, is to oversimplify. His diet might not have been so healthy, and/or there might have been many other factors we don't know about.

I didn't mean that diet and exercise failed- I meant that it wasn't enough. True, I don't actually know the particular details of this man's story. I was just using it as an example of a case where somebody ate right, exercised, and still got cancer. Again.

The broader context of sharing the story was in the discussion of the potential for harm which comes out of taking an oversimplistic approach to health, and the potential for incurred karma on the part of those who self-righteously steer others down the wrong path where their health is concerned.

But no, I am not so much willing to accept recurrence of colon cancer in a 40-ish year old man to be a "success". I see it as a failure of several systems. First and foremost, a failure of the conventional health care system. But also of the systems of yoga which tend to promote this attitude that all we need to do is keep "purifying" the body and it will stay young and healthy. It is irresponsible, all around.

Even more so to the degree that certain (not all) forms of yoga appear to be Trojan horses for Jainism. At least with an MD you know what you are getting.