In regards to eating meat

[Monica]

I never said that diet and exercise failed- I said that it wasn't enough.

Well that's the same thing I said, essentially.

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.

I agree with the greater point that there are other factors at play.

My additional point is that we really don't know whether he 'ate right' and in fact can't even agree on what 'eating right' even is!

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.

I agree on that point.

The flip side of that is that sometimes practitioners can make it all too complicated.

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 was speaking in relative terms, compared to conventional expectations of mainstream medicine.

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