Kathy Freston: Why Do Vegetarians Live Longer?: "At the time, I had been a vegetarian for over 20 years when my appendix had ruptured. Being a regular guy, I thought it was a host of other things like an anxiety attack with intense mind searing pain. I called my best friend and told him and I talked to a psychiatrist who told me to go to the hospital. I didn't a waited 4 days because on that 4th day, I couldn't move out of the bed and included in the period was me blacking out on the toilet and waking up with my head in a mop bucket. Another best friend came and got me and after a host of test, they concluded the appendix had burst. All of my insides had turned black from poisoning and I was 30 minutes away from death. I attribute my survival on being a vegetarian. 1 and 1/2 years ago I had my heart tested and the doctor told me that I had a "freakishly perfect heart" because I had a plant based diet. All the numbers were textbook perfect. It's not for everyone, I got started because the college food made me sick in my first semester. If they had cooked better food, maybe I wouldn't have survived the appendix and had a bad heart?"
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