I am an open-minded skeptic and I challenge what I think I know, rather than try to confirm it. But that doesn't mean I disagree with the 'establishment' or 'mainstream' on lots of things. Only on a few things. Only where the evidence leads me.
In particular, I agree with mainstream nutrition science. And I know far more about it than I let on (even though I don't practice it). I've followed it since the 70s and have too many books. I was raised a vegetarian by an SDA mother who preached the Ellen White "health message" to us kids growing up. I remember the science even then showing SDAs living something like 9 years longer than everybody else. My great grandmother (an SDA) lived to 99. I'm a member of the CR society and used to post on that newsgroup for years. I let myself lapse in the last 15 years and let myself be convinced by passing fads, articles, and meta-analyses that meat is good for you and that keto is good for you (and I ended up with a property that had sheep on it so I learnt to farm sheep) and I sorta thought the mainstream view had moved past low-fat diets on to low-carb ones. But I dug into it today and... nope. I was just fooled by what has become popular online.
You keto diet people are going to die of heart attacks in your 50s and 60s. You will seem healthy right up until the end. Fit, lean body mass, top form. Then pop, you're dead. The science was in 50 years ago and is only more certain now. Don't be fooled by supplement salesmen or beef industry lobbyists. If you want a social media influencer, listen to nostr:npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 . Veganism is very close to the most healthy diet and he'll probably live past 100. I will still tease him about it though. Fucker... trying to outlive us... how dare he!
The studies of random villages where people live to 100+ all has them eating meat, none of them are vegans.
Not sure what your argument is that meat-heavy diets is going to lead to young heart attacks but conflating that with vegans living longer seems off base.
I'm not familiar with these studies, but I suspect you are misinformed. I'm happy to read them if you have links.
The largest, longest, best designed research shows vegans living longer and heavy meat eaters having high levels of atherosclerosis.
It is not an argument, I'm not logically deducing anything. It is the results of the biggest and best studies.
Even the nutritional researchers tend to live to 100 or more, probably because they follow the results of what they study. Ancel Keys lived to 100, Dame Harriette Chick to 102, Dr John Sharffenberg is 99 or 100 now, whereas Atkins died in his 70s, Pennington (who Atkins based his diet on) died at 56, Charles Poliquin died at 57, etc. There are lots of long-lived vegetarians, seventh day adventists, Okinawans, nutrition researchers, etc. The studies on longevity show what they eat, and it's usually close to vegan. But the best predictor is actually conscionciousness, then income level (diet seems to follow from both of those -- conscientious enough to actually rigorously do the right diet, and rich enough to afford all those fresh fruits and vegetables).
