In a message dated 7/28/2001 10:27:22 PM Central Daylight Time,
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> > I don't think it's that SAD that put him under the knife.  From
> > what I hear, Letterman has been close to vegan himself for years.
> > Maybe he is moving away from that.
>
> That is very interesting in itself.
>
> If (essentially) a vegan can develop heart disease to the point of needing
> surgery it tends to support the view that veganism isn't the "right" path
> for our bodies AND that meat eating isn't the biggest baddest thing we can
> possibly do to ourselves.
>

Letterman was also a big time cigar smoker....several a day....they are worse
for you than cigarettes from what I understand. Smoking probably was a big
contributing factor to his heart disease.