we can point to that eat lots and lots of meat and live to be very old. For example, residents of Hong Kong consume more meat than just about any other place in the world. Guess what? They live longer than anyone else! (See Figure 2.1.) Does this mean that eating meat makes residents of Hong Kong live a long time? No, we can’t say that any more than we can say that eating plants makes Okinawans live a long time.
