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Meat has a mixture of good and bad components, while vegetables have components that neutralise the bad in meat. So you need a mixture of both for peak health. Everything in moderation.
Not true. We are adapted fully for a 100% meat diet. There are cultures that do it. The Mansaari, the Inuit, and really, all pre-agricultural societies lived almost exclusively on meat during the Ice Age. Ice Age lasted 900,000 years. Veggies were seasonal, sparse, and the wild ones that did exist were nothing like the veggies we eat today. Spinach, for example, has Oxalates (and really, many plants and veggies do) that prevent the absorption of Iron. Instead of getting absorbed by the intestines, it passes through stool. Nutrients in meat are 100% bioavailable to humans with no antinutrients. Few people understand antinutrients. Phytic acid and oxalates and other antinutrients prohibit your body from getting the full benefit of veggies. For people that rely on them soley, like vegans, it can lead to health consequences that people who eat exclusively carnivore diets do not experience.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/oxalate-good-or-bad#TOC_TITLE_HDR_2
Pre ag people didn't live long. Meat is lacking in antioxidants while veg is low in protein and minerals. Fermented foods also seem to have large health benefits. Then there are weird effects like beta glucans found in yeast/fungi and certain grains having anti cancer and immune stimulating effects. My favourite is alcohol apparently cancelling out carcinogenic compounds in chared meat. Have a drink with your steak. One use for a plant based died is for suppression of an over-active immune system in MS.
Pre ag people lived nearly as long as modern humans if they reached the age of 25. One of the primary reasons life expectancy went up in the past 100 years is infant mortality was reduced to almost zero. It used to be very common to lose a baby at birth. My own great grandmother lost triplets shortly after birth and my grandmother had a premature baby that didn't make it.
Vegans get cancer all the time. Haven't looked into effects of fungi on the body, but one thing that did increase dramatically after the advent of modern (20th century) AG is heart disease. In fact even in the past few decades it has skyrocketed. That's NOT because of meat. We eat less meat as a percentage of calories than 100 years ago and prior.
Hong Kong, before it was taken over by Communists, had one of the highest per capital beef consumption in the world (almost twice that of Americans) and they are #1 on the 2018 life expectancy list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
And #3 in beef consumption: https://beef2live.com/story-world-beef-consumption-per-capita-ranking-countries-0-111634