Mark, I understand your distinction between health and fitness. Apples and Oranges? I dunno if they are that separate. To me, it is more like Apples and pears.

You certainly can't derive all qualities of health about a person by simply looking at them and observing their actions. However, I believe you can derive some things.

Especially things that are typically associated with vegan/veggie diets.

Weak, thin, emaciated, non-aggressive, low energy, lack of stamina...

They are also things that I've heard people associate with veggie diets.

If you saw those qualities in a person, those could be signs of poor health, right?

Athletes such as Mac Danzig (and I've read about others...I'll have to look them up again) provide an example that seems to counter those speculations that a veggie diet automatically has those results (the ones I listed above).