[hedning]

Steve Jobs had cancer for the most of those 10 years. It seems he tried a vegan diet to treat it among other things, that was silly. That does not make him a poster child for vegans, it seems like he wasn't even vegan before the cancer.

[lukifer]

He tried to treat it with specific subsets of veganism, such as fruit-only and nut-only diets. My understanding is that he was vegetarian/vegan for most of his adult life; please correct me if I'm wrong.

[hedning]

Might be. I was just going off wikipedia, which only noted anything about veganism as a treatment for the cancer. But it sounds like you know more about it than me.