Vegetarians May Live Longer Than Meat Eaters?
Vegetarians live longer . This is the result that would emerge from a recent research carried out by researchers at Loma Linda University in California . The vegetarian diet would help to incur a lower risk of death due to various diseases and, specifically , those that affect the cardiovascular system . The study results were published in JAMA Internal Medicine . Were taken into account more than 73,000 subjects . All of them have responded to a questionnaire that concerned their eating habits and type of diet followed . The participants were divided into five groups : non- vegetarians, semi - vegetarians, peach - vegetarian, lacto - ovo - vegetarian, vegan. In this division was taken into account , therefore , of the volunteers who ate even fish , eggs and dairy products . Macrobiotic Diet, Example menu The observation period lasted almost six years and in that time there have been 2,570 deaths . The mortality rate was ext...