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| Study: Vegetarians Less Healthy, Lower Quality Of Life Than Meat-Eaters |
| 2014-04-02 |
| h/t Instapundit Vegetarians may have a lower BMI and drink alcohol sparingly, but vegetarian diets are tied to generally poorer health, poorer quality of life and a higher need for health care than their meat-eating counterparts. A new study from the Medical University of Graz in Austria finds that vegetarians are more physically active, drink less alcohol and smoke less tobacco than those who consume meat in their diets. Vegetarians also have a higher socioeconomic status and a lower body mass index. But the vegetarian diet -- characterized by a low consumption of saturated fats and cholesterol that includes increased intake of fruits, vegetables and whole-grain products -- carries elevated risks of cancer, allergies and mental health disorders. Bingo! |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #30 year I gave up liver. That took guts, Shipman. |
| Posted by: gorb 2014-04-02 23:28 |
| #29 Went vegetarian for Lent a few times. Sundays and feast days (Lent will make you an expert on obscure feast days) are the only thing kept me going. This year I gave up liver. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-04-02 22:58 |
| #28 Running may not be as helpful either: What the new research suggests is that the benefits of running may come to a hard stop later in life. In a study involving 52,600 people followed for three decades, the runners in the group had a 19% lower death rate than nonrunners, according to the Heart editorial. But among the running cohort, those who ran a lot—more than 20 to 25 miles a week—lost that mortality advantage. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2014-04-02 20:31 |
| #27 Q: Why are carnivores usually much more smarter than herbivores? A: How smart do you have to be to sneak up on a blade of grass? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-04-02 20:18 |
| #26 JFM is correct. I tested my willpower for nearly a year. Yes, I can be stubborn. Weight loss. Weak and so on. Too hard on the body to digest.It was an interesting experience.It was a challenge but it does have an impact on the mind.I lived in an area with many vegetarians. I went one step further. I hardly ate any cooked food. I think our problem today would be too much variety. Think about it. Most ate the same things every day in the past but only changed as the seasons changed. Why did I stop? Girl friend. :) |
| Posted by: Dale 2014-04-02 20:04 |
| #25 If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat? |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2014-04-02 19:31 |
| #24 Be a constant noise if you ate 15,000 cals of veg. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-04-02 18:22 |
| #23 Can you imagine getting 15,000 calories a day required when climbing Mt. Everest from a vegan diet? That and the constant whineing that accompanies it..... |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2014-04-02 17:23 |
| #22 Can you imagine getting 15,000 calories a day required when climbing Mt. Everest from a vegan diet? |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2014-04-02 17:08 |
| #21 Less healthy and lower quality of life is a small price to pay for knowning how much better you are than your fellow man. These scientific studies fail to really quantify arrogance in a meaningful way. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-04-02 15:22 |
| #20 Ummm.... bacon. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-04-02 15:11 |
| #19 "They don't live any longer either." Without bacon, it just seems longer, Dale. ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-04-02 13:29 |
| #18 Bring me my bacon. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-04-02 13:26 |
| #17 I love pickapeppa! |
| Posted by: remoteman 2014-04-02 13:06 |
| #16 Because Pickapeppa Sauce doesn't go well on cauliflower. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-04-02 11:54 |
| #15 too much meat increases the chance of cardiac incidents too little meat increases the chances of vitamin and protein deficiency too little fish increases the chances of immuno disfunction too much fish increases the chances of toxic damage to liver it goes on the on like this |
| Posted by: lord garth 2014-04-02 11:40 |
| #14 If we aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat? |
| Posted by: gorb 2014-04-02 11:27 |
| #13 CF you're talking about people who think gender is a social construct. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-04-02 11:18 |
| #12 What part of omnivore don't you understand? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-04-02 10:38 |
| #11 Q: How can you tell if someone is a vegetarian? A: Don't worry. They'll tell you! |
| Posted by: Iblis 2014-04-02 10:31 |
| #10 ...not to be confused with 'cooked' books which we have been 'feed' since the invention of writing. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-04-02 10:30 |
| #9 Linda McCartney (famous vegan) sponsored a bike team back in the 1990's and imposed a vegan diet on the riders (who need at least 4,000 calories a day, more like 6 to 8K). There's simply no reasonable way to get that from a vegan diet. The riders bitched and moaned; the team went belly-up the same year. |
| Posted by: Raj 2014-04-02 10:29 |
| #8 Ooops. We have been eating cooked fod for 800,000 years not 80,000 |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-04-02 09:39 |
| #7 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-04-02 09:31 |
| #6 A few facts: 1) We have been eating meat since well before Lucy. It is absurd to think our internal chemsistry hasn't changed and that we can still live with purely vegatarian diet like gorillas do. 2) Try, just try, to live on uncooked vegetabless. You will become thinner and thinner, weaker and weaker and will probably die. Potatoes, wheat, corn, beans, about every vegetable with a decent caloric content cannot be assimilated: our teeth are too weak, our intestine too short, our digestive acidas not strong enough and there is no way you an get enough calories from fruits (mostly water) and salads (about zero calories). The only way to keep your weight while eating "naturally" ie uncooked food is by eating meat but it is still difficult: we no longer have the powerful digestive juices of our ancestors. That is the result of having being eating cooked food for 80,000 years. We have been eating meat for over 3 million years. 3) In one occasion I met a vegan couple and their twelve years old daughter. She looked more like being seven or eight years old. 4) Sometime by the end of XIXth century, beginnng of the XXth not one but two vegan group established themselves is islands of the South Seas. The outcome was the same for both experiments: a few years lmatereveryone either had died of nutrition deficiencies or had ben murdered by the praetorian guard of the Guru after having been caught eating forbidden food or feeding his children with it. In both cases the Guru was the sole survivor. |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-04-02 09:21 |
| #5 Your back teeth are not designed for ripping and shredding. Your front teeth are not designed for grinding. It's a hint from mother nature on what has worked for the species for tens of thousands of years. It's a balance of intake. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-04-02 08:58 |
| #4 Will you live longer? No but it'll seem longer. /dinosaur pee |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-04-02 08:55 |
| #3 There's a reason we climbed to the top of the animal kingdom. We eat meat. Cows don't. Predators tend to be apex dwellers, herbivores tend to be prey. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-04-02 08:28 |
| #2 Several years ago, I read an article about a guy in his 30's exhibiting Alzheimer's symptoms. Tuned out the guy was a vegetarian, took no supplements, and had a severe B-vitamin deficiency (B12?) Oh, and his brain was permanently damaged. Bring me a New York Strip steak, please, medium rare! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-04-02 08:01 |
| #1 It's like a Religion. They don't live any longer either. I believe the meat eaters are a happier lot also. It's save the planet type thinking. |
| Posted by: Dale 2014-04-02 06:52 |