Are Vegetarians Healthier?

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  “Longevity: Strong Evidence Supporting Plant-Based Diet Healthiness”

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Longevity: Strong Evidence Supporting Plant-Based Diet Healthiness

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Nutrition is a young science but more and more work is being published that shows that a plant-based diet may be the healthiest. On the topic of longevity, for example, a  1976-1988 study of 34,000 Seventh-Day Adventists [reference 1] showed that vegetarians live seven years longer than meat eaters and vegans live eight years longer than meat eaters. But it's not just years; research [reference 2] also shows evidence of thirteen additional healthy years of life for vegetarians – animal products impede immune system, decrease energy, speed up cognitive and sexual dysfunction, and clog arteries.

  --Dilip Barman, www.dilip.info

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1: Gary E. Fraser et. al.

“Ten Years of Life: Is it a Matter of Choice?” Arch Intern Med. 161:1645-1652(2001); also www.inlandempireonline.com/de/metro/vegetarian

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2: Barbara Tunick

“Why Go Veg” in Vegetarian Times, July 2002, pg. 33-34, citing a 1986-1992 study by Dean Ornish, MD, and Michael Roizen, SUNY Medical School Dean.

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