Study: Meat, Chicken Eaters Gain More Weight than Vegetarians
If you don't want people to start chanting, "Fatty, fatty two-by-four, can't fit through KFC's door," you might want to put down that drumstick and pick up some gardein buffalo wings instead. A recent study of hundreds of thousands of Europeans revealed that the more meat people ate, the more weight they gained over time—and chicken is the big culprit.
This is important to tell everyone: Researchers found that the people who were most likely to gain weight were also those who ate the most chicken, followed by processed meats and red meat.
Researchers at Imperial College London in the U.K. found that people who ate more meat gained about a pound a year on average, even if they consumed the same amount of calories as people who ate less meat. And most meat-eaters eat far more calories than do vegetarians or vegans.
And predictably, the more meat people ate, the more weight they gained. For every additional little bitty 8.8 ounces of meat that people ate daily, they packed on about four and a half extra pounds over five years.
"Our results suggest that a decrease in meat consumption may improve weight management," wrote the study's authors in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Hurry—surf on over to GoVeg.com and order a copy of our vegetarian/vegan starter kit today, before you end up looking like this.
Posted by Alisa Mullins
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Sorry meat eaters veggies are for a fact thinner.. Vegetarians have longer life spans too.
It's because of all that Veggie Fish right?
boils down to moderation, PETA . Eating to much of anything is not good for you.
God this is why NO ONE takes you seriously PETA . "If you don't want people to start chanting, "Fatty, fatty two-by-four, can't fit through KFC's door," you might want to put down that drumstick and pick up some gardein buffalo wings instead"
What are you? A 10 year old fitness instructor?
That processed vegan crud tastes so nasty most people would rather starve than put it in their mouths longer than it would take to spit it out.
Lean white meat chicken is lower in calories than any other meat. I don't suppose the fact that it's frequently prepared by frying in vegetable oil has anything to do with the numbers cited by PETA ? Naw, that can't be it. It must be that ultra low fat meat is the culprit. Bunch of morons!
I'd love to see an independent study on the effect of a vegan diet on mental acuity. There does appear to be a direct relationship between a vegan diet and severely diminished mental capacity.