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From: alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com
In article <2174990.ufNNe8Mr4B@Dharma>,
Peter Terpstra posted:
[
[ Vegetarians live 20% longer, according to massive study
[
[ Let me put it out there right away: I was born and raised
[ vegetarian. As someone who came to vegetarianism by
[ default, I have spent most of my life keeping quiet about
[ it. I consider it a very personal matter and somehow feel
[ like it's too deep of a topic to be evangelical about it.
[ Furthermore, I can't even imagine what it's like to be
[ raised on meat and how I would have responded.
[
[ That said, I grew up with people repeatedly questioning
[ the health of vegetarianism and asking me ridiculous
[ questions like, "where do you get your protein?" Even
[ today, after decades of research, after a
[ vegetarian/vegan was named Sportsman of the Century and
[ Olympian of the Century, many people still have odd ideas
[ and think a vegetarian diet isn't an adequate or healthy
[ diet. (A few people have made comments to me along these
[ lines just within recent weeks.) That gets old.
[
[ From all the research and science I've read on the
[ matter, the findings of a new study from Loma Linda
[ University don't surprise me at all. As I stated in the
[ headline, it found that vegetarians (and also "semi-
[ vegetarians") live 20% longer than omnivores. In
[ addition, it found that they create about 33% less
[ greenhouse gas emissions.
[
[ Since much of what I write about (solar energy, biking,
[ and electric vehicles) I have become interested in out of
[ a desire to stop global warming, I now feel a public
[ obligation to cover the climate benefits of a vegetarian
[ diet as well. Accounting for 18% to over 51% of
[ greenhouse gas emissions (based on which study you
[ consult), livestock production is a huge matter to
[ tackle.
[
[ Regarding the current study, you may be wondering how
[ many people were analyzed to come up with those health
[ results — 10? 30? 100? No, this was a huge study.
[ 73,000 participants were analyzed, with data collected
[ over the course of decades. In fact, I'm quite confident
[ that no other study on this topic comes close to this one
[ in terms of participant diversity and depth of data.
[
[ "To our knowledge no studies have yet used a single non-
[ simulated data set to independently assess the climate
[ change mitigation potential and actual health outcomes
[ for the same dietary patterns," said Joan Sabate, MD,
[ DrPH, and co-author of the study noted.
[
[ Tag on global warming and climate change to see the
[ results get even more extreme.
[
[ Will this change anything with the general populace? Will
[ people stop asking, "but where do you get your protein?"
[ Will people stop saying, "I like the idea but I can't go
[ vegetarian for health reasons" and other variations of
[ that?
[
[ Unlikely. But I hope the study will encourage more people
[ to take the leap and adopt a vegetarian diet, or at least
[ a semi-vegetarian diet.
[
[ If we want to prevent runaway global warming and climate
[ change, we need this.
[
[ If you want to read more about the health benefits of
[ going vegetarian, also see:
http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/vegetarians-at-a-lower-risk
for-heart-disease-stroke.html
Dhanyavaad for your post.
Stay healthy!
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj
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