Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Vegan and vegetarian diets lower the risk of heart disease but raise the risk of stroke, a major study suggests.
The research, published in the British Medical Journal, looked at 48,000 people for up to 18 years.
The vegans and vegetarians had 10 fewer cases of coronary heart disease per 1,000 people compared with the meat-eaters but three more cases of stroke.
Diet experts said, whatever people's dietary choice, eating a wide range of foods was best for their health.
It analyses data from the EPIC-Oxford study, a major long-term research project looking at diet and health.
[...] Altogether, there were 2,820 cases of coronary heart disease (CHD) and 1,072 cases of stroke - including 300 haemorrhagic strokes, which happen when a weakened blood vessel bursts and bleeds into the brain.
The pescetarians were found to have a 13% lower risk of CHD than the meat-eaters, while the vegetarians and vegans had a 22% lower risk. But those on plant-based diets had a 20% higher risk of stroke. The researchers suggested this could be linked to low vitamin B12 levels but said more studies were needed to investigate the connection.
It is also possible that the association may have nothing to do with people's diets and may just reflect other differences in the lives of people who do not eat meat. Dr Frankie Phillips, from the British Dietetic Association, says not - because this was an observational study. "They looked at what people ate and followed them for years, so it's an association, not cause-and-effect," she says.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Monday September 09 2019, @03:56PM (3 children)
Drinking cheap red wine and eating pasta soaked in olive oil every day doesn't make you healthy.
Taking the afternoon off to walk around and talk with friends every day, while not consuming deep fried foods and also not avoiding all physical activity, gets you most of the benefit of the Mediterranean "diet."
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @04:12PM (2 children)
Mediterranean diet != Italian food (at least some of it)
it's high in vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, nut and other seeds, fish, low fat meat (and small quantity) and replace all other oil/fat/grease with olive oil.
red wine may be helpful, but only in small quantity, specially with you eat meat
Finally, one should eat different things, eating pizza, pasta, salad, fish every day in a week is not healthy too
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday September 09 2019, @06:26PM (1 child)
Agree to all - while retaining the central point: the Mediterranean lifestyle, as much as the diet, can explain the health and longevity of its practitioners.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @06:41PM
It is a lifestyle of corruption and fraud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index#/media/File:Corruption_Perception_index_2018.svg [wikipedia.org]