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posted by martyb on Monday September 09 2019, @02:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the watch-that-diet! dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday September 09 2019, @04:44PM (10 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday September 09 2019, @04:44PM (#891741) Homepage Journal

    That's what you get for not eating bacon after $deity went through all the trouble of inventing the pig just for you.

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  • (Score: 2) by jelizondo on Monday September 09 2019, @05:18PM (5 children)

    by jelizondo (653) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 09 2019, @05:18PM (#891751) Journal

    Well, at least one $deity clearly forbade eating pork:

    1. The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, 2 "Say to the Israelites: `Of all the animals that live on land, these are the ones you may eat: [..] 11. And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you.
    Leviticus 11,1-11.

    So, why go through the trouble of creating it?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @06:17PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @06:17PM (#891776)

      So, why go through the trouble of creating it?

      Clearly, it's a "test"!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @06:43PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @06:43PM (#891804)

      Because how else are you going to get rid of all the foreskins and then eventually Jesus' body?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @07:55PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @07:55PM (#891847)

      Yeah, well, that $deity was a dipshit. Look at all the trouble the cocksucker caused. I want five minutes in a room alon with that motherfucker - I need to win a lottery.

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday September 09 2019, @08:48PM (1 child)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday September 09 2019, @08:48PM (#891861) Homepage Journal

      Just to fuck with them, obviously.

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      • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Tuesday September 10 2019, @05:32AM

        by krishnoid (1156) on Tuesday September 10 2019, @05:32AM (#892084)

        That answer seems to be applicable to most of Leviticus itself.

  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday September 09 2019, @06:33PM (3 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday September 09 2019, @06:33PM (#891793)

    It's not so much $deity who invented the pig as our ancestors who domesticated it, bred it to be cheap to keep and tasty to eat. Pork: the original fast food.

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    • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday September 09 2019, @06:38PM (2 children)

      by Freeman (732) on Monday September 09 2019, @06:38PM (#891798) Journal

      I thought Gazelle / Deer was the original fast food.

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      • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday September 09 2019, @06:42PM

        by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday September 09 2019, @06:42PM (#891801)

        Hunting Gazelle doesn't make you look like present-day denziens of McDonalds in rural Kentucky, eating domestic pig could...

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      • (Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Monday September 09 2019, @09:48PM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 09 2019, @09:48PM (#891883) Journal

        Fast? Yes.
        Food? Only if you manage to catch it.

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