Vegetarians should no longer live according to the study?

Vegetarians should not live according to the study or not?

05/19/2014

According to a study, not vegetarians, but people who eat a bit of meat, the longest live. However, many international studies conclude that a vegetarian diet is healthy and leads to a lower death rate.

Health promoting substances
Not vegetarians, but people who eat a bit of meat should live the longest. This is the result of an 18-year study (Epic) that started with 450,000 participants, 26,000 of whom have died in the meantime. „The result makes sense, because meat contains a number of health-promoting substances“, said Professor Sabine Rohrmann from Zurich in the „pharmacy magazine“ (5/2014 B). You can find such substances in plants, but from animal products, the human body can better utilize them.

Numerous studies come to different conclusions
However, many international studies have come to different conclusions in recent years. And Mrs. Rohrmann from the Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine of the University of Zurich said in a statement last year: „Around three percent of all premature deaths are estimated to be due to high consumption of meat products.“ Also in 2013, a study by Loma Linda University in California among about 70,000 participants was published, which concluded that vegetarian and vegan diets associated with a lower death rate. For example, vegetarians had 12 percent fewer deaths and 19 percent fewer heart diseases such as heart attacks.

Vegetarian diet is healthy
But a vegetarian diet brings even more health benefits. For example, a study by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine concluded that vegetarians had lower blood pressure, blood lipid and uric acid levels and better kidney function performance. The study looked at 11,000 vegetarians for 12 years and compared them to a control group that, in addition to meat consumption, had a similar lifestyle and social status to the vegetarians studied. In addition, the death rate was 20 percent and the cancer death rate even 40 percent lower than in the meat-eating control group. In summary, it can be concluded from these studies that the general health of vegetarians is above average and the vegetarian diet can be described as healthy. (Sb)