Re: Atkins is a bull*** diet

From: Jan (shantigiri_at_luukku.com)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: 22 Aug 2004 22:50:07 -0700

"Piezzo Guru" <gabusey@hotnmail.com> wrote in message news:<vAcWc.21410$rP2.924@hydra.nntpserver.com>...
> Vegetarianism is just a death trap for fools.
>

You can hardly say that vegetarianism is a death trap as four large
studies out of six shows that it increases longevity.

"DOES LOW MEAT CONSUMPTION INCREASE LIFE EXPECTANCY IN HUMANS?
Pramil N Singh, Joan Sabaté and Gary E Fraser
1 From the Departments of Epidemiology & Biostatistics (PNS, JS, and
GEF) and Nutrition (JS), School of Public Health, Loma Linda
University, Loma Linda.

Background: Since meat products represent a major source of protein in
the Western diet, findings on whether meat intake significantly
contributes to the burden of fatal disease have important clinical and
public health implications.

Objective: The objective was to examine whether a very low meat intake
(less than weekly) contributes to greater longevity.

Design: We reviewed data from 6 prospective cohort studies and report
new findings on the life expectancy of long-term vegetarians from the
Adventist Health Study.

Results: Our review of the 6 studies found the following trends: 1) a
very low meat intake was associated with a significant decrease in
risk of death in 4 studies, a nonsignificant decrease in risk of death
in the fifth study, and virtually no association in the sixth study;
2) 2 of the studies in which a low meat intake significantly decreased
mortality risk also indicated that a longer duration ( 2 decades) of
adherence to this diet contributed to a significant decrease in
mortality risk and a significant 3.6-y (95% CI: 1.4, 5.8 y) increase
in life expectancy; and 3) the protective effect of a very low meat
intake seems to attenuate after the ninth decade. Some of the
variation in the survival advantage in vegetarians may have been due
to marked differences between studies in adjustment for confounders,
the definition of vegetarian, measurement error, age distribution, the
healthy volunteer effect, and intake of specific plant foods by the
vegetarians.

Conclusion: Current prospective cohort data from adults in North
America and Europe raise the possibility that a lifestyle pattern that
includes a very low meat intake is associated with greater longevity.

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 78, No. 3, 526S-532S,
September 2003"

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/78/3/526S?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=vegetarian+longevity&searchid=1093239589656_7928&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&journalcode=ajcn

Jan

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