Vegetarians At Greater Risk of Some Forms of Cancer
Many people in the world are vegetarian, a trend that is growing
. But many studies are showing that vegetarians are less healthy than their non-vegetarians peers. Why is this so? You would think that a diet with plenty of fruit and vegetables should make you healthier, not less healthy, so what exactly is going on?In the light of extraordinary new research it is becoming apparent that most vegetarians are in fact less healthy than their non-vegetarian peers. By "peers" I mean people of a similar socio-economic and cultural background. Any valid comparison between vegetarians and non-vegetarians must compare apples with apples. For example, any study that compared an affluent health-conscious vegetarian from California with an impoverished meat eater from the slums of Calcutta is not likely to be meaningful.The scientific studies that are now coming to light are clearly showing that compared to their non-vegetarians peers, vegetarians are more at risk of cancer, eating disorders, heart disease, infertility, obesity, and mental disease.Several studies have compared health-conscious vegetarians with health-conscious non-vegetarians from the same demographic (the same socio-economic, health-conscious cohort). In other words, scientists have compared vegetarians and non-vegetarians from similar backgrounds so as to validate the results and they have come up with some surprising conclusions.In a large study data from five studies were pooled into a very large collaborative analysis of mortality rates in vegetarians and non-vegetarians (Appleby PN, Key TJ, Thorogood M, Burr ML, Mann J. Mortality in British vegetarians. Public Health Nutr. 2002 Feb; 5 (1):29-36). This study looked at 76,000 people, conducted over many years.This Appleby Study compared vegetarians and non-vegetarians in the same demographic, adjusted for age, smoking and gender. The results for all-causes of death showed no significant difference between vegetarians and their non-vegetarian peers. This is in line with other studies showing that vegetarians live longer than the population at large. But the Appleby Study showed that when you compare people within the same demographic this is not the case. The study concluded that 'Overall mortality was the same between vegetarians and non-vegetarians. But vegetarians had 2.2 times the death rate from mental and neurological diseases as non-vegetarians.'Virtually all studies that compare vegetarians and non-vegetarians within the same demographic have shown that vegetarians are at greater risk of cancer, heart disease, infertility and other illnesses. This is not widely known because most studies have compared vegetarians with the population at large - this of course paints a false picture because the population at large is not particularly health-conscious.This begs the question: does this mean that eating animal products is good for health? The research on the whole says NO. So if vegetarians are less healthy than their non-vegetarian peers, what is the reason? Why is it that vegetarians are less healthy than their non-vegetarians peers in the same demographic? This is the vegetarian paradox.
Vegetarians At Greater Risk of Some Forms of Cancer
By: Russell Eaton
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