Posted By: Suzanne
Vegetarians Are Healthier - 09/09/11 09:58 PM
Vegetarians Are Healthier
According to research published in Diabetes Care, vegetarians have better scores when it comes to blood sugar, blood fats, blood pressure, waist size, and body mass--which together can reduce metabolic symdrome (prediabetes) risk. In the recent study over 700 subjects, 2 of every 100 vegetarians had at least 3 metabolic syndrome factors, compared with 37 of every 100 semivegetarians (eating meat or poultry less than once a week) and 39 of every 100 nonvegetarians. And the vegetarians in the study were 3 years older than the nonvegetarians, on average--making their robustness even more impressive. --Delicious Living, August 2011.
Suzanne
Posted By: Rick H
Re: Vegetarians Are Healthier - 10/09/11 01:34 AM
New study - Whole food vegetarian diets reverse and eliminate many serious illnesses
by Kim Evans
(NaturalNews) A new study found that plant based diets are a fundamental solution to our public health crisis, especially with some of the most serious and debilitating illnesses. The physicians at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute found that the frequency and the cost of many illnesses, including obesity, cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, can be considerably reduced just by switching to a whole food, nutrient dense, plant-based diet that doesn't include meat or dairy. Sometimes, the diseases were reversed just with these diet changes too.
Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, who led the study, said: "We are potentially on the cusp of what could be a seismic revolution in health. This will never come about from another pill, another procedure, another operation, or construction of another cardiac cathedral. It will come about when we are able to show the public the lifestyle that will halt and eliminate 75% of these common, chronic killing diseases. The most essential component of this lifestyle is whole food plant-based nutrition."
This is foundational for a population that often eats meat and dairy daily and also one that often has one health problem or another. It's also eye opening for people who still believe that medical doctors have the health care answers, even though medical doctors are often only required to take one nutrition class (and that class is often about how foods and drugs interact). That seems to be lacking quite a bit when dietary changes can reverse and eliminate 75% of the most serious problems - and most people get the serious problems after having several smaller problems.
Dr. Esselstyn initiated this study to treat seriously ill patients with coronary artery disease with plant-based nutrition, and he generally succeeded in the reversal or removal of their disease.
According to Esselstyn, "Patients lose weight, blood pressure normalizes, and type 2 diabetes improves or resolves, as does angina, erectile dysfunction, and peripheral vascular and carotid disease." He also added that today's adolescents are but a decade or two away from compounding our healthcare epidemic.
Of course, the best time to start a dietary program that has the potential to change the quality of your future is always today. While adding tons of fruits and veggies to your diet and dropping the meat and dairy can reverse many diseases, it's also definitely better to just avoid the disease route all together. Many people who practice this type of diet also find that they feel better emotionally and have better energy, which just equates to a better overall quality of life too.
More:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/art...
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/07/2...
http://blog.cncahealth.com/post/201...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2...
Suzanne
One of my close friends was just talking to me at church, that a researcher wrote a book on how and what to eat. So my friend said he checked the book and to his surprise found the part on the author coming across Adventist. Well he found that the Adventist who ate meat, even once a week were no different in statistics of people who ate meat all the time. Then the interesting part, to get the full benefit he found that Adventist had to be fully vegetarian or vegan, and then statistics showed a major improvement. I will see if I can find it and post it...
Posted By: Mountain Man
Re: Vegetarians Are Healthier - 10/10/11 03:53 AM
I've been a vegetarian for 36 years (I'm 51). Back when I was teaching military pilots and aircrew members how to survive in the wilderness (1980-88) my fellow instructors used to say, "As a vegetarian there's no way you can keep pace given the physically demanding nature of our job." In answer to their comments I simply invited them to hang out with me for a day. At days end they had a completely different opinion of vegetarianism.
However, there is more to it than merely not eating meat and eating the right combinations of wholesome foods. That in itself is not enough. In fact, it is woefully inadequate. Health is a whole package affair. It requires all of Newstart, all of the 8 natural laws of health. I have friends who are not vegetarian and have no problem keeping up with me on mountain expeditions. What little meat they do eat seems to have little to no effect on their ability to hike hard and climb high.
Posted By: Rosangela
Re: Vegetarians Are Healthier - 10/10/11 07:52 PM
I've been a vegetarian for 36 years (I'm 51)
I've also been a vegetarian for 36 years, but I'm 52.
Posted By: Mountain Man
Re: Vegetarians Are Healthier - 10/12/11 07:40 PM
I've been a vegetarian for 36 years (I'm 51)
I've also been a vegetarian for 36 years, but I'm 52.
Wow, a woman who states her age publicly! Ha! Congrats on choosing a healthy lifestyle for soooooooo many years. Ha!
Posted By: Rosangela
Re: Vegetarians Are Healthier - 10/12/11 09:28 PM
Wow, a woman who states her age publicly!
Marge Jetton also did that and she was more than twice my age!
She died this year, right? That's a pity.
Congrats on choosing a healthy lifestyle for soooooooo many years.
Congrats to you, too!
Posted By: Suzanne
Re: Vegetarians Are Healthier - 02/14/12 10:46 PM
Vegetarians Have Lower Cancer Risk Than Meat Eaters
by David Gutierrez, staff writer
(NaturalNews) Vegetarians are significantly less likely to develop cancer than non-vegetarians, according to a study conducted by researchers from universities in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, and published in the British Journal of Cancer.
"These interesting results add to the evidence that what we eat affects our chances of developing cancer," said a spokesperson for Cancer Research U.K. "We know that eating a lot of red and processed meat increases the risk of stomach cancer."
Researchers followed 61,566 British adults and compared cancer rates among vegetarians, those who ate fish but not other kinds of meat, and those with no dietary restrictions. They found that the lifetime risk of developing cancer was 14 percent lower in vegetarians than in the general population. The protective effect was greatest for stomach cancer, bladder cancer, Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and blood cancers. Vegetarians were less than 50 percent as likely to develop lymph and blood cancers as nonrestricted eaters, while their risk of a rare bone marrow cancer known as multiple myeloma was 75 percent lower. Fish-eaters had a lower risk of blood and lymph cancers than nonrestricted eaters, but their risk was still higher than that of vegetarians.
It is the first study specifically showing a link between a vegetarian diet and a lower risk of bone marrow cancer.
"Dietary advice to myeloma patients remains aligned with national guidance -- that they should eat a healthy, balanced diet high in fiber, fruit and vegetables and low in saturated fat, salt and red and processed meat," Myeloma U.K. said.
Red and processed meats have previously been linked to elevated rates of stomach cancer. Processed meat is believed to be particularly dangerous, due to the N-nitroso compound used to preserve them and the high temperatures they are cooked at.
The researchers found that vegetarians and fish eaters had roughly the same risk of stomach cancer, about one-third less than the risk experienced by unrestricted eaters. This adds evidence to the theory that red and processed meats are particular risk factors for this kind of cancer.
Sources for this story include: news.bbc.co.uk.
Suzanne
Posted By: Rick H
Re: Vegetarians Are Healthier - 02/21/12 08:56 PM
Vegetarians Are Healthier
According to research published in Diabetes Care, vegetarians have better scores when it comes to blood sugar, blood fats, blood pressure, waist size, and body mass--which together can reduce metabolic symdrome (prediabetes) risk. In the recent study over 700 subjects, 2 of every 100 vegetarians had at least 3 metabolic syndrome factors, compared with 37 of every 100 semivegetarians (eating meat or poultry less than once a week) and 39 of every 100 nonvegetarians. And the vegetarians in the study were 3 years older than the nonvegetarians, on average--making their robustness even more impressive. --Delicious Living, August 2011.
Suzanne
You also have to take into account what meat and the fat that comes with it does to the mind, to say nothing of the body. Are there any studies on that....?
Posted By: Elle
Re: Vegetarians Are Healthier - 02/23/12 05:42 AM
You also have to take into account what meat and the fat that comes with it does to the mind, to say nothing of the body. Are there any studies on that....?
This is an indirect answer to your question Rick. Here's what eating vegetable can do to the nervous system to someone confined in a wheelchair because of MS -- a destruction of the myelin sheath in the nervous system.
Dr. Terry Wahls with advance MS cure herself by changing her diet with greens, vege, berries, seaweed, and organs(well I believe we don’t need that stuff, but she did. Nevertheless she was eating lots of veges and that's the point in this). (a 17-minute video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc&feature=youtu.be
Posted By: Suzanne
Re: Vegetarians Are Healthier - 06/01/12 12:44 AM
Vegetarians LOOK 20-years Younger!
Yes, that's right. We do look a lot younger than our years. My husband is 84 years old and could easily pass for 64. Indeed, people do not believe that he is as old as he claims. At 75, I could pass for 55 years. I know many other vegetarians who look a lot younger than their years.
This is an important point. Who doesn't want to look younger. Indeed, our whole society would give anything to look younger. And the outward appearance is but the tip of the iceberg. A vegetarian's organs all enjoy the benefits of this diet.
Animal protein stimulates rapid growth predisposing to a shorter lifespan. Flesh foods tend to run our engines at a higher rate of speed--even when at rest--promoting acclerated aging. Indeed, a high meat diet's effect on the system can be compared to putting an automobile in neutral and running the engine at 70 miles an hour.
Dr. Ralph Bircher, the famous biochemist from Zurich, Switzerland, points out that the aging process is triggetred by amyloid, a by-product of protein metabolism, which is deposited in all the connective tissues, causing tissue and organ degeneration--leading to premature aging.
Suzanne
Posted By: Dirk125
Re: Vegetarians Are Healthier - 07/20/12 04:49 PM
Vegetation foods are healthier as compare to junk foods.
Vegetarian foods are good to control the cholesterol level, lower the the blood pressure, burn the fat, and lose the extra body weight.