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34 FRIDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER 2019<br />
www.weekender.news<br />
Health&Lifestyle<br />
How healthy is<br />
a veggie diet?<br />
VEGETARIAN and pescetarian<br />
diets may be<br />
linked to a lower risk of<br />
coronary heart disease,<br />
according to new scientific<br />
research.<br />
However, the study also<br />
revealed that vegetarians<br />
and vegans have a higher<br />
risk of suffering a stroke<br />
than meat eaters.<br />
A large-scale study carried<br />
out by a team from Oxford<br />
University was published in<br />
The BMJ.<br />
It found that people who<br />
follow the ‘veggie’ diets have<br />
a 22 per lower risk of heart<br />
disease than meat eaters,<br />
while those who eat fish but<br />
no meat saw the risk reduced<br />
to 13 per cent.<br />
But the researchers also<br />
found that vegetarians and<br />
vegans were a fifth more<br />
likely to suffer a stroke than<br />
meat eaters, which they suggest<br />
may be partly down to a<br />
lack of vitamins.<br />
They also suggested that<br />
low blood levels of total cholesterol<br />
among vegetarians<br />
and vegans may play a role<br />
and called for further investigations<br />
to be carried out.<br />
The study included data for<br />
48,188 people with no history<br />
of heart disease or stroke<br />
at the start of the research.<br />
The group was split into<br />
meat-eaters, fish-eaters who<br />
consumed fish but no meat<br />
and vegetarians and vegans.<br />
Announcing its findings,<br />
the research team said: “In<br />
recent years, more and more<br />
people have been turning to<br />
vegetarian and vegan diets,<br />
which is partly due to the<br />
perceived health benefits,<br />
as well as concerns about<br />
the environment and animal<br />
welfare. But the full extent<br />
of the potential health benefits<br />
and hazards of these<br />
diets is not well understood.”<br />
They added: “We observed<br />
lower rates of ischaemic<br />
heart disease in fish eaters<br />
and vegetarians than in<br />
meat eaters, which appears<br />
to be at least partly due to<br />
lower body mass index and<br />
lower rates of high blood<br />
pressure, high blood cholesterol,<br />
diabetes associated<br />
with these diets.”<br />
In the UK alone there are<br />
an estimated 1.7m vegetarians<br />
and vegans. Reports<br />
in 2017 revealed Spain was<br />
home to the tenth highest<br />
percentage of vegans in<br />
the world.<br />
Other reports say that in<br />
that same year 7.8 per cent<br />
of Spain’s adult population<br />
were “veggie”.<br />
Dr Tammy Tong, who led<br />
the research, said that further<br />
research was needed to<br />
“replicate the results in other<br />
populations” and it should include<br />
further measurements<br />
of nutritional factors.<br />
Prof Mark Lawrence, of<br />
Deakin University in Australia,<br />
says that the study’s<br />
stroke risk should aldo be<br />
kept in perspective.<br />
He said: “It is based on results<br />
from just one study and<br />
the increase is modest relative<br />
to meat eaters.<br />
“Relevance to vegetarians<br />
worldwide must also be considered.<br />
Participants were all<br />
from the UK where dietary<br />
patterns and other lifestyle<br />
behaviours are likely very different<br />
from those prevalent<br />
in low and middle-income<br />
countries where most of the<br />
world’s vegetarians live.”<br />
Current dietary guidelines<br />
contain the most evidence<br />
based advice available for<br />
vegetarians, as well as for<br />
fish and meat eaters.<br />
They also recognise plant<br />
based diets for their environmental<br />
sustainability<br />
as well as health benefits,<br />
he added.<br />
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