What dieases are vegans less likely to get?!
What dieases are vegans less likely to get?
i know we live longer and stay healthier
Additional Details4 months ago
**diseases
sorry
4 months ago
how dense are you people? i asked what diseases VEGANS are lesss likely to get. not vegetarians.
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4 months ago
**diseases
sorry
4 months ago
how dense are you people? i asked what diseases VEGANS are lesss likely to get. not vegetarians.
The first thing that always comes to mind is Ptomaine poisoning! What about all the varieties of tapeworms? Clostridium? All are totally contained to meat sources!
Listeria, Salmonella and E.Coli? All come from animals and that's where most people get them although there is always a *slight* risk of produce being contaminated from infected animals.
Certainly can't forget our new friend mad cow disease and it's affiliated human condition vCJD! Vegans have less risk of contracting prion disease from hunting deer with CWD (although that could explain Ted Nugent).
Lower risk of heart disease, Osteoporosis, less risk of anemia, much lower rates of *any* cancer!
Is that enough or should I continue?
Actually, the bulk of our nutrients (including protein) come from fruits and vegetables.
Vegans have to make sure they eat plenty of beans, greens and broccoli for the protein, calcium and iron we non-vegans get from yummy sources, such as steak and cheese.
thats not the case at all there was an article in the news paper a while ago that clearly pointed out that people that eat healthy and exercise have just as much chance of getting a diease as ppl that dont......
a lady got lung cancer that was a vegan n she never had a smoke in her life, exercised every day and drank lots of water
another lady got kidney cancer that was a vegan as well....
its just luck of the draw really
Becoming vegetarian is one of the best decisions you can make for your health, animals, and the environment. By being a vegetarian you are less likely to suffer from obesity, heart disease (the #1 killer in America),type II diabetes, high blood pressure, high rates of hypertension, breast cancer, prostate and colon cancer.
I don't anything about vegans specifically,except Mad Cow Disease.
...meat-related ones?? I guess they would have lower blood pressure, and less cardiovascular problems in general.
P.S., vegan food is delicious. Take it from me; i've been a vegetarian for almost ten years. I read one of your other posts, and tofu is actually really good if you cook it right. Just don't eat it plain! XD omg that wouldnt be fun.
Also, diet and exercise do improve your health, but other factors such as genetics and air pollution can factor in. I don't know what kind of newspaper the second poster was reading, lol. Best wishes.
Samenela and Ecoli
i'm dense, so heart diese
My main reason for becoming vegetarian is because I don't want to put meat in my body. I haven't moved into Veganism yet, but I do plan to.
Meat has antibiotics and hormones put in it and those substances can cause cancers, cardiac conditions,overgrowth of Candida(yeasts), antibiotic-resistant infections,etc.
These substances are then passed into the flesh, milk and fats of those animals.
Vegans are less likely to have those health conditions because their exposure to those substances is reduced, if not removed.
HTH
the people that posted before are silly gooses.
You can still get E. Coli and Salmonella from vegetables that are grown in "fertilizer" that can carry diseases that you could normally get from meat. Like the spinach recalls in September.
Martha told me to tell you that you won't live longer and that you'll die at fourteen. She says that you passing out isn't healthy, she says so much for "i know we live longer and stay healthier"
I LOB YOU.
On average vegans live longer and are healthier and at less rick of various diseasess, however, this does not necessarily mean a vegan diet makes you live longer, etc, as there are other considerations.
"Statistical surveys do generally suggest that vegans, on average, live longer, healthier lives. But we should bear in mind that research has yet to isolate the presence or absence of meat in the diet as the only variable under investigation. There are always extraneous factors which can explain equally well any health differences found between vegetarians and meat eaters. For example, many vegans choose their diet for health reasons simply because it is accepted on many fronts that vegans is healthier,rightly or wrongly. But people willing to cut out meat for health reasons are likely to be making other lifestyle decisions for health reasons. Perhaps to smoke less, drink less or exercise more frequently. Alternately stated: people unwilling to make sacrifices for the good of their health will be more likely to eat meat than those who will make those sacrifices. Thus the healthy vegan diet becomes self-fulfilling prophecy."
Vegans are much less likely to smoke, binge drink, eat junk food and are generally much more health conscious that the average meat eater, meat eating being the group that contains almost all the unhealthiest of society: the poor, the uneducated and the smokers who frankly aren't likely to give two figs about veganism.
"A well-designed piece of research by using matched samples may, in theory, control for extraneous variables. But it would be virtually impossible, in the case of a large sample population studied over a lifetime, to determine whether differences found were genuine measurements of the meat/non-meat factor, or an effect of vegans opting for meals with higher nutritional value, irrespective of meat content.
Moreover, irrespective of parental diet, very few western vegans give up meat until their late teens or early adulthood. Some will make the switch later in life. For as long as the general trend in society is away from meat and towards vegans, the average effect of people crossing the meat/non-meat barrier will be to reinforce this skew in the distribution, and create the illusion of a longer average life-span in vegans."
There are other variables as well that can skew results if not properly controlled for.
- Vegans are mostly women. Women have a longer average lifespan than men and are at less risk of various diseases, so the average of vegetarians will be better than that of meat eaters.
- Vegans are, on average, much younger than the average meat eater, because it tends to be young people who convert. Thus, as young people are at less risk from virtually all diseases and death than their older counterparts, their rates of diseases and death will be lower than the meat eating majority of the population.
As such, few studies on this subject can truthfully say they've at least tried there best to eliminate all other variables. The studies Peta show don't even try. When studies do try to control for these things they generally show little difference in longevity, if any.
That meat contains cholesterol and saturate fats doesn't mean it causes heart disease, it doesn't, and that vegans are at less risk of it is the reasons above. Your body on average creates four to five times more cholesterol than the average person consumes, and compensates by creating more when less is consumed. Cholesterol isn't evil, it is essential; it makes up the waterproof linings of all our cells and without it we would die. Too much can be bad, but as with saturated fats there are more healthy ways of disposing of it, like regular exercise. Anyway, it isn't so much how much cholesterol you eat, but how well yur body handles it. A person who eats loads of dietary cholesterol and leads an unhealthy lifestyle can still have low cholesterol, and vice versa. Most people's bodies are able to take a large amount of cholesterol without getting atherosclerosis. For this reason that eating meat gives you heart disease is very misleading, and for the most part untrue. Of course, if you do have a problem eating loads isn't a good idea, but for most people there is nothing at all to worry about.
Osteoporosis it is claimed is claimed caused bu excess protein, protein being acidic, leaching calcium from the bones in order to balance PH, thus causing osteoporosis. Therefore they said, as a meat eating diet gives much more protein than is needed (as opposed to a vegan diet) meat causes osteoporosis,
This is wrong though, as those studies were conducted with pure protein powders, a completely unnatural form, and very concentrated. When protein is taken in meat, a form your body has evolved to get protein from, the blood doesn't become acidic, calcium isn't leached from the bones and osteoporosis isn't caused.
Et cetera.
Vegetarians have a 20% lower rate of mortality from all causes (ie. they live longer & don't get sick as often)
Meat is full of traces of antibiotics, hormones, toxins produced by stress & pesticide residues that become concentrated from all the crops they have eaten
Farmed animals contain upto 50% saturated fat in their bodies
Vegetarians have 24% reduced risk of getting heart disease & Vegans a 57% reduction (heart disease is the biggest killer in the UK accounting for 50% of deaths)
Vegans & vegetarians have lower blood pressure & cholesterol levels - high levels are associated with heart disease, strokes & kidney failure
Vegetarians have a 50% reduced risk of dying of diabetes
Vegetarians have a 40% reduced level of cancer than the general population thought to be because they have a higher intake of vitamins A,C & E
Vegetarians have a reduced risk of developing gall & kidney stones
80% of food poisoning is due to infected meat (faeces, bacteria etc.) after all meat is decomposing flesh - most of the rest is due to salmonella in eggs
Osteoporosis due to calcium loss from bones is mainly due to the sulphur content in meat & casein protein in milk that cause calcium to be lost in the urine - the countries with the highest meat & dairy consumption are those with the highest levels of brittle bones
50% of people do not have the enzyme to digest milk properly & milk allergy is related to asthma & eczema
Meat eaters have double the rate of Alzheimers disease as Vegans & Vegetarians - some people also think that Parkinsons disease is also linked to meat eating
Egg yolk is a dense concentration of saturated fat & the white is high in albumin protein associated with leaching calcium into your urine. Butter is 80% saturated fat, cream is 40% saturated fat & cheese is 25-40% saturated fat
Meat eaters are two and a half times more likely to get bowel cancer than Vegetarians
The cling film used to wrap meat in supermarkets & butchers contains chemicals linked to falling sperm counts in men
Chinese people (living mainly on a vegetarian diet) consume 20% more calories than Americans but Americans are 20% fatter
Of 2,100,000 deaths in the USA in 1987, 1,500,000 were related to diet (ie. meat & dairy)