Switching to a vegetarian diet for a long and healthy life

A major study in California found that cancer rates among Mormons, which are known to eat very little meat, was 50 percent lower than the normal population. Researchers a more comprehensive, carefully controlled study compared 50,000 vegetarian religious group, the Seventh-day Adventists, with the same number of non-vegetarians of the same age and sex. This study, known as the Oxford Vegetarian Study, produced similar results. The members of the vegetarian group had a surprisingly low rate of cancer of all kinds, life expectancy was significantly longer and had significantly less cardiovascular disease than those in the control group.

In general, the ranking of life expectancy in the United States, compared with the rest of the world fell from position 19 in 1999 to position 42 in 2007. The marked increase in obesity and vascular disease can be blamed for this trend. And these two chronic conditions are largely caused by the consumption of animal protein. From a historical perspective, the "forced" the Danes vegetarianism due to Allied blockade of Denmark during World War I led to a reduction of 17 percent of the mortality rates in the first year of meat rationing. Norway experienced a similar side effect of meat rationing during the years of World War II (1940-1945). There was an immediate fall in national death rates from circulatory diseases during the lean meat. Mortality rates returned to pre-war levels when the stock resumed eating meat altogether.

Studies of the University in Belgium tested the endurance, strength and speed recovery from fatigue in vegetarians clearly show that vegetarians had much higher scores in all three categories. A study from Yale University showed that vegetarians have nearly twice the resistance of the meat eaters. Other results confirmed that during the stress tests, vegetarians were able to perform two or three times longer than meat eaters before reaching a point of utter exhaustion. Also needs only a fifth time to recover from fatigue after each test than did their counterparts who eat meat.

The common belief that eating meat makes you strong is unfounded and misleading. The super-strong elephant, gorillas, rhinos and horses all uphold the great physical strength and endurance to eat only vegetation. Based on present evidence, there is nothing to suggest that meat is good for our health.

The fact that populations such as Eskimos (Inuit) can survive on a diet of meat without heart disease is unknown. However, the average life of the Eskimos is not yet over 40 years. An important observation has been made in relation to the rapid shortening of the average for VE Levine and Professor Dr. CW Bauer, Creighton University, Nebraska, who reported on October 26, 1934: "Because of the susceptibility to tuberculosis and other diseases of the average life expectancy of the Eskimos of Alaska is only 20 years and his career is doomed to extinction in a few generations unless modern medical science comes to your aid ".

The East African Masaitribes live mostly from cow blood and milk and meat. Its half-life is 60. A typical 45-year-old man looks about 20 to 30 years old. During my visits to many villages Masai in East Africa between 1983 and 2006, observed that the Masai tribes that have adapted to grow fresh vegetables in their diet are much healthier and do not age as fast.

Another important advantage of the vegetarian diet is that, statistically, vegetarians are thinner and healthier. On average, vegetarians weigh about 20 pounds less than their meat-eating counterparts. According to the Worldwatch Institute USA1.1 million people around the world are underweight, and another 1.1 billion are overweight. In the U.S., 23 percent of adults are obese and 60 percent are overweight. But obesity threatens poor countries, also from Brazil to China. Populations traditionally "Lean" and mostly vegetarian in the world are rapidly following in the footsteps of the general non-vegetarian populations.

Eating meat is increasingly synonymous with a better standard of living. The country / subcontinent of India, for example, has traditionally been a vegetarian for thousands of years, is rapidly adopting the eating carnivores, for the sake of the country cardiologists and oncologists. (Ayurveda, the traditional medicine of India, was largely responsible for keeping India's population vegetarian.) Harvard, research has shown that a vegetarian diet also reduces colds and allergies.

Especially the children benefit enormously from the abstinence from meat. Studies show that vegetarian children have better teeth are affected by diseases and fewer children than non-vegetarian children. They are also less prone to obesity, high cholesterol, diabetes and heart disease.

[This is an excerpt from "Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation" Andreas Moritz's book]