Fort Worth Vegetarian and Dallas Vegetarian: A few statistics about your food and your health from DFW Vegetarian in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas.

A Few Statistics

DFW Vegetarian offers a few statistics about your food and your health.

Your Food and Your Health

Cancer
Breast cancer rate for affluent Japanese women who eat meat daily is 8.5 times greater than poorer Japanese women who rarely or never eat meat.
Hirayama, T., "Epidemiology of Breast Cancer with Special Reference to the Role of Diet, Preventative Medicine 7 (1978): 173-95

"A low-fat plant-based diet would not only lower the heart attack rate about 85 percent, but would lower the cancer rate 60 percent."
William Castelli, MD, Director, Framingham Health Study: National Heart, lung, and Blood Institute

41% reduction in risk of prostate cancer for men whose intake of cruciferous vegetables is high.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute 92 (2000):61-8

70 % increase in risk of prostate cancer for men who consume high amounts of dairy products.a
Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, reported in "Dairy Products Linked to Prostate Cancer," Associated Press, April 5, 2000

200% to 300% greater risk of colon cancer for people who eat poultry four times a week compared to those who abstain.
Singh, P.N., et al., "Dietary Risk Factors for Colon Cancer in a Low-Risk Population," American Journal of Epidemiology 148 (1998):761-64

In 1997 the World Cancer Research Fund analyzed more than 4,500 cancer research studies. In their major international report, the analysis concluded, "Vegetarian diets decrease the risk of cancer." The number one dietary recommendation, " Choose predominantly plant-based diets rich in a variety of vegetables and fruits, legumes, and minimally processed starchy staple foods."

Heart Disease
Not only is mortality from coronary artery disease lower in vegetarians than in nonvegetarians, but vegetarian diets have also been successful in arresting coronary artery disease."
"Position of American Dietetic Association on Vegetarian Diets," Journal of the American Dietetic Association 97 (1997): 1317-21.

Heart disease can actually be reversed without medicines through a vegetarian diet in which less than 10 percent of calories were contributed by fat combined with a program of modest exercise, no smoking, and stress reduction.
Ornish D, Brown SE, Scherwitz LW, et al. Can lifestyle changes reverse coronary heart disease? Lancet 1990;336:129-33.

High Blood Pressure
The incidence of high blood pressure in meat eaters compared to vegetarian s is nearly triple.
Ophir O.,, et al., "Low Blood Pressure in Vegetarians...," American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 37 (1983):755-62.

The incidence of very high blood pressure is 13 times higher in meat eaters than vegetarians.
Ophir O., et al., "Low Blood Pressure in Vegetarians...," American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 37 (1983):755-62.

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Medical costs  directly attributable to meat consumption is about equal to or higher than medical costs attributable to smoking.

25% of U.S. children are overweight or obese.
8% of U.S. vegetarian children are overweight or obese.
Troiano, R., et al., Overweight Children and Adolescents...," Pediatrics 101 (1998) 497-504 and "Overweight Prevalence and Trends for Children and Adolescents," Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 149 (1995); 1083-91.

Medical Costs
A minimum of $60,000,000,000 in annual medical costs in the United States is directly attributable to meat consumption.
Compare that to $65,000,000,000 in annual medical costs directly attributable to smoking.
Halweil, Brian, "United States Leads World Meat Stampede," Worldwide Issues Paper, July 2, 1998.

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Research shows that when animal proteins are eliminated from the diet, calcium losses are cut in half.
Remer T, Manz F. Estimation of the renal net acid excretion by adults consuming diets containing variable amounts of protein. American Journal Clinical Nutrition 1994;59:1356-61.

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