My friend was telling me a story she read that vegetarians who consumed eggs and milk too had a longer life expectancy thn vegans. But I was not able to find that study anywhere.
Is this true or does anyone have any knowledge about this subject?
I believe there was a recent study with findings to that effect. If I remember rightly some anti-veg*n regulars on here were trumpeting the findings – vegetarians live longest, then meat-eaters with vegans last.
But there is no actual evidence – this was a study, and although a few people quoted it on here I don't remember any actually providing a link, so I have no idea who carried out the study or how, or for how long or how many people they studied.
Studies are just that – studies; they suggest possibilities rather than present us with proven facts. Other studies usually have different findings, and subsequent studies by the same team on the same subject sometimes show different results.
It's foolish to rely on studies to back up one's prejudices; unfortunately many people do it – just look at the number of times you see the words 'studies show' on this forum (usually with no links).
There isn't and it isn't possible for there to be any conclusive evidence on this issue. We can all claim vegan/vegetarian/meat-eating relatives who lived healthily into their 90s and meat-eating/vegetarian/vegan relatives who died in their 50s. It proves nothing.
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Milk and eggs are bad for you……notmilk.com
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I don’t think there’s been a proper study done. Vegans have way lower cholesterol than lacto-ovos. To be honest, I don’t think there are enough life long vegans and lacto-ovos to properly do a study like that.
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There is no conclusive evidence. Mainly because no one really knows. Being a vegetarian may give you a better chance, but do you smoke, or do you drink a lot. Perhaps you don’t exercise, perhaps there are hereditary things to consider. Any of those factors can make a difference. Most people don’t just live a healthy non enjoying sort of life. There are so many factors involved. I had a friend who was a vegetarian. He lived the perfect life. However, he died from natural causes at 33 years of age.
We live our lives according to our circumstances. If we are lucky we will see old age. There are many reasons why we attain old age, diet is just one and it is not the only one.
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I believe there was a recent study with findings to that effect. If I remember rightly some anti-veg*n regulars on here were trumpeting the findings – vegetarians live longest, then meat-eaters with vegans last.
But there is no actual evidence – this was a study, and although a few people quoted it on here I don't remember any actually providing a link, so I have no idea who carried out the study or how, or for how long or how many people they studied.
Studies are just that – studies; they suggest possibilities rather than present us with proven facts. Other studies usually have different findings, and subsequent studies by the same team on the same subject sometimes show different results.
It's foolish to rely on studies to back up one's prejudices; unfortunately many people do it – just look at the number of times you see the words 'studies show' on this forum (usually with no links).
There isn't and it isn't possible for there to be any conclusive evidence on this issue. We can all claim vegan/vegetarian/meat-eating relatives who lived healthily into their 90s and meat-eating/vegetarian/vegan relatives who died in their 50s. It proves nothing.
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Some do. Some don’t. Diet designation is irrelevant and there are too many other factors involved.
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my friends great grandmother is a vegan and she is like 98 and she goes for runs every day but my great grand ma is the same age and she is a vegeterian and she goes for run with my friends grand ma so yeah
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I don’t think so, because there are so many other factors that come into it like lifestyle choices, genetics, environment, crippling accidents etc. A lifelong vegan may have died from a heart attack from a condition he/she inherited from his/her parents at the age of 80 and a vegetarian to 103, or a 50 year old vegetarian who smokes and drinks could die before a vegan with a lung cancer from surrounding air pollution. It’s just not conclusive enough, but who knows, they could live longer vegans.
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