Vegetarians are less likely to be healthy, [cancer/mental disorders] - New study reveals.

[Mech]

Nutrition and Health – The Association between Eating Behavior and Various Health Parameters: A Matched Sample Study

LINK: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0088278#abstract0

Abstract
Population-based studies have consistently shown that our diet has an influence on health. Therefore, the aim of our study was to analyze differences between different dietary habit groups in terms of health-related variables. The sample used for this cross-sectional study was taken from the Austrian Health Interview Survey AT-HIS 2006/07. In a first step, subjects were matched according to their age, sex, and socioeconomic status (SES). After matching, the total number of subjects included in the analysis was 1320 (N = 330 for each form of diet – vegetarian, carnivorous diet rich in fruits and vegetables, carnivorous diet less rich in meat, and carnivorous diet rich in meat). Analyses of variance were conducted controlling for lifestyle factors in the following domains: health (self-assessed health, impairment, number of chronic conditions, vascular risk), health care (medical treatment, vaccinations, preventive check-ups), and quality of life. In addition, differences concerning the presence of 18 chronic conditions were analyzed by means of Chi-square tests. Overall, 76.4% of all subjects were female. 40.0% of the individuals were younger than 30 years, 35.4% between 30 and 49 years, and 24.0% older than 50 years. 30.3% of the subjects had a low SES, 48.8% a middle one, and 20.9% had a high SES. Our results revealed that a vegetarian diet is related to a lower BMI and less frequent alcohol consumption. Moreover, our results showed that a vegetarian diet is associated with poorer health (higher incidences of cancer, allergies, and mental health disorders), a higher need for health care, and poorer quality of life. Therefore, public health programs are needed in order to reduce the health risk due to nutritional factors.

 

[Android]

If this was true than Gujarat would have been the epicenter of health related problems in India

 

[Mech]

If this was true than Gujarat would have been the epicenter of health related problems in India

Its actually quite true. I posted a whole journal paper for your pleasure.

 

[xyxmt]

Now I am waiting for that new study, the mother of all new studies, which tells smoking cures heart diseases

Actually human were hunters, carnivore by design

 

[DesiGuy]

complete BS.

 

[Mech]

complete BS.

Shouldn't you be quoting specific texts you disagree with before labeling it "BS" ?. It is published in PLOS One -- which is rather well known and respected.

 

[Informant]

Meat > ghasspuus

 

[surya kiran]

As long as you get the required nutrients, vegetarian or non vegetarian or fruitarian or whatever tarian....you will be healthy. There are members in my family who are pure veg, there are those who are pure non veg and then those who eat both. All of them hale and hearty.

There are also those who claim breast milk is not better than forumla milk. If you have money, you can twist stats.

 

[dawn_news]

 

[Dem!god]

lol...
what a BS article......

 

[Mech]

lol...
what a BS article......

Dude, its not a frigging article....its a whole study. "Open the link".

 

[Emmie]

So basically this study focuses on frequency of chronic conditions - it maintains that the vegetarians, comparatively, report chronic conditions and poorer subjective health more frequently.

However it failed to ascertain anything, especially about cancers. I am not sure whether the study meant to analyze frequency of chronic conditions or asses the incidence rate which in fact focuses on acute conditions.

When analyzing the frequency of chronic diseases, we found significantly higher cancer incidence rates in vegetarians than in subjects with other dietary habits. This is in line with previous findings, reporting that evidence about cancer rates, abdominal complaints, and all-cause mortality in vegetarians is rather inconsistent [5]–[7], [19]–[22]. The higher cancer incidence in vegetarians in our study might be a coincidence, and is possibly related to factors other than the general amount of animal fat intake, such as health-conscious behavior, since no differences were found regarding smoking behavior and physical activity in Austrian adults as reported in other studies for other countries [9], [13], [14]. Therefore, further studies will be required in Austria in order to analyze the incidence of different types of cancer and their association with nutritional factors in more depth.

 

[dray]

Always go by the way nature has designed us to survive, and nature didn't design us as vegetarians.

 

[ziaulislam]

study itself is biased scientifically.
there are too many confounding variables

however having said that it is well known that some disease are exculsive to vegetarians as some proteins like carnitine cant be obtained from plant source.
but fiber diet also decrease incidence of colon cancer. the very reason why colon cancer is common in USA and less common in asia