From Lohud.com
Letter to the Editor
July 7, 2013
A recent issue
of Time magazine revealed more documentation that vegetarians live
longer than their meat-chomping friends. A six-year study of 70,000
Seventh-Day Adventists, published in the current issue of American
Medical Association�s prestigious Journal of Internal Medicine, found
that vegetarians and vegans have a 12 percent lower risk of death.
This is but the latest evidence linking meat consumption to diseases
that kill 1.3 million Americans annually. It comes only two months after
a discovery at the Cleveland Clinic that carnitine, contained in all
meat products, is a major factor in heart failure.
Similarly, an Oxford University study of nearly 45,000 adults in last
January�s American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that vegetarians
were 32 percent less likely to be suffer from heart disease than people
who ate meat and fish. A Harvard University study of 37,698 men and
83,644 women, in last year�s Archives of Internal Medicine, concluded
that meat consumption raises the risk of total, heart and cancer
mortality.
Indeed, each of us can find their own fountain of youth by adopting a
meat and dairy-free diet. An Internet search of �vegan recipes� or �live
vegan� provides ample resources.
Ward Putzmann
White Plains
