WASHINGTON: It might be time to replace chicken with veggies! According to a new study,vegetarians - especially men - have a longer lifespan than those who eat meat.
Researchers from the Loma Linda University in California found that vegetarian Adventist men live to an average of 83.3 years and vegetarian women 85.7 years - 9.5 and 6.1 years, respectively, longer than other Californians, the Huffington Post reported.
In the '70s and '80s, a series of studies from the university, which has tracked tens of thousands of Seventh-day Adventists since 1958, were the first to show that vegetarians live longer than meat eaters.
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Seventh-day Adventists have long been known as advocates of a vegetarian diet. The new research presented at Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics' 2012 Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo is halfway into completion and includes 96,000 people from the US and Canada. Principal investigator Gary E Fraser revealed that the new study found that vegans are, on average, 13 kilogrammes lighter than meat eaters and five units lighter on the Body Mass Index scale than meat-eaters.
Vegetarians are also less insulin resistant. Lean people are also more likely to exercise regularly, eat plants, and avoid cigarettes than overweight people.
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