Diet, Life Expectancy, and Chronic Disease: Studies of Seventh-Day Adventists and Other Vegetarians.DIET, LIFE EXPECTANCY Life Expectancy 1. The age until which a person is expected to live. 2. The remaining number of years an individual is expected to live, based on IRS issued life expectancy tables. , AND CHRONIC DISEASE: STUDIES OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS Seventh-day Adventists: see Adventists. AND OTHER VEGETARIANS By Gary Fraser Many of the more than 13 million members of the Seventh-day Adventist faith are vegetarian or eat very little meat. Seventh-day Adventists also tend to eat more fruits, vegetables, and nuts than the general population. Since Seventh-day Adventists often follow health-promoting diets, they are an ideal population to compare to the general public to study the effects of diet on health. Researchers, especially those at Loma Linda University Founded in 1905, Loma Linda University (LLU) is a private, Christian, coeducational, health sciences university located in Southern California 60 miles east of Los Angeles close to San Bernardino and near beaches, mountains, and the desert. in California, have published more than 320 scientific papers on the health status of Seventh-day Adventists. Much of their research has been reviewed in Vegetarian Journal. Research on Seventh-day Adventists allows us to point out the benefits of a vegetarian diet, including a longer life, lower blood cholesterol levels, and a lower risk of heart disease, hypertension, obesity, diabetes, colon cancer colon cancer, cancer of any part of the colon (often called the large intestine). Colon cancer is the second most common cancer diagnosed in the United States. , and prostate cancer prostate cancer, cancer originating in the prostate gland. Prostate cancer is the leading malignancy in men in the United States and is second only to lung cancer as a cause of cancer death in men. . Gary Fraser, a researcher at Loma Linda University, has written a book that summarizes the results of studies on Seventh-day Adventists, as well as studies of other vegetarians. Diet, Life Expectancy, and Chronic Disease provides detailed and well-documented information, not only on vegetarianism vegetarianism, theory and practice of eating only fruits and vegetables, thus excluding animal flesh, fish, or fowl and often butter, eggs, and milk. In a strict vegetarian, or vegan, diet (i.e. and studies of vegetarians but also on the role of diet in health. This book was mainly written for health professionals, but it is so clearly written that others who want to know more about studies of vegetarian health could also use it. A glossary of technical terms is included, and each chapter ends with a concise summary of information presented in that section. Data on both lacto-ovo vegetarians and vegans is included, although it is clear from this book how little research has been conducted on vegans. It also includes a chapter on making the change to a vegetarian diet. I found Diet, Life Expectancy, and Chronic Disease fascinating and recommend it to readers who want to learn more about the research supporting the benefits of vegetarian diets. Diet, Life Expectancy, and Chronic Disease (ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-19-511324-1) is published by Oxford University Press. It has 371 pages and retails for $59.95. Look for this book in your local bookstore or online at <www. oup-usa.org>. |
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