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Lower Disease Risk Vegetarians are at lower risk for noninsulin-dependent diabetes and have lower rates of hypertension, osteoporosis, kidney stones, gallstones, and diverticular disease than nonvegetarians. --- Position of the American Dietetic Association: Vegetarian Diets Nearly 70 percent, or 1.5 million of the 2.1 million deaths in the United States in 1987, were from diseases associated with diet -- particularly diets high in saturated fat and cholesterol, according to a U.S. Surgeon General's report. --- Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Servies, 1988, Pub. no. 88-50210. Many scientific studies have found a high correlation between the consumption of red meat -- which is high in saturated fats and cholesterol -- and heart disease, stroke, and colon and breast cancer. --- George A Bray, "Overweight is Risking Fate..." in Richard J. Wurtman and Judith Wurtman, eds. Human Obesity, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 490 (1987), 21; Gina Kolata, "Animal Fat is Tied To Colon Cancer", New York Times, December 13, 1990; Walter
Willett et al., "Relationship of Meat, Fat, and Fiber Intake to the
Risk of Colon Cancer in Prospective Study Among Women", New England Journal of Medicine, 333:24 (1990), 1664; It’s tougher to shrug off the findings of Cornell University biochemist Dr. Colin Campbell. In one of the most ambitious nutrition surveys ever undertaken, Campbell and his colleagues have gathered extraordinarily detailed information about the eating habits and health status of 6,500 people in 65 rural counties in China. Not surprisingly, the Chinese diet differs substantially from ours. On average, the Chinese get only about 11 percent of their protein from meat and dairy products, compared to 69 percent for most Americans. Since grains and vegetables make up a large part of the Chinese diet, only about 15 percent of total calories come from fat. By contrast, Americans tip the scale at a hefty 38 percent of calories from fat. Given such differences, Campbell says, it’s no surprise that breast cancer rates in China are one-sixth what they are here. Or that prostate cancer appears less common. Or that the Chinese boast cholesterol levels just over half the American average. Heart disease, obesity, and diabetes are all much less common in China than the United States. --- from Health Magazine, May/June, 1996, pages 84-86
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