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Article: Vegetarian women have a lower risk of obesity.(Scientific Update: A Review of Recent Scientific Papers Related to Vegetarianism)(Brief Article)
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- Vegetarian Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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A recent study of more than 55,000 Swedish women agrees with previous studies that suggest vegetarians do have a lower risk of obesity. In this study, women were asked whether they considered themselves to be omnivores, semivegetarians (sometimes eat fish), lactovegetarians, or vegans. Only a small percentage of the women identified themselves as semivegetarian (1.73 percent), lactovegetarian (0.29 percent), or vegan (0.15 percent). Despite these low numbers, there were enough study subjects to see differences among the groups.
The non-vegetarian women were significantly heavier than any of the other groups and had a ...