"That is true in India but if you look at the studies of Western vegetarians vegetarian diets are actually quite efficient in preventing heart disease. The heart disease risk is at least 25% lower in Western vegetarians compared to meat eaters. "
It was lower in the traditional indian diet too. What we see in these recent studies is the result of what has happened in the last 15 years or so when greater amounts of fats, more calories and less physical activity started the current situation. In areas where the traditional diet of 70 percent carbs, little fat, and no obesity, is still used the risk factors are among the lowest in the world, as is the case with the entire complex of e. asian dietary traditions which have followed the same pattern of change. For indians speciffically, there is a genetic trend toward the metabolic syndrom when they over consume and become obsese, in fact the body mass index for them has been lowered to 23 for normal from 25.
[email hidden] wrote: :: "That is true in India but if you look at the studies of Western :: vegetarians vegetarian diets are actually quite efficient in :: preventing heart disease. The heart disease risk is at least 25% :: lower in Western vegetarians compared to meat eaters. " :: :: It was lower in the traditional indian diet too. What we see in :: these recent studies is the result of what has happened in the last :: 15 years or so when greater amounts of fats, more calories and less :: physical activity started the current situation. In areas where the :: traditional diet of 70 percent carbs, little fat, and no obesity, is :: still used the risk factors are among the lowest in the world, as is :: the case with the entire complex of e. asian dietary traditions :: which have followed the same pattern of change. For indians :: speciffically, there is a genetic trend toward the metabolic syndrom :: when they over consume and become obsese, in fact the body mass :: index for them has been lowered to 23 for normal from 25.
It is not greater amount of fats but the quality of fats. People who can afford use /ghee/, clarified butter, but traditionally mustard seed oil is used by the rural people. Those who use /ghee/ in cooking have more heart disease than the mustard seed oil using rural people. Obesity and lack of exercise are affecting the risk also, of course.
