(Bloomberg) — Vegetarians were 32% less likely to be hospitalized or die from heart disease than people who ate meat and fish, scientists at Oxford University reported.
The researchers followed almost 45,000 adults, one-third of them vegetarians, for an average of 11 1/2 years and accounted for factors such as their age, whether they smoked, alcohol consumption, physical activity, education and socio-economic background, according to the study published this week in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
