The postings about vegetarians perhaps having in general a greater body mass than their meat-eating counterparts, is concerning to say the least.
Having studied obesity at college several years ago the message I seemed to glean from a plethora of different studies seemed to indicate that the opposite was in fact the case. Clearly we will be easily misled if we concentrate on anecdotal evidence based on one or two vegetarians who we might happen to know who .. just happen to have a high BMI. .
Surely we should err towards the larger and more robustly clinically controlled studies on which to base our conclusions.
For example, check out
sci.cancerresearchuk.org/.../2003-9313169-27-728-734.html
From the research I conducted in the 1990s this seemed to be a fairly typical finding.
Just my 2 cents.
The postings about vegetarians perhaps having in general a greater body mass than their meat-eating counterparts, is concerning to say the least.
Having studied obesity at college several years ago the message I seemed to glean from a plethora of different studies seemed to indicate that the opposite was in fact the case. Clearly we will be easily misled if we concentrate on anecdotal evidence based on one or two vegetarians who we might happen to know who .. just happen to have a high BMI. .
Surely we should err towards the larger and more robustly clinically controlled studies on which to base our conclusions.
For example, check out
sci.cancerresearchuk.org/.../2003-9313169-27-728-734.html
From the research I conducted in the 1990s this seemed to be a fairly typical finding.
Just my 2 cents.
