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Paleo has basically no scientific support for extending lifespan (which I would assume is at least part of "improving your health") "...a Pubmed search using t

by thejash 15y ago

Paleo has basically no scientific support for extending lifespan (which I would assume is at least part of "improving your health") "...a Pubmed search using the keywords “Paleolithic diet” [returns about] 67 hits. Of those 67 hits only 9 were papers that involved actual human or animal application of the diet, or even discussion of same... Nine papers of poor quality and not a single clinical trial demonstrating reduced morbidity or mortality" Source: http://chronopause.com/index.php/2011/08/20/interventive-gerontology-1-0-02-first-try-to-make-it-to-the-mean-diet-as-a-life-extending-tool-part-3/ http://chronopause.com/index.php/2011/08/20/interventive-ger... Which is the 3rd part in this series: http://chronopause.com/index.php/2011/08/18/interventive-gerontology-1-0-02-first-try-to-make-it-to-the-mean-diet-as-a-life-extending-tool-part-1/ http://chronopause.com/index.php/2011/08/18/interventive-ger...

wvl 15y ago
* Vegetarian Adventists consume fewer “doughnuts, coffee, and eggs” than omnivore Adventists * Vegetarian Adventists tend to have similar health outcomes as Mormons, who are not vegetarian but do abstain from alcohol and drugs and have strong sense of community * Recent re-analysis of the Adventist Health Studies show the fish eaters – not the vegans or vegetarians – have the lowest relative risk for all-cause mortality (0.78 versus 0.89 for lacto-ovo vegetarians) * Study found that non-vegetarian Adventists eat more doughnuts, drink more coffee, and eat more eggs than the vegetarians * Researchers’ conclusion: “Among Seventh-day Adventists, vegetarians are healthier than nonvegetarians but this cannot be ascribed only to the absence of meat.” “Associations between diet and cancer, ischemic heart disease, and all-cause mortality non-Hispanic white California Seventh-day Adventists” by Gary E. Fraser, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 70 No. 3 http://www.slideshare.net/ancestralhealth/ahs-slidesdenise-minger http://www.slideshare.net/ancestralhealth/ahs-slidesdenise-m... http://vimeo.com/32062337 http://vimeo.com/32062337

by thejash 15y ago

wvl 15y ago

* Vegetarian Adventists consume fewer “doughnuts, coffee, and eggs” than omnivore Adventists * Vegetarian Adventists tend to have similar health outcomes as Mormons, who are not vegetarian but do abstain from alcohol and drugs and have strong sense of community * Recent re-analysis of the Adventist Health Studies show the fish eaters – not the vegans or vegetarians – have the lowest relative risk for all-cause mortality (0.78 versus 0.89 for lacto-ovo vegetarians) * Study found that non-vegetarian Adventists eat more doughnuts, drink more coffee, and eat more eggs than the vegetarians * Researchers’ conclusion: “Among Seventh-day Adventists, vegetarians are healthier than nonvegetarians but this cannot be ascribed only to the absence of meat.” “Associations between diet and cancer, ischemic heart disease, and all-cause mortality non-Hispanic white California Seventh-day Adventists” by Gary E. Fraser, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 70 No. 3 http://www.slideshare.net/ancestralhealth/ahs-slidesdenise-minger http://www.slideshare.net/ancestralhealth/ahs-slidesdenise-m... http://vimeo.com/32062337 http://vimeo.com/32062337