{"id":1043293,"date":"2011-04-17T15:53:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T15:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/vegetarianism-or-less-body-fat\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T17:03:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:03:32","slug":"vegetarianism-or-less-body-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/longevity-medicine\/vegetarianism-or-less-body-fat.php","title":{"rendered":"Vegetarianism, Or Less Body Fat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an example of a research commentary that misses the forest for the trees: \"Vegetarians experience a 36 percent lower prevalence of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metabolic_syndrome\">metabolic syndrome<\/a> than non-vegetarians, suggests new research ...  Because metabolic syndrome can be a precursor to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heart_disease\">heart disease<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Type_2_diabetes\">diabetes<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stroke\">stroke<\/a>, the findings indicate vegetarians may be at lower risk of developing these conditions. Metabolic syndrome is defined as exhibiting at least three out of five total risk factors: high blood pressure, elevated <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High-density_lipoprotein\">HDL cholesterol<\/a>, high <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blood_sugar\">glucose levels<\/a>, elevated <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Triglyceride\">triglycerides<\/a>, and an unhealthy waist circumference. ... while 25 percent of vegetarians had metabolic syndrome, the number significantly rises to 37 percent for semi-vegetarians and 39 percent for non-vegetarians. The results hold up when adjusted for factors such as age, gender, race, physical activity, calories consumed, smoking, and alcohol intake. ... On average, the vegetarians and semi-vegetarians were three years older than non-vegetarians. Despite their slightly older age, vegetarians had lower triglycerides, glucose levels, blood pressure, waist circumference, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Body_mass_index\">body mass index (BMI)<\/a>. Semi-vegetarians also had a significantly lower BMI and waist circumference compared to those who ate meat more regularly.\" Given the broader context of what is known about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightaging.org\/archives\/2008\/03\/lose-the-visceral-fat.php\">effects of body fat on long-term health<\/a>, the plausible mechanism here looks to be related to the amount of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Visceral_fat\">visceral fat<\/a> rather than anything to do with diet per se.<\/p>\n<p><span>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2011-04\/llua-vmb041311.php\">http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2011-04\/llua-vmb041311.php<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an example of a research commentary that misses the forest for the trees: \"Vegetarians experience a 36 percent lower prevalence of metabolic syndrome than non-vegetarians, suggests new research ... Because metabolic syndrome can be a precursor to heart &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/longevity-medicine\/vegetarianism-or-less-body-fat.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longevity-medicine"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}