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Long-term meat eaters and long-term vegetarians, who has a longer life? Scientific research tells you the answer

Longevity is the pursuit of many people, and keeping yourself healthy and not getting sick is the key to a long life.

By CEAPublished 2 years ago 5 min read
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If you want to live a long life, you should pay attention to health, and the real way to maintain health is to develop good habits and eating habits and adhere to them for a long time so that the most prolonged life.

However, many people still do not know how the diet is the longest life, some people think that vegetarianism is conducive to longevity, and some people think that eating meat will make the body healthier, in the end, which statement is correct? Let's find out.

Long-term meat eaters and long-term vegetarians, who has longer life? Scientific research tells you the answer

"The study shows that vegetarianism is good for you, but does it mean that meat eaters have shorter lives?

To conclude, the United States experimented on more than 1.5 million people, through data comparison found that the diet structure of meat-based people, the risk of death is higher. For meat eaters who love to eat processed meat products and those who often eat unprocessed meat, the risk is equivalent.

Scientists claim that although meat foods are rich in nutrients and beneficial to the body, they are nowhere near as abundant as the many nutrients contained within a vegetarian diet, and therefore vegetarians in general live longer than meat eaters.

However, this conclusion should be interpreted with caution, because mortality is not only related to diet but also various social and environmental factors.

There are various reasons why vegetarians live longer, and a large part of the factors are the healthy habits of vegetarians themselves, for example, some vegetarians love sports, insist on exercise, refuse to smoke, and do not drink.

In recent years, the number of patients with high blood pressure, high blood pressure, and high blood sugar has been increasing significantly every year, and people are paying more and more attention to health and wellness. This phenomenon has given rise to the vegetarian army, this part of the population only consumes vegetarian food, but does not eat meat, do not know, so the damage to the body is not negligible.

Vegetarianism is not the same as not eating meat at all

A study published in the journal Nutrition pointed out that vegetarians had significantly lower levels of biomarkers related to bone health than meat eaters, indicating that vegetarians have poorer bone health.

Compared to meat eaters, vegetarians are more likely to be deficient in iron, vitamin B2, calcium, zinc, and high-quality protein. These nutrients are all important for health and long-term deficiencies can lead to a range of health problems.

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Yu Kang, the chief physician of the Department of Nutrition at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, reminds us that we don't need meat, but we don't need too much of it. Meat contains B vitamins, fatty acids, and elements such as zinc and iron, which cannot be replaced by the nutrition within a vegetarian diet.

The ratio of meat to vegetarian food in the daily diet is recommended to be kept at 1:6.

In particular, these types of people are best not to eat only vegetarian

1, the elderly

A few years ago it is more popular that "a thousand gold is difficult to buy old to thin", "the elderly will eat vegetarian longevity" and other views, so many older people in their 60s began to eat only white water-boiled vegetables.

The final boil themselves thin after the spirit is also gone, walking two steps even are difficult, the physical examination found malnutrition, and even anemia, resume eating meat and eggs after the symptoms immediately alleviated, and people also become rosy and shiny.

2、Children

In the process of children's growth and development, the lack of nutritional elements often leads to delayed development of children, and even resistance to decline in performance. Therefore, in the process of children's development, all kinds of nutrients need to make up sufficient, do not appear to eat vegetarian behavior, to avoid growth and development is limited.

3、Pregnant women

The nutritional status of pregnant women is directly related to the development of the fetus, during pregnancy for protein, calcium, iron and a variety of vitamins will greatly increase the demand, if you do not eat meat, it will lead to the body's difficult to intake sufficient nutrients, easy to affect the health of the fetus and women.

4, the amount of daily exercise or workload is not suitable for people to eat a wholly vegetarian diet

Whether it is a brain exercise or physical exercise is not suitable for all-vegetarian food, such people usually consume too much of their energy, brain exercise is easy to hurt if the gods are injured plus eat all-vegetarian food, the body is not timely benefit, then the body is very easy to get sick.

Therefore, brain exercise people should also eat some meat in moderation, of course, but also grain, and vegetables; physical exercise people themselves need timely replenishment of the body's energy to maintain the state, such as athletes, they can eat more meat to enhance physical fitness.

From a health point of view, a comprehensive and balanced diet is better

Either eating meat for a long time or eating vegetarian for a long time is very bad for health. One of the best ways is to mix meat and vegetarian, according to our dietary guidelines, daily intake of poultry meat at 40~75 grams, aquatic products at 40~75 grams, and elastic at 40~50 grams.

Try to choose meat, do not eat or eat less, processed meat, such as bacon, smoked meat, ham sausage, bacon, etc. To keep your mouth shut, you should eat about 400 grams of vegetables every day.

A healthy diet should be a balanced diet, containing a variety of nutrients such as protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, and minerals should be consumed in moderation and reasonably, without caring about what to eat meat or vegetarian.

Although long-term vegetarians have a lower risk of death and generally live longer than meat eaters, it is still advocated that "meat and vegetarians" should not go to extremes.

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