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Switching to vegetarian keeps weight down(Reuters)Updated: 2006-03-17 08:49 http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2006-03/17/content_542228.htm If you want to keep the weight down, switch to a meat-free diet, scientists said on Tuesday. Researchers who studied the eating habits of 22,000 people over five years, including meat eaters and vegetarians, found they all put on a few kilos but meat eaters who changed to a vegetarian or vegan diet gained the least. "Contrary to current popular views that a diet low in carbohydrates and high in protein keeps weight down, we found that the lowest weight gain came in people with high intake of carbohydrates and low intake of protein," said Professor Tim Key. The research compared weight gain among meat eaters, fish eaters, vegetarians and vegans -- who eat no animal products -- and is published in the International Journal of Obesity. It showed that on average people gained 2 kilos (4.4 lb) over five years. None of the volunteers was overweight. "The weight gain was less in the vegans than in the meat-eaters and somewhere in between in the other groups," said Key, of Britain's Cancer Research UK charity and the University of Oxford, who conducted the study. "The lowest weight gain was in people who changed their diet to eat fewer animal products," he told Reuters. Key and his colleagues said exercise was another important factor in controlling weight. "The data also showed that people who became more physically active during the five-year period gained less weight than people who did very little exercise," Key said. The findings are from the British arm of EPIC (European Prospective

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, Jagannath

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> Switching to vegetarian keeps weight down

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> Updated: 2006-03-17 08:49

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03/17/content_542228.htm

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> If you want to keep the weight down, switch to a meat-free

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What a load of old twoddle - I know plenty of overweight veggies,

and fit smokers in their 70's & 80's come to that.

If this study were true - people on the Atkins would not lose weight

.... it's like the Hay diet (Dr. Hay) where you can't have protein &

carbs with the same meal - you would lose weight on that regime as

well cos you'd be cutting out a major food item from your meal.

 

Ray.

 

 

 

 

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> , Jagannath

> Chatterjee <jagchat01@> wrote:

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> > Switching to vegetarian keeps weight down

> > (Reuters)

> > Updated: 2006-03-17 08:49

> > http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2006-

> 03/17/content_542228.htm

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> > If you want to keep the weight down, switch to a meat-free

> diet, scientists said on Tuesday. Researchers who studied the>

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Another possible reason you'll loose weight is from MUSCLE WASTING. I

was a veg for 10 years until I finally woke up and realized that I

wasn't absorbing enough protein from beans and tofu. I was down to

149 lbs (I'm over 6'2 " ). And the tofu is another topic (poison).

Anyway, now I eat meat and fish etc and am back up to 175, with very

low body fat..

 

-m

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> What a load of old twoddle - I know plenty of overweight veggies,

> and fit smokers in their 70's & 80's come to that.

> If this study were true - people on the Atkins would not lose weight

> ... it's like the Hay diet (Dr. Hay) where you can't have protein &

> carbs with the same meal - you would lose weight on that regime as

> well cos you'd be cutting out a major food item from your meal.

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> Ray.

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