Fwd: Raw Food Vegans Thin But Healthy, Study Finds”

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> Here's a couple of interesting things in the last

> AFA (Action for Animals) email:

>

> " Raw Food Vegans Thin But Healthy, Study Finds”

> Reuters, March 28, 2005

>

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews & storyID=8016910

> People on strict raw food vegetarian diets are thin

> but healthy, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

> …the team at Washington University School of

> Medicine in St. Louis found the vegans they studied

> had many of the signs of strong bones. … Fontana

> expected the vegans to have low vitamin D levels

> because they avoid dairy products, which are

> fortified with the vitamin. But in fact their

> vitamin D levels were " markedly higher " than

> average. … And the vegans had low levels of

> C-reactive protein, an inflammatory molecule that is

> becoming linked with the risk of heart disease,

> diabetes and other chronic disease. Further more,

> they had lower levels of IGF-1, a growth factor

> linked to risk of breast and prostate cancer.