Meat food provokes heart disease
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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British scientists have published the result of an experiment that began more than fifteen years ago. The topic of the study was to determine the relationship between products that enter the adult's diet and heart disease. In January 2013, scientists from England and Scotland received a statement that people who knowingly refused to eat animal food, are much less likely to suffer from heart failure.
Doctors from Oxford University claim that people who daily eat animal protein, the chances of getting into a hospital with a cardiovascular disease are increasing. The percentage difference is more than 30%: this is the number scientists call when they say that vegetarians are less prone to cardiovascular disease.
Heart disease is a scourge of the modern world. In many economically developed countries, cardiovascular disease is the first cause of premature mortality and daily hospitalization of patients. Because of the large number of deaths, it was decided to conduct a similar study. Only in England from heart diseases annually die about 40,000 people.
The study was one of the largest events in the history of medicine in the UK: over the past fifteen years, scientists have monitored the health status of more than 45,000 adults, of whom a significant proportion (over 30%) were originally convinced vegetarians. During the experiment, volunteer participants regularly answered questions about their lifestyle, diet, exercise and other physical activity, as well as the presence of bad habits. Almost all participants regularly took a blood test in order that doctors could check the level of cholesterol.
After the experiment was over, scientists received detailed data on the health status of volunteers. During the study, doctors recorded 1,250 cases of heart disease, of which 198 were lethal. The result showed that among the patients only 180 were vegetarians, which allowed scientists to conclude that nutrition can affect the health of the heart.
Additional studies have shown that in people who abandoned the use of animal food, the level of cholesterol in the blood is much lower, which is why the risk of diseases decreases several times. Moreover, vegetarians are much less likely to have diabetes and rarely suffer from obesity. It was curious that vegetarians, even with bad habits, when it comes to heart disease, are still "more stable" than those who eat meat, but lead a healthy lifestyle.
Despite all the visible benefits that provide a refusal of meat, scientists noticed that vegetarianism should be considered carefully and seriously. Sudden rejection of meat and fish can cause stress to the body, which for many years has become accustomed to certain foods. If you decide to abandon animal protein, you should first think about products that can fully replace it, in order to avoid vitamin deficiency and a lack of useful substances in the body.
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