{"id":2949,"date":"2019-09-07T18:59:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T16:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishtraining.it\/wp_news\/2019\/09\/07\/british-study-finds-vegetarians-may-have-higher-risk-of-stroke\/"},"modified":"2021-01-06T09:25:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T09:25:06","slug":"british-study-finds-vegetarians-may-have-higher-risk-of-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishtraining.it\/wp_news\/2019\/09\/07\/british-study-finds-vegetarians-may-have-higher-risk-of-stroke\/","title":{"rendered":"British Study Finds Vegetarians May Have Higher Risk of Stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"

British Study Finds Vegetarians May Have Higher Risk of Stroke<\/h1>\n

By Vincent C. Torrieri<\/strong><\/p>\n

English<\/span> Training<\/span> News<\/strong><\/p>\n

The all-green food Utopia may not always be the best. According to a new British Study, vegans and vegetarians may have a higher risk of stroke than meat-eaters.<\/span><\/p>\n

The study, by Oxford University researchers, https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/366\/bmj.l4897<\/a>  published in the British Medical Journal, conducted a research involving nearly 50,000 people with an average age of 45 years for nearly two decades and found that those who followed a strict vegan or vegetarian diet had a 20% higher risk of stroke than those who included meat in their diet. <\/span><\/p>\n

Of the 48,188 participants, half of them were meat-eaters, just over 16,000 were vegans and vegetarians and 7,500 were pescatarians (sea-food diet).<\/span><\/p>\n

The study claims that while the pescatarians, vegetarians and vegans had a lower risk of CHD (coronary heart disease), those on plant-based diets had a 20% higher risk of getting a stroke.<\/span><\/p>\n

The researchers said the elevated stroke risk could be linked to low vitamin B12 levels, but admitted that more studies were needed to investigate the connection.<\/span><\/p>\n