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T’s Mini Gurukulams lack basic amenities

The Times of India 19 Aug 2019

Another parent, Rachana R said that while students studying under TWREIS, model schools, and other societies are served non-vegetarian food every week, at gurukulams students are given only vegetables and eggs ... “Parents started to raise questions as many of their older children were getting non-vegetarian food at other societies....

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Vegetarian girl, 16, called racist by GCSE examiner for calling halal meat ‘disgusting’

Metro UK 19 Aug 2019

Google Street View) ... Abigail Ward, 16, is vegetarian and she wrote ‘which I find absolutely disgusting’ during the religious studies exam in June ... However, that disqualification was overturned after Abigail explained that she was expressing her opinion of halal butchers as a strict vegetarian ... ‘over-zealous, over-righteous’. She said ... Advertisement ... ....

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Savoury picnic foods ‘have more salt than McDonald’s burger’

Scotsman 15 Aug 2019

One in four savoury picnic foods is dangerously high in salt, with so-called "healthy” vegetarian foods among the worst offenders, a report has claimed. The study found some olives contain double the salt concentration of seawater while other products have more salt than a McDonald's hamburger and fries ... Brexit ... ....

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Eating a mostly plant-based diet linked to lower risk of cardiovascular disease

MinnPost 14 Aug 2019

Most previous studies that have linked plant-based diets to better heart health have involved people who are vegetarians or vegans. “Not everyone is going to go vegetarian,” pointed out Lyn Steffen, one of the study’s authors and an associate professor of epidemiology and ......

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This type of diet could help you avoid strokes, heart attacks, study says

WPXI 14 Aug 2019

Researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health recently conducted a study, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, to determine the benefits of plant-based diets. ... Other studies have assessed the impact of plant-based diets on specific populations like vegetarians....

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Farmers markets are a cook's happy place

Duluth News Tribune 14 Aug 2019

The shoppers are cheerful ... The Huffington Post reports that according to “the largest study of vegetarians and vegans to date, those eating plant-based diets appear to have a significantly longer life expectancy,” living “on average almost eight years longer than the general population, which is similar to the gap between smokers and nonsmokers.” ... W....

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Eating poultry instead of red meat may lower breast cancer risk

Newsday 13 Aug 2019

Good news for women who can’t quite bring themselves to go vegetarian, but don’t mind giving up burgers and steaks ... While many studies suggest vegetarian diets are a good strategy to ward off a number of cancers, particularly colon cancer, the association between red meat consumption and breast cancer risk has been inconsistent....

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Health Short: Choosing white meat may trim breast cancer risk

Herald Tribune 13 Aug 2019

Choosing white meat may trim breast cancer riskGood news for women who can't quite bring themselves to go vegetarian, but don't mind giving up burgers and steaks. A new study finds red meat may increase breast cancer risk, while substituting poultry may lower it.The study, in the ......

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This is how much vitamin B12 you should take daily

Deccan Chronicle 12 Aug 2019

Following a completely vegetarian or vegan diet ... Vegetarians and vegans ... However, it’s harder for people under 50 to meet the RDI of 2.4 mcg, if they’re vegetarians or vegans. Some studies indicate that a dose of up to 6 mcg of vitamin B12 per day is ideal for vegans. There is no clarity on the same for vegetarians....

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The longevity paradox: How to die young at a ripe old age

Mercola 11 Aug 2019

None of them completely avoid animal protein, except the vegans study by Dr ... The vegans have the longest long life of all the Adventists studied ... Now, this is a study that’s been ongoing in the Seventh-day Adventist community for a very long time ... Louis University study looking at their IGF-1s and also with a group of vegetarians that they follow....

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Eat more plants, less meat to live longer, improve heart health, study says

Lebanon Express 09 Aug 2019

Eating more plants and less meat has been tied to a longer life and a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease in a new study ... "In this study, we did not define plant-based diets on the basis of complete exclusion of animal foods from the diet but rather ranked individuals according to their relative frequency of intake of these foods."....

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UN Report: Eat Less Meat to Reduce Carbon = Reduced Life & Life Quality

Penny for your thoughts 08 Aug 2019

“In particular, babies breastfed by mothers with vitamin B12 deficiency, for example due to a vegan diet, can be affected by serious and irreversible CNS (central nervous system) damage.” Most of the data we have regarding vitamin B12 deficiency in infants comes from case studies of breastfeeding mothers on vegan or vegetarian diets....

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Healthy plant-based diet tied to lowered heart risk

This is Money 07 Aug 2019

Compared to people who most closely followed a plant-based or vegetarian diet, those with diets heavier in animal products and refined carbs were 31% to 32% more likely to die of heart disease and 18% to 25% more likely to die of all causes during the study ... study, said by email....