A recent review on the biochemical mechanisms of certain nutrients, vegetarian diets and their clinical implications (Li, J. Agric. Food Chem. 2011) has shown in recent weeks ecstasy for all carnivores.
should first be pointed out that the difference between "review" and "study" is that the first merely to summarize and analyze data from various studies and relates them with available knowledge, without its original contribution to the results of the authors themselves .
E 'so happened that a little careful reading or a series of mistranslations have led to disclose the contents of this paper in a totally erroneous, and in contrast to those who are but data derived from studies that have dealt with heart disease in vegetarians.
As reported by the media, even the vegan diet would be dangerous for the heart as it would produce a dangerous hardening of the arteries, and other imaginative sadistic consequences.
pity that the author already in the abstract as stigmatizing omnivores show a cluster of cardiovascular risk factors significantly higher than vegetarians, such as higher BMI, waist circumference ratio / waist, blood pressure, total cholesterol, LDL and triglycerides plasma, Lp (a), factor VII clotting activity, total cholesterol / HDL-cholesterol, cholesterol ratio LDL / HDL cholesterol ratio, fatty acids, total / HDL cholesterol, and ferritin levels. Report
instead as in vegetarians (including vegetarian belonging to developing countries, whose diet is significantly different from that of vegetarians in Western countries to which we belong), have been described rather small values \u200b\u200bof vitamin B12 and omega- 3, which may favor platelet aggregation and increased homocysteine \u200b\u200band lower HDL-cholesterol.
The authors suggest therefore that these changes "may", or "might" (= the conditional tense) be associated with increased atherogenic and thrombotic risk, and therefore suggests the opportunity to increase intakes of vitamin B12 and omega-3 fatty acids in vegetarians, especially vegans.
Reiterating that carnivores have a set of risk factors for atherosclerosis and thrombosis higher than that of vegetarians, the author suggests that compliance of the proceeds of these nutrients "may" (may) be able to reduce any predisposition in vegetarians thrombosis, a situation that "could" (Might) to increase their low cardiovascular risk.
These are the contents of an article that merely discuss, in a purely theoretical, some aspects of the body's metabolic human.
In view of these dissertations, the evidence comes from studies into the population rather than a significant reduction in the risk of death from cardiovascular disease in vegetarians. Vegetarians would be protected against these diseases because of the favorable effects of diet on the development of other diseases that are also cardiovascular risk factors (and I refer to diabetes, hypertension, overweight, obesity, high cholesterol), and by virtue of the characteristics of vegetarian diet itself, capable of making larger quantities of fruits, vegetables, nuts, soy, fiber, antioxidants, sterols, and lesser amounts of total fat, saturated salt.
The guidelines for the vegetarian food produced for the first time in the USA in 1997 have now entered the recommendations in respect of recruitment of omega-3 from plant sources and a regular source of vitamin B12. All vegetarians in Western countries are aware of this, and in many respect these tips through the recruitment of nuts, olive oil and flax seeds and other plant sources of omega-3, and the taking of fortified foods or supplements of vitamin B12.
If you really foolish when essay looks at the finger pointing at the moon, transmit public opinion mainly carnivorous news "secure mode" (according to the logic of your death, vita mea) that the heart of vegans are at risk, and do not scream out against the massacre that the supply of meat produced daily, action is not only foolish, but I would define a crime against humanity.
According to the European Heart Network, in 2008 cardiovascular disease accounted for the leading cause of death in the WHO European Region, where each year are responsible for the deaths of more than 4.3 million people, 48% of all deaths (54% women, 43% for men).
We know that the role of diet is important that the diet can kill. But the accused is not vegetarian or vegan diet, but omnivorous diet, that food animals contribute heavily to make a ruthless killer.
Luciana Baroni, MD
Scientific Society of Vegetarian Nutrition-SSNV
