Diet, Life Expectancy, and Chronic Disease: Studies of Seventh-Day Adventists and Other Vegetarians
Research into the role of diet in chronic disease can be difficult to interpret. Measurement errors in different studies often produce conflicting answers to the same questions. Seventh-day Adventists and other groups with many vegetarian members are ideal study populations because they have a wide range of dietary habits that adds poer and clarity to research findings. This book analyzes the results of such studies, focusing on heart disease and cancer. These studies support the benefits of...
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Research into the role of diet in chronic disease can be difficult to interpret. Measurement errors in different studies often produce conflicting answers to the same questions. Seventh-day Adventists and other groups with many vegetarian members are ideal study populations because they have a wide range of dietary habits that adds poer and clarity to research findings. This book analyzes the results of such studies, focusing on heart disease and cancer. These studies support the benefits of a vegetarian diet and in addition provide evidence about the effects of individual foods and food groups on disease risk that is relevant to all who are interested in good health. Fraser places the findings in athe broader context of well-designed nutritional studies of the general population. He discusses the degree of confidence we can have in particular relationships between diet and disease based on the strength of the evidence. While this is a scholarly book, it is written in clear English and contains an extensive glossary so that it should be accessible to a wide audience.
1Why We Study the Health of Adventists12Coronary Heart Disease Rates among Adventists and Others213Cancer Rates among Adventists and Others334The Longevity of Adventists as Compared with Others455Diet and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease596Diet and the Risk of Cancer857Diet, Other Risk Factors, and Aging1098Vegetarianism and Obesity, Hypertension, Diabetes, and Arthritis1299Social Support, Religiosity, Other Psychological Factors, and Health14910Coronary Heart Disease Mortality among British, German, and Indian Vegetarians17711Cancer and All-Cause Mortality among British and German Vegetarians19312Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer among Vegetarians20313Risk Factors and Disease among Vegans23114Changing a Population's Diet: A Behavioral View of the Adventist Experience24115Shifting to a Vegetarian Diet: Practical Suggestions from a Nutritionist24916The Challenge of Nutritional Epidemiology265Appendix277Glossary293References315Index363
