{"id":10068,"date":"2011-04-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/04\/17\/vegetarians-at-lower-diabetes-heart-risk\/"},"modified":"2011-04-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T12:00:00","slug":"vegetarians-at-lower-diabetes-heart-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/04\/17\/vegetarians-at-lower-diabetes-heart-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetarians At Lower Diabetes, Heart Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.mobile.reuters.com\/article\/healthNews\/idUSTRE7305ZB20110401?feedType=RSS&#038;feedName=healthNews\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, April 1, 2011 (Reuters): A new study finds that a meat-free diet seems to lower a person&#8217;s likelihood of having certain risk factors for diabetes or heart disease &#8212; and therefore may lower the risk of one day developing those illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers measured a suite of factors &#8212; blood sugar, blood fats, blood pressure, waist size, and body mass &#8211; that when elevated add up to &#8220;metabolic syndrome,&#8221; and found that vegetarians were lower than non-vegetarians on all counts except cholesterol. Having metabolic syndrome puts people at a greater risk of developing diabetes or heart disease in the future.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, 23 out of every 100 vegetarians were found to have at least three metabolic syndrome factors, compared with thirty-nine out of every 100 non-vegetarians and 37 out of every 100 semi-vegetarians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was expecting there should be a difference,&#8221; said Nico Rizzo of Loma Linda University, the lead researcher on the study. &#8220;But I didn&#8217;t expect that it would be that much.&#8221; Rizzo and his colleagues analyzed the diet, health and lifestyles of more than 700 adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NEW YORK, April 1, 2011 (Reuters): A new study finds that a meat-free diet seems to lower a person&#8217;s,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}