Vegetarians May Live Longer

If you want a longer life, eat plants. Research published in JAMA Internal Medicine suggests people who follow a vegetarian diet live longer lives.

FOX News Radio’s Bill Vitka reports:

Live Long… Eat Green. Vegetarians live longer than meat-eaters. Researchers tracked more than 73,000 members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church which promotes a vegetarian diet. Overall there were 12% fewer deaths in the six years studied. Even better news when it came to heart disease, where the mortality risk fell 19%. Calories didn’t seem to matter. Men seemed to benefit more than women. But there is one proviso: eating plant foods does not seem to protect against cancer, which strikes both meat-eaters and vegetarians in roughly equal measure.

Bill Vitka, FOX News Radio.