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To: Grainne who wrote (96368)2/23/2005 2:24:35 PM
From: epicure  Respond to of 108807
 
I was looking for data on vegetarian diets (and will continue looking, since I'm curious) and I found this extremely interesting link:

listserv.lehigh.edu

It has handy footnotes to other studies. :-)

These studies look particularly interesting:
1. Burr ML, Butland BK. Heart disease in British vegetarians. Am J Clin
Nutr. 1988; 48:830-832.

2. Fraser GE. Determinants of ischemic heart disease in Seventh-Day
Adventists: a review. Am J Clin Nutr. 1988;48:833-836.

3. Ornish D, Brown S, Scherwitz L, Billings J, Armstrong W, Ports T,
McLanahan S, Kirkeeide R, Brand R, Gould KL. Can lifestyle changes
reverse coronary heart disease? Lancet. 1990;336:129-133.

4. Kestin M, Rouse I, Correll R, Nestel P. Cardiovascular disease risk
factors in free-living men: comparison of two prudent diets, one based
on lactoovovegetarianism and the other allowing lean meat. Am J Clin
Nutr. 1989;50:280-287.

5. Beilin, LJ, Rouse IL, Armstrong BK, Margetts BM, Vandongen R.
Vegetarian diet and blood pressure levels: incidental or causal
association? Am J Clin Nutr. 1988;48:806-810.

6. Phillips R, Snowdon D. Association of meat and coffee use with
cancers of the large bowel, breast, and prostate among Seventh-Day
Adventists: preliminary results. Cancer Res. 1983;45 (suppl):2403-2408.

7. Turjiman N, Goodman GT, Jaeger B, Nair PP. Diet, nutrition intake and
metabolism in populations at high and low risk for colon cancer:
metabolism of bile acids. Am J Clin Nutr. 1984;4:937.

8. Colditz G, Stampfer M, Willet W. Diet and lung cancer: a review of
the epidemiological evidence in humans. Arch Intern Med. 1987;147:157.

9. Chen J, Campbell TC, Li J, Peto R. In: Diet, Life-style and Mortality
in China. A study of the characteristics of 65 Counties. Oxford
University Press, Cornell University Press, and the China People's
Medical Publishing House; 1990.

10. Bergan JC, Brown PT. Nutritional status of "new" vegetarians. J Am
Diet Assoc. 1980;76:151-155.

11. Nieman DC, Underwood BC, Sherman KM, Arabatzis K, Barbosa JC,
Johnson M, Shultz TD. Dietary status of Seventh-Day Adventist vegetarian
and non-vegetarian elderly women. J Am Diet Assoc. 1989;89:1763-1769.