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.