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"pearl" <tea@signguestbook.ie> wrote in message news:c6lj7p$6vj$1@kermit.esat.net...
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> Homocysteine is a toxic metabolite-it attacks our blood vessels,
> it' attacks our brain cells; it's a risk factor for heart disease, for
> stroke, for Alzheimer's and a growing number of other diseases.
> And, up to 25% of lacto-vegetarians and 80% of vegans have
> seriously elevated levels in their blood. This is probably why the
> latest research suggests vegetarians have over twice the risk of
> dying from degenerative brain diseases.
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> http://vegnews.org/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=121

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Ref #235 - Giem P
SO: Neuroepidemiology. 1993; 12(1): 28-36
AB: We investigated the relationship between animal product
consumption and evidence of dementia in two cohort substudies.
The first enrolled 272 California residents matched for age,
sex, and zip code (1 vegan, 1 lacto-ovo-vegetarian, and 2
'heavy' meat eaters in each of 68 quartets). This design ensured
a wide range of dietary exposure. The second included 2,984
unmatched subjects who resided within the Loma Linda,
California area. All subjects were enrolled in the Adventist
Health Study. The matched subjects who ate meat (including
poultry and fish) were more than twice as likely to become
demented as their vegetarian counterparts (relative risk 2.18,
p = 0.065) and the discrepancy was further widened (relative
risk 2.99, p = 0.048) when past meat consumption was taken
into account. There was no significant difference in the
incidence of dementia in the vegetarian versus meat-eating
unmatched subjects. There was no obvious explanation for
the difference between the two substudies, although the power
of the unmatched sub-study to detect an effect of 'heavy' meat
consumption was unexpectedly limited. There was a trend
towards delayed onset of dementia in vegetarians in both
substudies.
http://www.llu.edu/llu/health/abstracts/abstracts2.htm