Vegetarian Diet

Twenty percent lower death rate from coronary heart disease among women

Thirty-five percent reduction in LDL (or "bad") cholesterol among vegans and 14 per cent among lacto-ovo-vegetariains

Thirty-three percent to fifty perccent fewer cases of hypertension

Eighty-eight percent lower risk of colorectal cancer

Significantly reduced risk of diabetes

A fifty percent reduced likelihood of gallstones (Hoff, 2004, 58).

In another sign of changing times, the historically ambivalent American Dietetic Association has endorsed vegetarian diets in the ADA journal in June of 2003, citing evidence of protection from obesity, heart attack and stroke deaths, elevated cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, and prostate and colon cancers (McCord, 2003, 68). In another test, Researchers at the University of Toronto recently found tha

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