Vegans get it wrong
PEOPLE who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts, researchers said yesterday.
A joint Australian-Vietnamese study of links between the bones and diet of more than 2700 people found that vegetarians had bones 5 per cent less dense than meat-eaters, lead researcher Tuan Nguyen said.
The issue was most pronounced in vegans, who excluded all animal products from their diet and whose bones were 6 per cent weaker, he said.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they had less neurons as well.